Rooted in Conceptualism and coming from an investigatory place characterized by process, Experimentations: The Art of Controlled Procedures  is a group exhibition featuring work by artists whose approach to their practice involves a scientific mindset. By designing and executing controlled procedures to test a hypothesis, explore relationships between variables, or investigate phenomena, the artists’ ideas are materialized and aestheticized using systems, chance, technology, and other unconventional means.

Experimentations celebrates the playful fusion of art and science, and demonstrates how controlled procedures and a spirit of curiosity and inquiry can lead to profound and unexpected artistic collaborations and outcomes. The exhibition includes multi-media installation, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, and performance and invites viewers to engage with the artworks not just as finished products but as manifestations and documentation of ongoing processes of discovery and exploration.  

Artists in the exhibition include Carmen Argote, John Baldessari, Merce Cunningham*, Charles Gaines, Jesper Just, Shana Lutker, Benjamin Reiss, and Analia Saban. 

*Merce Cunningham collaborations include film/video directors: Arne Arbom, Charles Atlas, Richard Moore, and Hakki Seppala.

Experimentations: The Art of Controlled Procedures is curated by City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery curator Nancy Meyer.