William Leavitt
American · b. 1941
Conceptual art, installation, and painting
DESCRIPTION
A key figure in the West Coast conceptual art scene since the 1960s, William Leavitt's work investigates the vernacular culture of Los Angeles. Drawing on the tropes of Hollywood set design and modernist architecture, his practice spans painting, installation, and performance, often blurring the lines between artifice and reality in what he calls the 'theater of the ordinary.'