Show Description:

This exhibition reveals the variety of artistic experimentation that has occurred in the video medium throughout California over the last 40 years. Video has grown to be one of the most common media used by contemporary artists, and Greater Los Angeles, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area have been among the world's most important centers for its development. The extraordinary variety of video art produced in California also points to one of the difficulties of describing its nature. The term has come to encompass several different kinds of art that often have different intentions and audiences.