Wallace Berman: Off the Grid

TOTAH presents Off the Grid, featuring 45 works by California art legend Wallace Berman (1926-1976), on view from September 8th through November 6th, 2021. Rarely shown on the East Coast, this exhibition is Berman's long overdue return to New York since his last major solo retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1978.Wallace Berman is a notorious guru of the 1960s art pantheon. He emerged out of Los Angeles' historic Ferus Gallery, driven by Walter Hopps, Robert Alexander and Ed Kienholz. Often cited as a West Coast Beat Generation artist who appeared on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and rubbed elbows with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper and the Rolling Stones, his contributions transcended the multiple comparisons of his aesthetic and the associations that he kept.