We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art

(Los Angeles, CA—July 24, 2024) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art, a groundbreaking exploration of the science, art, and cosmology of color in Mesoamerica. Artists adorned the surfaces of buildings, clay vessels, textiles, bark-paper and deer hide pages, and sculptures with color, to (re)create the world by transforming raw materials into art.

This exhibition is presented as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide. Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART, returns in September 2024, presenting more than 70 exhibitions from organizations across the region exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. PST ART is presented by Getty. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art.

We Live in Painting is co-curated by Diana Magaloni, Deputy Director, Program Director & Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas, and Suzanne D. Booth and David G. Booth Conservation Center Director, LACMA; Alyce de Carteret, Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, LACMA; and guest curator Davide Domenici of the University of Bologna. The exhibition will travel to two additional venues following its presentation at LACMA.