Aggregate Space Gallery (ASG) in Oakland, CA provides emerging and mid-career artists with opportunities to take great risks and engage viewers in new and dramatic ways. ASG encourages bold projects and helps make them possible by enlisting the team’s technical knowledge in service of the artist’s vision. Each year ASG produces 5-6 solo exhibitions, 2-3 group exhibitions, and a number of special lectures, film screenings, literary events, and performances. ASG also provide a public platform for films, lectures, and performances by innovative regional artists and thinkers whose work ignites deeper engagement and discussion.
Aggregate Space Gallery
1964
Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.