{"id":14077,"date":"2023-10-11T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=14077"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:40:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T19:40:23","slug":"laura-whitcomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/laura-whitcomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Whitcomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8834\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-14077-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/LauraWhitcomb.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/LauraWhitcomb.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/LauraWhitcomb.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14080 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=196%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=196%2C300&amp;ssl=1 196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=668%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 668w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=768%2C1176&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=1003%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1003w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=1337%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1337w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=696%2C1066&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?resize=1068%2C1636&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?w=1459&amp;ssl=1 1459w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/peavyphoto.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>In 1932,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edlingallery.com\/exhibitions\/paulina-peavy-astrocultural-messenger\"> Paulina Peavy<\/a> (1901 \u2013 1999) attended a s\u00e9ance at the home of Ida L. Ewing in Santa Ana, California, where she claims to have met a UFO named Lacamo, a spirit from another world. From that moment forward Peavy, a university-trained artist, painted with a brush that \u201cmoved on its own.\u201d In order to better channel Lacamo\u2019s energies, Peavy also constructed and wore masks when she painted, occasionally signing her works with Lacamo\u2019s name alongside her own.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulinapeavy.com\/\">Peavy\u2019s entire life<\/a> was dedicated to promoting her worldview and various philosophies through drawing, painting, sculpture, text, and film. Her works on paper depict the artist\u2019s individualized visual cosmos using shapes that resemble energy beams, solar systems, and procreative organic shapes signifying genitalia, ova, fallopian tubes, sperm, and fetuses. Peavy\u2019s life and work were constantly evolving to reflect her belief in mankind\u2019s evolution to an androgynous one-sex through contact with aliens.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14081 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045.jpeg?resize=229%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=229%2C300&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=783%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 783w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1004&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=1175%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1175w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=1567%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1567w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=696%2C910&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1396&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?resize=1920%2C2510&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?w=1958&amp;ssl=1 1958w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_7045-scaled.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labelcuratorial.com\/about\/the-director\">Laura Whitcomb<\/a> is a surrealist scholar and the director of Label Curatorial, which focuses on lesser-known artists and movements of the West Coast. She has worked at the Gala &#8211; Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation at the Dal\u00ed Theatre Museum in Figueres, Spain, while also contributing essays for exhibitions at the Dal\u00ed Museum in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>She is also a focused scholar of artists who engage hermetic traditions in their art practice. &#8220;Paulina Peavy: Etherian Channeler&#8221; in 2023 (D.A.P.) is edited by the adjunct LACMA curator Dr. Ilene Susan Fort and focuses on the channeler artist Paulina Peavy, whom Whitcomb curated at Beyond Baroque in 2021 and for the Andrew Edlin gallery in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Label Curatorial focuses on sound art and light artists. Studying the inceptive roots of what became Los Angeles&#8217;s most notable home-grown movement, she presented a Light and Space installation of Peter Alexander, Laddie John Dill, and Larry Bell at the official re-opening of the Brand Library and Art Center in 2014. In 2022, she curated &#8220;Luminaries of Light and Space&#8221; at LAX Airport, produced by Dublab, which included these artists along with Robert Irwin, De Wain Valentine, Fred Eversley, Helen Pashgian, Hap Tivey, and Gisela Colon. Whitcomb has two books forthcoming through Label Curatorial, highlighting artist and poet-run galleries from 1949-1965 and artists of the Beat era who continued surrealist lineages while exploring the occult.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14082\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14082 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2.jpg?resize=696%2C510&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C750&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C220&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C562&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1125&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1500&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C510&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C782&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1406&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9453-2-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paulina Peavy (1901 &#8211; 1999) 82 Modern Art, n.d. Mixed media 7.75 x 10 x 0.5 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14083\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14083 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3.jpg?resize=696%2C558&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C821&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C616&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1231&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1641&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C558&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C856&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C1539&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC_2882-3-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paulina Peavy (1901 &#8211; 1999) Phantasma 59, c. 1980s Acrylic on canvas board 24 x 30 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14084\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14084\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped.jpg?resize=677%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=677%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 677w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1161&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=1016%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1016w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=1355%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1355w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C1052&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1615&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?resize=1920%2C2903&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9450newcropped-scaled.jpg?w=1693&amp;ssl=1 1693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paulina Peavy (1901 &#8211; 1999), Untitled, c. 1937 &#8211; 1939, Oil on panel, 72 x 48 inches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2023\/LauraWhitcomb.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listIn 1932, Paulina Peavy (1901 \u2013 1999) attended a s\u00e9ance at the home of Ida L. 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