Background
Clements was born in Oakland, California on June 8, 1905.
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Grace Clements
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She studied art under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson in New York City from 1925 to 1930.
Career
She was active as an artist in the 1930s and early 1940s. She moved to Los Angeles in 1930, settling in the neighborhood of Edendale. She taught art at the Chouinard Art Institute and Pasadena"s Stickney Memorial School of Artist
She had a 1931 solo show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in which 21 of her paintings were presented.
In 1935, she became involved with a group of artists in Los Angeles known as the Post-Surrealists. Other artists in the group included Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg.
With this group, she presented her artwork in a "landmark" exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in December 1935, and then at the Brooklyn Museum the next summer. In addition, she was the first of the group to lay out its theoretical underpinnings, which she did in the March 1936 article "New Content—New Form" in the journal Art Front, published by the American Artists" Congress.
She worked for the Works Progress Administration.
In the 1940s, Clements stopped working at a painter, and instead worked as an art critic. She contributed to Arts and Architecture and Art Front magazines, and also did radio commentary including a weekly program on the Bay Area radio station KPFA. Later in her life, Clements married astrologer Robert DeLuce and became involved in astrology herself. Clements died on January 10, 1969, in Los Los Angeles
Jake Zeitlin"s Book Shop, Los Angeles (solo, 1930)
An Exhibition of Modern Paintings by Grace Clements, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (predecessor to Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (solo, 1931)
Oakland Art Gallery (group, 1932)
Post-Surrealists, San Francisco Museum of Art (later the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and Brooklyn Museum (group, 1935/1936)
New York World"s Fair (group, 1939)
Southern California Art Project, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (group, 1939)
Between Two Wars, Whitney Museum of American Art (group, 1942)
Southern California Art Project, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art (group, 1944).
Personality
She was passionate about social justice and "adopted the theme of social engagement within an essentially Modernist vocabulary".
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