Join ICA LA Collective Members for a morning Art Hop featuring the studio and archive of the late Luis Bermudez.

I come to my work, impelled to give tangible presence to the episodes in my life of peculiar intensity – the ones that announce their transcendence, and touch the common core of human experience…where my past merges with the observer’s present to create something greater than either of us alone.
Luis Bermudez

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Luis Bermudez (b. 1953, d.2021) is known for his architectural sculpture and installations that merge experiences of landscape, memory, and pre-Columbian indigeneity. Over the course of a career spanning five decades, Bermudez created a body of work that fuses individual and cosmic scales with remarkable economy, innovated the discipline of ceramics through his advanced mold-making practice and development of a unique castable refractory, and influenced countless generations of artists as a curator and educator.