David Lebrun

Rico Lebrun is a familiar name in Los Angeles, where he lived and taught, painted and sculpted in the decades preceding his death in 1964, but his legacy is hard to pin down. David Lebrun, Rico's son, and James Renner, an artist living in San Diego, co-editors of a recently released book on the artist, both sense a disparity between the power of Lebrun's work and the amorphous quality of his influence. He's been misunderstood, David Lebrun contends. He's underrated, says Renner.

Rico Lebrun is a familiar name in Los Angeles, where he lived and taught, painted and sculpted in the decades preceding his death in 1964, but his legacy is hard to pin down. David Lebrun, Rico's son, and James Renner, an artist living in San Diego, co-editors of a recently released book on the artist, both sense a disparity between the power of Lebrun's work and the amorphous quality of his influence. He's been misunderstood, David Lebrun contends. He's underrated, says Renner.

THE iotaCenter, established to preserve, exhibit and promote the art of abstraction in film and video, will present Kinetica 4, its latest traveling exhibition, at LACMA this weekend. Curated by William Moritz and produced by iotaCenter director Cindy Keefer, the Friday night offering features "The Sixties: Spirituality and Psychedelia." Saturday night, it's "The Contemporary Program of Abstraction," which will be followed by an added attraction, "A Tribute to Jordan Belson."