La Jolla Historical Society’s new exhibit at Wisteria Cottage opens Friday

LA JOLLA La Jolla Historical Society s next exhibition at Wisteria Cottage explores something unique the creative partnership between husband-and-wife painters who worked at UC San Diego The exhibition which is titled Double Bill The Art of Manny Farber and Patricia Patterson presents paintings sketches photographs and archival materials offering insight into Farber s and Patterson s individual practices and shared creative world With a community opening on Friday Nov from - p m at Wisteria Cottage Museum at Prospect St in La Jolla the new exhibit will run until Feb Double Bill will center on Patterson and Farber s time in San Diego following their relocation from New York in Works on view will illustrate both the importance of their precisely curated domestic setting to each of their practices and their artistic influence on one another Furniture and objects from Patterson and Farber s residence as well as fruits and flowers inspired by their garden will be incorporated among original works by both artists in the exhibit Featured photography from UC San Diego Visual Arts colleague Rebecca Cohen a longtime friend of Patterson and Farber offers glimpses of the pair at home and in their UCSD studio spaces This exhibition is made attainable through a collaboration with Quint Gallery Concurrently Quint Gallery will present Manny Farber An Up Beat Title at their nearby gallery at Girard Ave Together the two exhibitions highlight distinct yet connected aspects of Farber s and Patterson s careers The Wisteria Cottage has been restored and rehabilitated with expanded museum-standard gallery space for changing exhibitions and educational programs LJHS uses a cottage as offices and population research space along with a carriage house retrofitted for state-of-the-art storage of the society s archival collection of historic photographs population records private documents and newspaper archives