Pacific Standard Time artists: From The Times’ archives

Sculptor Peter Voulkos stands beside his 1961 ceramic sculpture “Gallas Rock” in a 1965 photo.  (Harry Chase/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Noah Purifoy is pictured in 1966 at a Watts art show with an assemblage he created from a broken car window and other items.  (John Malmin/Los Angeles Times)

Ceramicist Beatrice Wood is pictured in her studio in March 1971.  (Kathleen Ballard/Los Angeles Times)

Robert Graham in his Venice studio in 1976.  (Marianna Diamos/Los Angeles Times)

Ed Moses is shown at an exhibition of his paintings at the L.A. County Museum of Art in 1976.  (Gerald Sundstrom/Los Angeles Times)

Richard Diebenkorn stands in front of his monotype in 1976.   (Larry Sharkey/Los Angeles Times)

British artists Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney and Peter Blake with Hodgkin’s “Monsoon Over Bombay” and Hockney’s “Divine” in a Venice gallery. (Hodgkin’s and Blake’s works are not currently featured in Pacific Standard Time.)   (Martha Hartnett/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Judy Chicago works on her “Dinner Party” project in 1978.   (George Rose/Los Angeles Times)

Trees fashioned of steel rope by artist Maren Hassinger adorn a freeway as part of a CalTrans Highway Art program in 1979.  (Ken Lubas/Los Angeles Times)

John Outterbridge, director of the Watts Towers Art Center, is pictured in 1980.  (Larry Davis/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Ed Ruscha in 1980.  (Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Laddie John Dill with an installation at the art gallery at Cal State Dominguez Hills in 1980.  (Mary Frampton/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Billy Al Bengston in 1981.  (George Rose/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Betye Saar is shown in 1981 with one of her collages at Baum/ Silverman Gallery.  (Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Bruce Nauman in 1982 with his sculpture at the Wells Fargo building in downtown Los Angeles.  (Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times)

Larry Bell is pictured with his artwork in 1982.  (Kari Rene Hall/Los Angeles Times)

Chris Burden is photographed in his “participation piece” artwork “Flying Kayak” in 1982.  (Mary Frampton/Los Angeles Times)

Artist Helen Lundeberg in her studio in1983.  (Marsha Traeger/Los Angeles Times)

James Turrell lies near the center of his “Roden Crater” in 1984.  (Con Keyes/Los Angeles Times)