The Boone Children's Gallery, located at LACMA West, is housed in a large concrete space divided into sections where children may color, build with wooden blocks, stack orange cones, play with giant foam blocks, paint on easels or make collages. Spencer gravitated immediately to the foam blocks before making a beeline to the easels. He loves to paint almost as much as I love watching him make big swathes of color across a page. He must have inherited some of my fastidiousness however because he wanted a separate paintbrush for each color of paint. Not only that, when any paint dripped onto his hands, he wanted to wash them right away. When he was finished painting, we moved on to making collages with magazine clippings and stickers. His favorite part was squeezing the glue onto the paper. A complete retrospective of Spencer's artwork is on display at the renowned Culver City gallery, Pogo Refrigerator.
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