I Want to Draw Big Pictures: A Conversation with Mari Coates on “The Pelton Papers”

But like most kids, Coates did not pay much attention to the family household’s aesthetics. This changed, however, when, in 1996, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art in Malibu, California, mounted a show of Pelton’s work. By then, Coates had moved to San Francisco, and when the exhibit traveled to the nearby Oakland Museum of California ...