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Sees films including The House on 92nd Street and My Darling Clementine, which trigger his lifelong fascination with the movies.

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Graduates from high school. Drives to Los Angeles with his friend Mason Williams, where he attends Chouinard Art Institute now California Institute of the Arts , enrolling in commercial design and fine art classes. Begins a number of large paintings such as Boss in which single words are isolated against thickly impastoed monochromatic fields.

Completes Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights, his first painting with illusionistic threedimensional lettering. This consists of 26 blackand-white photographs of petrol stations, which he had taken the previous year while driving between Los Angeles and Oklahoma City along Route Meets Marcel Duchamp who, at the age of 79, is given his first large-scale American retrospective; a landmark exhibition, organised by Walter Hopps for the Pasadena Art Museum.

These large-format works depict the sort of subjects featured in the American sporting magazine Field and Stream, often becoming absurdly surreal. Publishes Every Building on the Sunset Strip, a photographic panorama of the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, presented as an accordion-folded book with the north side of the street running across the top of the page and the south side, upside down, along the bottom.

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Publishes Royal Road Test, made with writer and musician Mason Williams and photographer Patrick Blackwell, which documents the fate of a vintage typewriter that is thrown from a speeding car into the Californian desert. Creates Chocolate Room, an installation for the 35th Venice Biennale, using chocolate silkscreened onto sheets of paper, which are stuck like roof-tiles on the gallery walls.

In the exhibition 11 Los Angeles Artists at the Hayward Gallery, shows twelve recent drawings made with gunpowder and other substances such as ivy, chilli pepper, iodine and bourbon. No other paintings are completed this year. Is asked to play the part of an artist in the film Welcome to L. Ultimately, his scenes are not used.

Installed in a car park opposite the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the billboard is designed to be read in the rear-view mirror of a moving car. Work is included in Documenta 7, in Kassel, Germany.