Claire Copley Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard presented a range of American and international artists including Allen Ruppersberg, Michael Asher, Bas Jan Ader, William Leavitt, and Allan McCollum.
Since the galleries were commercially unsuccessful, Thomas, Lewallen, and Copley developed the nonprofit organization Foundation for Art Resources, FAR, 1977, enabling them to work more flexibly with the artists they believed in.
Their first projects included the production of John Baldessari's film, Six Colorful Inside Jobs, the book and performance Open America by James Lee Byars, taking place in Los Angeles and New York simultaneously.
Participating artists included Mike Kelly, David Askevold, Louise Lawler, Candace Lewis, Matt Mullican, Glen Branca, Michael Smith, Barbara Bloom, the Kuchar Brothers, Jenny Holzer, Edit DeAk, as well as writers/historians Howard Singerman, Christopher Knight, Ann Rorimer, Ingrid Sischy, and Benjamin Buchloh.
They gave up the exhibition space in 1980, deciding to focus on itinerant projects that would explore relationships between the art works and the organization and venue partners throughout Los Angeles that hosted them."