It’s finally time to announce and invite you to the big opening next Thursday at the Long Beach Museum of Art.
The exhibition will open to the public on Thursday, October 23 from 7pm-10pm. Admission price is $10.
The Long Beach Museum of Art will open it's doors for it's biannual Art After Dark event special preview Thursday night.
Even if you cannot attend the first opening there will be other events
at the museum and the show runs from Oct 23, 2014 - Feb 1, 2015.
See you Thursday!!
Masterworks: Defining A New Narrative
consists of 14 large-scale paintings featuring accomplished artists who,
for the last decade or more, have been consistently exploring new
narrative directions in painting. Each of the artists have been charged
with providing a singular work that could be considered pivotal in their
careers, to which they have dedicated considerable thought, time, and
skill. Artists featured will include Esao Andrews, Sean Cheetham,
Natalia Fabia, Alex Gross, James Jean, Josh Keyes, Mario Martinez, Greg
Simkins, Nicola Verlato, Eric White, Aron Wiesenfeld, Martin Wittfooth,
and Curating Artist and Author Nathan Spoor and Co-curator Jeff
McMillan.
The artists featured in Masterworks are from diverse backgrounds and
their work connects a broad spectrum of genres, scenes and movements.
Masterworks calls into question what a decade means to an artist, and
summarizes the thoughts, theories, and personalities of each painter
into one distinct moment. Within each work, the artists’ individual
perspective is explored through childhood fantasies, everyday objects,
and sensational dreamscapes. Each painting represents a decade of
dedication to artistic excellence and creative expertise and signifies
the product of a career’s worth of experience into one masterwork. The
paintings in Masterworks drift between fantasy and reality while closely
examining and disrupting conventional pictorial environments.
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My painting for the exhibit, "Hooker
Dollhouse" 96" x 60". It is a commission I have been working ob for a
couple years now and is very special to me.
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| Coinciding with the exhibition is a
beautifully designed, 240-page linen hardbound book published by the
Museum and Gingko Press. Curator and Author Nathan Spoor has compiled an
exceptional volume to accompany the exhibition, which features never
before published interviews, artwork and photographs of the artists in
their studios. The exhibition will open to the public on Thursday,
October 23 from 7pm-10pm. Admission price is $10. See you Thursday!!
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