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Layer from TRASH exhibit at New Children's Museum 2011
San Diego’s Craft Revolution, an exhibit of post-war Modern to California design, is on display now through April 15, 2012 at the Mingei International Museum in Balboa Park. This local exhibition reveals the important contribution of San Diego craftsmen to the post-war Southern California art scene. The progression from sleek modernism to unconventional handmade objects such as furniture, doors, jewelry and ceramics are explored. Many of these San Diego-based artists received national attention and participated in major Southern California exhibitions, including the California Design series held in Pasadena and Los Angeles. The exhibition features over 60 artists including Arline Fisch, Jack Hopkins, James Hubbell, Larry Hunter, Rhoda Lopez, Toza and Ruth Radakovich, Kay Whitcomb, and Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley. San Diego’s Craft Revolution is part of Pacific Standard Time, an unprecedented collaboration that brings together more than 60 cultural institutions from across Southern California to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
Mexican Modern Painting, currently on display through February 19, 2012 at the San Diego Museum of Art in Balboa Park, features selected paintings from The Andrés Blaisten Collection of 20th-century Mexican art. The exhibit features 80 paintings dated between 1907 and 1962 from well-known painters like María Izquierdo, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo, and from less familiar painters like Alfonso Michel, Federico Cantú and Angel Zárraga. Also on display through February 19, 2012 is Experiments in Abstraction: Art in Southern California, 1945 to 1980, which addresses a generation of California-based artists who explored the possibilities of abstraction in the years following World War II. A distinctive style, identified as Hard-Edge painting, was developed by pioneering artists such as Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Oskar Fischinger, Helen Lundeberg and John McLaughlin; partly a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, Hard-Edge emphasized angular lines, reduced forms, precise surfaces and rich colors. Walk from the Sun, now through March 18, 2012, marks the first solo exhibit at a museum for Southern California artist scott b. davis (davis uses a specialized shorthand in which he forgoes capitalization). davis’ photographs of Southern California, taken at night with a large-format camera, document iconic aspects of the region like the Hollywood sign. Other works offer moody and enigmatic looks at seemingly abandoned highways, parking lots and buildings. davis is currently living in San Diego.
Visions of Coronado at the Coronado Museum of History & Art, January 12–February 20, 2012, showcases the work of local artists in a wide variety of media, materials and styles. All pieces are original art and pertain to the city of Coronado.
TRASH, the latest museum-wide exhibition at The New Children’s Museum in downtown San Diego, now through March 30, 2013, features the work of 12 artists from around the globe focused on the kid-friendly and timely topic of trash. Through inventive, participatory artworks, TRASH takes an invisible but important issue and invites kids and parents to explore new perspectives through each work of art, along with hands-on art-making projects, artist lectures, family workshops, special events and more.
The San Diego Museum of Man’s (SDMoM) exhibit "Modern Day Mummy: The Art & Science of Mummification," now through March 4, 2012, focuses on the subject of mummification and the scientific inquiry and intrigue that surrounds mummies. Modern Day Mummy showcases various types of mummies, both intentionally and naturally preserved, and illuminates how current research is performed on mummies, and what scientists hope to learn from them. The highlight of the exhibit is Mumab: The Modern Day Mummy. Researchers transformed the cadaver of a Baltimore man who had donated his body to science into an Egyptian-style mummy following 2,000-year-old descriptions of mummifying techniques.
The Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park presents Black Holes: Space Warps & Time Twists, February 4–April 29, 2012. This fascinating exhibition explores one of the world’s greatest space mysteries—black holes. These regions in space, sometimes only a few kilometers across, have gravity so powerful that light cannot escape and matter drawn into them is lost forever. Black Holes: Space Warps & Time Twists is designed like a space mission. Visitors are briefed, issued a Black Holes Explorer ID Card and then sent on a journey to the edge of these strange phenomena to discover how the latest research is turning science fiction into fact, challenging notions of space and time in the process.
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is presenting its most ambitious exhibition to date: Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, September 25–January 22, 2012, at MCASD’s two locations in La Jolla and downtown San Diego. Phenomenal takes an in-depth look at 13 artists working in Los Angeles in the 1960s and ’70s whose perceptual investigations and work with light and innovative materials helped define an era of art making in California. Phenomenal features artists Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, Ron Cooper, Mary Corse, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, Eric Orr, Helen Pashgian, James Turrell, De Wain Valentine and Doug Wheeler. Phenomenal is a feature of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty Foundation, brings together more than 60 cultural institutions across Southern California to tell the story of the birth of the Los Angeles art scene and how it became a major new force in the art world.
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