{"id":2534,"date":"2015-06-29T22:59:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T22:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/vitality-and-verve-opening-2\/"},"modified":"2015-06-29T22:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T22:59:21","slug":"vitality-and-verve-opening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/vitality-and-verve-opening-2","title":{"rendered":"VITALITY AND VERVE Attracts An Estimated 3,000 Attendees to LBMA’s AFTER DARK Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos by Asia Morris.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Long Beach Museum of Art opened Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape<\/em><\/a> on Friday evening during its After Dark<\/em> event. A collaboration between POW! WOW! Long Beach<\/em><\/a> and Thinkspace Gallery, the exhibit features works painted directly on the walls of the museum\u2019s Hartman Pavilion by renowned contemporary artists such as Aaron Horkey, Alex Yanes<\/a>, Andrew Schoultz, Audrey Kawasaki<\/a>, Brendan Monroe<\/a>, Brandon Shigeta, Cryptik, Esao Andrews<\/a>, Greg \u2018Craola\u2019 Simkins, Hot Tea, James Bullough, Jeff Soto, John S. Culqui, Low Bros, Meggs, Nosego, Nychos, Saber and Tristan Eaton.<\/p>\n

According to the LBMA, an estimated 3,000 unique visitors made their way through the museum\u2019s doors, making it the biggest opening in the local art institution\u2019s 65-year history.<\/p>\n

A few attendees murmured that the exhibition was a bit like the Museum of Contemporary Art’s (MOCA) Geffen Campus’ 2011 Art in the Streets.<\/em>\u00a0The museum was so crowded, many guests voiced they were going to come back on a later date to fully realize the effect of each mural. That said, Vitality and Verve<\/em> is certainly a show worth visiting more than once.<\/p>\n

The Post<\/em> was given the rare opportunity to document the installation process. We stepped through plastic curtains, rooms of scaffolding, strewn- about spray cans and paint buckets to thoroughly annoy the artists at work.<\/p>\n

The two galleries featured below show photos taken during the three-week installment period and on Friday during the After Dark<\/em> event when the finished exhibition was officially opened to the public.<\/p>\n

Vitality and Verve<\/em> will be on display through September 27. Click here<\/a> for more information, museum hours and free admission days.<\/p>\n\n\n

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