{"id":2578,"date":"2015-06-11T18:42:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/art-exchange-announces-second-saturday-june-programming-an-exploration-of-scale-2\/"},"modified":"2015-06-11T18:42:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:42:49","slug":"art-exchange-announces-second-saturday-june-programming-an-exploration-of-scale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/art-exchange-announces-second-saturday-june-programming-an-exploration-of-scale-2","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach&#8217;s Art Exchange Announces Second Saturday June Programming, An Exploration of Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-39686\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/artx.jpg\" alt=\"artx\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Images courtesy of ArtExchange<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For 10 years, local artist Joy Shannon created life-size large-scale works of art without a second thought. Now, for the past two years, her Celtic and Nordic-mythology inspired pieces have shrunk to the approximate size of a fist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-39689\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JShannon_sat5.9.15.jpg\" alt=\"JShannon sat5.9.15\" width=\"300\" height=\"329\" \/>\u201cScale has taught me a lot in my work over the years,\u201d she said. \u201cFor almost 10 years, I was creating large-scale figurative linocut and woodcut pieces. For about the last two years, my work as a tattoo artist has found me totally switching gears to smaller and smaller design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, she said her pieces are created in &#8220;two extremes,&#8221; from life-size figures to &#8220;small designs that could be tattooed on a figure itself.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shannon will showcase a series of large and small-scale black and grey watercolor and ink paintings, tattoo flash style, investigating ancient mythologies. Her work (pictured left) will be presented within the ArtExchange\u2019s (ArtX) newest exhibit, <em>Large Scale \/\/ Small Scale<\/em> at the Room + Border studio gallery. Work by studio artists Noel Madrid and Rebecca Giesking will join Shannon&#8217;s art during other Second Saturday programming on June 13.<\/p>\n<p>Giesking, (work pictured right) who plans to showcase her larger paintings with smaller, intimate works based on landscapes and online media, hopes the exhibition will help the viewer consider a different way of looking at their everyday surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScale is an important aspect of drawing and painting, offering the viewer two very different experiences,\u201d she said. \u201cBy contrasting large-scale landscapes with small intimate paintings, we hope the viewer will walk away with the desire to pause and take a closer look at their surroundings while having a broader view of the environment around them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-39690\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/r-giesking-6-13.JPG\" alt=\"r-giesking-6-13\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Madrid will showcase works-in-progress of landscape-based abstracted paintings exploring the color and composition of the Long Beach community.<\/p>\n<p>ArtExchange CEO Nicolassa Galvez said each artist featured in the studio gallery has a distinct style that translates into a balanced art viewing experience with something for everyone to enjoy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s fascinating to see how scale informs and influences their works differently,&#8221; she said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also featured during the \u201cartXwalk\u201d this Saturday is the continuation of <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/life\/arts-culture\/artexchange-announces-may-programming-new-exhibitions-to-open-saturday-2\/\"><em>The New Familiar<\/em><\/a>, curated by ArtX studio artist Steven Frost, an exhibit showcasing works by artists who participated in the 2014 Artists\u2019 Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE) residency program in rural Steuben, Wisconsin. <em>The New Familiar<\/em> will be on display until June 18.<\/p>\n<p><em>PRINT SALE \/\/ ART SALE<\/em> at the Collective Print Studio will give visitors an opportunity to collect affordable, original works by local artists, while several free and family-friendly activities including a SEED BOMB workshop will be held in the ArtX Classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Two other activities, Illuminated Paper Circuits and Circuit Bend Basics will teach guests how to create a low-power light system for an art piece, drawing, card or folded form and conduct a hands-on exploration of battery powered toys.<\/p>\n<p>Studio artists Kenny McBride, Christine Fuchs, Leah Dixon, J. Renee Tanner and John Thatcher Montgomery, Jr. will open their spaces to show off new and in-progress works of art.<\/p>\n<p>The monthly celebration of visual art, each Second Saturday at Third and Elm in Long Beach\u2019s East Village Arts District from 6:00PM to 10:00PM, is a free event, open to the public, and full of festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Exchange&#8217;s Second Saturday June &#8220;artXwalk&#8221; will feature the local art collective&#8217;s newest exhibit, <em>Large Scale \/\/ Small Scale<\/em> at the Room + Border studio gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":67903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}