{"id":2669,"date":"2015-04-22T20:03:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/artists-opening-reception-announced-for-we-show-two-3\/"},"modified":"2015-04-22T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:03:58","slug":"artists-opening-reception-announced-for-we-show-two-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/artists-opening-reception-announced-for-we-show-two-3","title":{"rendered":"Artists, Opening Reception Announced for WE Show Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-37174\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/weshowtwo3.png\" alt=\"weshowtwo3\" width=\"300\" height=\"438\" \/>WE Labs has announced the artists to be featured in their second community art show, WE Show Two, \u201can ongoing, curated exhibition of Long Beach\u2019s finest artists in Long Beach\u2019s creative co-working space.\u201d Curator and WE Labs CEO Robbie Brown and Guest Curator Ina Parker Hicks selected artists that describe Long Beach\u2019s art scene as a whole, bringing together local artists whose work investigates different media, from collage to oils to photography.<\/p>\n<p>The opening reception will take place on May 2 at WE Labs from 6:30PM to 9:00PM and will feature works by McKenzie Stribich, Steve Stein, Lewis Francis, Iga Supernak, Eric Perez, Virginia Broersma, Jon Hodges and Ben Bambauer. WE Show Two follows the inaugural WE Show, which opened in December last year and featured over 20 local artists and emphasized the need to support local art by buying local art. While WE Show Two is certainly a bit smaller, as far as the number of artists showing, it certainly won\u2019t disappoint the curious mind.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers can look forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artslb.org\/aclb-registry\/2\/page-artist.php?slug=896\">McKenzie Stribich<\/a>\u2019s inquiring photographs, who&nbsp;is currently pursuing a BFA in photography at CSULB, focuses primarily on the \u201cpoetic possibilities inherent to the photographic medium,\u201d according to her artist\u2019s profile. She recently completed a body of work entitled \u201cDirected Gaze,\u201d a study of the relationship between museum patrons and the artwork they\u2019re seeing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artslb.org\/aclb-registry\/2\/page-artist.php?slug=886\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-37177\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/weshowtwo.jpg\" alt=\"weshowtwo\" width=\"300\" height=\"316\" \/>Virginia Broersma<\/a>\u2019s ethereal paint descriptions of flesh, \u201cits postures, moods and dispositions,\u201d give the viewer a truly visceral experience. Aside from her 2012 portrait series, her most recent works are unrecognizable as anything in real life, yet seem to maintain a fleshy, bulbous, beautiful existence of their own on paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artslb.org\/aclb-registry\/2\/page-artist.php?slug=890\">Eric Perez<\/a>&nbsp;has been working on a collage series entitled Queendom, a collection of idol-like portraits that explore female identity, appearance, space and roles. In his artist\u2019s profile, he describes himself as simply the conduit between these beings and the paper he arranges his colorful, mysterious collages upon.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free but space is limited, please RSVP by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/we-show-two-tickets-16594457469?utm_content=buffer40550&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">here<\/a>. WE Labs is located at 235 E. Broadway on the 8th floor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos courtesy of the Long Beach Artist Registry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE Labs has announced the artists to be featured in their second community art show, WE Show Two, \u201can ongoing, curated exhibition of Long Beach\u2019s finest artists in Long Beach\u2019s creative co-working space,\u201d and have set the date for the opening reception. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":67986,"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":[964],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-we-labs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","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=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}