{"id":3089,"date":"2014-10-14T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/celebrating-long-beach-arts-month-kenny-mcbride\/"},"modified":"2014-10-14T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T16:31:08","slug":"celebrating-long-beach-arts-month-kenny-mcbride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/celebrating-long-beach-arts-month-kenny-mcbride","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Long Beach Arts Month: Kenny McBride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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October marks Long Beach Arts Month, and the <\/i>Long Beach Post has partnered with the Arts Council for Long Beach<\/a> to celebrate the image makers, the painters, the dancers, the designers, the musicians, and the countless other artists who make our city vibrant and cultured. Our homepage will feature an artist’s own unique interpretation of Long Beach daily, so make sure to check back every weekday to discover or rediscover a local talent.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Kenny McBride may be a newbie to Long Beach, having moved to the East Village from Merced just over half a year ago, but he gets it. After all, he already has a studio at ArtX called MCarts, he\u2019s done murals for everyone from Netflix to the Fountain Valley branch of the Social Security Administration, and he\u2019s brought his experience in running an arts organization to Long Beach after founding and running Shut Up N\u2019 Smile in Merced.<\/p>\n

\u201cMostly, I paint,\u201d McBride said. \u201cI love fantasy and surrealistic situations\u2014basically images I wanted to paint as a kid but didn\u2019t have the talent to produce.\u201d<\/p>\n

From UFOs and dinosaurs to cavemen interacting with robots, McBride often bounces between playful and outright odd (which would explain why Danny Elfman and Frank Zappa act as inspirations for him). But he doesn\u2019t keep it in the fantastical; once a week, he does observational studies from life as well as optical illusions.<\/p>\n

This particular piece (mostly) evades the Fantasyland McBride often drums up and harkens to the iconic buildings that make up the Long Beach skyline.<\/p>\n

This Thursday will mark the opening of the artist\u2019s latest exhibition, Something in the Dark<\/em>, a collection of eight new works inspired by dark pallets, moods and themes that will be showcased at his studio at ArtX. He\u2019ll also be hosting a Pumpkin Carving Social, which is BYOP(umpkin).<\/p>\n

To view more of McBride\u2019s work, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kenny McBride may be a newbie to Long Beach, having moved to the East Village from Merced just over half a year ago, but he gets it. After all, he already has a studio at ArtX called MCarts, he\u2019s done murals for everyone from Netflix to the Fountain Valley branch of the Social Security Administration, and he\u2019s brought his experience in running an arts organization to Long Beach after founding and running Shut Up N\u2019 Smile in Merced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":68367,"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":[1287],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-long-beach-arts-month-2014","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","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\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}