{"id":3539,"date":"2014-02-06T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/arts-culture\/long-beach-museum-of-art-goes-blue\/"},"modified":"2014-02-06T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T21:22:53","slug":"long-beach-museum-of-art-goes-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/long-beach-museum-of-art-goes-blue","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Museum of Art Goes Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-27671\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LB_Museum_Blue_04FIN.jpg\" alt=\"LB Museum Blue 04FIN\" width=\"640\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Brian Addison.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The moment you walk into Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA)\u2019s upcoming exhibition, <em>The Many Moods of Blues<\/em>, you are greeted by Long Beach-born sculptor&nbsp;Laddie John Dill\u2019s <em>Bird Series <\/em>[pictured below].<\/p>\n<p>The mixed-media piece\u2014an amalgamation of cement, glass, and pigment\u2014is anything but melancholy, the go-to metaphor for blue. Rather, the piece evokes a sense of playfulness mixed with edginess: it explodes off the wall and, like much of the exhibit, offers a view of blue that runs across a spectrum\u2014from aspects of wealth, power and identity\u2014more than relying on a single focal point.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-27672\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LBMuseum_Blue_01.jpg\" alt=\"LBMuseum Blue 01\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\u201cI was so pleased to see the color continue out to the wall,\u201d said LBMA\u2019s Director of Collections and Exhibitions Sue Ann Robinson, pointing to Elsa Warner\u2019s <em>Blue Lake No. 4<\/em>. \u201cThat piece is very abstract but if you can imagine if this piece on a white wall, it goes flat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pieces offer a different take from the permanent collection, from which all of the pieces hail. <em>Blue<\/em>&nbsp;follows&nbsp;LBMA&#8217;s&nbsp;previous exhibition <em>Red<\/em>, which was a surprise hit for Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Red<\/em> was, again from our permanent collection, a coordination with International City Theatre\u2019s production of Red,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cThere was a great response to it\u2014particularly artists. I was pleasantly surprised so I thought with this, let\u2019s go to blue. We\u2019re not sure if we\u2019ll go to green or what-not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spanning two large rooms\u2014and ending with a small Rauschenberg exhibit called&nbsp;<em>Cardbirds<\/em> <em>and Currents<\/em>, where one of his famous <em>Cardbirds<\/em> is shown as well as the <em>Surface Series from Currents<\/em>\u2014the exhibition spans multiple decades of blue, from the high-end of modernism of the late 50s and early 60s to contemporary photography in the 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><em>The exhibits will run from February 6 to March 23. For more information, call 562-439-2119 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbma.org\">www.lbma.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>{FG_GEOMAP [33.763173,-118.166784] FG_GEOMAP}<\/p>\n<p><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moment you walk into Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA)\u2019s upcoming exhibition,&nbsp;<em>The Many Moods of Blues<\/em>, you are greeted by Laddie John Dill\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Bird Series<\/em>.&nbsp;The mixed-media piece\u2014an amalgamation of cement, glass, and pigment\u2014is anything but melancholy, the go-to metaphor for blue. Rather, the piece evokes a sense of playfulness mixed with edginess: it explodes off the wall and, like much of the exhibit, offers a view of blue that runs across a spectrum\u2014from aspects of wealth, power and identity\u2014more than relying on a single focal point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":68789,"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":[389],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-long-beach-museum-of-art","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539","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=3539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3539"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}