{"id":6131,"date":"2008-01-15T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/museum-recap\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T07:05:00","slug":"museum-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/museum-recap","title":{"rendered":"Museum Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/photo57302.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Long Beach Museum of Art is currently presenting <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Picturing  Identity; Selections from the Permanent Collection and the Gail Oxford  Collection<\/span> through <st1:date year=\"2008\" day=\"10\" month=\"2\">February 10,   2008<\/st1:date>.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>This show highlights  the Museum&#8217;s extensive collection of 300 years of portraiture in styles ranging  from highly realistic to abstract.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/www.lbma.org\/images\/Sadness.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also at the LBMA is <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">About Face: Portraiture Now<\/span>, running  through March 23.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>This engaging  exhibition presents the work of 35 contemporary painters who defy the modernist  conventions of abstraction and non-representational imagery to produce  breathtakingly beautiful and incredibly realistic human portraits. Their work  combines &#8220;Old Master&#8221; technique with contemporary subjects and  settings. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/org\/uam\/pages\/Exhibitions\/Current\/Schmitz\/Versuchsgelaende_det_sm.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Starting with a reception on January 24<sup>th<\/sup>, the <st1:place><st1:placetype>University<\/st1:placetype>   <st1:placetype>Art Museum<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> at CSULB will be  presenting site specific installations by artist and physicist <span class=\"style16\">Lothar Schmitz.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Survival  Strategies features miniaturized three-dimensional synthetic and simulated  landscapes that combine natural substances with artificial materials. These  controlled environments include a large salt flat in <\/span><em>Permeation <\/em><span class=\"style16\">(2008), to be constructed in the center court gallery, and a  multi-channel video installation <\/span><em>Biomorph <\/em><span class=\"style16\">(2008)  which investigates the biological processes of plant cells, using time-lapsed  imagery. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"style16\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/www.csulb.edu\/org\/uam\/pages\/Exhibitions\/Current\/tamper\/tamper_1_sm.jpg\"   \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span class=\"style16\">Also opening at the UAM is <\/span><span class=\"style17\">Tamper:  Gestural Interface for Cinematic Design. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>It is a <\/span>participatory work that fuses  cutting-edge interface technology with the practice of film production. The  result is an off-kilter virtual editing room in which the museum visitor  becomes cinema collage artist, literally using her or his hands to grab and  recompose elements from different movies: characters here, props there,  architecture from one, an entire scene from another.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>John Underkoffler, the creator of Tamper, and  developer of the technology, will be presenting a gallery talk on February 5<sup>th<\/sup>  from <st1:time minute=\"15\" hour=\"12\">12:15 &ndash; 1:00 PM<\/st1:time> in the  museum.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/www.molaa.com\/n_images\/09_2007_2\/item1.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">The <st1:place><st1:placetype>Museum<\/st1:placetype>   of <st1:placename>Latin American Art<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> is currently featuring  two exhibitions.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><em>Walter Goldfarb: D  + Lirium<\/em>, on view in the Exhibition Gallery through <st1:date year=\"2008\" day=\"18\" month=\"5\">May 18, 2008<\/st1:date>, is an showcases the paintings of a  contemporary Brazilian artist who is emerging on the international art  scene.&nbsp; The selection of 24 mixed-media paintings by Walter Goldfarb  offers a tantalizing visual journey into his vibrant artwork created between  1995 and the present.&nbsp; The exhibition begins with his early works drawn  from a series of works titled, Black and White Series and leads to his most  recent works that are saturated with intense color and layered with  textures.&nbsp; This series is titled <st1:place><st1:placename>Lysergic<\/st1:placename>   <st1:placetype>Garden<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> and is the primary focus of  the exhibition. With his electric palette and psychedelic undertones, the <st1:place><st1:placename>Lysergic<\/st1:placename>   <st1:placetype>Garden<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> works are reminiscent of the  1960&rsquo;s hallucinogenic designs and emotions of ecstasy.&nbsp; Goldfarb uses  color, floral motifs and plant forms to exude a sense of delirium and delight  in his art. The exhibition is curated by Augustine Arteaga, Director of Museo  de Arte de <st1:city><st1:place>Ponce<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. A full color  catalog accompanies the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='clear:left;' align='left' vspace='5' hspace='10'  src=\"http:\/\/www.molaa.com\/n_images\/06_2007\/current_1_123x123.jpg\"   \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Also on display from the museum&rsquo;s Permanent Collection is &ldquo;A  Bridge to the <st1:country-region><st1:place>Americas<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>,&rdquo;  offering over 80 works of art presented both geographically and thematically in  two of the Permanent Collection Galleries.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The first gallery highlights approximately 25 works of art, one to four from  each of the 19 Spanish\/Portuguese speaking countries in the regions of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>,  Central and <st1:place>South America<\/st1:place> and the <st1:place>Caribbean<\/st1:place>,  to profile the various countries and their leading art movements and artists  represented in the <b>molaa<\/b> Collection.<\/p>\n<p>The second gallery will present approximately 60 works of art presented in 3  thematic movements&mdash;<em>Cultural Landscapes, The Mestizaje of Identity and  Spiritual and Religious Practices&mdash;<\/em>offering an interpretation of the art  related to the distinct and varied representation of ethnic identity, heritage  and cultural practice specific to Latin America.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[6],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-lo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=6131"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}