{"id":929,"date":"2018-02-19T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=62447"},"modified":"2018-02-19T17:38:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T01:38:38","slug":"latest-lbma-exhibitions-showcase-new-perspectives-on-textiles-and-tarot-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/art\/latest-lbma-exhibitions-showcase-new-perspectives-on-textiles-and-tarot-cards","title":{"rendered":"Latest LBMA Exhibitions Showcase New Perspectives on Textiles and Tarot Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three new exhibitions will have an opening reception at the Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) on Friday, February 23 from 6:00PM to 8:00PM. On display will be abstract works from the museum\u2019s permanent collection, a reimagining of tarot cards by figurative painter and tattoo artist Shay Bredimus<\/a>\u00a0 and artist Christy Matson<\/a>\u2019s ceramic and textile works.<\/p>\n

Time and Space: Abstractions from the Permanent Collection<\/em> opened on Friday and will run through May 6 with over 35 paintings and sculptures from 1923 to 2007. Works by June Harwood, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, Bettina Brendel, Karl Benjamin, and ceramics by Wouter Dam and Peter Shire, to name a handful, explore \u201cthe multiple visions possible when artists are not focused on portraying the physical world and instead create new visions for our imaginations to explore,\u201d according to the LBMA.<\/p>\n

Christy Matson: Rock, Paper, Scissors<\/em> also opened last week and will run through May 13. The exhibition features ceramics paired with textiles. As an internationally recognized specialist in Jacquard hand weaving, this will be the first exhibit the Los Angeles-based artist has combined the two media in the same show. Matson uses slip-cast porcelain ceramic forms made from discards, including the varying types of cones or cylinders normally used to wind yarn.<\/p>\n

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\u201cUsually, once the yarn is used, the plastic or cardboard cones are tossed away, however, Matson saw that these simple, abstract, conical forms could be transformed and become metaphors\u2014Vessels\u2014for transportation and journey in the museum gallery that opens to the vast Pacific Ocean,\u201d stated the release.<\/p>\n

The textiles in Matson\u2019s exhibition are all hand woven on a jacquard loom combined with unspun paper yarn. Many of the weavings use simple geometric forms to create abstract compositions, an intentional method that \u201cMatson considers to be an important counterpoint to the amount of pre-planning that is often required in hand-weaving.\u201d<\/p>\n

CARTOMANCY: The Seni Horoscope Re-imagined<\/em> is set to open this Friday and will be on view through May 13. Bredimus\u2019 background as a figurative painter and tattoo artist\u2014he works full time at Kari Barba\u2019s Outer Limits in downtown\u2014shines through the artist\u2019s largest single body of work to date. Nearly two years in the making, CARTOMANCY<\/em> is inspired by the 17th century German fortune-telling system created by Italian oracle Giovanni Battista Seni, a tarot deck of 72 cards.<\/p>\n

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Shay Bredimus, <\/em>Plant Venus (Dove), 2016, tattoo ink and wax crayon on drafting film. 17″ x 11″. Image\u00a0courtesy of the Long Beach Museum of Art.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bredimus reimagines a version of these historic cards into two large-scale pictographs and 70 medium-sized portraits. Seventy-two pieces each represent a horoscope tarot card fortune to be \u201cseen as an interactive conduit to understanding man\u2019s position in the universe,\u201d according to the museum. Each piece is encased in a wood pediment fenestration and created in the artist\u2019s signature black tattoo ink on drafting film.<\/p>\n

The museum is free on Thursday evenings from 5:00PM to 8:00PM and all day on Fridays. The galleries and store are open Thursday 11:00AM to 8:00PM and Friday through Sunday 11:00AM to 5:00PM. Admission is $7 for adults, $6 for students and seniors age 62 and older and free for members and children under 12.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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