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Both Sides of the Lens: Photographic and Digital Artists Group Member's Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: October 19 to October 31, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 19th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Artists: Don Adkins, Joelle Petit Adkins, Jim Bardos, Allan Conrad, Beverly Gates, George Gelb, Judith Herman, Jerry Kotler, Doug Magill, Lawrence Manning, Jim McKinniss, Karen Schuenemann, Beth Shibata, Patrick Smyth, Ariel Swartley, Earl Velts, Joyce Weiss, John Wessel 

Push and Flow: Inspired by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of Flow

Artists: Elizabeth Casuga, Nancy Voegeli-Curran, Dawn Ertl, Esmeralda Montes, Ian Pines, and Peggy Zask
Exhibition Dates: September 13 to October 10, 2013
Artist Talk: Friday, September 13, 2013 at 6:00 PM
Opening Reception: Friday, September 13, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Lecture: Saturday, October 5, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Optimal Experience: How "Flow" Facilitates Creativity and Well-Being by Vanessa Kettering

This exhibition is an investigation of the concept of Flow developed by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the field of Positive Psychology. Flow is a form of Optimal Experience in which an individual’s skills rise to meet the challenges they are faced with and the individual feels the sensation of fluidity in his/her work. The aim of this exhibition is to explore how this concept of Flow is operating within the lives of professional artists.

We have selected six artists from the Los Angeles area working in various media – painting, drawing, weaving, ceramics, and installation art – interviews were conducted to reveal their internal processes that resulted in the artworks on display. The featured artists in this exhibition, Elizabeth Casuga, Nancy Voegeli-Curran, Dawn Ertl, Esmeralda Montes, Ian Pines, and Peggy Zask, all experienced the phenomenon of Flow during their creation process, and also recognized the psychological benefit from engaging in Flow activities, which are filled with challenges, growth, and at their completion, a sense of achievement.

Older Adults Art Exhibition

Artists: Manhattan beach residents and students enrolled in City of Manhattan Beach Parks and Recreation Department art classes, ages 55+ Exhibition Dates: August 23 through September 5, 2013 Opening Reception: Friday, August 23rd, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

California Cruisin'

Artists: Brent Broza, Tricia Strickfaden, and Rob Waxman
Exhibition Dates: July 12 to August 15, 2013
Guest Curator: Ann Martin
Opening Reception: Friday, July 12th, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Light Knots

Artists: Larry Bell and Oliver Bell
Exhibition Dates: May 23 to June 29, 2013
Curator: Homeira Goldstein, Chairman of the Board, ARTS Manhattan
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 23rd, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Artist's Talk: Thursday, May 23rd, at 7:00 PM

33rd District Congressional High School Art Competition
Exhibition Dates: April 30 to May 16, 2013
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 30th, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district. Since the competition began in 1982, more than 650,000 high school students have participated. The Creative Arts Center has proudly displayed all of the entries from our local district for the past 10 years, and we are pleased to be able to continue this tradition as part of the 33rd District. Winners will be recognized both in their district and at an annual awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The winning works are displayed for one year at the U.S. Capitol.

Pastel Society of Southern California 4th Annual Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: April 6 to 26, 2013
Opening Reception and Awards Presentation: Saturday, April 6th, from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Free Pastel Demonstration by Richard McKinley: Saturday, April 13th, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

This exhibition features more than 100 paintings by nationally recognized pastel artists as well as local Pastel Society of Southern California members from the South Bay. Juried entries will be judged by the internationally acclaimed oil and pastel artist Richard McKinley. For more information, please visit The Pastel Society of Southern California website or call (310) 540-0724.

Mira Costa High School Art Show
Exhibition Dates: March 22 to 28, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, March 22nd, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM

This annual exhibition features artwork from students at Mira Costa High School.

(in)visible systems
    

Artists: Betsy Lohrer Hall, Kimiko Miyoshi, and Linda Jo Russell
Exhibition Dates: February 15, 2013 to March, 14, 2013
Opening Reception: Friday, February 15, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

(in)visible systems presents abstract painting and printmaking by three South Bay women artists: Betsy Lohrer Hall, Kimiko Miyoshi, and Linda Jo Russell. These artists, in one way or another, show their propensity to the geometric imagination: they explore the richness of color and tight or loosely woven geometric patterns of forms. Their artworks are characterized by the interplay between colors and lines, which results in structural visual effects on the picture plane. The creation of these images resembles the building of a system that requires keen observation, contemplation, and trial and error. Their artwork reveals and hides the systems is the relationships between what is on the surface and what is covered.

See images from the exhibition on the Creative Arts Center's Flickr page.

Junk

Artist: Bob Van Breda
Exhibition Dates: December 11, 2012 to February 2, 2013
Curator: Homeira Goldstein, Chairman of the Board, ARTS Manhattan
Closing Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, February 2, 2012 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Junk n.
1. old metal, wood, paper, etc.
2. Chinese ship with flat bottom
3. worthless thing(s); rubbish
v. to discard; scrap
adj. junk-y, junk-i-er, junk-i-est

Webster's New World Pocket Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 2000

This exhibition will provide the viewer a visual experience of junk, detritus, found items and other things of interest. Upon perusing each item the viewer will judge; does this junk have aesthetic value, cultural purpose or is it simply junk?