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A premier venue for promoting the visual arts to the Manhattan Beach community; displaying works by locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists as well as by emerging artists. The exhibitions seek to strengthen the exposure and understanding of the visual arts for all residents. The gallery also serves as a site for students from Manhattan Beach and the South Bay area to display their artistic talents. Through partnerships with local organizations, the exhibition program develops a network that contributes to establishing a common ground in the community.
Mare Vitalis
Exhibition Schedule: January 17th through March 22nd
Opening Reception: January 17th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The importance of the sea in maritime communities is evident in the work of three painters: Alex Weinstein, Wendy Stillman, and Marlene Sanaye Yamada. Their work spans from abstract to representational, and the idea of ocean is represented through specific cultural references, philosophical theories about nature and beauty, and the physicality and motion of water.
Wendy Stillman’s work features layers of paint inhabited by figures and symbols relevant to her life. Her reference to 80’s surf culture, ala Peter Webb aesthetics and Basquiattian methods of painting, invokes the ocean as an essential source of maritime city-life and culture.
Marlene Sanaye Yamada explores the physical nature of water as liquid. Working with watery paint, Yamada allows the material to flow over the canvas and guide her through this physical process of painting. Although Yamada never overtly references the ocean, her process almost symptomatically creates water-like images.
Alex Weinstein’s paintings are reductive representations of water. His nearly monochrome works limit the picture plane to just water and sky. Each of his works is self-described as being a ”slowburn,” and he invites the viewer to take time and allow the work to shift in one’s mind. Weinstein’s work pushes into the realm of the sublime, and he pays homage to artists like Mark Rothko, Casper David Friedrich and Giorgio Morandi.
Associative Plurarlities - CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS
Exhibition Schedule: April 10th through June 28th
CANCELLED due to COVID-19 restrictions Opening Reception: April 10th from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Program at 7:30 PM)
Manhattan Beach, CA, July 31, 2019 – Homeira Goldstein and TIME4ART with support of the Manhattan Beach Art Center are thrilled to present “ASSOCIATIVE PLURALITIES”, a group exhibition featuring highly celebrated Los Angeles artist, Tom Wudl and 10 artists selected from a group of independent artists who study with him at his studio in downtown Los Angeles.
Tom Wudl
Mindy Alper | BJ Dockweiler | Loran Calvin | Monica Leal Cueva | Michele Jaffe |
Charlotte Schmid-Maybach | David Peters | Tere Abdala-Romano | Elise Vazelakis | Laurie Yehia
While the artists in Wudl’s master class have their practice of training and coaching with him in common, this exhibition showcases the variety of the artists' individual inspirations and the widely diverse nature and spirit of their work from inspirations, ideas, concepts, processes, and mediums, to their own personalities.
Tom Wudl takes inspiration from a revered Buddhist teaching, the Avatamsaka Sutra, to create an ongoing series of painstakingly detailed works in response to the text's evocative literary descriptions. Through a rigorous approach to draftsmanship, he seeks to reveal the interconnectedness of all things within a cosmos of infinite realms. Wudl fuses this meditative approach with a robust aesthetics, employing formal conventions to visually represent that which defies verbal description. Wudl has balanced his studio practice with a long career in teaching art and has held positions at a number of prestigious institutions.
Mindy Alper drawings, paintings, and sculptures focus on the representation of people, articulating complex and profound emotions, while BJ Dockweiler explores how brilliant colors clash and abstract images vibrate, giving flat art an added dimension.
Loran Calvin uses outdated and useless slides in the contemporary world, giving them purpose for holding memories, yet Monica Leal Cueva creates digital collages with images that she generates herself through exploration of her environment.
Experimenting with different styles and mediums, Michele Jaffe trusts her own inspiration and search for her core artistic spirit and expression, whereas Charlotte Schmid-Maybach works on series of layered paper images, using photograph as a starting point.
David Peters works intuitively without preconceived ideas, embracing inspirations to guide him to forms and shapes welcoming unexpected discoveries inherent in the painting process and Tere Abdala-Romano approaches painting much like meditation ignoring her thinking mind, thus providing space for the void and allowing the creative process to unfold.
Manipulating loom weaving long-tended tradition with the integration of metal wire, Elise Vazelakis’ techniques push the customary boundaries of weaving, resulting in dynamic forms striking a balance between textile and sculpture, exploring juxtaposition of comfort and complexity and strength and fragility, while Laurie Yehia paints Individual wall switch plates, aggregating them into a grid-like structure retaining traces of their functionality while their new configuration is open to multiple interpretations.
This exhibition is presented by TIME4ART, a non-profit art educational organization in Manhattan Beach, California with the mission of enhancing cultural art awareness in the South Bay and Greater Los Angeles.
“Our heartfelt thanks to Manhattan Beach Art Center for their spirit of camaraderie and community.” -Homeira Goldstein
PIERSPECTIVE COMMUNITY ART EXHIBITION
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF THE MANHATTAN BEACH PIER
Virtual Exhibition: NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE
Thank you to everyone who applied. Please view all the submissions below. The submissions are categorized based on artist's last name.
For more information or if you any questions, please contact the Manhattan Beach Art Center via email.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Manhattan Beach Art Center is closed until further notice.
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Form and Movement
Simon Ouwerkerk
Exhibition Schedule: October 16, 2020 to January 3, 2021
Press Release from Time4Art
HOMEIRA GOLDSTEIN and TIME4ART to PRESENT
Simon Ouwerkerk "Form and Movement"
October 16, 2020 - December 3, 2021
Manhattan Beach, CA, September 30, 2020 – Homeira Goldstein and TIME4ART with support of the Manhattan Beach Art Center are thrilled to present “Form and Movement” an exhibition featuring a collection of sculptural work by South Bay renowned sculptor and installation artist, Simon Ouwerkerk.
Born in South Bay with studios in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach, Simon’s work is an ongoing dialog between form and movement playing with shapes, materials, volumes and textures. His work also delivers a visionary and elevated senses of strength and serenity.
Notably though his commissioned installations are massive, conveying and creating experiences which examine emotional process of grandness, spirituality and achievement, carrying the audience within their own deep and rich potentials of reaching out for higher planes.
Ouwerkerk states: Most of my work is process based. I like to construct my sculptures by the obsessive accumulation of material, such as paint, toys, found objects, but mostly metal cut into pieces and hammered into curved shapes and welded together to form mostly abstract organic forms that may resemble something natural or unnatural. Most of my work starts spontaneously becoming more controlled as the work progresses until I achieve a shape I’m satisfied with. Sometimes I will stamp words into the metal that pop into my mind while making the sculpture. The words may or may not relate to a title or theme of the sculpture. My commissioned work is often planned out through many free hand drawings until one drawing is settled upon. This one drawing is then converted into a scaled or architectural drawing which guides the construction of the sculpture. The result is a finished work that is more refined and less spontaneous.
Envisioned by Homeira Goldstein, Form and Movement features the artist’s recent abstract organic sculptures, largely suited for outdoor inspired by his perpetual fascination for process and anticipation of somewhat unknown final form. The exhibition invites you to view his world through ever expanding and seemingly limitless exploration and expression of shape, form and movement.
This exhibition is presented by TIME4ART, a non-profit art educational organization in Manhattan Beach, California with the mission of enhancing cultural art awareness in the South Bay and Greater Los Angeles.
“Our heartfelt thanks to Manhattan Beach Art Center for their spirit of camaraderie and community.”-Homeira Goldstein
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