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[rjzimmerman]

Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees. (Lancaster Museum of Art and History)

The Museum is presenting an exhibit entitled, "PST ART: Art & Science Collide," centered around a book entitled, "Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees." I know several of the contributors to the book (and just ordered my hard copy version). Here's the story about the exhibit from the Museum:

The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) has partnered with the Getty, and 70+ other organizations, for PST ART: Art & Science Collide. On Saturday, September 7, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History will open Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees, as part of the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative. The exhibition sheds light on the threatened Joshua tree and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem that sustains it. The project integrates natural history, indigenous knowledge, public policy, scientific research, and artistic expressions to emphasize the challenges facing the Joshua tree and conservation efforts. With a focus on the impact of climate change, development, wildfires, and other threats, the exhibition explores the symbiotic relationships between Joshua trees, soil fungi, and moth pollinators, engaging a diverse audience interested in arts and environmental issues. Desert Forest features more than 50 historical and contemporary artists who have produced artworks that exemplify a range of ideas across myriad practices. The exhibition will remain on view from Saturday, September 7, 2024 to Sunday, December 29, 2024.

The book:

Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees is a collection of essays and imagery that illuminates our deeply entangled relationships with the Joshua tree. Leading scientists, artists, indigenous culture bearers, historians, conservationists, policy makers, and creative writers, share their multidisciplinary research to spotlight the Joshua tree in response to the growing threat of climate change and the explosion of development across Mojave Desert lands. Following the trails of beneficial plant kinships as well as the damage done by ongoing extractions, they share desert cosmologies through this unique icon—all while bringing us closer to the being that is Joshua tree. This book is for everyone concerned about the unfolding impacts of human actions in the natural world and how we can find better ways of living together through acts of care and repair.

[darinboville]

Go to the Show (in Lancaster, California)

Doing anything between this Saturday and December 29th? If not, head out to Lancaster, California, and see the Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees exhibit at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH). It’s part of a Getty-funded initiative that explores overlapping areas of art and science (an idea that is near and dear to my heart, of course). Featuring the work of forty artists—I have four pieces…

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This mural was created for POW! WOW! Antelope Valley 2018 in Lancaster by artist Tran Nguyen. For more of her work check out her website and Instagram.

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Repost from @moahcedar • Come down and have a Golden Experience! We will be here til 8pm! Jodi Bonassi Golden Pheasant In The Garden Of Wishes, 2021 Multi Media Painting on Canvas Pintura sobre lienzo Multimedia C2022.1 Courtesy of the Artist Cortesia de El artista #museum #gallery #lancaster #losangeles #art #artist #moahcedar #moah #multimediaart #mixedmedia #canvas #lines #destinationlancaster #theblvd #artscommunity #thursday #lacounty #california #losangeles #contmeporaryart #culturaldistrict #landscape #oil #oilpaintings #gold #golden #pheasant #wishes #birds #creaturesofflight (at MOAH: CEDAR) https://www.instagram.com/jodi_bonassi/p/CZQI8YUP3ie/?utm_medium=tumblr

[artnerdlosangeles]

Sant Khalsa Book Signing, Artist Talk July 15 at MOAH on Art Nerd Los Angeles http://art-nerd.com/losangeles/sant-khalsa-book-signing-artist-talk-july-15-at-moah/

[supersonicart]

Cinta Vidal’s “Concrete.”

Opening on Saturday, October 2nd, 2021 at MOAH Lancaster in Lancaster, California and presented by Thinkspace Projects is artist Cinta Vidal’s solo exhibition, “Concrete.”

For Vidal, depicting macro and micro levels of inverted apartment buildings and city structures illustrate the various ways the world is experienced by a mass population. Having grown up with an affinity for drawing, Vidal became an apprentice at Taller de’Escenografia Castells Planas, one of the most prestigious scenography ateliers in Spain and across Europe. There, she learned the trades of scenography, painting large-scale scenes and settings for theatre and opera backdrops. Utilizing this experience, Vidal uses acrylic paint on canvas to create what she describes as her “un-gravity constructions.” She paints each artwork with close attention to detail, fully realizing each structure and the unfolding scenes within. Vidal’s combination of saturation, detail, and balance work together to allow the viewer’s gaze to absorb these various and often intersecting viewpoints.

Vidal’s architecturally-inspired paintings encapsulate the concrete formations that enclose the day-to-day turbulence experienced at the personal and community level. Too often people are focused on individuality instead of commonality, leaving little room to observe the surrounding hustle and bustle of city-life. Vidal challenges viewers to look beyond the self and broaden their perceptions of the physical and divided structures humans frequently occupy. By depicting individuality within an arrangement of occupied spaces, she captures the conflict between the multifaceted nature in which society experiences the world, internal perceptions of reality, and the inflexible architecture people inhabit. Vidal’s unrelenting yet inverted constructions symbolize the “mental structures” of the individual. Thus Vidal’s unconventional portrayal of metropolitan architecture elevates these self-revolving structures, reminding viewers that they are not alone and to pay closer attention to the many pathways of life existing amidst the masses.

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Don't miss SUPER A (AKA STEFAN THELEN), "The Other Way Around" nearly sold out exhibition with Thinkspace Projects on view through August 21, 2022 at Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH!“José”(2022)Acrylic on linen16" × 22"

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#beautifulbizarre #popsuurealism #thinkspaceprojects #SUPERA #lancastermuseum #surrealism #painting #acrylicart #moah

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@vcassinova from @powwowav 2020! #VictoriaCassinova #powwowantelopevalley #powwowav #powwowav2020 @moahlancaster #moahlancaster @thinkspace_art #thinkspacefamily #lancasterca #theblvdlancaster @powwowworldwide #worldwidewalls #streetart #muralism (at Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-UT2-l8_z/?utm_medium=tumblr

[alexgarantart]

Patterns A small 12x12 part of my current exhibit at MOAH curated by #thinkspacegallery 🖤💗💚 (at Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFUd86BjVkj/?igshid=dt3r4sbfh5wo

[rpardoart]

Such a lovely painting by @kaylamay_art for his solo exhibition at @moahlancaster !! ❤️❤️❤️ #urbanart #artist #art #portrait #contemporaryart #urbanwalls #urbanwallsworld #❤️ (at Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEkDedIHMpa/?igshid=wo3xz7pawmw6

[geekynerfherder]

Thinkspace Projects presents 'Small Victories', a group art exhibition focusing on suicide prevention and mental health.

10% of sales will be donated to suicidepreventionlifeline.org.

The show is on view from Saturday September 12 until December 27 2020 at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in California.

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This mural was created for POW! WOW! Antelope Valley 2018 in Lancaster by artist Jeff Soto. For more of his work check out his website and Instagram.

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This SATURDAY! JANUARY 22! Save The Date! “Bird ByBird” soon!! MOAH Cedar #museumexhibition #moahcedar #moah #lancaster #artopenings #ostrich #robertbenitez #andicampognone #soloexhibition #contemporarynatureart #birdart #birdloversofinstagram #birdartcollectors (at MOAH: CEDAR) https://www.instagram.com/p/CY132mFvdP3/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lalouver]

Read a fantastic profile on Rebecca Campbell in the current issue of Art LTD. The article covers three bodies of works which Campbell has been developing over the past few years -- all of which are featured in three separate 2016 exhibitions: You are Here (L.A. Louver, Jan 13 - Feb 13), Dreams of Another Time (Cal State Long Beach, Jan 30 - Apr 10) and The Potato Eaters (Lancaster MOAH, May 7 - July 24 / Brigham Young University, Sept). 

“While showing discrete bodies of work, and organized by three different curatorial teams, the pronounced interactions that emerge between them -- some of which even came as a revelation to the artist herself -- serve to highlight the evolution of both the conceptual and formal dynamics underpinning the span of her entire practice. Taken together, the result is a throroughgoing articulation of who she is an an artist and as a woman, and of how her personal experience has come to shape her public style over the course of, as she describes, a lifetime of figuring things out by painting them. ‘Decorum, wit, and vagary posing as intellectual reserve,’ states Campbell, ‘are just not that interesting me.’” -- Shana Nys Dambrot, Art LTD

Click here to learn more about Rebecca Campbell on our website. 

IMAGE: (top) Art LTD cover - Glow, 2013, oil on canvas, from The Potato Eater series; (center, left to right) Patricia, Mpambo and Susan, each 2015, acrylic on paper, 30 x 22 1/4 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm) from the You are Here series; (bottom) Miss April 1971, 2015, mixed media on canvas, 72 x 156 in. (182.9 x 396.2 cm)

[supersonicart]

Julio Anaya Cabanding’s “Past & Present” at MOAH Lancaster.

Presented by Thinkspace Projects and opening on Saturday, July 10th, 2021 at MOAH Lancaster in Lancaster, California is artist Julio Anaya Cabanding’s exhibition, “Past & Present.”

“In one room will be all classic works up till Mannerism. All works will represent religion, mythology, and the Creation. In the other room of MOAH’s Cedar location there will be works from Modernism up to a work of Edward Hopper. In this room I will talk about the present through some works which really talk to us about the pandemic situation, poetically.” - Julio Anaya Cabanding 

The relentless passage of time, its impact, and the constant change have been explained by classical philosophy through the concepts of the "past", the "present", and the "future". It is their linear interchange that generates the unstoppable stream we all experience as life, an ongoing process which we had a chance to reexamine to great extent in the past year and a half of the global pandemic. Such historically unequaled premise prompted Julio Anaya Cabanding (1987), to conceptualize a showcase that will talk about human life history through the exploration of the history of painting, with an accent on the most recent period of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing. Channeling his personal concerns and experiences through his vast knowledge and love for the medium of painting, and materializing it through an impeccable conceptual and technical ability, Malaga-born artist is introducing his poetic vision of the Past and Present. 

Going to his studio during the months of strict lockdowns in Spain, Anaya Cabanding experienced the usually bustling streets of Malaga more desolated and unnerving than he could ever imagine. The lively atmosphere of the coastal Andalucian town was replaced by the uncomfortable emptiness, evoking the ambiance of Giorgio de Chirico's motionless cityscapes basking in the bright daylight of the Mediterranean sun. During the same period, the artist spent long hours, days, weeks, and months, at home with his girlfriend, physically isolated from the rest of the world. Recognizing the atmosphere of the detached subjects in Edward Hopper's work, it was one of his paintings, Room in New York, 1932, that finally moved the artist to envision an exhibition with such percipient concept. 

Having a chance to create and present an entirely new body of work in an institution such as the Lancaster Museum of Art & History, prompted the artist to reconstruct somewhat of a human life timeline metaphorically narrated through the history of painting. Using his signature trompe l'oeil pictorial interventions on found cardboard, Anaya Cabanding attentively appointed an extensive selection of renowned masterpieces to represent our shared past. Starting from The Origin of the Milky Way by Tintoretto,1575–1580, over Jan van Eyck's portraits of Adam and Eve from the Ghent Altarpiece, 1432, all the way to Rogier van der Weyden's Crucifixión triptych, 1443-1445, the five works in the first, pre-Modernism room reference the creation, mythology, and Christianity. 

The chronicle continues in the second room where a series of seven landscapes stand for the beauty of untouched nature, which is suddenly interrupted by the presence of what we recognize as a civilized human. Caspar David Friedrich's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818, one of the most important works of German Romanticism, here stands as the historic turnaround, a metaphorical portrait of humanity face-off with the unbeatable strength of sublime nature. Such monumental anticlimax is sensibly leading to René Magritte's The Key of the Field, 1936, and Giorgio de Chirico's The Return of the Poet, 1911, two depictions of telling surreal scenes that envisioned our recent reality. Continuing over Pablo Picasso's The Yellow Shirt (Dora Maar), 1939, rendering of a seated woman that is physically falling apart as she's nervously waiting to stand up from the seated position, the exhibition wraps up suspended in the anticipation of the aforementioned Hopper's peeping classic. 

In an effort to accentuate the illusion of the actual museum display, ‘Past and Present’ marks the first exhibition comprising only works painted to the very edges of the found cardboard. Interested in the confusion that painted images can initiate, especially their relationships with the points of view and/or shadows, the presentation also includes his first works which are stepping off the flatness of the wall and into real space. Just as Anaya Cabanding’s practice of painting priceless masterpieces in abandoned spaces or on found cardboard recontextualizes their prestigious aura, repurposing them into a timeline of human life disputes the centuries of their traditional evaluation, giving them more emotive, existential, human value. 

Text courtesy of Sasha Bogojev.

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Who could resist this?! “Smashed Potato” (acrylic on linen) by Super A (aka Stefan Thelen) for his debut solo museum exhibition, 'The Other Way Around’, curated by Thinkspace Projects, at Lancaster Museum of Art and History - MOAH.'The Other Way Around’ is on view May 14, 2022 – August 21, 2022. To learn more about this exhibition and all available works, please contact the gallery directly. "Dutch artist Stefan Thelen (b. 1981), better known by his moniker Super A, creates hyperreal murals and studio paintings that explore the world of human contradiction. Through the combination of realistic and surreal imagery, Super A is often dealing in visual metaphor and social messaging, questioning the ideologies and cultural myths we’ve become too complacent at accepting without critique. Interested in the interrogation of objectivity and its ultimate exposure as a construct, Super A combines elements of realism with the free reign of fiction to produce unexpected results."

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