Un-Natural | Saving Paradise | Hybrid Romance

OPENING RECEPTION: SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2–5 PM

EXHIBITION DATES: MARCH 8 – MAY 6, 2012

Un-Natural

North Gallery | Curator: Scott Canty
Lisa Adams
Fatemeh Burnes
Merion Estes
Constance Mallinson

Saving Paradise: The Symbiosis of Landscape Painting and Environmental Awareness

South Gallery | Juried by Jean Stern, Director, Irvine
Group exhibition from the California Art Club

Hybrid Romance

Project Room | Solo exhibition by Lawrence Yun

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is pleased to present three exhibitions that investigate the way artists in various genres interpret and observe nature. Un-Natural explores the work of four very different contemporary artists—Lisa Adams, Fatemeh Burnes, Merion Estes and Constance Mallinson—who use the world around us to foster a sense of place, explore natural phenomena and its energetic connection to modern life, and push the boundaries and definition of landscape and its representation.

Saving Paradise: The Symbiosis of Landscape Painting and Environmental Awareness is a group exhibition from the California Art Club, which spotlights the relationships landscape artists have with the natural beauty depicted in their works on canvas. Many of the paintings have been rendered in the California Impressionist style that the organization’s early artists influenced more than a century ago as they painted “en plein air” (“in the open air”). The exhibition also underscores the artists’ desire to bring attention to preservation efforts by creating artwork of scenic vistas that they hope to protect for the enjoyment of future generations.

In the Project Room gallery, Hybrid Romance by Los Angeles artist Lawrence T. Yun presents his latest watercolor series. His work delivers a natural, yet imaginative oddity beneath the surface of his meticulously orchestrated floral compositions.

SPECIAL EVENTS

MARCH 15, 7:00 PM
Lecture: Nature’s Masterpiece: California’s Channel Islands and Marine Sanctuary
Lecture with David C. Gallup, California Art Club Vice President and Signature Artist Member

Conversations with the Artists

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 7:00 PM
California Art Club Artists
Peter Adams, President and Signature Artist Member
David Gallup, Vice President and Signature Artist Member
Lynn Gertenbach, Signature Artist Member
Eric Merrell, Artist Member of the California Art Club
Michael Obermeyer, Signature Artist Member

SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2:00 PM
Hybrid Romance discussion with Lawrence Yun

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 7:00 PM
Un-Natural Artists
Fatemeh Burnes
Lisa Adams
Merion Estes
Constance Mallinson

FAMILY ART WORKSHOP

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1- 4:00 PM
Nature and Nurture: Expressing the World Around Us
Drop-in, Free to the public

Posted on Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 at 4:03 pm