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In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor is an exhibition that presents the work of one hundred and fifty artists and posits that there has been a huge, but unacknowledged, art movement taking place in this country for the last forty years. Since 1994, this ground swelling of lowbrow, surrealistic, pop, figurative, and narrative work has coalesced and found a voice in the pages of Juxtapoz magazine published in San Francisco. This “rag” has become the most widely read art magazine in the U.S. It is an influencing force on the aspiring artists of generation Y and the millenials, who are now enrolling in art schools in numbers never before seen.
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Imagination Celebration 2008
Imagination Celebration is an impressive collaboration of arts organizations, cities, schools, libraries and community venues under the leadership of the county-wide arts council—Arts Orange County. This year’s theme is “Imagination Powers the Planet”.
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Las Vegas Diaspora
March 9 – June 1, 2008
Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland (March 9 – June 1, 2008) travels to Laguna Art Museum from its recent premiere at the Las Vegas Museum of Art.
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Auction 100
February 9-17, 2008
Auction: 100 February 9-17, 2008 Art Auction Preview: February 9 – 15, 2008 Auction: February 16, 2008 Post-Auction: February 17, 2008 Auction: 100, presented by Laguna Art Museum, will feature 100 works from 100 premiere Southern California artists.
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Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting
September 26, 2007
(Laguna Beach, CA—September 26, 2007) Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting is a survey of this major American painter’s work. The show traces the development of Thiebaud’s signature style but also includes some of his lesser known figural and beach paintings. Wayne Thiebaud’s recent series of beach paintings is a reflection of the painter’s youth, dating back to the 1920s and 1930s in Long Beach, California.
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9th Annual Plein Air Invitational
9th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational (Laguna Beach, CA—August 20, 2007) During the second week of October, fifty of the finest plein air painters in the country will travel to Laguna Beach, California to participate in the 9th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational, the most prestigious event of its kind in the nation.
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Shag: The Flesh Is Willing
September 26, 2007
The Flesh Is Willing combines two of the artist’s pictorial interest s, nudes and purgatory, in an investigation of 50s cocktail culture and the notion of sin. This exhibition was inspired by a recent trip to the Prado in Madrid, where Shag viewed the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in person for the fi rst time.
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Rick Griffin: Heart and Torch
March 1, 2007
(Laguna Beach, CA—March 1, 2007) Rick Griffin (1944-1991), a cult figure who has set the iconographic terrain for three distinct subcultures, has had a significant impact on our culture overall. Heart and Torch: Rick Griffi n’s Transcendence was organized by Laguna Art Museum and will be Griffin’s first major retrospective and first solo museum exhibition.
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