Sunday, April 16, 2023

Tierra del Sol artists at WLAC Art Gallery THURSDAY 4/20



"Soft Geometry, Random Texts, Ninjas, Dryads, and Other Entities: New Work by Five Artists from the Tierra Del Sol Progressive Art Studios"



Curated by Doug Harvey

Thursday, April 20 - Sunday May 7
OPENING THURSDAY 4/20 6 - 8 PM
(Also Saturday 4/22 for WLAC Earth Day Fair, 11:30 - 3:30)
And subsequent Saturdays, same times with live Mannlicher Carcano Radio Hours

WLAC Fine Arts Gallery
(FAA Exhibition Space 101)
Fine Arts Complex
9000 Overland Ave
Culver City, CA 90230
https://goo.gl/maps/v6P7fTRgEVpkhASBA

Admission and parking are free.

West Los Angeles College Art Gallery is pleased to announce "Soft Geometry, Random Texts, Ninjas, Dryads, and other Entities: New Work by Five Artists from the Tierra Del Sol Progressive Art Studios" – an exhibition curated by Doug Harvey.

The Tierra del Sol Progressive Art Studios are an example of the remarkable system of progressive art studios mandated by California’s 1977 Lanterman Act, which empowers people with developmental disabilities to live a more independent lives.

Art – including studio practice, art history, criticism, education – and museum, gallery, and art fair antics – has accommodated neurodiversity throughout its long and complex histories. Programs such as the Californioa community college system’s DSPS (Disabled Student Programs and Services) have allowed the differently abled to participate in the educational end of the conventional Art World. But in many ways, Art Education has been ahead of the curve, neurodivergent-inclusive from its inception.

The artists of "Soft Geometry, Random Texts, Ninjas, Dryads, and other Entities” are all highly fluent in the language of visual art. Julia Hagen Brenner’s radiant, saturated renderings of archetypal mythological figures and luminous natural landscapes, Kevin Bermudez’s mesmerizing, indexical Ninja drawings, Jeffrey Rinsky’s brut-cubist figures (including a suite of off-season Santa Claus portraits), Manuel Guerrero undulating fields of stained-glass geometrics, and Mary Lou Dimsdale’s pulsating bands of found text – all are bodies of work that would hold their own and thensome in any contemporary art gallery.

Soft Geometry, Random Texts, Ninjas, Dryads, and Other Entities opens Thursday, April 20 2023 and continues until May 7th, open Saturdays 11:30 - 3:30 and by special arrangement.

For more info contact harveyd@wlac.edu or gallery@tierradelsol.org

Thanks to Paige Wery and Maria Jones of the Tierra del Sol Foundation/Gallery, M.A. Peers of WLAC Fine Arts, and the students of Tuesday night Painting class.



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