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29/9/2004

African American Masters

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach

Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

ONLY WEST COAST PRESENTATION
Ackerman Family Gallery

Celebrating the remarkable contributions made by African-American artists, this intriguing exhibition includes works by Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Eldzier Cortor, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and many others.

The artists featured in African American Masters demonstrate their awareness of mainstream artistic traditions while exploring their dual cultural heritage. The exhibition celebrates the broad variety of styles, artistic approaches and perspectives that characterize the work of twentieth-century African Americans, from the realist paintings of Hughie Lee-Smith and John Biggers to the vibrant abstractions of Sam Gilliam and Alma Thomas.

Opening day is Free Friday – the galleries are free to the public all day – and the opening also coincides with 'October is Arts Month' in Long Beach, and 'Arts Day' in California. The Long Beach presentation is made possible with the support of Roberta and Matthew Jenkins, Councilwoman Laura Richardson/The City of Long Beach, McClain-Hill Associates, Yellow Book USA, Wave Newspapers, The Westin Long Beach and other generous sponsors.

Press preview on Thursday, September 30, 5 p.m.

Image:
Romare Bearden
Empressof the Blues, 1974
Acrylic, pencil and printed paper
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Purchase in part through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment.
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For the People: American Folk Art from the
Collection of Thomas H. Oxford and Victor Gail
September 10, 2004 – January 16, 2005
Gail-Oxford and Grossberg-Vail Galleries

For the People features over 50 examples of American folk art including weathervanes, quilts, decoys, paintings, samplers, ceramics, carved wood vessels, furniture and toys intended for use in middleclass homes in this country in the late 18th and 19th centuries. For the People is the fourth major exhibition organized by the Long Beach Museum of Art highlighting the extraordinary holdings of Long Beach-based American decorative arts collectors Thomas H. Oxford and Victor Gail.

The presentation and educational programming of this exhibition are made possible with the support of James and Loraine Ackerman, the Evalyn M. Bauer Foundation, Jean and Charles Lane, Farmers & Merchants Bank, Vice Mayor Jackie Kell, Mitchell Land and Improvement Co., Tim Wilson and Carol Tieffer and other generous sponsors.
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Port Visions Long Beach: Photographs by Tom Paiva
September 10 – October 10, 2004
Lane Oceanview Gallery

Port Visions Long Beach features thirteen large-scale, brilliantly colored and poetically evocative photographs of Los Angeles-based artist Tom Paiva. Paiva’s images document the unexpected beauty in the urban and industrial landscape of the Port of Long Beach.

Observed from a distant perspective, the Port of Long Beach appears to be a random massing of gigantic containers, colossal ships and unfamiliar equipment. However, seen at a closer vantage point – as Paiva does in his stunning photographs – the beauty, grandeur and poetry of the Port emerge.

Most of the photographs featured in Port Visions Long Beach were taken at night using time-lapse techniques. By exposing his film for lengthy periods of time, ranging from a few seconds to longer than two hours, Tom Paiva creates powerfully evocative images – hazy, mood-evoking studies of place. In these depictions of the buildings, transportation systems and equipment in and around the Port of Long Beach, the artist reveals an unanticipated beauty in his subject. This exhibition was made possible with the support of the Port of Long Beach, Hanjin Shipping Co., Sully-Miller, SSA Marine and other generous sponsors.

Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 E. Ocean Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90803

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