Opening Night of “MOVEMENT” Curated by Thinkspace for Pow! Wow! Long Beach

Sunday was the opening of the group exhibition “MOVEMENT” for Pow! Wow! Long Beach. Thank you to all those who made it out, and those who were unable to swing by, you can still catch the show now through Saturday, July 27.

“MOVEMENT” features work from 40 different artists with a site-specific mural from CRASH alongside installations from Spenser Little and Balloonski.

Check out www.powwowlongbeach.com for all the special events this week and a full list of this year’s participating mural artists.

Location:
327 Pine Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90802
*Entry through the Pharmacy Boardshop

“MOVEMENT” made possible thanks to support from HEX and BEVEL.

POW! WOW! Long Beach and Thinkspace Projects present “Movement”

Thinkspace and POW! WOW! Long Beach present: “MOVEMENT”
Curated by Thinkspace
Made possible thanks to: HEX and BEVEL

Opening Reception:
Sunday, July 21 from 6 to 10 PM

Taking Place At:
327 Pine AvenueLong Beach, CA 90802
*Entry through the Pharmacy Boardshop
Open To View Monday through Saturday from noon to 5 PM
* Check out our socials for regular nightly events too

Pow! Wow! Long Beach will feature a site-specific mural from CRASH ONE and installations from Balloonski and Spenser Little. Alongside a group show with works from over 45 artists:

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ABCNT
Alex Garant
Alex Yanes
Alvaro Naddeo
Amy Sol
Brian Viveros
Bumblebeelovesyou
Caratoes
CASE
Casey Weldon
Cinta Vidal
Dina Saadi
Drew Merritt
EINE
ERMSY
Evoca1
Fafi
Fintan Magee
Goop
Massta
Hilda Palafox (aka Poni)
Hula
Huntz Liu
Jaime Molina
Jason Keam
Jasper Wong
Jaune
Jolene Lai
Lauren YS
Leon Keer
Low Bros
Mark Dean Veca
Max Sansing
Meggs
Mina Hamada
Mwanel Pierre-Louis
Nosego
OakOak
Perez Bros
Scott Listfield
Slinkachu
Spenser Little
Steve Martinez
Super A
Telmo Miel
Tran Nguyen
Yoskay Yamamoto
Yosuke Ueno

‘VITALITY AND VERVE III’ ON VIEW NOW AT THE LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART

Nearly 1,900 of you came out this past Friday to witness the kick-off of the third iteration of our Vitality and Verve exhibition series with the Long Beach Museum of Art as part of the special programming for POW! WOW! Long Beach. If you didn’t make it out this weekend, hours and days are shared below. This history-making exhibition will remain on view through September 9, don’t miss your chance to catch these murals before they are painted over and gone forever. Many thanks to Birdman for capturing them for the ages.

The Long Beach Museum of Art presents:
VITALITY AND VERVE III
 
Curated by Thinkspace as part of POW! WOW! Long Beach
 
On view through September 9, 2018, at:
Long Beach Museum of Art

Amy Sol
Tea Leaves II, 2018
Acrylic on museum wall

Bordalo II
Plastic Seal, 2018
Spray paint on recycled plastics

CASE
In This Together, 2018
Acrylic on museum wall

Dan Witz
Trompe L’Oeil grates and vents, 2018
Oil and digital media on Sintra

Dennis McNett
Back in 5, 2018
Wolfbat’s blood and love installation

Drew Merritt
Coward, 2018
Acrylic on museum wall

Evoca1
Unrest, 2018
Acrylic on museum wall

Fintan Magee
American Fortress, 2018
Acrylic, oil on wood

HERAKUT
ALL QUEENS HERE AGREED that they depended on each other and no kingdom was too small to matter, 2018
Spray painted canvas, acrylic on cardboard on museum wall

Hush
Three Sirens, 2018
Acrylic, spray paint, screen print inks made on paper then deconstructed and reassembled as collage on wall with wheat paste

Jaune
What A Wonderful World, 2018
Acrylic and spray paint on museum wall

Juan Travieso
The Guardian, 2018
Gold leaf, acrylic, oil, on museum wall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

KOZ DOS
NU-VES, 2018
Acrylic on museum wall

Leon Keer
Buy, Consume and Die, 2018
Acrylic on museum wall

Lauren YS The Lotus Eaters, 2018 Acrylic on museum wall

Michael Reeder
Death from Above 2079, 2018
Spray paint, acrylic, acrylic on wood on museum wall

RISK
Metallic Tissue, 2018
Spray paint, enamel on repurposed license plates and signs

SEEN
Multi-Tags, 2018
Spray paint on museum wall

Sergio Garcia
RISK and SABER, 2018
Oil, acrylic on resin with spraypaint on museum wall

Spenser Little
Matisse Drawing in Bed, 2018
Welded metal with projected LED light

Spenser Little
Spiritual FlucDiety, 2018
One continuous 16 gauge steel wire with projected LED light

Super A
Down The Rabbit Hole (from the Trapped series), 2018
Acrylic on museum wall

Jaune
Trash Planet
Spray paint and acrylic on the side of the Long Beach Museum of Art

Jaune
Coffee Break
Spray paint and acrylic on the side of the Long Beach Museum of Art

The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) presents Vitality and Verve III, an exhibition dedicated to showcasing new works by artists of the New Contemporary Art Movement. Presented in curatorial collaboration with Los Angeles’ Thinkspace Projects and the support of POW! WOW! Long Beach, the exhibition is the third iteration in the collaborative series which has secured record-breaking public attendance since 2015.
Vitality and Verve III presents a relevant cross-section of some of the most exciting artists working under the New Contemporary handle today and will feature site-specific works by these 21 individuals brought together in the same space for the first time. Their impermanent installations are tangentially activated, transforming the ground floor and Ocean View gallery of the LBMA into an immersive ephemeral playground for the senses.
The exhibition features new, site-specific works by internationally renowned artists, Bordalo II, CASE, Evoca1, Sergio Garcia, Herakut, Hush, Jaune, Leon Keer, Koz Dos, Spenser Little, Fintan Magee, Dennis McNett, Drew Merritt, Michael Reeder, RISK, SEEN, Amy Sol, Super A, Juan Travieso, Dan Witz and Lauren YS. Each has contributed a unique piece and vantage point, working across a variety of media.
The New Contemporary Art Movement is known for its diversity; several styles, media, contexts, and exhibition platforms fall within its expansive cast, including public art interventions and site-specific urban murals. This breadth has long been embraced as a subversive impulse vis-a-vis the more exclusionary and contained tenets of contemporary art production, particularly those minted in academe and aspiring to the vetted legitimacy of the ‘white cube.’ The movement’s vested interest in incorporating the social and representational, counter to its often systemic disavowal, has allowed it to thrive outside of institutional support, though this exclusionary paradigm is rapidly shifting.
Largely self-supported and community-driven since the 90’s, many of the movement’s artists are self-taught or have come into their own through multi-disciplinary backgrounds. Gaining international recognition over the past decade, the movement is now widely recognized as both the largest and longest running organized art movement in history, boasting veterans and established artists as well as emergent ones. The evocative potential of representation inspires these artists to draw from popular and countercultural sources like music, illustration, comics, graffiti, design, punk, tattoo culture, hip-hop, skate culture, etc., looking to the outside world rather than to the self-referential gestures that have typified the traditional exclusions of contemporary art.

Long Beach Museum of Art hours and admission: 
Thursday11 AM to 8 PM
Friday – Sunday11 AM to 5 PM
$7 adult admission / $6 seniors (over age 62) and students with Valid I.D.
Free for museum members and children under 12

**FREE ADMISSION after 3 PM on Thursdays and ALL DAY on Fridays (6/30-9/8)**

Taste of Vitality & Verve III: Transforming the Urban Landscape

Tonight marks the opening of Vitality & Verve III: Transforming the Urban Landscape curated by Thinkspace as a part of the special programming for Pow! Wow! Long Beach.

“Vitality and Verve III” is the third iteration of the collaborative series for the Long Beach Museum of Art and will be featuring ephemeral murals and installations from Bordalo II, CASE, Evoca1, Sergio Garcia, Herakut, Hush,
Jaune, Leon Keer, Koz Dos, Spenser Little, Fintan Magee, Dennis McNett, Drew Merritt, Michael Reeder, RISK, SEEN, Amy Sol, Super A, Juan Travieso, Dan Witz and Lauren YS.

The Long Beach Museum of Art presents:
‘VITALITY AND VERVE III’
Curated by Thinkspace with support from POW! WOW! Long Beach

On View June 30th thru September 9th at:

Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA. 90803

Detail views of a massive new installation from HUSH

Leon Keer playing with perspectives in his installation for Vitality and Verve III

Collaborative installation from Sergio Garcia & SABER | Saber’s hand and forearm has been sculpted in resin and painted by hand by Sergio Garcia to capture the action and energy of one of his iconic tags. Pure magic.

 

Spenser Little Installations for Vitality & Verve III: Transforming the Urban Landscape

Spenser Little is a self-taught artist who has been bending wire for the last 15 years, allowing his creativity to morph into images that range from simple wordplay to complex portraits. He has related his wire work to a mixture of playing chess and illustration, as the problem-solving component of the work is what continues to inspire himself to create larger and more complex pieces. Some works contain moving components and multiple wires, but mostly the pieces are formed from one continuous piece of wire that is bent and molded to Little’s will. He has left the wire sculptures all over the world, in locations that range from the Eiffel Tower to bottom of caves, their location selected with little discernment only for the piece to be finally realized at the moment that someone discovers the surprise piece of art.

Click through Spenser Little’s installations for Vitality & Verve III: Transforming the Urban Landscape at the Long Beach Museum of Art opening this weekend.

Follow Spenser Little on Instagram at @SpenserLittleArt 

 

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“Vitality and Verve III” is the third iteration of the collaborative series curated by Thinkspace Projects with the support of POW! WOW! Long Beach for the Long Beach Museum of Art, and will be featuring ephemeral murals and installations from Bordalo II, CASE, Evoca, Sergio Garcia, Herakut, Hush,
Jaune, Leon Keer, Koz Dos, Spenser Little, Fintan Magee, Dennis McNett, Drew Merritt, Michael Reeder, RISK, SEEN, Amy Sol, Super A, Juan Travieso, Dan Witz and Lauren YS

The Long Beach Museum of Art presents:
‘VITALITY AND VERVE III’
Curated by Thinkspace with support from POW! WOW! Long Beach

On View June 30, 2018 thru September 9, 2018 at:

Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA. 90803