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.
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:
1010 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
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
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:
Thursday: 11 AM to 8 PM
Friday – Sunday: 11 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)**
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 fromBordalo 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 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.
“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 fromBordalo 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
