The Visual Movement

Here are some great images of Ali Cabbar’s Art…There is a Thought Provoking Interview with Ali Cabbar on my other blog, SPRAYBLOG

One of the coolest exhibitions ever organized is coming to the Orange County Museum of Art. The exhibit is comprised of painting, architecture, furniture design, decorative and graphic arts, film, and music that launched midcentury modernism in Los Angeles, and eventually the rest of the United States.

The Birth of the Cool installation features a jazz lounge; a media bar with film, animation, and television programming; an outdoor area with Van Keppel Green furniture and architectural pottery; a period art gallery of hard-edge abstract paintings; selections of art, architectural, and documentary photography; and an interactive timeline that highlights examples of California, national, and international culture and history in the 1950s.

There is an international roster of creative artists that contributed to Los Angeles becoming the epicenter of midcentury modernism—including Chet Baker, Karl Benjamin, William Claxton, Louis Danziger, Charles and Ray Eames, Jules Engel, Lorser Feitelson, Oskar Fischinger, Frederick Hammersley, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, Helen Lundeberg, John McLaughlin, Gerald Mulligan, Richard Neutra, Julius Shulman, and John and James Whitney—

Opening Weekend Events

Saturday, October 6, 2007 2–5 pm: An afternoon program of talks and performances

7–9 pm: Opening Night Reception

The installation run: October 7-31

Exhibition National Tour
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

OCMA
850 San Clemente Dr
Newport Beach
(949) 759-1122

This exhibit features 140 paintings, drawings, posters, album covers and artifacts done by Rick Griffin. Heart and Torch surveys thirty years of Griffin’s work from the 1960s until his death in 1991. The exhibition also includes a 168-page catalogue that highlights Griffin’s impact on the surf, rock and born again Christian movement.

Griffin was one of the leading designers of psychedelic posters in the 1960s. He was identified by fans with the Grateful Dead, having created some of their best known posters and album covers.

Laguna Beach is a hidden treasure in the California art community. There are so many quality galleries showing really diverse group artist. There is a little something for everyone on their art walks

Three more days left to see many of Rick Griffin’s inspiring contributions to surfing, music, and religion.

Thu, Sep 27 11:00 pm
Fri, Sep 28 11:00 pm
Sat, Sep 29 11:00 pm

Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Dr., Laguna Beach
(949) 494-8971

Dr. Harold E. Edgerton was a pioneer of advanced photographic techniques such as stroboscopy and ultra-high speed photography—which led to the development of electronic speed-flashes used in modern cameras.

Seeing the Unseen features 50 large-scale prints from the collection of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT] Museum. While a graduate student at MIT (where he then taught), Edgerton designed the first electronic stroboscopic device in 1931, in order to accurately measure the displacement of the rotor in an electric motor. His instrument emitted light in controlled flashes and was capable of “stopping motion” on film. Edgerton experimented with set-up shots such as a splashing drop of milk or a bullet cutting through an apple. The resultant images are highly detailed and stop time to a nanosecond to show. His photographs, as scientific records, bestow on us comprehension and increase our awareness. They reveal new forms, subtle relationships of time and space and the essence of motion.

Much of the photography we have today would not be possible without pioneers like Dr. Edgerton. His passion for photography and science allowed us to take the visual art of photography to unexplored places. Myself, I have not had the opportunity to implement stroboscopic techniques, but it is something that I want to begin to use in the near future. Check out his Seeing the Unseen Exhibit at SMoCA.

September 15, 2007- December 30, 2007

Michael and Ellie Ziegler Gallery and Gallery 3, SMoCA

Pic 1: Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, Shooting the Apple,
1964, dye transfer print, 20 x 24 inches.
© The Estate of Harold E. Edgerton.

Pic 2: Title Unknown, Seeing the Unseen Exhibit