Fall Openings
By April Caires 08/20/2008
“9 Del Sur: An Overseas Exchange of Artists from Andalusia, Southern Spain”
Sept. 6 – Oct. 5
at Ave. 50 Studio, 131 N. Ave. 50, Highland Park
(323) 258-1435
avenue50studio.com
“9 Del Sur” features seven emerging Spanish artists exhibiting for the first time in Los Angeles at this important Latino/Chicano-operated venue. The exhibition will include works by artists Fátima Conesa, Paco Conti, Teresa Lafita, Irene Mala, Rocio Arregui, Antonio Herman and Cristina Galeote from the Murnau Art Gallery in Seville.
“Romance of the Bells”
Sept. 28 – Jan. 4
at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union St., Pasadena
(626) 568-3665
pmcaonline.org
“Romance of the Bells” surveys impressionist paintings of California’s historic Spanish missions that were created between 1850 and 1950. Early California impressionists such as Franz Bischoff, Alson Clark, Joseph Kleitsch, Arthur G. Rider, Elmer Wachtel and William Wendt capture the old-world romance of the missions and the rugged beauty of their surrounding landscapes.
“The Rising Tide”
Oct. 3
at Pacific Asia Museum,
46 N. Los Robles Ave., Pasadena
(626) 449-2742
pacificasiamuseum.org
This documentary film by Robert Adanto sheds light on China’s meteoric rise as a global economic, political and cultural force by exploring the simultaneous rise of its contemporary artists, who are pushing the envelope of free expression under decreasing Chinese censorship. Adanto investigates several emerging artists’ personal and aesthetic responses to their rapidly changing society.
“Central Avenue and Beyond: Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles”
Oct. 24 – Jan. 4
at the Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road,
San Marino
(626) 405-2100
huntington.org
“Central Avenue and Beyond” focuses on the extraordinary artistic, cultural and intellectual expressions and accomplishments of African Americans in Los Angeles during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s. It includes material from the Huntington and the Mayme A. Clayton Library, a new institution that boasts
the largest independently held collection of African Americana.
Vermeer’s “A Lady Writing”
Nov. 7 – Feb. 2
at Norton Simon Museum,
411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
(626) 449-6840
nortonsimon.org
This first loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington to the Norton Simon provides a rare opportunity to see a work by Johannes Vermeer on the West Coast. “A Lady Writing” (circa 1665-66) is one of only a few dozen known works by the venerated Dutch master.
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