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PATRON PICKS 2017 LAGUNA BEACH EXHIBITION

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Content PATRON PICKS Exhibition Laguna Beach Page .3-Page.6 BOWERS MUSEUM Highlights Page 7-Page 11 FORMS OF IDENTITY: WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE 90S Page 12 A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER -National Tour Page 13 FINDING NEVERLAND- Orpheum Theatre Page.14 FROM WENDT TO THIEBAUD Page.19 THE GRAND TOUR Page.21 LA QUINTA EXHIBITION Page.22 SURF CITY MARATHON Page.25 LAGUNA BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL Page.26 Advertising Director:

Editor -in-Chief John Bake Graphic Design: Melissa Carter

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PATRON PICKS 2017 LAGUNA BEACH FEBRUARY 1ST - APRIL 19TH FESTIVAL OF ARTS LAGUNA BEACH PRESENT SIGNATURE ARTIST EXHIBITION

The Festival of Arts is pleased to

The artists and their mediums

announce it’s newest exhibit, Patron

presented in Patron Picks are Jordan

Picks 2017 at the historic Wells Fargo

Dimitrov (Sculpture), Ron Azevedo

Building in downtown Laguna Beach

(Photography), Brian Giberson (Mixed

on February 1st through April 19th.

Media), Christopher Wayne Allwine

Visitors of this summer’s Festival of Arts (Photography), John Repka fine art show had the opportunity to

(Sculpture), Barry Robin (Sculpture),

vote for their favorite exhibitors and the Mary Aslin (Pastel), Adam top ten artists are featured in this

Devito(Photography), Varsha

multi-media show.

Patel(Mixed Media).

Artists are showing original works that

“It was really interesting to see the

represent their unique style and

diversity of artwork the patron’s

techniques. Types of artwork on display selected as their favorites,” said include sculpture, painting,

Exhibit Curator Pat Sparkuhl.

photography and more. The public is

More about Festival of Art Laguna

welcome to join the artists for a free

Beach Information :

from 11 am – 1 pm at the Wells Fargo

www.foapom.com

Bank.

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reception on Saturday, February 18th,

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Jordan Dimitrov Sculpture

Christopher Allwine Photography

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Adam Devito Photography

John Repka Oil

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Mary Aslin Pastel

Rick Graves Photography

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Patrick Whelan Oil

Brian Giberson Mixed Media

Ron Azavedo Pgotography

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL OF ARTS 3RD FLOOR GALLERY The exhibit is at the Festival of Arts 3rd Floor Gallery at Wells Fargo Bank located at 260 Ocean Avenue, Laguna Beach. It is part of an ongoing series of shows that the Festival of Arts will be holding at Wells Fargo. The building is open to the public Monday through Friday 9 am – 6 pm and Saturday 9 am – 4 pm.

Admission is free .

Varsha Patel Mixed Media

More About Festival Of Arts Pageant Of The Masters “THE GRAND TOUR” July 7 – August 31, 2017 Nightly at 8:30pm

Barry Robyn Wood

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Advance Tickets $15 – $230 TICKETS:Information for current exhibit www.foapom.com

BOWERS MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM, THE BEST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

BY DAVE BARTON

Barry Robyn Wood

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Born in 1883. Had a gig in Edward S. Curtis' studio. One of the first women photographers to shoot a nude self-portrait. Published male nudes (of her husband) that caused controversy. Had her first solo show in 1914. Co-founded Group f/64 with Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. Her professional career in magazine photography ended her marriage. In the 1940s, she was one of the first pioneers of street photography. The Smithsonian bought her photos. She received a Guggenheim grant. She had a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Imogen Cunningham is the best female photographer you've probably never heard of. Curated without clutter and with a sharp eye by Celina Lunsford, "Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham" at Bowers Museum features work from the beginning of Cunningham's career all the way to some of her last, with several of her best images included.

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Her first self-portrait on display is a nude from 1906: she's young, lying in grass, facing away from the camera, looking to a thicket behind her, a wondrous white figure in an otherwise shady, fecund setting. The next shot of her is 15 years later, Self-Portrait With Camera. She's clothed, wearing a beret and round glasses, looking for all the world like a French librarian, camera in front of her, self-assurance in her eyes, the confidence continuing to photographs of her family and friends. Birdcage and Shadows is a dreamy photo of her son reaching out to a crushed, broken birdcage. We never see him in the flesh, just his shadow, the remains of the avian prison sitting on a table before us.

The image is evocative, suggesting a trapped soul reaching out to its fragile, mangled past.

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A year later, she's capturing the soft-focus intimacy of Edward and Margrethe 4.

Photographer Weston and his paramour are pictured in an embrace, his cheek resting on her hair, her hands on her shoulders, bent at the wrist, as if adjusting her blouse. He's not looking at her, and her head is turned away from him; light streams in from the window at their left, adding a mournful glow to their downhearted features.

Her foray into botanical photography feels derivative of the work of her fellow artists, despite their beauty and technical perfection. The close-ups, curves and sensuality are reminiscent of Weston's soothing nudes and erotic vegetables; the sharp whites and blacks of nature settings look like an even chillier Adams. Her most famous shot, Magnolia Blossom, is a close-up of O'Keeffeian petals resembling the soft skin surrounding the fleshy clitoral carpels.

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Cunningham's magazine photos of celebrities are work she did for money: straight forward, interested in shadow, but cool, distanced, impersonal, minus any glamour.

In contrast, two decades later, she's fully vested in her portrait Stan Smoking, with the subject looking directly at her, eyes penetrating the distance between them, as cigarette smoke streams from his nostrils. The black of his skin and sweater blend into the murky background, with the white of his shirt collar, his eyes and the billowing smoke at his right breaking up the darkness around him.

"Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham" at Bowers Museum, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana, (714) 567-3600; www.bowers.org.

Open Tues.-Sun., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Feb. 26, 2017. $10-$15; children younger than 12, free.

More Information : OC Weekly

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It's her images focused on artists caught in the act of creation, including herself, and surreal pictures of hands and dolls that really stuns all these years later. In Three Dancers, Mills College, the perfection of the trio is caught mid-air. The woman in front has her head thrown back in artistic ecstasy, her face to the sun, one of her legs disappearing under her skirt so that she's almost a floating torso and arms. The blank slate of the cement wall behind them is marbled with gray, as black shadows encroach on either side.

In Blind Sculptor 3, the dark skin of the sculptor's hand, veins prominent under the flesh, is blending the wet clay he's smoothing into his statue's hand, tiny flecks of dried gray on his fingers. Another Arm is a side view of a row of grasping mannequin arms hanging from nails, an actual human arm thrust out from the inbetween. Hands of a Hand Surgeon 2 jokingly plays with perception, with the left hand lying on a mirrored surface, doubled, alongside a rubber glove and skeleton's arm. The autobiographical Doll With Head between Legs is just what it says it is, the dilapidated toy in a standing position, missing fingers, crotch and hips cracked and aged, decapitated head at its feet. Taken when Cunningham was in her late 80s, it's an apt symbol for old age, a pictorial of general decline.

FORMS OF IDENTITY: WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE 90S The last decade of the twentieth century marked a brief, significant moment of intense, rapid sociopolitical, economic and cultural transformation, particularly for women, a group historically marginalized and overlooked. Forms of Identity: Women Artists in the 90s includes a selection of artworks from the permanent collection created by sixteen significant women artists working in this time period whose artistic practice shifted from the political to personal.

Whereas feminist movements prior to the 90s primarily addressed issues between the two genders, postmodernism and women artists in the 90s expanded the critique of being ‘the other’ within womanhood, examining race, age, and gender politics. Women artists began to shift from more radical direct approaches to more covert poetic gestures, opening new freedoms to explore artmaking in a much more familiar and personal structure: their own identity.

This exhibition includes eighteen works, eight of which are recent donations to the permanent collection.

Artists featured: China Adams, Laura Aguilar, Polly Apfelbaum, Leslie Brack, Jessica Bronson, Liz Craft, Meg Cranston, Jacci Den Hartog, Dawn Fryling, Diane Gamboa, Rachel Lachowicz, Helen Pashgian, Erika Rothenberg, Alexis Smith, Linda Stark, and Millie Wilson.

Image: Alexis Smith, Valedictorian, 1994, Mixed media collage

EXHIBITION JANUARY 7 - APRIL 2, 2017

Barry Robyn Wood

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http://www.ocma.net/exhibition

Luxurious Nautical Art

Represented by First American Art Gallery www.1aart.com

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"Raven" by Jordan Dimitrov Sculpture

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A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER National Tour

FEB 28–MAR 5, 2017

Segerstrom Center for the Arts 600 Town Center Drive Costa Mesa, CA

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Getting away with murder can be so much fun… and there’s no better proof than the knock-‘em-dead hit show that’s earned unanimous raves and won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical—A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder!

Coming direct from New York, where a most gentlemanly NPR critic said he’d “never laughed so hard at a Broadway musical," Gentleman's Guide tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant heir to a family fortune who sets out to jump the line of succession, by any means necessary. All the while, he’s got to juggle his mistress (she’s after more than just love), his fiancée (she’s his cousin but who’s keeping track?), and the constant threat of landing behind bars! Of course, it will all be worth it if he can slay his way to his inheritance… and be done in time for tea. The Hollywood Reporter raves, “Gentleman's Guide restores our faith in musical comedy” and The New York Times cheers, “it will lift the hearts of all those who've been pining for what seems like a lost art form.” Kindly get your tickets now for the new musical that will have you dying with laughter!

FINDING NEVERLAND

Directed by visionary Tony®-winner Diane Paulus and based on the Academy Award® winning film starring Johnny Depp, "Finding Neverland" tells the incredible story behind one of the world's most beloved characters: Peter Pan. Playwright J.M. Barrie struggles to find inspiration until he meets four young brothers and their beautiful widowed mother. Spellbound by the boys' enchanting make-believe adventures, he sets out to write a play that will astound London theatergoers. With a little bit of pixie dust and a lot of faith, Barrie takes this monumental leap, leaving his old world behind for Neverland, where nothing is impossible and the wonder of childhood lasts forever.

This is what SF/Arts curator Jean Schiffman had to say about Finding Neverland :

Jan 18 → Feb 12 Tue-Sat at 8 pm, Wed, NAUTICAL ART Sat & Sun at 2 pm

Orpheum Theatre 1192 Market, San Francisco Info: 888-746-1799 Venue: 512-7770

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The Broadway musical based on the Allen Knee play “The Man Who Was Peter Pan” (and on the Johnny Depp film) is on tour. By James Graham (book) and Gary Barlow (music and lyrics), it’s about the relationship between “Peter Pan” writer J.M. Barrie and the family (four brothers and their widowed mother) that inspired the beloved classic story about the orphan boy who wouldn’t grow up, and the children who loved him. Diane Paulus directs.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

MARITIME ART

Maritimearitime Museum, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

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AT SEA AND SHORE

FROM WENDT TO THIEBAUD: RECENT GIFTS FOR THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

February 19 – May 29, 2017

Laguna Art Museum

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The museum presents a selection of about eighty works of art that are recent gifts for the permanent collection, many of them displayed for the first time. Like most museums, Laguna Art Museum grows and strengthens its collection largely through works of art donated by collectors and artists. Over the past five years it has reaped the benefit of extraordinary generosity, adding museum-quality paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, and prints from all periods of the history of California art. The exhibition is a celebration of the museum’s progress as it approaches its centennial year of 2018 and an expression of gratitude toward the donors who have contributed through their gifts to Laguna Beach’s artistic legacy.

THE GRAND TOUR 2017 Pageant of the Masters Theme

In the 17th and 18th centuries, the desire to experience the world’s great art firsthand inspired the European tradition of continental travel on “the grand tour.” Inspired to set out on pilgrimages by land and sea to the great cultural centers of Europe, and eventually the globe, those early travelers often risked life and limb to stand in the presence of masterpieces.

July 7 – August 31, 2017 Nightly at 8:30pm

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Your Pageant ticket to THE GRAND TOUR becomes your passport to experience spectacle, music, stories and grand illusions as masterpieces come to life. Book your passage now for this breathtaking theatrical journey through the centuries in search of unforgettable art.

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QUINTA ART FESTIVAL

La Quinta Civic Center Park, 78495 Calle Tampico La Quinta, 92253 United State

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MARCH 2-5, 2017 THURSDAY THRU SUNDAY

Surf City Marathon February 5th, 2017 Thousands of runners and their supporters will turn out for the full marathon, a half marathon and a wheelchair race early on Super Bowl Sunday.

Attractions include an Active Lifestyle Expo and a beer garden.

Information: runsurfcity.com

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Where: Downtown Huntington Beach

Laguna Beach

MUSIC FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 8TH-12TH 2017

Founded in 2002, the Laguna Beach Music Festival (LBMF) is co-presented by Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. The LBMF Board is made up of outstanding local community members who support and develop the Festival from selection of musicians, theme, development of special events, educational and outreach programs, partnerships with other organizations and marketing activities.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County 2082 Business Center Drive, Suite 100 Irvine, CA 92612

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The Festival’s commitment to lifelong learning makes possible meet-the-artist events, salons, open rehearsals, and lively discussions, while local schoolchildren encounter live music in the schools during Festival week. These programs capture the spirit of the Festival, blurring the lines between artist and audience, professional and amateur.