Videos
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Noguchi: California Legacy
A look at Laguna Art Museum’s Summer 2011 exhibition Noguchi: California Legacy.
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Noguchi: California Legacy Opening Night Reception – Extended
The June 11, 2011 opening night reception of
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Noguchi Audio Tour: Noguchi: California Legacy
Noguchi: California Legacy introduction audio tour for the exhibition on display June 12-October 2, 2011.
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Noguchi Audio Tour: California Scenario: The Courage of Imagination
Noguchi: California Legacy audio tour for California Scenario: The Courage of Imagination on display June 12-October 2, 2011.
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Noguchi Audio Tour: What is Sculpture? Akari from the Venice Biennale
Noguchi: California Legacy audio tour for What is Sculpture? Akari from the Venice Biennale on display June 12-October 2, 2011.
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Noguchi Audio Tour: Gemini G.E.L.
Noguchi: California Legacy audio tour for Noguchi at Gemini G.E.L. on display June 12-October 2, 2011.
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Time Traveling through Laguna Art Museum
Ryan Wirick of Laguna Beach Patch wanders through Laguna Art Museum’s Spring 2011 exhibitions Extract: Developing Exhibitions from the Collection, Landscape and Figuration from the Collection: Early to Mid-Twentieth Century, and Brad Coleman: Reproductions.
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John Paul Jones Lecture by Susan Landauer
On January 22, 2011, Dr. Susan Landauer lectured at Laguna Art Museum on prolific artist John Paul Jones. The Museum holds an extensive collection of Jones’ work.
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E. Roscoe Shrader Lecture by Curator of Collections Janet Blake
On December 5, 2010, Curator of Collections Janet Blake lectured on Los Angeles artist E. Roscoe Shrader and his early twentieth century impressionist paintings.
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John Paul Jones Panel Discussion
This panel discussion took place October 31, 2010 in conjuction with Laguna Art Museum’s exhibition John Paul Jones. Moderated by exhibition curator Mike McGee, Professor of Art, California State University, Fullerton, and includes special guests Tony DeLap, Tom Dowling, Phyllis Lutjeans, and Susanne Nestory.
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Car 23 Finds a New Home at Laguna Art Museum
As part of his exhibition Searcher at Laguna Art Museum, Sean Duffy parks his Car 23 in the Museum Lobby. On display October 30, 2010-January 23, 2011.
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The Building of Art Shack
Artists combine art and architecture in Laguna Art Museum’s group exhibition Art Shack guest curated by Greg Escalante. Explore surf shacks, tattoo huts, retro shanties and more created by such artists as Don Ed Hardy, Shag, George Herms, Paul Frank, Marion Peck, and Mark Ryden, among others. Video courtesy of Art Shack presenting sponsor Hurley.
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Art Shack Video from Drift Surfing
By Joe Conway, driftsurfing.com: The disconnect between the way that art is most often presented, in carefully arranged, buffed and polished galleries and museums, and the disorder of every day life, is hard to ignore. June 13-October 3, the Laguna Art Museum will do its best to break down that discrepancy with Art Shacks, displaying hybrid art/architectural constructions by thirty-two artists. For four months, laser leveled formality will be replaced by a creative free-for-all of imperfect angles, tarps, corrugated metal, weather beaten wood, half-scale modernist dream homes, tattoo huts, miniature Victorian theaters and fantasy surf sanctuaries.
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Art Shack Opening Night Party
Art Shack Opening Night Party June 12, 2010. The pre-party was hosted by Hurley at their 225 store in Laguna Beach where Art Shack artists signed shirts, and designed shoes and clothes. Then everyone made their way up to Laguna Art Museum for the Opening Night Reception.
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OsCene 2010 Ceramics Panel
OsCene 2010 Ceramics Panel April 11, 2010. Panelists Richard Shaw, Patrick Crabb, and Nathan Betschart talk about their own ceramic practice and a discussion will open up to OsCene 2010 ceramic artists Melissa Thompson, Molly Schulps, Nobuhito Nishigawara, and Stephanie Bachiero on how the medium of ceramics has changed over the years. This panel is made up of a multi-generation of artists using ceramics to further establish this dialogue.
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OsCene 2010 Opening Night Reception
OsCene 2010: Contemporary Art and Culture in OC opening night reception February 20, 2010. Curated by Grace Kook-Anderson.
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Conversation with Weathering the Storm artist Jeremy Fish
January 17, 2010: conversation with Weathering the Storm artist Jeremy Fish. Fish used the upstairs galleries to create an installation with symbols and characters that he has been developing over the last ten years. This was his first Museum exhibition. Weathering the Storm was a timely exhibition that is largely about transformation and rebirth through struggle. Deliberately drawing from our own current economic and political events and its impact on us socially and emotionally, Fish’s hybrid characters (for example, half animal/half machine) revealed a narrative of evolution through struggle to obtain a more magnificent and resilient place. In this exhibition, Fish created paintings with hand carved wood frames, three-dimensional figures for the gallery wall installation, and sculptures. Fish’s iconography consists of a fairy tale world inhabited by beavers, skulls, and birds which he has developed in part as a response to the influence that popular culture, cartooning, and literature like the Brothers Grimm, has had on him.
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Presentation by Curator of Collections Janet Blake
January 13, 2010: presentation by Curator of Collections Janet Blake on early California art and artists from the Museum’s permanent collection featured in the exhibition Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum (November 8, 2009-January 17,2010).
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Opening Night for Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum
Exclusive Members-only opening night reception for Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum November 7, 2009.
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Opening Night for Jeremy Fish: Weathering the Storm
Exclusive Members-only opening night reception for Jeremy Fish: Weathering the Storm November 7, 2009.
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11th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational
Highlights from the 11th Annual Laguna Beach Plein Air Painting Invitational, a week-long celebration of plein air painting presented by Laguna Art Museum and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association.
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WoW Forum at UC Irvine
October 1, 2009 WoW Forum at UC Irvine. This forum included artists Antoinette LaFarge, Robert Nideffer, and Jeff Chamberlain, the cinematics project lead at Blizzard Entertainment, as well as Grace Kook-Anderson, Curator of Laguna Art Museum’s WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon exhibition. The forum was moderated by the associate director at UCI’s Beall Center for Art and Technology, David Familian.
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Conversation with new media artist Antoinette LaFarge
September 12, 2009 Conversation with new media artist Antoinette LaFarge. Long Beach-based artist Antoinette LaFarge teaches at UC Irvine as an associate professor of Digital Media, is a faculty member for the Arts Computation Engineering (ACE) graduate program in the Department of Studio Art, and is the director of Academic Computing for the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Her digital print World of World: The Adventures of Malbec and Player was featured in Laguna Art Museum’s WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon exhibition (June 14-October 4, 2009).
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Laguna Art Museum VIP Dinner hosted by Blizzard Entertainment
Laguna Art Museum VIP Dinner hosted by Blizzard Entertainment August 20, 2009. In conjunction with its 2009 BlizzCon exposition, Blizzard Entertainment hosted a special VIP dinner with proceeds benefiting Laguna Art Museum. “I just wanted to say how nice the event was. Not only did we get a chance speak with Blizzard artists, cinematographers, modelers, developers, and execs, we also met very nice guys from Canada who we plan on being gaming friends with for a very long time. Thank you for the amazing experience!” ~ Dinner attendee
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“Playing with Bosch” lecture by Robert Nideffer
“Playing with Bosch” (August 16, 2009) is a lecture comparing the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch with the images in World of Warcraft by Robert Nideffer, artist and professor at the University of California, Irvine. Nideffer’s triptych (an archetypal structure with its roots in early Christian art) references Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1503-1504). Nideffer is interested in the dramatic tensions between the two guilds that reside inside the game World of Warcraft. The dramatic tensions of these mortal enemies geographically mirrors the physical and cultural distance of these guilds.
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Conversation with new media artist Jacqueline Goss
July 26, 2009, a conversation with new media artist Jacqueline Goss. “I like stories about people who set out to objectively measure or chart something and then fail in interesting ways when they get tangled up in the natural color and noise of the world.” Jacqueline Goss makes movies and web-based works that explore how political, cultural, and scientific systems change the ways we think about ourselves. For the last few years she has used 2D digital animation techniques to work within the genre of the animated documentary.
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Workshop with WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon artist Aram Bartholl
July 11, 2009 Workshop with WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon artist Aram Bartholl. Bartholl’s workshop spilled into the streets of Laguna Beach. Everyone was welcome to participate and enjoy an afternoon of art making and have the opportunity to be involved in a collaborative performance. The workshop and performance were documented on video, and the edited version is showing in our current exhibition. Bartholl is interested in creating humorous public interventions that bleed into real life. His workshops add the elements of fantasy into the physical world and create a serendipitous moment for strangers familiar with World of Warcraft.
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Lecture with WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon artist Zeng Han
June 14, 2009 Lecture with WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon artist Zeng Han. Zeng Han aims to capture a similar sense of polarity by revealing a stark disconnect between the historical and the contemporary moment. In his photograph World of Warcraft #11 (2008) Zeng uses the hyper modern city of Shanghai. In this rock-formed landscape with high rises minimally visible in the smoggy distance, Zeng captures several people in World of Warcraft cosplay (short for “costume play”). Visually, the landscape and the people produce a conflation of two worlds in a city that has changed drastically in a short time as well. By connecting the past and the present moment in China (arguably visible in the landscape) and through the idea of “soul stealing”—described by Zeng as a way to summon up the land’s history and culture—the striking visual juxtaposition makes the concept difficult to imagine. Looking at the photograph, one wonders if a unification of the two worlds can only be achieved in another dimension.
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Kicking Over the Traces: Roger Kuntz’s Freeway Series
Kicking Over the Traces: Roger Kuntz’s Freeway Series, May 17, 2009. A lecture by Susan M. Anderson, curator of the exhibition and former curator of exhibitions at Laguna Art Museum, discussing the apex of Roger Kuntz’s career.
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In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor June 22 – October 5, 2008 at Laguna Art Museum. In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor was an exhibition that presented the work of 150 artists and posited that there has been a huge, but unacknowledged art movement taking place in this country for the last 40 years. Since 1994, this ground swelling of lowbrow, surrealistic, pop, figurative, narrative work has coalesced and found a voice in the pages of Juxtapoz magazine published in San Francisco. This rag has become the most widely read art magazine in the US. It is an influencing force on the aspiring artists of Generation Y and the Millennials, who are now enrolling in art schools in numbers never seen before.
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Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence
Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence June 24 – September 30, 2007 at Laguna Art Museum. Heart and Torch: Rick Griffin’s Transcendence was the artist’s first major retrospective and solo museum exhibition. A cult figure that set the iconographic terrain for the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, in his art Griffin expressed idealism and hope along with a darker side that perfectly embodied the contradictions of the era with its mixture of hedonism, politics, and avant-garde expression.
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