Articles From : SB Art Museum

Celebrate with a variety of family festivities in the galleries, front steps, and back plaza including music, dance performances, art-making activities, a special display of altars created by school and community groups, and traditional refreshments.

The exhibition is drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection with loans from local collectors, and coincides with the contemporary survey Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now, exploring Soares’ experimentation with temporality, narrative, and memory.

Celebrate the artistry and craftsmanship of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss with F. W. Murnau's 1927 masterpiece film. Professor Charles Wolfe of UCSB’s Film and Media Studies Department introduces this exquisitely photographed tale of faltering love and redemption, for which Struss won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1929. Produced by William Fox, Sunrise was also honored by the Academy for its Unique and Artistic Quality of Production, the only occasion in which this prize has been awarded in the history of the Oscars.

"Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now" brings together 49 artworks, consisting of installation, sculpture, photography, and video, dating from the early 1990s to the present. A distinctive figure in the international legacy of installation art, Soares interweaves themes of love, desire, memory, and time in her minimal, conceptual, and multi-sensorial bodies of work.

Jens Hoffmann, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Director of Special Exhibitions and Public Programs, Jewish Museum, NY, speaks about the work of Valeska Soares.
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free
Reserve tickets at the Museum Visitor Services desks, or online at tickets.sbma.net.

Image: Valeska Soares, "The Scarlet Letter" (from "Bindings"), 2011. 8 Antique dust jackets and 12 hardcovers on linen. Courtesy of Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation (CIFO), Miami. Photo credit: Oriol Tarridas. Image courtesy of the Artist.

Alluding to speculative futures and spaces, irrevocable pasts, gender perspectives, and living with fear as a condition of contemporary life, the films represented in this series delve into relationships between cinema and truth, individuals and their environment, and the place of stories as engaged social practice.

Timed to coincide with the Getty Initiative, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the far-reaching and ambitious consideration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 to January 2018 across Southern California, noted author, essayist, and commentator Richard Rodriguez explores the color brown as a metaphor for mixture, and thus the key to our cosmopolitan societies where lives interact and borrow from one another.

Part of the artist’s explorations of sugar, "Push Pull" explores notions of desire and excess. Sun-warmed masses of taffy hang from a metal hook while attendants manipulate it, keeping the mass of candy suspended while also stretching and pulling it into amorphous shapes. Visitors are invited to consume chunks of the slowly stretching sculpture, resulting in a sensory and conceptual exchange.
Free
Image: Valeska Soares, "Push Pull," Interactive sculpture with taffy, Courtesy Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Kreëmart, Photo Credit: Tishan St. Louis

All skill levels are invited to experience the tradition of sketching from original works of art in "Valeska Soares: Any Moment Now." Museum Teaching Artists provide general guidance and all materials. Each program is open to 10 participants.
Free
To reserve a spot, contact Luna Vallejo-Howard at 884.6457 or lhoward@sbma.net.