Loiter Galleries, 425 Promenade North, Long Beach, California- Monica Fleming and Vinny Picardi.
"Land Art" or "Earth Art" involves creating art directly within the landscape, sculpting the land, or using natural materials like rocks and twigs to build structures. It is an ongoing cultural and sustainable experiment that serves as a platform for artists and the community to foster personal and collective transformation.
This exhibition will feature images and elements from Junipers Garden's Oasis in the Woods Environmental Installation, including photographs and maps from the 2013 "The Land" installation." As part of this project, artists will create "Land Art" or "Earth Art" within the gallery using materials from the landscape, resulting in unique installations.
Theme:
Earth art, also called Land art or Earthworks, is an American movement that uses the natural landscape to create site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures. The movement was an outgrowth of Conceptualism and Minimalism: the beginnings of the environmental movement and the rampant commoditization of American art in the late 1960s influenced ideas and works that were, to varying degrees, divorced from the art market. In addition to the monumentality and simplicity of Minimalist objects, the artists were drawn to the humble everyday materials, the participatory "social sculptures" that stressed performance and creativity in any environment.
SELECTED ARTISTS IN THE COLLECTION
Caryl Henry Alexander- Visual/Environmental Installation Artist
Alpha Bruton- Visual/Installation Artist
L.A. Happy Hyder- Photograph
Jennifer Andrea "YAYA" Porras- Multi-disciplinary Art Practice
Our collective goal is to build generational bridges while working with ideas and materials that emanate from the land to create installations that answer the question, "How do we rebuild our communities to be stronger and recreate sustainable places to live?" Importantly, this conversation addresses environmental justice, social and psychological dimensions, and impact.
- From August 21st to 23rd, 2024, Installation begins.
- On Friday, August 23, 6-9 pm, Opening Ceremony, the Gathering
- On Saturday, August 24th, from 1pm to 6pm, stories of their experiences and how their installations came together, exploring the elements of air/earth/fire/water.
- On Sunday, August 25th, from 2pm to 6pm, Salon and Closing Ceremony
● The environmental and social impact of the project.
We consider the topics of air, earth, fire, and water. Our project directly explores the idea and focuses on the social impact of deep play and risk-taking play that serves to overcome fears and develop confidence as we explore this work.
Exploration of natural air/earth/fire/water or imagined environments versus the urban built environment and strategy play involve long-term planning to achieve a goal of temporary installation to design and develop infrastructure in placemaking. What does this mean? What are we saying?
○ The public engagement component is free and open to the public.
Guest Curators:
For more than 40 years, Caryl has worked as a powermaker in creative collaboration with multi-generational, multicultural, and interfaith communities to conceive, design, and implement community art projects in diverse public settings around the globe. In the studio, Caryl's work includes printmaking, papermaking, textiles, installations, and sculptures. Her media are traditional and experimental, often incorporating recycled or found objects and natural plant matter. Out in the community, she combines her roles as a visual artist, teaching artist, curator, researcher, lecturer, writer, and social activist to support communities in clarifying their shared goals and turning their ideas into one. Her long-term focus is on culture, environment, and nature. She has exhibited throughout the US and abroad. Her media are traditional and experimental, often incorporating recycled or found objects and natural plant materials.
Alpha Bruton,
Chief Curator Phantom Gallery Chicago Network, the Phantom Galleries are temporary exhibitions in nontraditional settings. The mission of PGCN is to promote the visual arts community, encourage personal growth and excellence in artists, and support cultural activities through exhibits, workshops, galleries, art centers, and artist residency projects. Before relocating to Chicago from Sacramento, California, she co-founded the Visual Arts Development Project (VADP), an art service organization that develops projects as living experiments for sustainable practices and as an incubator for personal and collective transformation. The Visual Arts Development Project is a community-based art organization that provides resources, workshops, and venues for children, adults, and emerging artists to showcase and express their art.
Jennifer Andrea "YAYA" Porras- Holds a BFA in Theater/Dance Arts from CSU- Sacramento.
During her studies in the American Southwest, she was a cultural ambassador, arts educator, and performing artist in China, Mexico, Africa, and Cuba. A multi-tale ted artist who has received Fellowships from Teatro Campesino, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC), was a youth mentor and video documenter for the Center for African Peace Conflict Resolution. Curator of the International Society of Altar Making artist constructs temporary installations curated by master altar makers drawing on personal history. Envisioned to evoke the transformative value of historical and contemporary cultural tradition, MAP Gallery uses myth, stories, and imagination to give voice to the universality of cultural traditions.
L. A. Happy Hyder, executive director of Lesbians in the Visual Arts, has been an arts activist and fine art photographer in the Bay Area for over thirty years. She taught herself photography with a Hasselblad camera in 1971 (the same year she learned to belly dance) and has been developing her craft ever since.
She is an artist using the camera as her tool and the negative as her canvas. Loving the intricacies of architecture, I seek the same in nature. Every day since spring 2016 (my first in Mendocino following 47 years in San Francisco), I have been ecstatic as I have become physically and visually immersed in this vibrant area. I claim the pictorialist photographers' 1950s Life Magazine as 1950s; their crisp, sometimes stark, B&W images began my love of photography, informing my budding vision and, to this day, making me exact in my choice of image to take and to print.
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