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MOAH : SPRING EXHIBITIONS 2014
Film by Eric Minh Swenson.
Celebrate Community and Nationality through MOAH's Spring Exhibits
Lancaster, CA. April 24, 2014 - The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is proud to present several shows currently on display through June 8 celebrating community and nationality. Each exhibit is particularly relevant as many of the artists are connected to the Antelope Valley community while still others celebrate nationality.
MOAH's third floor rooftop and Jewel Box feature sculptures by internationally renowned artist Brad Howe. Mr. Howe is known in the Valley as the artist of the installation soon-to-be-featured in Lancaster's new state-of-the-art High Desert Regional Health Center (previously known as the Multi-Ambulatory Care Center or MACC). His rooftop sculptures represent a clean slate -- a blank canvas where the artist acts as the solo explorer of his own ideas, setting out to translate his thoughts into pure form. A portion of the actual artwork to be installed in the Health Center is on display in the entry atrium with an invitation to the public to name the piece (Courtesy of Los Angeles County Arts Commission).
Also on display are Andrew Frieder's playful mixed-media pieces. Andrew Frieder (1959-2014) was one of the Antelope Valley's most prolific artists. Presenting in his unique and compelling visual language, his drawings and paintings focus on his personal mythology, literally stitched together from his life experiences. The exhibit serves as a celebration of his life.
In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, Chinese born Yi Kai's Paintings and Drawings are shown in the East, South and Wells Fargo Galleries. Yi Kai made his way from Beijing to San Francisco and ultimately Minneapolis where he began a new way of life -- sworn in as a U.S. Citizen eight years later. His work is noted for recording in pen, ink and watercolor, the contrasts and growing similarities between east and west.
The aforementioned exhibits will be on display through June 8. The Lancaster Museum of Art & History (MOAH) is located at 665 W. Lancaster BLVD in Lancaster, CA. Regular Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursday. The Museum is closed on Monday and Holidays. Additional information and donation support opportunities are available on MOAH's website, lancastermoah.org.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson or project inquiries visit his website: thuvanarts.com. You can also visit the art film series page at thuvanarts.com/take1
MOAH : HISPANIC HERITAGE
Film by Eric Minh Swenson.
In observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) will unveil six new exhibits showcasing thought-provoking artwork that celebrates Hispanic and Indigenous culture through the lens of multiple artists, via multiple mediums. To kick off these new autumn exhibits, MOAH will host a fun-for-all opening day celebration this September 13 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“Hispanic culture and traditions make up an integral component of the Lancaster community. We are very pleased that MOAH has the opportunity to host such groundbreaking art exhibits this season,” said Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris. “These events and art shows will initiate discussions about society, which are a fantastic way for our entire community to learn about and experience various cultures.”
The kickoff event will include a variety of family-friendly activities to celebrate Hispanic culture. Activities include children’s art projects, mariachis, folklorico dancers, and a low-rider car show. The event will also feature film screenings of Escaramuza: Riding From the Heart, which tells the story of Escaramuza Charra Las Azaleas, a team of first-generation Mexican American horsewomen on a two-year journey to represent California and the United States at the National Charro Championships in Mexico. The film will screen at 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the BLVD Cinemas. Tickets are $6 each and include free admission to a question and answer session at 3 p.m. with Producer Robin Rosenthal and Director Bill Yahraus. The Q & A Session will also feature Las Azaleas themselves, clad in their charra suits and ruffled adelita dresses, and available for photo opportunities.
The six exhibits lined up for the fall season include a variety of different artists, each utilizing a unique medium to tell stories related to the Hispanic community.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson or project inquiries visit his website: thuvanarts.com. You can also visit the art film series page at thuvanarts.com/take1
Pasadena Museum Of California Art
The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is an art museum located in Pasadena, California, USA, showcasing art and design that originates from California. The museum was founded by long-time Pasadena residents and art collectors Robert and Arlene Oltman. The Ground was broken in 2000 and the museum officially opened in June 2002.
The museum does not house a permanent collection, but instead features changing exhibits. Notable exhibitions have included Maynard Dixon: Masterpieces from the Brigham Young University and Private Collections, the largest exhibition of Dixon's art to date; Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting, a retrospective survey; Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information, organized in conjunction with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a mid-career retrospective of painter Mark Ryden. The museum hosts the California Design Biennial.
MOAH : CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE
Film by Eric Minh Swenson.
Founded in 1986 as the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, the current Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is dedicated to advancing an appreciation of art and history in the Antelope Valley. Operating two sites—the Museum of Art and History and the Western Hotel Museum—Lancaster MOAH is not only a repository for historical artifacts important to preserving the unique character of the Antelope Valley, but also a place where audiences—residents and visitors alike—may experience exhibitions of fine art and participate in a variety of art and history-based programs.
Learning is at the core of Lancaster MOAH’s mission. Collecting, exhibitions and programs are all undertaken in an effort to provide the residents of the Antelope Valley with a way of integrating art and history into their lives and taking away the lessons that these disciplines offer. By presenting quality exhibitions and programs as well as committing to the proper care and preservation of works of art and artifacts relating to history and culture of the Antelope Valley, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History is the region’s center for art and historical engagement.
MOAH’s exhibition program is diverse, offering a range of displays for all age groups. Exhibitions of dinosaur fossils and ancient Egyptian mummies have delighted children, while the presentation of artworks by artists such as Picasso, Renoir, Rembrandt and Chagall have appealed to adults.
Exhibitions that are especially relevant to the Antelope Valley have included shows on aircraft and space travel as well as displays on the industries and natural resources that built the area. For artists, the museum hosts an Annual Juried All-Media Art Exhibition and Annual High School Student Exhibition. Increasingly, the Lancaster Museum of Art and History is presenting exhibitions to the residents of the Antelope Valley that feature works by regional, national and internationally renowned artists.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1
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Rewritten by Machine on New Technology, ©2013
Site-specific installation art installed at Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), January 26 - March 10, 2013, Lancaster, CA.
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SONJA SCHENK : NEW MOUNTAIN
A new film by Eric Minh Swenson
The works in New Mountain explore the artist’s vision of the future landscape of Los Angeles. Positioned somewhere between dystopian and utopian, the exhibition centers on several large paintings (including the eponymous “New Mountain”) that feature white crystalline formations jutting out of pastel-hued gradients reminiscent of the smog-filtered sunsets of southern California. Often lacking a horizon line and cropped so that all identifying features of the landscape are obscured, “New Mountain” appears to depict, quite literally, the tip of an iceberg. But a closer look reveals that this is neither ice nor stone, at least not as we know it.
Schenk is “interested in figuring out how to paint time itself, to depict past, present, and future in a single painting.” Two diptychs most clearly evoke this desire. “Empire” consists of two uneven panels that appear to suggest both the distant past (the skeleton of a ship, perhaps of the Viking era) and the smoggy skies and unusual radiating lines of what might be the far-off future. It’s an interesting reminder that things that are old now may still exist in the future, older still, long after we are gone. Another diptych titled “Night for Day” hints at Hollywood and film. One panel features a sky-hued gradient and the other is a flat beige, but the focal object, a sort of mountain range made of polystyrene, spans across both panels, suggesting that it perhaps exists in two different times, at once.
The largest work, simply titled “The Mountain,” captures the landscape in the middle of explosive growth, with large white crags erupting out of what might be a “normal” granite mountain. Several smaller paintings and two sculptures round out the exhibition. Schenk explains, “These paintings and sculptures depict something akin to new landmasses or floating islands, something that might occur when the materials, diseases, and other hallmarks of the human race merge with organic elements of the earth to form new entities.” This hint of violence betrays the sublime superficiality and suggests a future world that is not quite natural, not quite serene, not quite inert.
Sonja Schenk is an LA-based multidisciplinary artist. She began with video installation work and has since turned to painting and sculpture. She was recently artist-in-residence at Cerritos College and also created a site-specific installation for the Joshua Treenial, a biennial in the Southern California desert. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California and at Prescott College Art Gallery in Arizona, and she was commissioned to build an outdoor sculpture for Porch Gallery in Ojai, California. She was artist-in-residence at Shasta Whiskeytown National Park and visiting artist at the Thomas McKeon Center for Creativity in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has shown work at the Yokohama Triennial in Japan, the Musée du Papier-Peint in Switzerland, the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles, the Brand Library Art Center in Glendale, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Berkeley Art Center in Northern California. Her work has been featured in Palm Springs Life, the L.A. Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Eastbay Express (Oakland, CA), La Liberté (Fribourg, Switzerland), and the arts journal AEQAI. Sonja’s work is in private and public collections in the United States. She has upcoming solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Show Gallery is an art gallery and artist residency showcasing local and international contemporary artists located in the heart of Hollywood.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at emsartscene.com.
EMS Legacy Films is a continuing series of short films produced by EMS on artists and exhibitions.
His art films can be seen at
Instagram : @ericminhswenson
Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts :
R. Rex Parris at the MOAH Grand Opening
R. Rex Parris reflects on his stand for Lancaster from the 3rd floor over looking the Blvd.
GISELA COLON : HYPER-MINIMAL : 2017
Film by Eric Minh Swenson.
Diane Rosenstein is pleased to announce HYPER-MINIMAL, a solo exhibition of new sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Gisela Colon. HYPER-MINIMAL will present vivid and metallic hued blow-molded acrylic sculptures in an installation that invites the viewer to actively engage in an optical and perceptual experience. The exhibition opens Saturday, January 7th, 2017 with a reception for the artist from 6 - 8 PM. This is Gisela Colon's first exhibition with the gallery.
This exhibition will present fifteen new works (created since 2015) including two new freestanding pieces. One monumental piece is a twelve-foot monolith fabricated in iridescent carbon fiber. HYPER-MINIMAL also debuts a large-scale multi-part installation (spanning over twenty-seven feet), which introduces the formal aspect of seriality and repetition.
Taking a cue from Donald Judd’s notion of “specific objects,” Colon has dubbed her own works “non-specific objects” to highlight their deliberate fluid indeterminacy. Her color-infused acrylics and the interplay between light, perception, and lucid materiality embodies the ideals and the evolving investigations of the California Light and Space movement. The artist, who was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, identifies the early influence of Venezuelan artists Jésus Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez on her practice. This body of work continues a conversation with Latin American geometric modernism and the legacy of Op Art.
GISELA COLON (Canada, b. 1966) was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico and received her BA from the University of Puerto Rico (1987) and JD from Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles (1990). Colon first exhibited abstract paintings (2005 - 2011), then, in 2012, moved into sculpture, focusing on perceptual phenomena, and the ideals and practices of the members of the California Light and Space movement, such as Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Craig Kauffman, DeWain Valentine, Helen Pashgian, Larry Bell, Doug Wheeler, and Peter Alexander. Colon’s friendship with mentor DeWain Valentine, and the writings of Donald Judd and Robert Irwin, generated a conceptual shift in her work increasing her interest in issues of visual perception, and materiality, which led to the creation of her plastic sculptures body of work. Through an industrial process Colon developed a unique fabrication method of blow-molding and layering various acrylic materials, producing mutable objects that appear to emanate light and color from within.
Colon’s work is the subject of a national museum exhibition tour which commenced at The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (Sept. 2015- Mar. 2016), [travelling to: International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS), McAllen, TX (Apr 14- Aug 7, 2016); Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY (Aug 28, 2016- Feb 12, 2017); Museum of Arts and Sciences (MAS), Macon, GA (Mar 3 – June 11 2017); Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM (June 30 – Sept 24, 2017); San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX (Dec 15, 2017 – February 4, 2018); Boise Art Museum, Boise ID (March - July 2018); Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO (Sept - Dec 2018).
Colon’s sculpture is in the permanent collection of The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, NY; the Grand Rapids Museum of Art (GRAM), Grand Rapids, MI; the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; and the Museum of Art & History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA. She was included in thematic museum exhibitions in the US and Europe at the Grand Rapids Art Museum (2016); the Kunstmuseum Wilhelm-Morgner Haus, Soest, Germany (2014); and the Chabot Museum, The Netherlands (2016); as well as upcoming shows at the Neuer Kunstverein, Kunstlanding, Aschaffenburg, Germany (May - July 2017) and the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, PA (Fall 2017). The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1
Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts :
DIANE WILLIAMS : INCONGRUENCE
A new Film by Eric Minh Swenson
Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, California is pleased to present INcongruence, a solo show exhibition by Diane Williams.
Diane Williams is a Los Angeles based artist whose work includes several disciplines to approach the subject of xenophobia and gender bias. Williams seeks to find a common ground between the art she makes and the community at large. The project aims to reflect the immigrant communities as well as the whole nation, illustrating the idea of an extended community while challenging assumptions and norms.
INcongruence involves a participatory art piece and an installation that confront viewers, turning them into active participants. The installation consists of 8 large modules made out of wire, recycled and manipulated fiber such as: yarn, thread, fabric, and shredded paintings, interwoven together and creating an immersive structure that fills Gallery 825’s largest front space. These materials have personal history, discarded or purchased from the artist’s neighborhood Thrift Shop in Glassell Park and the Fabric District in Downtown Los Angeles called Santee Alley, frequented by many lower and middle income immigrant families. Williams intertwined these elements into modular weavings, reminiscent of protest signs and roadside memorials that will operate as obstructions, confinement and disruptions. The polychromatic modules are an amalgamation of diverse textures and components. A reminder that America is clearly divided as a nation but we have more in common than we are often led to believe. Diversity is what makes this country great.
About Diane Williams
Diane Williams is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. She earned her BFA degree from California State University, Long Beach in 2013. Her work has been featured in select publications and exhibited in solo shows including Beautiful Creatures at Cerritos College Gallery (2018), Incongruence at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles and several group exhibitions: With Liberty and Justice for Some at Walter Maciel, Culver City, Personal Narrative at the Annenberg Beach House Gallery, Santa Monica (2017), WE: Visual Reflections of the American Experiment, Azusa Pacific University, Azusa. Williams has works in both private and public collections: National Immigration Law Center, Los Angeles and Washington DC headquarters (2016) and Azusa Pacific University (2017). She’s currently working on a residency at Museum of Art and History – MOAH, Lancaster, CA scheduled for late 2019.
About Gallery 825
Gallery 825 is the exhibition arm of the Los Angeles Art Association. Purchased in 1958, the gallery, which is located in the heart of Los Angeles at 825 North La Cienega Boulevard, provides LAAA artists with a professional venue in which to show their work.
For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at emsartscene.com. His art films can be seen at
Instagram : @ericminhswenson
Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts :
Artist Chase Crosswalk painting Day 1
Chase is painting a mural in the crosswalk in front of the MOAH. Museum of Art & History in Lancaster, California.
The art of Chase is known for his quirky and humorous paintings that create disruption in our day-to-day-lives... He has painted over 400 murals worldwide.
For more information visit theartofchase.com and on Instagram @theartofchase
Missing California couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide
California authorities have opened a murder-suicide investigation after finding the bodies of a man and women who were reported missing the day before.Jovan Webb, 30, and Haley Mercier, 27, of Lancaster County, California, were reported missing by relatives after being seen last on Wednesday at 6am, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. On Thursday, at about 3.30pm, an unidentified family member of one of the victims called the Lancaster Sheriff's Station to report that they
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California Poppy Reserve & The Cat House (Things To Do in Lancaster with Kids): Look Who's Traveling
Things to do in Lancaster with Kids. Taking a road trip to California Central Valley. In this episode of the travel vlog, we visit the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve (00:18), Exotic Feline Breeding Compound in Rosamond (01:13), and the Civic Musical Road (02:33).
Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve
15101 Lancaster Rd, Lancaster, CA 93536
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Exotic Feline Breeding Compound
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Civic Musical Road
3001-3187 W Ave G, Lancaster, CA 93534
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Special Olympics Torch passing through the Antelope Valley
661.948.6006 The World comes to Los Angeles, CA,USA for the International summer Special Olympics games 2015. The games begin officially friday but 50 sports minded communities in the greater LA area are hosting teams. The Community of Palmdale hosted the teams from Cyprus and Saint Lucia. The faith community fed the athletes numbering 110 individuals wednesday before a kickball game. Thursday it was line dancing and Thursday Night on the Square. Chris Spicher of AV Nice chatted, Tom Lewellyn shot pictures of the Olympic Torch passing through the Antelope Valley.
Palmdale, California (USA) - Know It Well
Populated by different cultures for an estimated 11,000 years, the Antelope Valley was a trade route for Native Americans traveling from Arizona and New Mexico to California’s coast
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Palmdale National Guard recruiting office
Cops ended up showing up when I was walking back to my vehicle..They didn't make contact...just drove by and looked at me then kept going...editing next video of the Lancaster post office...
Mayor R.Rex Parris - MOAH VIP private party
Mayor R.Rex Parris at the MOAH VIP private party. Mayor Parris talks about how the old Wells Fargo bank was converted into a world-class gallery space.