Posted by tracey on: Thu 19th Jul, 2012

Because I went over to the newly re-branded Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UCSB...

Yeah, I'm still going to call it the University Art Museum in conversation... much more descriptive, but I digress...

and saw the most wonderful, strange, beautiful, puzzling art I have seen in a long time. Amy Cutler's show is not to be missed.

Here's the info. Go check it out for yourself and I'll see you when you go back for the closing reception. Amy will be there and I, for one, cannot wait to thank her for creating such amazing work.

Amy Cutler

July 14-September 16, 2012

The visionary, whimsical work fo Brooklyn-based artist Amy Cutler will be featured in a one-person exhibition at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum during the summer of 2012. Cutler is internationally recongized for her works on paper executed in gouache, pen and ink, or graphite. In Cutler's highly engaging compositions, female figures are clothed in exquisitely patterned garments and participate in bizarre tasks which evoke the irrational state of the dream world yet find resonance with quotidian experience. Cutler’s sources are manifold, including 19th century graphic design and book illustration, Persian miniatures, folk art, and Victorian art.

The exhibition travels to AD&A Museum from SITE Santa Fe. Cutler’s work has been featured in one-person exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas City, and others. Cutler participated in surveys at MoMA PS 1, the 2004 Whitney Biennial and others. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Closing Celebration and walkthrough with Amy Cutler: Friday, September 14, 5:30-7:30 pm

http://www.museum.ucsb.edu

images: Helmina, Realignment, and Tiger Mending courtesy ADA Museum

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Posted by tracey on: Thu 26th Apr, 2012

Maurie Lord (Genesis West) and Mitchell Thomas (Westmont) have been presenting Wallace Shawn's The Fever around town for the past year. They took a short break but are back with several shows over the next week. Catch it while you can!

Winner of the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play, Wallace Shawn's The Fever is a blistering, funny, compassionate, and challenging one-man show that asks, in a highly original way: is it possible, or even right, for a sensitive person to be happy in today's world?

Performance Dates and Locations:

Thursday- Saturday, April 26, 27, 28 The Space at Porter Theatre
(Westmont College) For tickets, reservations, or directions to the
theatre call 805.565.7140 

Sunday, April 29 Trinity Episcopal Church, Parish Hall 1500 State Street

Wednesday, May 2 Municipal Winemakers 22 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara

All shows 8:00 pm
Runtime: 90 minutes
Performed without intermission
Tickets: $10 at the door

Side note: If I were you I'd catch it on May 2 at Municipal Winemakers, You don't often get the chance to sip some great wine while watching a play. 

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Posted by tracey on: Tue 3rd Jan, 2012

I can personally vouch for the wonderful Meghan Lehman... Perfect opportunity to fulfill that New Year's Resolution to spend less time on the couch!

7:30 Lily and Marley
8:30 Meghan Lehman
9:30 Ian Tepper

Doors open at 6:30 for dinner
Ticket price is $7
All ages show

and Soho's new menu is local and sustainable in addition to being as tasty as ever.

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Posted by tracey on: Tue 27th Dec, 2011

You may remember when Santa Barbara was home to the excellent gallery run by Edward Cella.  Edward has moved his gallery to L.A. (Wilshire Blvd if you're going) but has kept up an exhibition schedule here in Santa Barbara. Currently you can see Adam Silverman's New Pots at Cabana Home. It's up through January 14. 

The exhibition presents a new collection of hand thrown pots with explosive, experimental glazes that epitomizes Silverman’s distinctive aesthetic connecting ancient and modern sensibilities. 

The deceptively and modestly, self-described potter is widely recognized for his experimental glazes that are developed and refined through a series of extensive tests.  Each pot is enveloped by richly glazed textures of ashy scars and mottled lava-like surfaces.  In some cases, Silverman grinds down their surfaces to expose the bubbles and lacy patterns underneath revealing the chemical process of fire reacting to the minerality of the glazes and clay.  This new body of work engages the viewer through an experimental journey of process and time, trekking through traditional and personal, improvisational techniques that are a counterpoint with the vessel’s highly considered, modernist inspired silhouettes.  Each work bridges the past and present simultaneously in one artefact.

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