The Palette
Bringing Arts and Culture to Life in Santa Monica

September 6, 2007

 

The fall gallery season starts this weekend and Santa Monica is the place to be - the diversity of artists, styles, media, and disciplines that you’ll find in the galleries this weekend is almost overwhelming.  Most of the exhibitions have artist receptions so all you party types should join the throngs of art lovers on the gallery crawl on Saturday night.  You’ll have a great time checking out the art and the people and seeing which gallery is serving the best hors d’oeuvres - just try not to overdo it on the Two-Buck-Chuck.  If you prefer your art experiences to be more intimate, make the rounds on Saturday afternoon and you’ll probably also get a few glimpses of the behind the scenes activities that take place before any openings. 

But don’t despair music lovers!  Saturday night the Cantantes Homines Men’s Chamber Ensemble makes their Santa Monica premiere performance with a very impressive lineup and SGI presents the second of their free Concerts for Peace.  Theatre and dance folks, I'll have something new and exciting for you next week. 
New Exhibition at Santa Monica Museum of Art
William Pope.L
Art After White People: Time, Trees, & Celluloid...
Opening reception: Friday, 7-9 pm
Exhibition through December 23
 Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station, G
2525 Michigan Avenue

The first major West-Coast museum exhibition by the artist William Pope.L comes to Santa Monica this weekend.  The artist has created a collection of fascinating works created especially for this large-scale installation at Santa Monica Museum of Art.  Visitors will enter through The Grove, an interior garden of towering painted white palm trees.  From there the walk through the museum becomes even more extraordinary.  For twenty-five years, William Pope.L has worked on the edge of the art world constantly challenging and confronting social inequity with dark humor and biting critique.

Santa Monica Gallery Openings

Listed below are just a few of the art gallery openings in Santa Monica.  Receptions are free to the public a great way to discover new artists, meet all sorts of fascinating art folks, and have a great time with friends.

 

Lee Webster Shaw
Artist Reception: Saturday, 5 -7 pm
Exhibition through October 6 
Schomburg Gallery
Building E3A
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue
310/453.5757
 


Sterling Chow, Katherine Dube, Sue Keane
 Artist Reception: Saturday, 5-8 pm
Exhibition through September 29
 TAG The Artists' Gallery
2903 Santa Monica Boulevard
 310/829.9556

 

 

 

 

 Ebony G. Patterson
 Hybrids
 Artist Reception: Saturday, 6 – 9 pm
 Exhibition through October 13
 seeline gallery
 1812 Berkeley Street
 310/829.1727
 

Joseph Maruska
Artist Reception: Saturday, 5 - 8 pm
Exhibition through November 3
 Patricia Correia Gallery 
Building E
2525 Michigan Avenue
 Bergamot Station
310/264.1760
 

Suzanne Woodruff
Exhibition through  October 13
William Turner Gallery
Building E
2525 Michigan
Bergamot Station
310/453.0909
 

 

Cantantes Homines Men’s Chamber Ensemble
6:00 pm
 Saturday, September 8
St. Augustine’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
 1227 4th Street, Santa Monica
 310/339-8321

This most excellent ensemble is composed of singers from the Angeles Chorale, Westwood Presbyterian Chancel Choir, UCLA’s undergraduate and graduate vocal music programs, Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, Mansfield Chamber Singers, and Jouyessence Early Music Ensemble.  Included on the bill are works from Faure, Ruffo, and Tormis along with lyric works from poets Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe.

 

Music Jam For Peace
Shine
Michael Maury
Brooke Benson
4:00 pm
Sunday, September 9
Santa Monica Culture of Peace Resource Center
SGI Plaza
606 Wilshire Blvd
310/260.8900

The Soka Gakkai International (SGI-USA) Santa Monica Culture of Peace Resource Center hosts its second Music Jam for Peace free concert. The mission of this series is to use the universal language of music to excite and educate young people about the values, attitudes and behaviors of a culture of peace and to inspire positive action in their daily lives.  Sunday's lineup consists of singers Shine, Michael Maury and Brooke Benson. 
 

Happy Weekend!

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