Art Openings

TIMEKEEPER+9

Gallery 478 presents TIMEKEEPER+9, the photography of Anthony Friedkin. The exhibition will open First Thursday, December 1, and an Artist’s Reception will be held Saturday, December 3, from 4 to 7 p.m.

This exhibition revisits many images from 2003’s monograph TIMEKEEPER, a retrospective of photographs made over a period of more than thirty-five years and selected by the artist to represent his own view of his life’s work. TIMEKEEPER+9 includes key works produced in the years since its publication.

Anthony Friedkin’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Curated by Arnée and Ray Carofano, TIMEKEEPER+9 runs through February 23, 2012. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday 11 AM – 5 PM and by appointment.

Off The Wall

The free exhibition, Off the Wall, is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays, through Nov. 20 at the Palos Verdes Art Center/ Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education at the Promenade on the Peninsula in Rolling Hills Estates.

For this popular exhibition, artists rent space to exhibit their favorite pieces. As a result, just about anything goes – offering an extremely diverse selection of art from traditional paintings to elegant ceramics.

The Instructors Exhibition features 26 of Palos Verdes Art Center instructors. This exhibition offers a great opportunity to gain insight into individual instructor’s styles, interests and artistic visions.

Venue: Promenade on the Peninsula
Location: 550 Deep Valley Drive, Suite 261, Rolling Hills Estates

Nov. 26

La Virgen Art Exhibit 2011

Picture This Gallery & Custom Framing are putting out a call for artist for the annual La Virgen art exhibit from 4 to 8 p.m., Dec. 1 through 10, in Long Beach.

Artists and poets are encouraged to submit their personal view of La Virgen, also known as the Virgin Mary or La Guadalupana, by Nov. 26. The work may include traditional, interpretational or any medium, but it must be original and include an image of La Virgen.

This is a juried exhibit. Artists will be notified via email after jury selections. Gallery hours are 2 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays, 12 to 7 p.m. Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.

Details: (562) 425-4861; www.picturethisgallery.weebly.com
Venue: Picture This Gallery & Custom Framing
Location: 4130 Norse Way, Long Beach

Nov. 30

Artist Joy Gonzalez

Joy Gonzalez, who paints San Pedro and Palos Verdes scenes in an impressionistic realistic manner, is exhibiting her work through Nov. 30, at The Corner Store in San Pedro.

She conveys her deep appreciation of the natural world and her great love of the outdoors in beautiful landscapes painted in plain air. Her goal in painting outdoors is to capture the ever-changing light and deepening shadows of nature. Her studio work builds on the knowledge of nature's colors learned from observing and painting outdoors.

The Corner Store supports the arts and does NOT take a commission from the artists thus lowering the price of the painting.

Details: (310) 832-2424
Venue: The Corner Store
Location: 1118 W. 37th St., San Pedro

Dec. 31

Close at Hand

Check out William Mahan’s Close at Hand collage will be on exhibit until Dec. 31 at the TransVagrant at Warschaw Gallery in San Pedro.

Venue: TransVagrant at Warschaw Gallery
Location: 600 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro

Jan. 6

Reflections on the Harbor

Angels Gate Cultural Center presents Reflections on the Harbor: Our Stories and Memories, through Jan. 6, 2012, in San Pedro.

Within the following year, the 3-gallery spaces will explore the South Bay/Harbor region from a topographical, cultural and historical perspective. Throughout the galleries there is room for visitors to reflect and share their thoughts with others.

The Main gallery will feature Sunken City, new work by John Trevino. Originally from Long Beach, Trevino photographs South Bay residents underwater in various locations off the coast of Palos Verdes. By photographing the residents fully dressed, in familiar, yet unexpected environments, Trevino explores notions of community, identity and place. The show is Trevino's first solo photography show.

Tamara Mason, a Long Beach based artist, was inspired by the Drum Barracks Civil War Museum in Wilmington to create a site specific work for the Project Space gallery. Entitled “Blockade,” the piece layers historic and contemporary images of the site to create textures thus giving the viewer a sense of vastness and intimacy.

People move to new places for a variety of reasons. To better understand what makes living in the South Bay/Harbor region special, Angels Gate Community Gallery features more than 200 images in the exhibition entitled “My 5" x 5" Picture “of various places submitted by Toberman Neighborhood Center, Sisters of the Poor, Harbor Adult School, Studio Artists and Holy Trinity students. All visitors to Angels Gate are encouraged to bring in 5 x 5 inch images to display in our Community Gallery.

In addition to the exhibitions, Angels Gate will offer a range of programming that encourages community participation through storytelling, workshops, dance, music and theatre. Underpinning all programming is a desire to provide a platform for local residents, across generations and racial and religious ideologies, to engage each other by sharing memories and hopes for the region. Realizing that each resident holds a unique part of the region’s story, Angels Gate Cultural Center has partnered with a number of organizations in the hope that the campus be a nexus for discussions about the region’s remarkable past as well as its promising future.

Details: (310) 519-0936; www.angelsgateart.org
Venue: Angels Gate Cultural Center
Location: 3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro