Palos Verdes Art Center

The Summer Show

PVAC Artists Groups Juried Exhibition

July 23 – August 27, 2022

Juried all-media exhibition hosted by and open for submission only to members of the Palos Verdes Art Center’s seven active artists groups: Artists Open Group, Pacific Arts Group, Paletteers, Peninsula Artists, Photographic and Digital Artists, The Artists Studio, and Third Dimension.

JUROR: Scott Canty

Scott Canty earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in drawing and painting from California State University, Long Beach. From 1998 – 2013 Canty was Director of Exhibitions at Palos Verdes Art Center. From 1986 – 2016, he worked as Curator with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. His duties included Senior Curator for the LAX ART Exhibition Program and Curator/Interim Director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. His position as Curator included organizing exhibitions and working with education programs at LAMAG.

Now retired, he is pursuing painting and drawing with his “Studio Treasures” series and is currently illustrating a children’s book, entitled Bo and Sue

See the exhibition HERE

Dennis Keeley: A Survey of the Quotidian Landscape

July 23 – August 27, 2022

My work addresses what happens in the moment in between what one sees and what might appear to some as perhaps the most common experience in Los Angeles. With our experience of the freeway, there is a perception of traffic, motion, direction, congestion and maddening intervals of waiting. There is also evidence of a poetic environmental setting that invites questions about a more paradoxical and meditative consideration of time and space.

These photographs were made through the window of my car, commuting from home to work and back. The size of these images evokes the frame of my car window. I didn’t take a particularly scenic route, go any special place, or wait in a place for something to happen. Over time I noticed destination was almost secondary to the experience of the journey.

See the exhibition HERE