MENAGERIE: ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

 

 

 

 

MENAGERIE: ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

PREVIEW OPENING RECEPTION

Saturday, September 25 from 4-7pm.

$10 for non-members. (Members free)

Masks and social distancing protocols are required.

EXHIBIT DATES: September 25 - November 13, 2021

Animals have long been part of the art story. They’ve been portrayed in religious rituals, as mythical creatures, incarnations of gods and goddesses, symbolically in Christian art or simply as pets. Some of the earliest images known are of animals on the walls of caves more than 40,000 years ago.  

Menagerie: All Creatures Great and Small art exhibit features works by contemporary artists that create real and imaginary animals through sculpture, painting, and drawings.

Artists: Margaret Nielsen, Jane Callister, Matthew Rosenquist, Susan Petty, Joanne Julian, Rafael Perea De La Cabada, Hiroko Yoshimoto, Jeff Mann, Jem "Jamie" Morris, Charlene Spiller, Derek Boshier, Scott Taylor, Lynn Hanson, Chenhung Chen, Bob Privitt

DAVE SMITH

Drawings: American Homes

Preview Opening Reception, Saturday, September 25

Exhibit Dates: Sept. 25 - Nov. 13, 2021

 

Vita Art Center CoOp Shop

Vita Art Center’s CoOp Shop is a place where local artisans offer carefully-curated handmade and unique local products. Vita Art Center is located on the corner of Ventura’s Taco District (Ventura Avenue)  and historic downtown Ventura (Main St.). 

VITA ART CENTER, 28 WEST MAIN STREET, VENTURA, CA 93001 - 805-644-9214

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remembering Mexico:

Mexican Consulate Debuts New Art Exhibitions to Mark Multiple Historic Commemorations

The Mexican Consulate in Oxnard Consulado de México en Oxnard with support from the Port of Hueneme and the Oxnard Performing Arts Center Corporation (OPAC), will celebrate numerous historical commemorations, including Mexican Independence Day, with the opening of two art exhibitions. 

 

Twenty twenty-one marks the Bicentennial of the Consummation of Mexican Independence and 500 years of the historical Memory of Tenochtitlan, the fall of the Aztec empire. On Sept. 15, 2021, the Consulate of Mexico in Oxnard presents two exhibitions of Mexican art that celebrate the past and connect us to the present with contemporary work. One exhibit brings visitors closer to the giants of mid-20th century Mexican Art, including Leopoldo Mendez, Rufino Tamayo, Clemente Orozco, Francisco Toledo, Jose luis Cuevas, Fanny Rabel, and others through the incredible Mexican Print Collection of Gil García and Marti Correa de García from Santa Barbara, California.

 

The Mexican Print Collection was curated by renowned Mexican artist Rafael Perea de la Cabada, who will also be exhibiting his own work in a show called, Cempohualli, an Aztec term for the number 20. There are 20 pieces of Perea’s artwork in the exhibition which explore themes of contemporary Mexican-American culture. Now a resident of Ventura, California, Perea will have a simultaneous exhibition of his series Aguipiente y Serguila / Un México Para Armar at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), celebrating its 45th anniversary.

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From images of the Mexican Revolution and agricultural life to abstract works, these exhibits immerse visitors in the diversity and depth that is Mexican culture. 

 

“Mexican Prints” and “Cempohualli” Exhibitions

The Mexican Consulate, 3151 W. 5th Street in Oxnard

Sept. 16 - Dec. 18, 2021

On view Monday-Friday

8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public