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Opening Reception: Amanda Farber; Ken Price & Charles Bukowski

  • Athenaeum Music & Arts Library 1008 Wall Street La Jolla, CA 92037 (map)
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September 18–October 30, 2021

Opening Reception: Friday, September 17, 6:30-8:30 PM

COVID-19 SAFETY: Please note face coverings will be required for all attendees at the Opening Reception.

JOSEPH CLAYES III GALLERY

Amanda Farber: True Stories from Nature    


Amanda Farber exhibits works of acrylic on wood, ink on paper, and graphite on paper. Her images derive from imagi­nary forms, personal memories, photographs, textile patterns, vintage illustrations, and advertisements. The paintings contain high contrasts and rhyming negative spaces, with distortion or abstraction often blurring the line between two and three dimensions. Farber holds a BFA from Cooper Union, New York and an MFA from University of California, San Diego.


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ROTUNDA GALLERY

Ken Price & Charles Bukowski: Heat Wave / AB 1997.2

Catch a glimpse of Los Angeles in Heat Wave (Black Sparrow, 1995). L.A. native Ken Price illustrates a loneliness and determination inherent in L.A. life in a series of serigraphs, referred to in the thirty-one poems by Charles Bukowski that make up the text.

 

Heat Wave is part of the Athenaeum’s Erika & Fred Torri Artists’ Books Collection.

Earlier Event: September 15
Children's Storytime
Later Event: September 18
Book Sale