|
|
 |
 |
| Adopt-a-cat! |
| The Santa Barbara's Animal Shelter Assistance Program has over 100 cats & kittens that are awaiting forever homes. Click here to view some of our adoptable cats or learn how you can help. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
May 09, 2008
ISLA VISTA
Rip Curl
Noah Erenberg is an established artist from Isla Vista, California. Erenberg has presented his work in countless art exhibitions across the country.
Noah Erenberg His art work has garnered rave reviews, describing his pieces as "novel," "intuitive," and "remarkable."
May 02, 2008
SANTA BARBARA
Rig #2
This piece by Sandy Armstrong is constructed of miscellaneous steel and copper parts, camshaft, gears, regulator, gas valve, etc. on a heavy cut steel base, mimicking a drilling rig of sorts. It was inspired while surfing and looking out into the Santa Barbara channel.
Apr 25, 2008
SANTA BARBARA
Switchplate
Kevin likes to take the mundane in everyday objects and pay respect to their marvelous functions.
Apr 18, 2008
SANTA BARBARA
Gizmodeon
Gizmodeon began life as an old wooden plant stand base that had seen better days.
Mar 14, 2008
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
The Art of Children's Books
This exhibition features approximately 70 works of art created specifically for children's books. These
original works, seen as independent creations while connecting to their literary context, inspire the
imagination and celebrate the art of the picture book.
Mar 07, 2008
SBCAF
Bloom Projects
The works of New York based artist Mickalene Thomas depict African American women in intimate
household settings. Sources of inspiration for Thomas' work are 70s icons, and models depicted in print
advertisements, album covers and art history.
Feb 28, 2008
SBCAF
Why Not Bazar
From March 1 - May 11, 2008, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum will present Why Not Bazar,
the first solo exhibition of Iranian-born, Berlin-based artist, Setareh Shahbazi. Shahbazi's exhibition
examines the intersections and collisions between different cultural locations and their traditions.
Feb 16, 2006
SBCAF
Art of the Week Type A: Contender
The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum will present Type A: Contender, an exhibition of the collaborative team of Andrew Bordwin and Adam Ames, known as Type A, in which the artists parody masculine initiation rituals and taboos to explore the ways that men compete, challenge and play.
Mar 07, 2005
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Birds and Flowers
This exhibition, featuring approximately 40 works, celebrates the announcement of the promised gift of the Lehrer collection to the Museum. Central to the collection are enchanting images of the bird-and-flower theme.
Feb 17, 2005
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Showcase of Major Acquisitions and Donors
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) presents a two-part exhibition Artful Giving: The Wallis Foundation, with Part 1 on view through April 24. Artful Giving: The Wallis Foundation celebrates the extraordinary generosity over the past 15 years of The Wallis Foundation, which has been instrumental in shaping the programs at SBMA by sponsoring major exhibitions and supporting acquisitions.
Jan 26, 2005
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Robert Buelteman
Robert Buelteman was an established nature photographer who began experimenting with a new photographic technique that would lead to the most striking and surprising work of his career.
Dec 17, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Winter ArtVenture Camp
Join the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) for Winter ArtVenture Camp
December 27 through 31 from 9 am to 3 pm for children ages 6-12 to
experiment with the fusion of food and art.
Dec 09, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
The Art of David Ireland
The Art of the Americas Celebration at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
culminates with the special exhibition The Art of David Ireland: The Way
Things Are. The first in-depth assessment of Ireland's art and its
significance, the exhibition surveys three decades of the work of this key
figure in the Conceptual art movement.
Nov 30, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Allan Houser
Allan Houser was one of the 20th Century’s most important artists whose work is featured in the newly inaugurated Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian.
Nov 12, 2004
1226 ANACAPA STREET
Four New Faces on Anacapa
There are four new faces on Anacapa Street this week, peering down from the
Santa Barbara County Human Resources Building at 1226 Anacapa Street.
Oct 29, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Matta on Paper
Metaphorically speaking, Matta On Paper is one of
the spokes of a wheel for which the hub is a centerpiece exhibition called
Art of The Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!
Oct 22, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Matta on Paper
The exhibition tells a compelling story of one collector's passion for the
vibrant Surrealist drawings, watercolors, gouaches, and several related
paintings by Matta, the world-renowned Chilean-born artist.
Oct 14, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Aventurera
This is a film that is showing at the Museum in conjunction
with the Casasola exhibition.
Oct 01, 2004
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Agustín Víctor Casasola
One of Latin America's first photojournalists,
Casasola documented the tumultuous events of the early twentieth century
Sep 24, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Nights
The Nights Parties at the Museum were raging all summer - music, drinks, masks, photos, people watching, and art ... can't wait until next summer!
Sep 17, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Agustín Víctor Casasola
This exhibition of 92 images at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art shows the
great Latin American photojournalist Augustín Víctor Casasola's range,
technical expertise, and extraordinary drive to record his country during
one of its critical periods.
Sep 10, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Art of the Americas
Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now! the
dramatic exhibition now on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, is all
about contrasts. For example, look at the different ways a Mexican and an
United States artist of about the same time portray women.
Sep 03, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Milton Avery
Milton Avery adapted Henri Matisse’s Fauvist manner of formal simplicity and vibrant color to a new iconography rooted in the life and culture of the United States.
Aug 13, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Hermes
Celebrate the Start of the Olympics with Classical Sculpture
Aug 06, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
David Alfaro Siqueiros
The mural, entitled Portrait of Mexico Today
, 1932 is on permanent public display on the Museum's terrace.
Jul 30, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Don Normark: Chávez Ravine and Beyond
"Near dawn, an uproar of trucks in the New York City street below awakens me. White net curtains at my open hotel window glow in the palte light of a new day ..."
Jul 23, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Watkins and Bierstadt
Carleton E. Watkins took lots of pictures of Yosemite in the 1860s and Albert Bierstadt painted landscapes from those photographs.
Jul 16, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Heartland
A contemporary reinterpretation of realism, a dominant theme in United
States art, Bartlett's powerful and engaging works celebrate the epic nature
of the commonplace with surreal ambiguity.
Jul 09, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Mapplethorpe and Rady - Cala Lilies
Mapplethorpe's still lifes cannot be fully understood apart
from his homoerotic figurative works. Elsa Rady uses the medium of sculpture to create simplified forms, refined surfaces, and balanced compositions.
Jul 02, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Don Normark, Chávez Ravine
Now on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is this first-ever
retrospective devoted to Don Normark. Visitors can enjoy the famous images
of Chávez Ravine as well as other works from his remarkable career, images
that focus on family, community, and sense of place.
Jun 18, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Liu & Siqueiros
Two American artists, two different portrayals of American women
Jun 11, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Robert Weingarten's 6:30 AM
Robert Weingarten took the same picture every day at 6:30 AM. But, the picture was never the same.
Jun 03, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Heartland
The Art of the Americas Celebration at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art continues in the summer of 2004 with the special exhibition Heartland: Paintings by Bo Bartlett, 1978-2002. Organized by the Columbus Museum in Georgia, where the artist was born and raised, this mid-career retrospective offers a contemporary reinterpretation of realism, an important and recurring theme in United States art.
May 26, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Torres-García & Gottlieb
Torres-García played an instrumental role in formulating and promoting a new geometric abstract art known as Constructivism. Gottlieb is first-generation member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.
May 18, 2004
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART
Art of the Americas
A strategic juxtapositions that aims to expand the notion of America beyond the United States, addressing anew what it means to be American
May 11, 2004
SANTA BARBARA ART MUSEUM
Right You Are If You Think You Are
Leirner's fusion of mass culture icons with elements of high modernism, primary colors, for example, communicates the complexity and diversity of the Americas. His work reminds us of the simple but profound idea that one's interpretation of the Americas depends on one's context.
|
Interesting article? Read & post comments about this article
[ easy-to-print version of this page ]
|
