Transformations II Exhibition: Long Beach
Apr 11th, 2009 by Jinja
… where I’ll be this Saturday.
For Immediate Release
Transformation II
April 10 – May 3, 2009
Artists Reception: Saturday April 11, 6-9 pm
2nd City Council Art Gallery + Performance Space
435 Alamitos Avenue Long Beach, CA 90802
Second City Council Art Gallery & Performance Space is please to host Transformations II, an exhibition featuring Cambodian and US-based artists.
A “Transformations I” exhibition was originally presented at the Meta House Gallery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during July-August, 2008. The exhibition was a collaboration of five Los Angeles-based artists and five Cambodian artists, most of whom had never been to each other’s country. The opening of the “Transformations I” exhibition stirred a good deal of interest and brought many previously unknown and very fine Cambodian artists to the attention of the show’s curators.
The revised “Transformations II” exhibition to be presented at the Second City Council Art Gallery will include many of the Cambodian artists who were not known at the time when the “Transformations I” exhibition was in development, and well as the Los Angeles-based artists who were a part of the previous exhibition.
“Transformations II” will have particular relevance and importance being exhibited in Long Beach, wherein exists the largest Cambodian population outside of Cambodia. It will help bring an awareness to the Cambodian community (and all others) of the great wealth of artistic talent that exists in their native land, and will provide a forum for cross-cultural exchange between the artists of the two nations. There will also be screenings of documentaries of public art projects in Cambodia, a writers’ forum, and book signing events concurrent with the exhibition. What better time to do this than at the joyful celebration of the Khmer New Year?
The artists featured in the show have studied at California State University Long Beach, the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, the Chicago Art Institute, the Art Center of Design, Claremont Graduate University, and Brown University, among others.
For further information please contact Denise A. Scott (562) 439-1784 or Sayon Syprasoeuth (949) 735-2926
2nd City Council Art Gallery & Performance Space 435 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802 USA. (562) 901-0997 www.2ndcitycouncil.org We are having two receptions: One for visual arts and the other for film/documentary and book signing. 2nd City Art Gallery+Performance 435 Alamitos Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802 Exhibition: April 10-May3, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday April 11th 6-9pm 2nd Reception: Friday April 24th 6-9pm
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