Exhibitions at The Creative Arts Center
A premier venue for promoting the visual arts to the Manhattan Beach community; displaying works by locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists as well as by emerging artists. The exhibitions seek to strengthen the exposure and understanding of the visual arts for all residents.  The gallery also serves as a site for students from Manhattan Beach and the South Bay area to display their artistic talents. Through partnerships with local organizations, the exhibition program develops a network that contributes to establishing a common ground in the community.

For further information or to request images in digital format, contact Megumi Sando, Gallery Curator.
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Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center
1560 Manhattan Beach Boulevard
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
(310) 802-5440
Gallery hours
Tuesday and Thursday - 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Wednesday - 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturday -  1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Sunday, Monday, and Friday - Closed
Admission: Free
NEW!  Visit the Creative Arts Center's Photo Gallery 

Current Exhibition: 
Art with a Heart (Rental)
Artists: The Paletteers, an affiliate of the Palos Verdes Art Center
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: August 14 through 28, 2010

Special Gallery Hours:
Monday through Friday - 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Saturday - 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Sunday - CLOSED
On Saturday, August 28, 2010, the gallery will be closed at 2:00 PM.

Upcoming Exhibitions:
Manhattan Beach Older Adults Art Show
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 2010 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: September 10 through 16, 2010

The Manhattan Beach Parks and Recreation Older Adults Program invites interested older adults to participate in a series of exhibits that will showcase their talent. Open to persons who are 55 or older and are either a resident of Manhattan Beach or enrolled in Parks and Recreation classes. For questions, please contact Jan Buike at (310) 802-5447.

Ocean Dreams
Artists: Brad “Tiki Shark” Parker, Blu Rivard, Donjo
Opening Reception: September 25, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: September 25 through October 14, 2010

Past Exhibitions:
Four Artists: Singular Impressions (Organized by Arts Manhattan)

Artists: Jan Handtmann, Susan Gesundheit, Caryl Levy, Gary Brown
Exhibition Dates: June 29 through July 29, 2010

These artists have all taken part in an ongoing series of printmaking workshops that Ruth Weisberg, Dean of University of Southern California (USC), Roski School of Fine Art, began with a group of 12 artists about six years ago. Some had been her students at USC; others faculty colleagues or USC Roski Board of Councilors; all attracted to the monotype printmaking techniques where an image is worked up on a plate and then rolled through the press. In contrast to etching, woodcut or lithography, only one print can be pulled.

The 36th Congressional District High School Art Competition: Transporting Us to the Future
Award Reception: Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 3:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: May 15 to 29, 2010

Each spring, the U.S. House of Representatives hosts its art competition called "An Artistic Discovery." The competition is open to amateur artists residing within the 36th Congressional District and currently attending high school.

Submissions can either be of the "fine art" or "photography" category. The overall winner receives a cash prize and trip to Washington, D.C. to witness the summer unveiling of their piece in the United States Capitol. Top-finishers also receive cash prizes.

Manhattan Beach Unified School District (MBUSD) Art Show
Opening Reception: April 30, 2010 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: April 24 through May 6, 2010

Celebrating lifelong learning of arts, this exhibition presents art created by students in different age groups (6th graders and up). Works in a diverse array of media including painting, drawing, ceramics, digital artworks and sculpture will represent the students’ unique perspectives on life. The exhibition addresses the importance of arts education in our schools and also seeks to raise support to the visual arts program in Manhattan Beach schools.

The Pastel Society of Southern California Inaugural Exhibition

Opening Reception: Friday, April 9, 2010, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: April 3 through 16, 2010
Special Gallery Hours:

• Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Thursday and Friday 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• Saturday 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

The Pastel Society of Southern California is a new art organization that promotes pastel as a fine art media through local shows and exhibition. This inaugural exhibition of the Society will feature artwork by its members, as well as by nationally known and award-winning pastel artists.

For more information, call (310) 540-0724 or go to the Pastel Society of Southern California website.

Southern Exposure 2

Opening Reception: Friday, February 26, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: February 26 to March 15, 2010
Curator: Ann Martin
Artists: Jessica Alley, Mike Gaines, Simon Ouwerkerk, Tracey Weiss and Marlene Sanaye Yamada

Southern Exposure 2, features painting, ceramics and sculpture by six artists who reside in the South Bay.  The focus of the exhibition is abstract art.

• Jessica Alley’s work is fueled by accidental discoveries from intuitive impulses. To reveal a variety of textures and surfaces, she first piles layers of plaster, tar, ink, paint, metal leaf and graphite on her canvas, and then wipes, sands, and scratches the surface.
• Abstract expressionist Mike Gaines works with a combination of and interplay of expressive brushwork, scribbles and drips, and palette knife applications, along with collaged papers and fabrics layered in muted color blocks and shapes.
• The white sculptures of Simon Ouwerkerk, constructed of steel, bond and house paint, form mostly abstract organic shapes that may resemble something natural or unnatural.
• Craftsmanship is important to Linda Jo Russell. She creates contrasts using controlled marks juxtaposed with free and organic shapes. These gestured shapes are created by a subconscious “pull” and made to appear accidental.
• Attempting to obscure the line between painting and sculpture, Tracey Weiss has constructed ceramic sculpture that looks like painting. The minimal surface treatments of those paintings makes them to be seen more as objects, taking the viewer’s attention from the surface to the entire “object,” which allows the painting to be seen as sculpture.
• Marlene Sanaye Yamada’s work celebrates freedom of spirit through purity of color and brush strokes, light and environment. Her meditative work evokes a mood or an emotion.

For further information, contact Ann Martin, guest curator, at (310) 545-4039 or Megumi Sando, gallery curator, at (310) 802-5440. Digital photos of some of the works are available.

A Step Beyond 

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 23, 2010 from 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: Friday, January 23, 2010 through February 18, 2010
Curator: Susanna Meirs

When Alice teetered off the edge of the rabbit hole and down into the land of the Mad Hatter and March Hare, life was oddly different and yet somehow familiar. When Dorothy landed her house on top of the Wicked Witch of the West, she learned that she was not in Kansas any longer. Both heroines had entered into the realm of magic and dreams. In A Step Beyond, thirteen Los Angeles based artists come together to exhibit images of personal sojourns in the land of Winkin, Blinkin and Nod. Each of these artists delves into the play of dreams, memory and forgotten lands. Manhattan Beach Arts Center is proud to present these humorous and quixotic works.

• Craig Antrim presents vigorous acrylic abstractions in which unconscious symbols emerge from a swirling ground of pigment.
• Jacqueline Bootier shows large scale canvases, with images of frenetic landscape along side of a vibrating portrait of herself as a child. 
• Bianca Daalder exhibits haunting dream narratives, set in surreal environments in oil on wood panel. 
• Pirkko de Bar shows three dimensional gnomes who emerge straight from the undergrowth, quaking with laughter. 
• Ruth Dennis exhibits a flower strewn but skeletal mask in bronze. 
• Cypress trees, uprooted by ghostly winds and fish playing cards by lamplight are the subject of oil pastel drawings by Mayde Herberg. 
• Tom Kidd’s paintings are peopled with wanderers, seekers and sprites that inhabit a landscape where physical reality and myth collide. 
• Peter Liashkov presents Silt, a series of collages in which he interlaces a dream driven reality with a playful graphic resolution. 
• Susanna Meiers exhibits miniature theatrical tableaux in which dream and physical reality collide. 
• Michael Lewis Miller displays an interactive mixed media piece from his ongoing series Psychophysical Prosthetic Wardrobe. Miller will perform at the opening reception.
• Nancy Mozur paints personal visions of humor and mystery, utilizing gouache on paper. 
• Nancy Romero shows intimate paintings mythologizing animals, family and friends, intricately wrought in oil on wood panel. 
• Harrison Storms presents figurative drawings in mixed media in which he deconstructs the boundary of the actual skin line and sets the figure free to explore the limitless connections to the unknown.

My World
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Exhibition Dates: November 18, 2009 through January 14, 2010 
Artist: Gayle Garner Roski
Curator: Homeira Goldstein, Chairman of the Board, ARTS Manhattan

A colorful exhibition of watercolor paintings expressing the vibrancy, culture, creativity and community expressing Roski's love for the beach, the people, the buildings and the art that makes Manhattan Beach the city that is special to all of us.

El Camino College Group Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: October 24 through November 6, 2009

Artists' talks: Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Artists: Areva Boyd Melody Brown, Prince Cole, Rhoda Dizon, Salvador Dominguez, Heather Ellison, Sam Graham, Travis Hardy, David B. Juarez, Pj Kneisel, Karina Linqui, Mark X. Lucero, Scott Marin, Louise Marler, Michael Lewis Miller, Valentina Moeur, Kuger Peterson, Shelly Portillo, Eddie Villa, Lyn Watanabe, Ronnie Young.

Many have inquired about rental space for gallery exhibitions. This exhibit is our first rental gallery exhibition featuring students’ works from the Gallery Management class of El Camino College. A wide array of styles and mediums from surrealism, realism, computer graphics, pen and ink, painting, photography to three dimensional art and sculpture comprises the variety of art that works into one cohesive show brimming with pop culture, political, religious and present day themes in a exhibit that will have Manhattan Beach buzzing. The artist talk provides an opportunity to meet the artists for the personal look into the artists individual art works.

Local Visions: South Bay Artists
Opening Reception: September 11, 2009 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: September 12 through October 1, 2009

Artists: Paul Blieden, Margaret Korona, Julien Nguyen, John Post, Julia Tedesco, Jonas Yip and Peggy Zask.

Local Visions: South Bay Artists is a multimedia art exhibition featuring several artists from Manhattan Beach and its adjacent beach cities. This show features several well known artists of the area including Julia Tedesco and John Post.  Other artists will also be representing the beach cities' strong visual culture.  This mixed media exhibition includes painting and photography. The art pieces selected express the artists’ unique experience and visions of the beauty and liveliness of the beach cities community.
Frozen and Fluid

Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: June 17 through August 6, 2009
Artist: Gil Garcetti
Curator: Homeira Goldstein

 
Visit Gil Garcetti's web site for biography of the artist and more images of his work.