'Sky Space Time Change' Exhibit Coming To Laguna Art Museum

LAGUNA BEACH, CA—The final new exhibit debuting at Laguna Art Museum in conjunction with the annual Art & Nature Festival is "Sky Space Time Change." Pulled from the museum's extensive permanent collection of California art, its curation is inspired by Rebeca Méndez's "Any-Instant-Whatever." The festival's featured artwork is a 2-channel looping video of images captured from the Los Angeles sky during winter 2019-2020.

"Like Mendez, many of the artists of 'Sky Space Time Change' also looked up to Southern California skies," revealed the museum, "contemplating through their artwork the interconnections among physical, environmental and cultural systems."

"Sky Space Time Change" includes paintings, prints, sculpture and photography.

In addition to Craig Stecyk, whose "Northwest Passage (Clock)" is pictured above, the show includes works by Lita Albuquerque and Helen Lundeberg.

Albuquerque was Art & Nature's featured artist in 2014. She instigated a performance piece on Main Beach called "An Elongated Now." Patch is guessing her 1989 lithograph "Solar Eclipse," which is part of the museum's collection, will be in the show.

Lundeberg (1908-1999) was one of the most important California Modernist painters of the 20th century, according the LAM, which owns three of her paintings. "Moonscape" (acrylic on canvas, 1966) and "Sundown Shadow" (acrylic on canvas, 1983) both fit the show's theme perfectly.

The ocean is the main subject for painters Frank Cuprien and McClelland Barclay. Tom Wudl's "Untitled" from 1978 contains all four elements in the exhibition's title, so it's a good bet it will be included.

"Sky Space Time Change" is co-curated by Sharrissa Iqbal and Michael Duncan.

The two are hard at work on “Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Modern Physics, 1945 to 1980.” The exhibition will be Laguna Art Museum's contribution to the Getty's "Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science xLA" in 2024. The museum received a grant from the Warhol Foundation earlier this year, which is funding the curators' research.

Patch is looking forward to the curators' take on "Sky Space Time Change," and to the ways their long-term investigation of the intersection physics and art will influence this installation.

"Sky Space Time Change" debuts during First Thursdays Art Walk on November 4.