March 30 - May 04, 2024
MAIN GALLERY
RISKY BUSINESS: A Painter’s Forum
Curated by Marie Thibeault and Max Presneill
Panel Discussion: Saturday, March 30th, 4:30-5:45pm
Artists: Sharon Barnes, Barbara Friedman, Zachary Keeting, Marie Thibeault.
Moderated by Max Presneill
As concerns and expectations of AI begin to dominate the narrative in our increasingly technologically dependent society some artists reply with the personal mark, risk taking, chance, the unknown endpoint, the illogical, the mystery…to produce a reflection of a living, very human, experience
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Nick Aguayo, Sharon Barnes, Michael Bauer, Fatemeh Burnes, Galen Cheney, Mark Dutcher, Barbara Friedman, John Goetz, Zachary Keeting, Robert Kingston, Christopher Kuhn, Annie Lapin, Michael Mancari, Ali Smith, Vian Sora, Marie Thibeault, Liliane Tomasko, Chris Trueman, Suzanne Unrein, Audrey Tulmiero Welch
GALLERY TWO
The Marvel of Old Masters – Rembrandt, Goya, Durer
A travelling exhibition of wood carvings, engraving, and woodcuts from three giants of art history: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Francisco Goya (1746-1828), and Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). This exhibition is presented on loan from the Park West Museum.
DARK ROOM
Reflecting Pool: Emergence of the Third Eye
Pasadena based artist Kenneth Salter presents Reflecting Pool, an interactive device that generates mesmerizing, neo-psychedelic, fractal images and sounds that captivate and hypnotize. The device responds to Tai-Chi style movements of the viewer’s hands; immersing the viewer’s senses, mind and body into a holistic experience.
MAIN HALLWAY
COALESCENCE
Semi Permanent Installation
On-going site-specific installation by Darel Carey created for TAM in 2019. Darel Carey is a visual artist focusing on optical perception. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016.His Optical Art (Op Art) includes immersive tape installations, painted murals, and digital art. The demand for his crowd-pleasing work has been in demand in recent years, with installations at art institutions around the world and featured in major commercial ad campaigns.
PUBLIC ART PROjects Currently Open to The PuBlic
KALEIDOSCOPE
Public Art mural
Permanent Installation
This installation brightens the hallway of the Cultural Arts Building with bold and dynamic color in abstract arrangements that enliven the space and alter the perception of it as a neutral space into one of integrated experience with the studios.
LAGO SECO FRUIT TRAIL
Fallen Fruit's projects invite people to experience their city as a fruitful, generous place, to collectively reimagine the functions of public participation and urban space—to ponder forms of located citizenship, and to explore the meaning of community and neighborhood through creating and sharing new and abundant resources.
in 2021 Fallen Fruit installed a permanent community Fruit Park around the perimeter of the pre-existing community garden in Torrance’s Lago Seco Park as part of TAM’s public art exhibition ULTRA!
Presented as part of the museum’s public art residency project collaboration with Madrona Marsh Preserve and Nature Center.
LA based environmental artist, Dodd Holsapple plans on capturing data and species derived details and translating it into four totem styled vertical sculptures inspired by the marsh, that will presented on-site from December 16, 2023 to May 11, 2024 at the Madrona Marsh Nature Center in Torrance
WINDOW: Anna Katrina McBride
Presented as part of the museum’s on-going public art project in collaboration with Discover Torrance.
ANNA KATRINA MCBRIDE
Manuel Intelligence, gives reverence to the hands that create art and reminds us that the artist’s most important contribution is not imagery alone, but art as a process of creating visceral experiences for the creator and viewer through the materials we sense in our physical spaces.
On view January 1 - March 31, 2024 at Discover Torrance (located in Del Amo Fashion Center)