Exhibition Image: Michelle Robinson, Ghosts, 2022 Acrylic paint on archival pigment print, 18 x 26 Inches
On view April 15 - June 10, 2023
Presented by the Huntington Beach Art Center
Curators and Guest Jurists: Luciana Abait & Lawrence Gipe
PANEL DISCUSSION & CLOSING RECEPTION
ACTS OF ENGAGEMENT: ARTISTS RESPOND TO CLIMATE CHANGE
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​Saturday, June 10, 3pm
Guest moderator Virginia Arce,  Exhibitions Program Coordinator for the City of Irvine, in conversation with curators and jurists Luciana Abait, Lawrence Gape and select exhibiting artists.

Virginia Arce is a Los Angeles-based curator and writer. She received her MFA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of California, Irvine, and BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Her practice in curation and writing spans independently run artist spaces and projects, arts nonprofits, and various exhibition models. She is co-editor of The Invisible Archive, a bi-national journal based in the United States and Germany focused on performance and time-based art practices. ​
FILM SCREENING: RIZOMAS, 2021 Video, RT: 40:03
A film by Carolina Montejo
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Scheduled Screenings in the MPR
Screened weekly in the Art Center's multipurpose room. Tuesday & Wednesday, 4 pm; Thursday, 6 pm; and Saturday at 2 pm. 

​*There will be no screenings scheduled on Wednesdays, May 31 - June 7. Please call (714) 374-1650 or email artcenterstaff@surfcity-hb.org for more information. 
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Carolina Montejo, Rizomas, 2021, Video, RT: 40:03
​The Huntington Beach Art Center presents By Degrees: Art and our Changing Ecology, an exhibition addressing critical environmental themes. In response to global warming, artists are reflecting, creating, and examining the climate crisis. Through the artist's lens, By Degrees raises awareness of the severity and scale of ecological change.
Jamie F. Adams
Lane Barden
Hailey Barnard
Michael Biagiotti
Marka Burns
Federica Campagnari
Marcelo Chechik
Karina Chechik
Beth Davila Waldman
Jeff Frost
Yrneh Gabon
Patti Handfinger
Nung-Hsin Hu
Marilyn Jonas
Işık Kaya & Thomas Gerog Blank
Dan Kee
Victoria Kokanour
Diane Lamboley
Margaret Lazzari
Cody Lusby
Lucinda Luvaas
Constance Mallinson
Aline Mare
Jonathan Marquis
Ryan McIntosh
Liz Miller Kovacs
Carolina Montejo
Stephanie Morton-Millstein
Elaine Pike
Ray Powers
Vojislav Radovanovic
Osceola Refetoff
Kenneth Renk
Jozane Resende
Michelle Robinson
Marie Thibeault
Reed van Brunschot
Maureen Vastardis
Melissa Wang
Robin Ward
Ruiqi Xu
CC Young

RIZOMAS
​FILM SCREENING

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Carolina Montejo, Rizomas, 2021, Video, RT: 40:03
Rizomas expands on feminist eco plural thought, moving simultaneously between the precision of words, the plurality of oral tradition, the atmospheric components of sound, the performative possibilities of the body, and the constancy of the the material world through the moving image. Each of these components are present as branches that touch on documentary practices, ethnographic collaborations, poetry and voice-over narration, 3D modeling and animation, analogue and digital technology hybrids, as well as social and environmental advocacy.

​Rizomas, a film by Carolina Montejo is screened weekly in the Art Center's multipurpose room. Tuesday & Wednesday, 4 pm; Thursday, 6 pm; and Saturday at 2 pm. 

​*There will be no screenings scheduled on Wednesdays May 31 - June 7. Please call (714) 374-1650 or email artcenterstaff@surfcity-hb.org for more information. 

augmented reality
​artwork

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ROBIN WARD, Symbiosis, 2023, Photography Composite on Archival Paper, 22 x 27 Inches, $1100
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This artwork is enhanced with a digital layer triggered by the augmented reality app, Artivive. With the app installed on your smart phone, focus your device lens over the image to experience another dimension.