By Daily Press staff
Santa Monica College’s Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery presents “Materials & Meaning: A Sculpture Exhibit,” featuring the works of seven prominent artists who have used a broad range of materials and technologies to explore a sense of wonder and absurdity.
The exhibit will be held from Jan. 12 to Feb. 8 at the gallery, located at SMC’s Madison campus on Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street.
The opening reception will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11.
The artists to be featured are Dean De Cocker, John Heric, Tina Marrin, Bridget Marrin, Alan Rath, Roland Reiss, and Mark Sparks.
“The art works in this exhibition feature a broad range of materials and employ a variety of technologies from kinetic sculpture and electronic images to cast metals and three-dimensional miniature models,” said Marian Winsryg, SMC Art Gallery director and curator of the show. “Each artist creates specially constructed environments that depict real or imaginary scenes, which combine both traditional as well as nontraditional materials.”
The exhibit also features some small-scale sculpture environments or dioramas that have “enabled the artist to create a miniature or three-dimensional pictorial world of physical space that encapsulates the totality of life,” Winsryg said.
“These works combine a sense of passion created by unusual materials that compel us to examine our own sense of wonder and absurdity in how we look at the world,” she said.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Call (310) 434-3434 for more information.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 10, 2002. Read the original PDF.