By Daily Press staff
The city wants its residents to interact with public art. The City of Santa Monica’s cultural affairs division and the Santa Monica Arts Commission are hosting the third annual “Fresh Art Exhibition,” a program which enables the community to interact with temporary public artworks. The public is invited to an opening reception where they can meet the artists and view their works on Sunday, Sept. 28., from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the park located at 2600 Ocean Park Blvd.
Fresh Art provides an opportunity to artists who live or work in Santa Monica and have little or no public art experience. Artists can explore themes that are unburdened by the often serious nature of permanently installed artworks, resulting in pieces that can be lighthearted and experimental, organizers say.
Two individual artists and two artist teams have been selected to create artworks which will be installed in one of Santa Monica’s most popular open spaces, Clover Park, from Sept. 27 to Nov. 30.
The four artists/artist teams and their projects are: Gregg Einhorn uses the spaces beneath the windows of the centrally located rest-room building, filling them with bright green watering cans in his work “Greenome.” Claudia Reisenberger and Franka Deihnelt combine their talents in “Merge Conceptual Design.”
Ocean Park resident Brian Moss poses the question, “what-is-santa-monica.us” in his work and “The Happy Puddle Collective” featuring Pico neighborhood resident Abbie Baron Morganstein will install the “Clover Park Sign Project” throughout the park, parodying the rules and regulations imposed upon nature and society.
For more information call the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division at (310) 458-8350.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 23, 2003. Read the original PDF.