"Midnight at Malibu" Exhibition
Meulensteen
This event has ended.
Launching the 2011 season at Meulensteen, artist Zach Harris presents a "nocturnal" survey of the Los Angeles art scene. Taking his cue from "Midnight at Malibu", a song written in the 1950s by his Los Angeles based Tin Pan Alley-musician grandfather Victor Harris (1911-2010), the show eschews the superficial ethos and image-obsessed culture that typically satirize the place in order to render a deeper, darker side of the City of Angels. Nocturnes, landscape abstraction, beach assemblage, Chet Baker, Greek mythology and the psychedelic experience all haunt the content of the exhibition.
"In this beach-brain state the world is not quite as it appears to be. All is illusion. Nothing is Flat. The nature of illusion becomes the truth of art. There are numerous chances to open doors we may have unknowingly closed, and redirect our approach to the polymorphic frontier of Midnight at Malibu."
Zach Harris
[Image: Portia Hein 2010 "Pastel Forest" Oil on canvas 36 x 48 in.]
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Schedule
from January 13, 2011 to February 19, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-01-13 from 18:00 to 20:00