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| "Bill": ink brush drawing, watercolor, and collage. |
2GN2S:
Commissions Patrick Shearn for Art & Nature installation.
Laguna Art Museum will present the eight annual Art & Nature, a multidisciplinary exploration of art’s many and various engagements with the natural world on view through November 15.
In collaboration with the City of Laguna Beach, the museum has
commissioned a work of art for Art & Nature – a site-specific
multicolored kinetic installation (a “Skynet”) off Main Beach over Main
Beach Park. Entitled Sunset Trace, it will seamlessly weave
through the palm trees along the shoreline, traversing sections of the
walkways and cliffs between the gazebo and Main Beach in a stunning,
windburn display. Sunset Trace will be on view through November 15.
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| Photo by Dru Maurer |
Inspired by the graceful murmuration of birds flocking together, or schools of fish coalescing and moving simultaneously, Patrick Shearn’s signature Skynets are a constant reminder of nature moving around us. Suspended using transparent monofilament netting and rigged inconspicuously, the undulating forms appear to levitate in midair, finessed by the unique wind patterns of each site, revealing unseen natural elements in unusual, dramatic ways.
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| Photo by Dru Maurer |
Art & Nature serves a number of purposes: to provide a festival of art and ideas for the community; to inspire artists; to find and develop connections between art and science; to raise awareness of environmental issues; and to celebrate Laguna Beach as a center for the appreciation of art and nature. The museum’s executive director, Malcolm Warner, explains why Laguna Art Museum is the ideal organization to conceive, develop, and present the popular program:
“The theme of Art & Nature speaks particularly to the identity of
Laguna Beach, which for over a hundred years has been a center for art,
the appreciation of nature, and environmental awareness. In 1929, when
the Laguna Beach Art Association built an art gallery to show and sell
their work, they chose a commanding location on the coastline close to
the natural wonders they loved to paint. The present museum occupies the
same site. There could be no more appropriate venue in which to explore
the art-nature connection.”
Throwback Thursday ...
CM Dojo Jr. Tournament, December, 2008
