Lum Art Magazine

03/07/2024

"The New Salon: Arte del Pueblo" -
Stoked for the turn-out and the insane list of artists. Congratulations to all who participated!

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24/04/2024

We're having a Lum Launch Party! Please join us to celebrate our latest issue. We're toasting all the artists and writers who have contributed to each of Lum's seven editions.

There will be palumas, tamales, people, love, parlance, the exhibition and general good cheer. May 4, 4-6pm, at . See you there!

Invite: Art / Design

24/04/2024

For Lum 07, Sandy Rodriguez and Sarah Rosalena opened up about their intersecting art practices. They discuss how their research-based work recovers knowledge from the past and present—and how by creating maps with materials and techniques of the Americas, such as weaving, beading and painting—they are able to portray distinct aspects of histories of resistance.

Thank you .sandyrodriguez and for contributing to . Edited by , art direction by

*Read the full text in Lum 07 now available at and lumartzine.com

21/04/2024

Lum Art Mag 07, a contemporary art mag for California's Central Coast, is now available in print at (among other locations) and online at lumartzine.com.

Join us on Saturday, May 4, 4-6pm, at MCASB, for a Lum launch party to celebrate the release of Lum 07 and all of the artists and writers that Lum has featured and collaborated with thus far. From the page to the party, we hope to see you there.

Lum 07 features on the cover and on its pages: .sandyrodriguez .studio James Glisson Evelyn Contreras .nava

Special thanks to

13/04/2024

Lum 07 • featuring • in print now

27/03/2024

The Recycled Show opens Friday 3/29 at with lots of artists and zero waste.
Opening reception 5-8 PM. Slides 1 Dan Levin 2 Heidi Parker

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Reception will feature live interactive plastic “mandala” art assemblage, poetry, music, “Make a Fish Wish” for the planet activity, a showing of the environmental art film “Wasteland”, tabling by environmental organizations like Channelkeeper and Heal the Ocean, with light snacks and beverages provided.
Exhibit organizer and curator, Jami Joelle Nielsen, asked a dozen local artists to create recycled works of art centered on an environmental issue of their choice and to compose a narrative regarding the significance of their chosen environmental concern to accompany their artwork. Artists will confront important environmental issues such as: Climate Change, Species Extinction, Fast Fashion, Pollinator Crisis, Wildfires, Tech Waste, Landfill Waste, Ocean Plastics/Pollution, Deforestation etc. All artwork is for sale with a portion of sales supporting The CAW.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Mary Balda
Adrienne De Guevara
Kimberly Hahn
Sue Van Horsen
Dan Levin
Michael Long
Jami Joelle Nielsen
Heidi Parker
Mary Price
Vanae Mary Rivera
Dug Uyesaka
Frank Whipple
THE RECYCLED SHOW 2024 GALLERY HOURS:
Wednesday March 27th- By Appointment
Thursday March 28th- Gallery Open 12PM-5PM
Friday March 29th- Exhibit Opening Reception 5PM-8PM
Saturday March 30th- Gallery Open 12PM-4PM
Sunday March 31st- Gallery Open 12PM-4PM
Monday April 1st- By Appointment
Tuesday April 2nd- By Appointment
(Call CAW at (805) 324-7443 to Make Appointment)
The Community Arts Workshop (CAW) of the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative is proud to be ADA accessible. Visitors can find plenty of parking on Garden and adjacent streets.

16/03/2024

The acquisition underscores the museum's status as a premier resource for the study of the built environment in Southern California from the late 19th century to the present day. Kudos to Silvia Perea and Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB

The acquisition underscores the ADC’s status as a premier resource for the study of the built environment in Southern California from the late 19th century to the present day.

24/02/2024

, Cube, 2023 from Milk and Honey / Janna Ireland’s photographic practice is primarily concerned with the themes of family, home, and the expression of Black identity in American culture. In 2016, she began photographing structures designed by legendary Black architect Paul R. Williams. A collection of 250 of these photographs was published in the major 2020 monograph, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View. These multiple aspects of Ireland’s work will be featured and interwoven across both venues.

Join us this Sunday, February 25th, starting at 11:00 am at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) for a conversation with the artist, and the exhibition curators Charlie Wylie and Frederick Janka. This event is free but please register here as this is sure to be standing room only.

Starting at 12:00 pm join us at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) for the Artist Party to celebrate together Santa Barbara (MCASB) for the Artist Party to celebrate together!

25/01/2024

Border Crossings opens tonight at the . "War, inequality and injustice shaped 20th century performance art. The exhibition rests on the idea that the immigrant, the asylum seeker, the exiled artist, shaped the language of dance modernism. The act of crossing borders, the nature of exile, initiated aesthetic philosophies which translated into choreography.” —curator Ninotchka Bennahum

27/10/2023

Pecos Pryor and James Hapke — tonight and tomorrow at . They'll be showing and selling new work from this summer and spring that includes sculpture, print, drawing, textiles and ceramics. With on Friday.

"Our practices have been directly and indirectly in conversation and collaboration for years and we are excited to show our work together. In the spirit of our parallel disciplines we are working to establish a new studio that will function as both our own workshop, and a space for public events. The proceeds raised at this show will all go towards this endeavor."

Pecos is an artist and educator living in Carpinteria Ca. He holds an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln where he began work that investigates and enacts a visualized passage of time. More recently he has built a body of work that explores the transformation of grief through the form and symbol of the traffic cone.

James Hapke lives and works in Ventura, Ca. He holds and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he studied printmedia and ceramics and was awarded the Roads Grant to investigate, celebrate and study vernacular artists across the midwest and north east. He recently began making quilts to explore dream logic and softer sculpture.

Pecos and James share a deep love of printmaking, Dwight Yoakam, and the ocean.

15/09/2023

An anti-disciplinary artist and environmental scientist, Cameron Patricia Downey creates in a "language of epics out of minutiae" — of the Blues, of Black survival art — shaped in precarious and fantastical sculptures made up of everyday objects of personal or collective importance.

There's still time to plan the weekend around Orchid Blues: Cameron Patricia Downey opening at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara this Sunday (noon–4pm) with an artist reception. Photos by Ingrid Bostrom Photography

09/09/2023

Dumbo, a new cutie by , is available to be consumed by your eyes at Staring at a Sun that Never Sets group show in Palm Springs. Ry's sculptures of Ojai pixies were featured in Lum 01 during his residency at .

31/08/2023

An end of summer show at will feature sculptures like this coconut wrapped in post consumer scraps by — ludic visual studies at the interface of ecology and consumption.

"Portals is a solo exhibition that brings together various works from three different threads of Sommer Roman’s larger body of work: new textile-based wall sculptures and “Brain Scan” colored pencil drawings are paired with “Cell Portrait” ink drawings. This grouping of work sheds light on themes and forms that appear and reappear in Roman’s work repeatedly: namely, the biological cross-section and the circle."

29/07/2023

We caught a glimpse of Wares and died for these extraordinary ceramics for the ordinary home.

23/07/2023

It's Matt Furie's Invasive Species at
Just opened and we hear there's a Tee.

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Matt Furie is from Columbus, Ohio. He is the subject of the documentary Feels Good Man, which is about how his gentle character, Pepe the Frog, was co-opted. Winner of the best Visual Artist in the San Francisco Bay Guardian 's 20th annual Goldie awards, he's exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. Furie is also an accomplished illustrator; in addition to his comic book series Boy's Club, he's published a children's book, The Night Riders. He lives in Los Osos, Calif. with his wife and daughter.

19/07/2023

From the stars to the land: A weekend with artists Sarah Rosalena and Sandy Rodriguez
Recovering the knowledge of the past and the future

Lum Art Talk | In Conversation: Sarah Rosalena and Sandy Rodriguez
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
Friday, July 28
5–7pm

Exhibition Tour with Sandy Rodriguez:
Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Saturday, July 29
12pm–2pm, Tour begins at 12pm

The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) and the Art, Design & Architecture Museum (AD&A Museum) at UC Santa Barbara are excited to announce a weekend program featuring artists Sarah Rosalena and Sandy Rodriguez (July 28–29). All events are free and open to the public.

The joint weekend program is being held in association with the concurrent exhibitions Sarah Rosalena: Pointing Star (April 16 – July 30, 2023) at MCASB and Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance (Feb. 25, 2023 – March 3, 2024) at the AD&A Museum.

On Friday, July 28, 5–7pm, Rosalena and Rodriguez will be in conversation at MCASB, offering a rare opportunity to hear the artists speak candidly to each other about their work. The talk is co-hosted by Lum Art Magazine.

The following day, Saturday, July 29, 12–2pm, join us at the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara for an artist-led tour of the exhibition Sandy Rodriguez — Unfolding Histories: 200 Years of Resistance, followed by a reception with light refreshments.

06/07/2023

Join us at today 5-7pm for a First Thursday art talk with artist and — artist & editor-in-chief of .la ~~~~ followed by curated cocktails in the trellis. C-ya there!

Free talk and entry to the museum for the exhibition “Pointing Star” by Sarah Rosalena

Slide 1: Sarah Rosalena, detail, RGB, 2022, cotton, paper yarn
Slide 2: Sarah Rosalena, detail, Eight Pointed Star, 2023, Hand-dyed cochineal wool yarn
Slide 3: Sarah Rosalena, photo by Ruben Diaz
Slide 4: Lindsay Preston Zappas
Slide 5: Lindsay Preston Zappas, Untitled Weaving, 2023

23/06/2023

Ditto, asterisk, the double dagger! My favorite the AMPERSAND. Let’s give it up to the hardworking punctuation marks keeping order on the page! The Tiny Libraries are back on State Street — life size sculptures filled with free books by sculptor Douglas Lochner. Photographer Nell Campbell captured readers with their favorites. What’s yours?

06/05/2023

Luminarium at the Lagoon ~ Grateful to for putting up this free inflatable museum for the weekend. We’re feeling very relaxed now 😎 🧘

16/04/2023

Please join us tomorrow (Sunday 4/16, 12–4) for the opening of Sarah Rosalena: Pointing Star at . We are proud to show , a pioneer in computational craft, as the museum’s first solo show since it’s reopening.

Pointing Star is a series of textiles and ceramics that refigure eight-pointed star motifs used across Turtle Island — here in Wixárika patterns — as a template
for weaving images of stars. Works are viewed as hybrid forms, both created by hand and programmed software. As the title suggests, the star motif is not an axis or compass star, but rather an entrance into the boundless, which contains all conceivable and inconceivable directions at once. The design points in all directions, representing the entirety of the Universe beyond measurement and borders. The woven textiles, ceramics, and beadwork point to the infinite as glitch, generating new possibilities for geospatial edges.

08/04/2023

Inside Rafael Gaete’s studio!

Rafael was born in Santiago, Chile. At 15, he saw an important exhibition of artist Roberto Matta at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago. He was struck by Matta’s perception of space and surrealism…

14/03/2023

Join us for an artist talk with Alberto Lule, LUM Art Prize winner — Wednesday, March 15, 4pm, .

Lule’s work, much of which is handled with a careful beauty, is a rare gut punch — powerful, residing in the artist’s humanity — and frightful, drawing out the inhumanity of the incarcerated body.

Lule was incarcerated for 15 years after his arrest as a teenager in Santa Barbara County, where he grew up. He was featured as the art prize winner in no. 06, in a profile by .p.cruz, with the support of

The talk is free and open to the public.

Photos by Carla Zarate Suarez &

07/03/2023

Friends, Come join us for a game of a chess and the eternal battle of kingdoms. The place is Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, day Sunday, March 12, time 2-4pm. ALL PLAYERS WELCOME

20/02/2023

Incredible experience at Frieze LA representing our art community! People picked up HUNDREDS of Lums and we watched Friezers read about and appreciate this mad culture’s artists and ideas. Thank you to and for being a true support system especially who volunteer their work, time and resources to support art and critical as board members at MCASB. Thank you also to the artists who contributed work to our booth including

18/02/2023

We’re peeping art while slinging mags at Frieze LA. Check us out at the booth with 🥸

17/02/2023

Thank you for profiling LUM ART MAG & publishers & . Also in big news we will see you at FRIEZE LA in the social justice arena at a trifecta of punch booth with &

Link in bio
http://voyagela.com/interview/life-work-with-debra-herrick-arturo-heredia-soto-of-santa-barbara/

16/02/2023

Last night opener at with the Small Images crew! We were honored to be the jurors. Congrats to .c.connelly and all the winners & best of show .studio (first slide).

18/11/2022

MFA open studios today, 5pm, under Harder Stadium — always a good time!

Detail, Clear Containers Are Hard To Paint Especially When They’re Full

22/10/2022

Oy! opening this weekend! So many great artists — including several alum — in this LA show curated by & .

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“Beta Epochs is an unapologetically unpolished, collaborative adventure. Organized aspirationally in the lineage of basement punk shows and unsanctioned raves, this exhibition brings together work from close to thirty artists in a 4,200-square-foot warehouse situated between downtown Los Angeles and Echo Park Lake.”

Serene Blumenthal

Cara Lasell Bonewitz
Peggy Chiang .chiang
Kevin Clancy .studio
Bailey Clark
Marisa de la Peña .de.la.pena Stephanie Dotson
Kim Garcia
Madeleine Eve Ignon
Matt Leines
Alex Lukas
Kayla Mattes
Rita McBride
Christina McPhee Madeleine McQuillan

Adam Milner
Shana Moulton

Megan Muellere.g.a.n_m.u.e.l.l.e.r
Minga Opazo

Elisa Ortega Montilla
Riviera Parking

Ben Peterson

Sarah Rosalena
Chris Rucker
Vanessa Wallace-Gonzales

David Wesley White
Kareem Michael Worrell