This artwork is by Marc Handelman and entitled "Gorge." A landscape with that appears to show a white plant or tree with a brushy top extending from a white cliff and a circular deep purple orb in the center of the sky behind the plant matter. It purple lightens slightly as it radiates towards the outer edge of the canvas. This image almost looks like a monochromatic purple negative.

An artwork by Whitney Bedford, entitled "Venduta (Lacombe Red Pines) shows bright orangish, peachy, pink tree trunks with similarly-colored and also blue leafy foliage at the top. The sky looks bright and orange and there is blue in the middle as if mountains, then a small swatch of land, and ocean and land again as if viewed from a hillside towards the horizon. The forground shows a rigit gold edge on the bottom and as if there is a fold. It seems this might be a folding screen with a landscape on it being seen behind actual versions of the plants in the foreground.

A photographic work showing men on a train in a black and white photo behind a black-lined rectangular grid that reminds one of a fence with transparent areas by York Chang, entitled Sedition.

An artwork by Jesús Rafael Soto (Untitled) that shows a black rectangle with a white border. Framing the top half of the rectangle is a black upside down "U" shape and on the bottom there is a blue rightsideup "U" shape. There is a small extension attached above the work from which small black nylon cord pieces extend in front of the black rectangle. They create shadows on the wall that shift as one moves around the work.

Two more days to check out these intriguing artworks and more in the #InTheMaking #ContemporaryArt at the #SantaBarbaraMuseumOfArt exhibition. #MarcHandelman #WhitneyBedford #YorkChang #JesúsRafaelSoto
#SBMA #SantaBarbara

Photo of an artwork by Dario Robleto entitled "Unknown and Solitary Seas (Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century)" and comprised of bronze wave forms and text on a black box in a case.

Photo of an artwork by Dario Robleto entitled "No One Has A monopoly Over Sorrow" and comprised of bullet-lead-covered finger bones with rings on them placed on plant material in a backet with an aged doily inside it in a case.

Photo of an artwork by Dario Robleto entitled "Sadness From Listening To Sung Melodies, Le Vallon, Gounod, 1896" and comprised of a photo lithograph on hand sooted paper showing wave forms in gray tones.

Photo of an artwork by Dario Robleto entitled "American Seabed" and comprised of fossilized prehistoric whale ear bones with butterflies perched atop them projceting upward from concrete bases and bronze rods. The image shows a reflection of the artwork on the inside of the case plexiglass and the exhibition intro wall beyond.

#DarioRobleto: #TheSignal at the #SantaBarbaraMuseumOfArt strikes one to the core. Please make sure to take time time for his film, "Ancient Beacons Long For Notice," which is so beautifully intense, thought-provoking, & poignant that it demands one's attention.
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Entry wall to Dario Robleto's The Signal art exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The exhibition title can be seen with and intro text below it in white. The walls are painted black and the an unrelated Greek or Roman sculpture can be seen in the entryway to the gallery from Lundington Court. The wood floors of the museum and track lighting above can also be seen.

Entry wall to Dario Robleto's The Signal art exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The exhibition title can be seen with and intro text below it in white and in Spanish on the right side of the doorway to the gallery. The wood floors of the museum extend from the entry wall into the gallery where framed photo lithographs are seen.

Ancient Beacons Long For Notice film entry wall for Dario Robleto's The Signal art exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The film's title is, show times,informational text, and directional arrows are seen in silver vinyl on black exterior wall of the theatre. The white museum walls, wood floors, and track lighting can also be seen entering into another space with a sculptural work by Dario Robleto in a case.

The "Ancient Beacons Long For Notice" film entry wall for Dario Robleto's The Signal art exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. The film's title, show times, informational text, and directional arrows are seen in silver vinyl on black and white exterior walls of the theatre. The white museum walls, wood floors, and track lighting can also be seen. Additional signs about the film mounted on board and to the white wall are also seen.

I am thrilled to have laid out the #SantaBarbaraMuseumOfArt 's #DarioRobleto #TheSignal #LaSeñal exhibition signage.

Please note: It was my great pleasure to adapt another designer's signage & concept from the #AmonCarterMuseumOfAmericanArt for this iteration of the exhibition at the #SBMA. Tysm.

A woman with dark brown skin and black hair pulled back tightly, wearing a pale yellow dress is focused on carefully painting a pink floral pattern in a black bowl with red exterior. She is seated, seemingly outdoors, amidst lush, dark green foliage that resembles large leaves with a stack of smaller, similarly decorated containers behind her. Alfredo Ramos Martínez was a pivotal figure in Mexican Modernism. He spent his formative years in the artistic circles of Paris, returning to Mexico in 1910 on the eve of the country’s revolution. There he established the nation’s first open air schools and encouraged his pupils to create art that captured observations of daily life. Always innovating, Ramos Martínez slowly merged his European training with a dedication to “Mexicanidad”—a movement that advocated for a new cultural nationalism rooted in Mexican imagery. Martinez, born in Monterey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1872, first studied art at the National Academy of Art in Mexico City. His work drew the attention of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, while she was a guest of the President of Mexico. She became Martinez's patron, and financed his study in Europe. He studied for six years in Paris, where he won recognition for his mural "La Primavera" and became a successful portrait painter. In Paris he also met Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and the poet Ruben Dario. After sixteen years in Europe Martinez returned to Mexico, where the Revolution was forming. He was appointed Minister of Education and began to overhaul the Academy. He began open-air schools where artists could paint directly from nature, which had a influence on the young French painter Jean Charlot, and the Mexican artist Diego Rivera. Around 1930, Martinez and his family settled in Los Angeles, California where he focused refined his style of clearly defined forms. Martinez's work was well received and he obtained several commissions for public murals in the Southern California area, and held numerous exhibitions.

La pintora de Uruapan (Uruapan Painter) by Alfredo Ramos Martínez (Mexican) - Oil on board / c. 1930 - Santa Barbara Museum of Art (California) #womeninart #painting #painter #art #oilpainting #womensart #portrait #AlfredoRamosMartinez #portraitofawoman #SantaBarbaraMuseumofArt #uruapan #mexicanart