Inside/Outside
Rose Salane, Nesting Tables, 2016. Wooden tables, plaster cast, ink on newsprint, glass. Museum purchase with support from the Luria/Budgor Family Foundation.
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Ilana Savdie, Lágrimas y mocos (exploiting a suitable host), 2021.Oil, acrylic, and beeswax on canvas stretched on canvas. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Luria/Budgor Family Foundation and The Museum Contemporaries.
Keith Mayerson, Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me, 2023. Oil on linen. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Luria/Budgor Family Foundation.
Narsiso Martinez, Mission—Precious Cargo, 2023. Acrylic, ink, charcoal, collage, and matte gel on produce carboard boxes. Courtesy of Charlies James Gallery, Los Angles.
When visual artists make an image, they have to bring the inside outside by giving thoughts, fears, dreams, and life stories visible form. In this exhibition, each artwork has external signs telling about an inner world, whether real, fictional, or in-between. Ilana Savdie’s Lágrimas y mocos (exploiting a suitable host) seems to show a parasitic relationship. Rose Salane’s nesting table and ice skates are props in a mysterious drama about air travel. Keith Mayerson paints a puppet peddling to a better life in California, which might be an alter-ego. In a self-portrait, Narsiso Martinez is listening to music on headphones, which partially transports him to another world away from the heat, pesticides, and hard labor of harvesting cherries. Each of these artists negotiates what is seen and unseen, hidden and revealed, inside and outside.
The artists in the exhibition include Whitney Bedford, Narsiso Martinez, Keith Mayerson, Jesse Mockrin, Rose Salane, Shizu Saldamando, Ilana Savdie, and Kon Trubkovich.
All of the artworks have been recently acquired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art thanks to the generosity of Peter Remes, Dan Aloni and Sarah Brown, The Basil Alkazzi Acquisition Fund, The Museum Contemporaries, and Kandy Budgor, Luria/Budgor Family Foundation.
Making Art and Living the Authentic Life
Thursday, December 14, 2023
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free Students
$5 SBMA Members
$10 Non-Members
Keith Mayerson and James Glisson in Conversation
Thursday, January 18, 2024
5:30 – 6:30 pm
Mary Craig Auditorium
Free Students
$5 SBMA Members
$10 Non-Members
Seeing From the Rupture: A Reading and Conversation with Jenny Xie
In this conversation, resonating with both the past and tradition exemplified in the exhibition Flowers on a River and with the distillation and duality explored in Inside/Outside, Jenny Xie opens up, as US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera described, “multiple terrains of seeing.” With longing and memory, nuance and subtlety, the “anxiety of bilingualism,” and the unknowability of the self, Xie takes us deep into what is irreducible with pure piercing beauty.
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