Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara update for Oct. 23 — ‘Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art’ and ‘Bloom Projects: Beatriz Olabarrieta, Ask the Dust’ exhibits open Nov. 10

Ezawa’s digital interpretations of the stolen Stewart Gardner masterpieces are presented to scale and illuminated in light-boxes that serve as modern apparitions of the centuries-old works. These technological vestiges are at once copies of the originals, while also carrying the mark of Ezawa’s animated hand. Reduced to flat planes of color, the original paintings take on new life as Ezawa plays with ideas of appropriation and originality.Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art was curated by Irene Hofmann and organized by SITE Santa Fe with the Mead Art Museum.

Bloom Projects: Beatriz Olabarrieta, Ask the Dust marks Beatriz Olabarrieta’s first institutional show in the United States. Olabarrieta will present a new commissioned installation revolving around a film work, exploring her ongoing interest in writing, drawing, and collaboration with other artists, musicians, and writers as devices to generate performative spaces or situations. The exhibition will be accompanied by a commissioned text by Bianca Stoppani.

Beatriz Olabarrieta will visit Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara in early December 2018. Related programming information is forthcoming.