Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara update of May 1

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The Bevy
Friday, May 18, 7 – 10 pm

MCASB Main Space
For one night only, experience Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara transformed into a 1960s London club. Enjoy scrumptious bites and themed cocktails, as live entertainment from Tina Schlieske and DJ Crash sets the mood.
Space is limited, buy tickets here.

The Harvest
Sunday, May 20, 6 – 9 pm

MCASB Main Space
Focusing on the theme of sustainability, this event will explore the relationship between seemingly disparate topics, such as art, food, and bees, considering how each cultivates community. Celebrating the innovation of Santa Barbara chefs, distillers, and apiarists, the dinner will feature pizza from Autostrada and rum from Wigle Whiskey.
Space is limited, buy tickets here.

The Causerie
Sunday, June 3, 7 – 10 pm

MCASB Main Space
Exploring the relationship between contemporary art, sociology, and investigation, the evening will encourage guests to probe, question, and exchange ideas with a conversation led by best-selling author Sarah Thornton and gallerist Jessica Silverman.
Space is limited, buy tickets here.

EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW

Andy Coolquitt: …i need a hole in my head
On view May 18, 2018 – March 7, 2021
MCASB Satellite @ Hotel Indigo

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 17, 6 – 8 pm

Andy Coolquitt: …i need a hole in my head, presented in partnership with Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara, is an exhibition featuring a major commission of new works by Andy Coolquitt. The Austin, TX-based artist has generated a vibrant body of work that includes paintings, sculptures, and video which he uses to form connections between some of the juxtapositional aspects of a place that is simultaneously private and public, homelike and commercial, an exhibition venue and a hotel.
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On view January 28 – June 3, 2018
MCASB Main Space

Cecily Brown: Rehearsal, curated by Claire Gilman, Senior Curator at The Drawing Center, is the artist’s first museum show on the West Coast and the first exhibition dedicated to her drawings. Arranged thematically, the more than eighty small drawings, large-scale works, and sketchbooks on view will foreground Brown’s iterative reworking of motifs from her wide-reaching arsenal of source material, which includes prints by eighteenth-century draftsman William Hogarth, pages from animal clip-art books, and the cover of Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 album Electric LadylandMore »

On view January 28 – June 3, 2018
MCASB Bloom Gallery

Bloom Projects Exchange Series: Midori Hirose, Of The Unicorn (and the Sundowner Kids)Midori Hirose’s first solo museum exhibition, is presented in collaboration with Portland Museum of Modern Art (PMOMA). The room-sized installation of newly-commissioned sculptures traces her explorations into the mythologies, historical accounts, ecologies, and communities of Santa Barbara, CA which unfolded from a series of conversations and excursions with local residents over the course of Hirose’s multiple visits to the area. More »

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