{"id":84561,"date":"2025-01-01T07:38:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/?p=84561"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:50:02","slug":"june-22-through-sept-7-the-santa-barbara-museum-of-art-presents-vian-sora-outerworlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/june-22-through-sept-7-the-santa-barbara-museum-of-art-presents-vian-sora-outerworlds\/","title":{"rendered":"June 22 through Sept. 7 \u2014 The Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents Vian Sora: Outerworlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_84562\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84562\" class=\"wp-image-84562\" src=\"http:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA.png 782w, https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA-768x505.png 768w, https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA-560x368.png 560w, https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA-260x171.png 260w, https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SBMA-160x105.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vian Sora, Dilmun, 2022. Oil and mixed media on canvas. SBMA, Museum purchase with funds provided by the General Art Acquisition Fund. Right: Vian Sora<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>SANTA BARBARA<\/strong> \u2014 June 22 through Sept. 7 \u2014 The Santa Barbara Museum of Art to present &#8220;Vian Sora: Outerworlds&#8221; on view June 22 \u2013 Sept. 7, 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is pleased to announce<em>Vian Sora: Outerworlds<\/em>, a multi-venue mid-career survey of internationally renowned abstract painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad). Organized jointly by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Asia Society Texas, Houston; and Speed Art Museum, Louisville, this exhibition will assemble approximately 20 of Sora\u2019s major works, charting her growth as an artist over a period of seven years (2016\u20132023).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Outerworlds<\/em> is Sora\u2019s first solo museum exhibition in the United States and will tell the story of how her multivalent paintings abstractly channel the tumultuous events of her life, ancient Mesopotamian history, and Iraq\u2019s diverse natural landscapes, including its deserts, rivers, and archeological sites. <em>Vian Sora: Outerworlds<\/em> will debut at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on June 22, 2025 before traveling to the Speed Art Museum and Asia Society Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibition venues and dates:<br \/>\nSanta Barbara Museum of Art\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 June 22 \u2013 September 7, 2025<br \/>\nSpeed Art Museum \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 October 10, 2025 \u2013 January 18, 2026<br \/>\nAsia Society Texas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 April 2 \u2013 July 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/june-22-through-sept-7-the-santa-barbara-museum-of-art-presents-vian-sora-outerworlds\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":84562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5259,10,12,9,7,1711,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar","category-cultural","category-education","category-entertainment","category-events","category-local","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84565,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84561\/revisions\/84565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amigos805.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}