Saturday evening, August 28, 2021
This show is up for only one more day. The exhibition opened at noon today, and closes on Sunday at 5 p.m. I recollect a call for work to be part of this show a while back, and apparently a couple of hundred artists ended up with a corner here, or a side office there, or a hallway in between to exhibit their work. It was impossible to look at everything for an equal amount of time, but as we wandered on four of the five floors allotted to this “pop-up exhibition” sponsored by the Torrance Art Museum, I imagined myself being the curator of a future show at TAM for which I was to pick no more than a dozen artists in the “Nomad” show. My short list of twenty finalists for the imaginary group show would include the following artists:
Emilio Garcia
Marty Knop
Jackie Castillo (“Torrance Financial Center”)
Travis Rice
David Eddington
Nancy Voegeli-Curran
Kim Abeles (“Hope Chest and Wringler Worms”)
Brian Thomas Jones (“Estimated Time in Traffic”)
Bill Dambrova
Meeson Pae Yang
Bryan Ricci
Charley Alexander
Maxwell Sykes — “Untitled” (Face)
Isai de los Angeles (“Hey man, I don’t actually eat the roaches.”)
Madeline Arnault (fiber artist)
Rebecca Bennett Duke
Francisco Alvarado
Nevena Prijic
Mike Chattem
Elizabeth Munzon
I must say that it took almost as long to find parking as it did to drive from Long Beach to the intersection of Hawthorne and Carson. The artists I just named made that exasperated search for parking worthwhile, however. More than worthwhile, in fact. Thank you.
I want to give special praise to the work of Emilio Garcia and Jackie Castillo.
For more, Visit: NomadArtShow.com
Location: 21535 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA
August 28-29, 2021
Noon-5pm, both days
Cost: Free
Address: 21535 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA
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