Art Nest hatches a new gallery in La Jolla

Anseth Richards, a La Jolla High School graduate and longtime Bird Rock resident, opened a promising art gallery on Nov. 28 at 5648 La Jolla Blvd., just a few doors down from Beaumont’s Eatery.

La Jolla reception offers sample of upcoming Kyoto Prize lectures

By Pat Sherman More than 50 people gathered at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library Nov. 28 to learn about three free lectures that will be offered next spring when this year’s Kyoto Prize recipients visit San Diego. One lecture will be offered at each of the following institutions: University of California San Diego, University [...]

Art museums in La Jolla and San Diego launch collaborative ‘Behold, America!’

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla celebrates the opening of a three-museum exhibition, “Behold, America!” — a grand collaboration with American works from the collections of MCASD, San Diego Museum of Art, and Timken Museum.

Mural No. 8 Arrives: La Jolla Community Foundation installs another public art piece

The latest public art work in the Murals of La Jolla art series was installed on Nov. 13 at 7744 Fay Ave. Titled “Applied,” by artist Richard Allen Morris, it is the eighth in the series being funded by the La Jolla Community Foundation.

Wes Bruce brings storehouse of memories to Lux Art Institute in San Diego County

“Structures Poetry Humans,” an art project by Wes Bruce, explores the poetic relationship between people and the structures they inhabit. It is on display at Lux Art Institute in Encinitas through Dec. 29, 2012.

La Jolla’s art femme fatales style seductive show

In case you didn’t know, La Jolla has about 20 self-proclaimed femme fatales. They hosted a reception for the exhibit “Femme Fatales,” which celebrated the virtues of Femme Fatalism at the La Jolla Art Association gallery.

Korean sculptor Jaehyo Lee returns to nature at Madison Gallery in La Jolla

Jaehyo Lee is a soft-spoken Korean man who lives in an artists’ community about an hour outside big-city Seoul. He uses slabs of wood from trees native to his country — larch, chestnut, and big-cone pine — to create strikingly beautiful pieces that express his love of nature. At his Madison Gallery opening Oct. 27, he spoke through his agent-translator, Steven Choi, to say he likes to use common materials like nails, twigs, and resin — things people live with and never respect — and twist them into uncommon things. Strongly grounded in Oriental culture, where silence is valued, he intends his work to inspire a feeling of peaceful harmony among viewers.

Socially engaged art at UCSD provides food for thought in La Jolla

Broaden the spectrum of your art appreciation with a visit to the latest exhibit at the University Art Gallery (UAG) at UC San Diego. There, you will have the unparalleled opportunity to view and contemplate some of the best and most significant examples of “socially-engaged” art that has been produced throughout the world since 1991, in a show called, “Living as Form (The Nomadic Version).” UAG Curatorial Fellow Michelle Hyun, who worked on the show, defines socially engaged art as, “Art that is made from the social mediation of social relations. It’s closer to real-life experience than regular art and often has a protest or politic aspect to it.”

San Diego art museums open joint exhibition of American works, first in La Jolla

San Diego’s three art museums — The Timken, Museum of Contemporary Art, and San Diego Museum of Art — have been working for the past five years on a joint exhibit that opens Friday, Nov. 9, titled “Behold America!” The exhibit features art from each of the museums’ collections, grouped into three main sections: Frontiers, Figures and Forms. Each museum will show works from all three collections.

Someplace Special: New County Operations Center is a showplace for public art

Public art is a grand collaboration between developers, politicians, arts administrators, selection committees and artists, and sometimes it really works.

The $358 million County Operations Center in Kearny Mesa is a bold step forward, resuscitating an old “artwork allowance” policy that allows for .05 percent of the estimated building costs of certain county projects to be spent on original works of art.