" title="Supernatural show 2 second choice" width="420" height="251" class="size-full wp-image-16930" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Supernatural-show-2-second-choice.jpg?w=420&ssl=1 420w, https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Supernatural-show-2-second-choice.jpg?resize=300%2C179&ssl=1 300w, https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Supernatural-show-2-second-choice.jpg?resize=380%2C227&ssl=1 380w" sizes="(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px" />“After some discussion of the many options, a call went out to artists for a Twilight of the Supernatural exhibit that would not only include Dia De Los Muertos art, but also zombies, UFOs, creatures of the dark and anything else that we don’t understand and hope and pray don’t exist,” Orr said. “What has resulted is not the traditional Day of the Dead exhibit that usually are the mainstay[s] of most Latin-American art galleries, especially in the Latin-dominated LA market, but a darker, moodier, more macabre offering of art in a range of mediums. It seemed like we might have to cancel the exhibit because it wasn’t the traditional Day of the Dead” theme. Then, late in the submission process, the submissions started coming in, and before we knew it, we had a pretty fine collection of art to put a show together.”
According to Orr, the exhibit features paintings, sketches, assemblage, photography and sculptures that are moody and humorous and have a slight feel leaning toward the macabre. “But, as an exhibit, the show is creative, unique and quite fitting for its title,” Orr said. “Long Beach artist Rosemary Taggart, a 5-foot, 2-inch tall, 93-year-old firecracker of a woman submitted four works, including two eight-foot-tall oil-on-canvas pieces that seem to exude a toxic message of the strange and supernatural. In reality, they are a tribute to Tennyson’s poems.”
Rosemary’s larger-than-life, faceless images seem to be lumbering menacingly towards the viewer, Orr said. Both works use vibrant colors and play on positive-negative spaces, as well as size, to stimulate the feeling of impending doom. Rosemary’s two smaller works, although of a different medium (pastel chalk on black paper), tend to follow a similar pattern with her skilled use of color and scale as her main tools to elicit emotions. These two smaller works also rely on her jumpy portrayal of motion to garner a moody feeling about the figures.
" title="Supernatural show 1 second choice" width="299" height="500" class="size-full wp-image-16931" srcset="https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Supernatural-show-1-second-choice.jpg?w=299&ssl=1 299w, https://i0.wp.com/sigtrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Supernatural-show-1-second-choice.jpg?resize=179%2C300&ssl=1 179w" sizes="(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px" />Twilight of the Supernatural features 17 Long Beach-area artists, runs from Oct. 20 to Nov. 3 and opens with an artist reception on Saturday, Oct. 20 from 6pm to 9pm and is free and open to the public. Gallery Expo is located in the Expo Arts Center, 4321 Atlantic Ave.
Regular hours are Fridays and Saturdays from 4pm to 8pm. Parking is located on the north side of the building or on the street. Pets and strollers are not allowed inside the gallery.
