[aesop_image imgwidth=”300px” img=”http://www.signaltribunenewspaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-23-at-4.13.17-PM.png” align=”right” lightbox=”on” caption=”“Iguana and William Morris,” acrylic on canvas” captionposition=”right”] The exhibition features 24 works plus two installations that engage viewers in multiple ways: her works appear to shift depending on the viewer’s point of view. She is interested in providing multiple points of view from great distance down to “nose-to-paper” closeness. The imagery ranges from natural history— birds and other animals— to contemporary micro and macro images of vegetables, anatomy, fireworks and astronauts diving through space.
Since her study of painting at the University of California, Berkeley, Strasen has had a long career of exhibitions as an international artist. The imagery she explores reveals the vast scope of her curiosity, interests and enthusiasms, according to LBMA. Decade by decade, she has combined places and people, events and archeology, and the connections between nature and technology in colorful, layered and contemporary collages and paintings. Rather than depend solely on traditional materials, Strasen utilizes both acrylic paint and inkjet prints with contemporary materials like Tyvek, Plexiglas and lenticular lenses. Her layering of painted imagery over lenticular prints presents mysterious combinations of the world.
[aesop_image imgwidth=”300px” img=”http://www.signaltribunenewspaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-23-at-4.13.24-PM.png” align=”left” lightbox=”on” caption=”“Red Blue Cabbage,” acrylic and mix media on archival pigment print with center lenticular” captionposition=”left”] The exhibit will be on display through Feb. 21 at LBMA, 2300 E. Ocean Blvd. For more information, call (562) 439-2119 or visit lbma.org .
[aesop_image imgwidth=”300px” img=”http://www.signaltribunenewspaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Screen-Shot-2015-12-23-at-4.13.30-PM.png” align=”right” lightbox=”on” caption=”“Asian Cabbage,” acrylic and mix media on archival pigment print with center lenticular” captionposition=”right”]
