Opening Reception For Lost Horizons:Mural Dreams of Edward Biberman VisitVeniceCa May 31, 2014 Loading Map.... SPARC Art685 Venice Blvd. - VeniceEvents 33.9915148 -118.45862060000002 Date/Time Date(s) - 05/31/20145:00 pm - 9:00 pm Location SPARC Art Categories Annual Events Arts and culture Kids' events On Saturday, May 31, 2014, 5pm-9pm at 685 Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291 (Old Venice Police Station), SPARC’s historic headquarters since 1977 and home to The Durón Gallery – SPARC presents Lost Horizons: Mural Dreams of Edward Biberman, in partnership with LACMA. Exhibition hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm through Friday, July 31st. SPARC’s partnership with LACMA and their upcoming exhibition: Edward Biberman, Abbot Kinney and the Story of Venice is a first; while the Venice Post Office Mural will be on display at LACMA (May 18, 2014-November 16, 2014), Biberman’s unrealized mural sketches and other works will be on display at SPARC, the city’s leading mural production, preservation and education organization. Lost Horizons: Mural Dreams of Edward Biberman will affirm SPARC’s long history as a presenter of socially and politically relevant themes through mural production and its advocacy for the preservation of the commons. Biberman had this special talent to see beauty in everyday life and in the “work of man” as he would phrase it. The historic Venice Post office is home to Biberman’s mural, The Story of Venice, a 6’6” by 15’10” oil-emulsion tribute to the town’s past completed in 1941 as part of the Treasury Department’s Fine Arts Program. The Venice Post Office Mural building was closed to the public in 2011 and purchased by Hollywood producer Joel Silver of Silver Pictures. While Biberman’s paintings are not widely known outside historical art circles today, his mural sketches will be visible to general audiences. In Los Angeles, his mural in the Federal Building is visited by hundreds of people a day. The respective exhibitions in honor of Biberman at LACMA and SPARC will ensure that his legacy and the relevance of the mural tradition in American art history is not forgotten. “I feel he transmuted the drab sights of our time into soaring poetry. Whatever his subject – a person, a landscape, an architectural form – he gave it a universal quality, he was a true humanist without sentimentality, and he left us a great legacy.” Suzanne W. Zada For more info visit https://www.facebook.com/events/244626322406542/ For more info:
