Arataland! A Mid-Career Survey of Artworks by Michael Arata March 26, 2011

Beacon Arts presents "Arataland! A Mid-Career Survey of Artworks by Michael Arata" curated by art critic Doug Harvey, opening Saturday, March 26, 2011. "Arataland!" will be the first museum-scale retrospective devoted exclusively to the work of this important Los Angeles artist, and the first monographic exhibit hosted by the Beacon Arts Building during its inaugural Critics-as-Curators series.  Drawing on three decades of sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, installation and performance work, "Arataland!" will transform the Beacon Arts Building into a theme park exploring the complex and idiosyncratic vision – darkly humorous, playfully erotic, conceptually quirky, and often confrontational – that animates Arata’s oeuvre. The exhibit will run for eight weeks closing on Sunday, May 22, 2011 with a closing reception/critics panel discussion from 1:00 to 4:00pm.  Beacon Arts is located at 808 N. La Brea Ave., Inglewood, CA 90302.  For additional information please call 310-621-5416 or visit http://www.beaconartsbuilding.com as well as http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inglewood-CA/Beacon-Arts-Building/129817703733091?v=info.  To read the press release visit http://www.greengalactic.com/2011/beacon-arts-arataland.

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