Oceanside for Art & Sun...

After fueling up at Parlor Doughnuts, Steve and I returned to The Seabird to see what was new in its art gallery.


Right at the entrance to the hotel I spotted this new installation. Oh man, I so want this luggage cart. So very, very cool.
Oceanside Museum of Art West changes its exhibits every four months. The current one is titled A Brief Look Back.
"Experience a snapshot of OMA's exhibition history with a selection of works from the museum's permanent collection. Celebrating work by Southern California artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, OMA's exhibitions have spanned the gamut of styles and media from representational to abstract, traditional to surreal-but always exploring the relevant, engaging, and truly remarkable artwork of Southern California's community and art history. This exhibition provides a peek into ten of OMA's historic exhibitions that included work by Ethel Greene, Kai, DeLoss McGraw, Marjorie Nodelman, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Roland Reiss, Allison Renshaw, Nicholas Samaras, Italo Scanga, and Durre Waseem."
There was something for every art lover here including Flavia Gilmore's For Your Own Good. "In her playful assemblages, Flavia Gilmore creates surprising juxtapositions of utilitarian objects that evoke a poignant look at consumer culture. Primarily working with found material and domestic debris, Ms. Gilmore is drawn to objects that carry vestiges of memory evoked by their previous life, from scrap metal and wood, machine parts, tools and toys to paper from food products, Gilmore has an uncanny ability, parallel to that of an alchemist, to transform the most unlikely discarded materials into a work of art."

Kai's Love vs. Money was done in cement. The description was interesting, "The street has long been a site for unmediated political commentary. From calls to save the environment to in-depth criticism of local and national politics, artists acting upon their convictions have successfully empowered, motivated, and challenged important social, political, and environmental ideas forward in the best venue they know the street. This is especially true in Southern California where the street is a continuous site for political engagement and debate.

Through a simple and almost naive style, Kai manages to include images and meaningful messages. He has left these plaques cemented into walls all over the world, including New York, Miami, Aspen, and Paris."
Nicholas Samaras' Rosebud was first on view in an art exhibit called Liquid Capture: Masters of Underwater Photography. It was beautiful


After ogling art, we got out in the sunshine and strolled the historic Oceanside Pier (1926). With temps reaching 80° we were definitely in the right spot.
We stood, mesmerized, looking down at this man creating swirls in the sand. The photo doesn't do it justice.

Oceanside is exactly one hour from Temecula and sits at a crossroads to places we sometimes need to get to. A detour there is good for our souls. There is just something magical about the beach.

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