Rising up in Lakewood, CA, a Los Angeles suburb with the simply mockable motto “Tomorrow’s Metropolis At present,” “It was so not that,” laughs Sue Van Horsen. That notion did present inspiration for the Santa Barbara–primarily based assemblage artist, nevertheless. “It all the time caught with me that tomorrow actually by no means occurs. , it’s all the time at this time or yesterday. It’s by no means tomorrow.”
She was joking round with some artist mates about it, and so they all agreed that the notion of the retro variations of the longer term would make an important present theme. “After which Asteroid Metropolis got here out, and abruptly we’re like, leading edge.”
The result’s a gaggle present, The Future That By no means Got here, that includes eight assemblage and collage artists exploring the theme of retrofuturism — a motion within the artistic arts displaying the affect of depictions of the longer term produced in an earlier period. Impressed by sci-fi reveals like Star Trek, Misplaced in Area, Gigantor and Johnny Quest, Van Horsen is bringing collectively a few of Santa Barbara’s coolest collage and assemblage artists for a 10-day present starting September 15 on the Group Arts Workshop Gallery (CAW).
Artists embody: Tony Askew, Adrienne De Guevara, Dan Le Vin, Michael E. Lengthy, Jamie Joelle Nielsen, Norm Reed, Dug Uyesaka, Frank Whipple, and Van Horsen herself. The opening night time occasion is September 15, from 5-8 p.m. at CAW, 631 Backyard Avenue. Further open hours are September 16 from midday to five p.m.; September 17 from midday to three p.m.; and September 23 from midday to three p.m.; with weekday and different particular viewings obtainable on request.
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The Future That By no means Got here opens at CAW on September 15. Left: “Cronos Imaginative and prescient” by Sue Van Horsen | Credit score: Courtesy, M. Lengthy
