About Housing Complex
This work explores the relationship between House and Home. A house is a shelter that we crave first for protection, and then for status. Notions of home may overlap with our mental image of a house, however our life’s path, circumstantial or chosen, will challenge us to redefine our home. Do we reach this sense of belonging through architecture, community, family, life-style, or personal meditation? Do we live in a home, or does home live in us?
I present two bodies of work in this exhibition. For nearly a year I have been getting to know the homeless community in Long Beach by doing quick charcoal sketches of them while they wait for their turn to take shower at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. These urban cowboys describe their challenge as the “Survival of the Fittest,” and have described home as “an emotional state,” their “soul,” or “the whole earth.” (Lonnie, Curtis and friend – Spring 2010).
Simultaneously, I have been creating small assemblages using a wide variety of reclaimed wood (relating to the architecture of “house”) and small objects/materials that filter daily through our houses, slowly imbuing them with a sense of home. Some of these are made in response to my own thoughts on house and home, while others are made in response to the stories I hear from the homeless community.

About Hilary Norcliffe

Born in Bristol, England and raised in Canada, Hilary Norcliffe received her MFA from CSULB and now lives and works in Long Beach, exhibtiing extensively in solo, two-person and group show across the region

2010: Handmade Slides and Non-Existent Drawings, A Downtown LA ArtWalk projection at MONA (Museum of Neon Art), Los Angeles, California

2009: Looking Into the Sun, DDR Projects, Long Beach, California

2009: Shock & Awe, Gatov Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, California

2008: The Audacity of Rope, Marilyn Werby Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, California. Works on Paper: Here & Now, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California.

2008: The Nature of Inquiry Part 2, The Loft, San Pedro, California

2007: Me and My Girl, Comer-Taylor Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, California

2007: The Nature of Inquiry, The Loft, San Pedro, California. Works on Paper, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, California.

2007: Inspiring Change, Space 900, Chicago, Illinois.

2007: Eman On, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, California.

2007: Darkness and Light, The Armory Center for the Arts, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, California.

2006: Collaborations, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California.

2006: Metropolis: This Other Eden, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, California.

2006: Me and My Girl, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Long Beach, California.

2005: Los Angeles Juried Exhibition. Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California.

2005: Caged, The Armory Center for the Arts, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, California.

Black Candy book release party

• music from Alyssandra Nighswonger
• poetry from Kyle Moreno and Raul Ruiz
• theatre sketch featuring Jasper Oliver + members of the Alive Theatre Co.

plus an art-and-craft storybook workshop!

FREE!

[Show as slideshow]

also featuring:

- readings from Michael Roberts + Maggie Wells
- visual accompaniment by Josh Atlas
- acoustic performance by The Soft Hands

sat, apr 17 // 8pm // FREE

In Science Fiction, technology and scientific data become aesthetic tools for re-imagining the possible. Digital media readily interacts with traditional media, bringing the sleek language of technological production into close contact with the more visceral language of mark-making and sculpting. Wormholes, asteroids, and planets—entities that are at once familiar and foreign—recur as motifs, shooting through space, twisting in on themselves, or introducing an array of kaleidoscopic color.

Science Fiction takes the cosmos as its subject, but the exhibition is far more introspective than galactic. It surveys cosmic space in order to understand personal space, turning expansive images of galaxies and solar systems into intimate reflections of the human psyche.

A subtle thread of personal narrative runs through Science Fiction, prompting the private need for self-revelation to interact with a more gaping human need for order and understanding. Ultimately, Wysong portrays science as unreliable—not as unfounded, but as anxious, abstract, and uncertain, just like life in general. The work in Science Fiction is not melancholic, however. On the contrary, it’s optimistic. It suggests that, even if the ramifications of science elude us, visual explorations, seductively abstract images, playful interfaces, and eloquent rendering of peculiar spaces can bring us closer to understanding the mysteries of our own internal cosmic universes.

February 10 // 7pm // free: Scenes from all six of the cherry-poppin’ plays plays in Alive Theatre’s Cherry-Poppin’ Play Festival, followed by a discussion with some of the writers and directors.

About the Cherry Poppin Play Festival
Six new plays will have their world premieres in the Royal Theatre aboard the Queen Mary for Alive Theatre’s 2nd Annual Cherry Poppin’ Play Festival,

The three-weekend festival features two new plays and a local band each night. With comedy, drama, tragedy and meta-theatre, there’s be a little somethin’ for everyone (served with a cherry on top).

Get more info on Alive Theatre and the Cherry-Poppin’ Play Festival at alivetheatre.org

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• “Reaper Oil Incorporated” by Rick Frausto
• “Calm” by Mike Foss
• “Fernwoods Lorax” by Blaine Fontana
• “Space Station, Interior” by Jonathan Apgar
• “Untitled (Pedestrian Series)” by Aaron Giesel
• “Untitled (Boats on the Water Series)” by Aaron Giesel
• “Salinas Valley State Prison” by Sandow Birk
• “Sound Sketches” by Glenn Bach
• “Empire” by j.frede
• “Sycophantic” by Jay Blommer
• “Written on the City” by Axel Albin & Josh Kamler
• “La Cienega” by SKULLPHONE
• “Bridge” by Tim McMullen

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Join us for the first Last Saturday of the year, featuring the opening reception for “So Long,” new work from LA artist Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs.

• Saturday, January 31, 6-9pm
• Free
• music, refreshments

Part of Last Saturdays on 4th, a monthly night of art and music in the shops along 4th Street.