Library Visual Arts Show One of 2009's Top Ten
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In his year-end review of the San Diego art world, San Diego Union-Tribune art critic Robert Pincus named the San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts program exhibit by Jeff Irwin one of the year’s ten best.
The exhibit, which ran from mid September through the end of November in the Pacific Beach/Taylor Branch Library, featured more than two dozen ceramic sculptures by Irwin, a brilliant and innovative San Diego artist whose works can be found in major museums and private collections internationally.
Irwin’s work grapples with political, social, and environmental issues, especially as they relate to his love of nature and the great outdoors. He produces powerful, elegant, and ironically humorous ceramic sculptures; ingenious hybridizations of seemingly disparate tree and animal forms. The works which appeared in the Library were created specifically for the exhibit.
The Library’s nationally-recognized Visual Arts program celebrated its 12-year anniversary recently. The program presents museum-quality art exhibitions at Libraries and hosts artists’ lectures, a television program, and other art-related activities. The Program demonstrates the Library’s role as a cultural institution embracing a broad range of disciplines and is one of a handful of libraries nationally with its own curator--Mark-Elliott Lugo.
For more information on the program and ways to support Library cultural programming, VISIT HERE.
