Art 1A Museum Field Trips Summer Session A (2024)

This quarter we have two spectacular field trips planned. Our first field trip is to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the second field trip is to the Getty Center. There are simply too many important exhibitions between these two museums, and therefore we will have two field trips. These field trips are all day events, and they are in lieu of the lectures that week. If you are unable to go to the Getty Center or LACMA, there is an alternative field trip for you to attend on your own during the week of our LACMA or Getty Trips. The alternative trip is to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (details below). You must attend one of the Los Angeles field trips, and can do the other in Santa Barbara, if you can't make the trip to LA twice. It is preferable that you attend both Los Angeles field trips.

PLEASE FILL OUT ALL THREE OF THE LIABILITY WAIVERS ASAP:

All three liability waivers are in this one link HERE. Be sure to sign and date all three.

A FEW TIPS TO PREPARE FOR OUR FIELD TRIPS:

1) Be sure that you have our emails with you! If you arrive late, you want to be able to find us at the museum. However, try to leave early so that you arrive on time, because reception isn't good in all parts of the museums, and you may be waiting a long time before we see your email.

2) I would suggest eating a big breakfast since we won't be taking a break for lunch until later in the day. Furthermore, pack snacks for the road, and for lunch, unless you want to treat yourself to food at the museum.

3) If you are driving from Santa Barbara, be sure to give yourself at least two hours to drive to LA. You never know what kind of traffic that you will encounter.

4) Wear comfortable shoes and clothing! We will be doing a lot of walking and hiking up stairs, so you want to be very comfortable.

5) Charge your phone since you will want to take a lot of pictures at the museum.

FIELD TRIP #1: LACMA ON SATURDAY, JULY 6

FIELD TRIP #2: THE GETTY CENTER ON SATURDAY, JULY 20

MANDATORY LIABILITY WAIVERS (PLEASE FILL OUT ALL OF THEM TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR ALL OF THE FIELD TRIPS):

All three liability waivers are in this one link HERE. Be sure to sign and date all three.

Students must submit the liability waiver forms for each trip, and will not receive free admission without them. If you show up to the museum without having done this, you will have to pay full admission and you will not legally be recognized as part of the UCSB Department of Art field trip. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Hannah Vainstein: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu. 

FIELD TRIP #1 ON SATURDAY, July 6: LACMA AT 12:00PM:

Students must submit the liability waiver form, and will not receive free admission to LACMA without it. If you show up to the museum without having done this, you will have to pay full admission and you will not legally be recognized as part of the UCSB Department of Art field trip. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Hannah Vainstein: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu. 

LACMA FIELD TRIP: 

One of the important exhibitions we will be viewing is Simone Leigh, and it is worth the drive alone!

MEETING AT LACMA:

We will meet at LACMA at the Wilshire Blvd. entrance next to the ticket office and Chris Burden's Urban Light sculpture (shown picture above) at 12:00PM on Saturday, July 6. LACMA will be providing us with free admission to the museum. I will send you the information to register for your free ticket once LACMA sends it to me.

Please read all guidelines HERE before your visit. https://www.lacma.org/plan-your-visit

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phone: (323) 857-6010

PARKING & DIRECTIONS HERE

Parking costs $21.00 per vehicle, and it is not part of our free admission.

ALTERNATIVE TRIP to SBMA:

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone: 805.963.4364
@sbmuseart
Tues - Sun 11 am - 5 pm
Thurs 11 am - 8 pm
Closed Mondays and holidays

Free to students with ID

https://www.sbma.net

Nota Bene: The museum trip is all-day immersive experience, and therefore the museum field trip is in lieu of both of the Art 130 seminar meetings that week. If you do not go to the museum that week, or the alternative assignment, but you must attend at least one of the Los Angeles field trips. Take a selfie at the museum, and works of art that were of interest to you, and include it in your paper (see assignments  in the "Reading" tab at the top of the website).

FIELD TRIP #2 ON SATURDAY, JULY 20: THE GETTY CENTER AT 1:00PM:

Students must submit the liability waiver form, and will not receive free admission to LACMA without it. If you show up to the museum without having done this, you will have to pay full admission and you will not legally be recognized as part of the UCSB Department of Art field trip. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Hannah Vainstein: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu. 

One of the exhibitions we will be viewing is Camille Claudel, and you definitely don't want to miss this exhibition. It's a once-in-a-lifetime exhibit to see so much of her work in one place.

We will be meeting at 1:00PM on the museum side of the tram drop off (shown above). If you are carpooling (2 or more Art 130 & Art 1A students in a single vehicle), then you are eligible to receive free parking, otherwise you must pay $25.00 for parking. Only Art 130 and Art 1A students are eligible for free parking. Parking Information: https://www.getty.edu/visit/center/parking-and-transportation/

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Parking and Transportation Information HERE

http://www.getty.edu

ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM TRIP: If you are unable to attend the Getty Center, and you went to LACMA with the class, then you may do the alternative assignments at the SBMA (listed above). You need to attend one off the LA field trips, and preferably both, but only one LA trip is mandatory.

Welcome to Art 1A Visual Literacy Summer Session A

Hello everyone,

Welcome to Art 1A: Visual Literacy! I wanted to reach out to let you know that everything that you need to know about Art 1A will be posted here on the Art 1A website, not on Canvas. Please read everything carefully, I will go over this information in class when we meet, and I will answer any questions that you may have.

Art 1A lectures and sections will be taught in-person. However, the first lecture, on Tuesday, June 25 will be taught via Zoom. Zoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83111992304

You do not need a pass code to join the Zoom meeting, sign in as an attendee.

If you have time conflicts with work, or with other classes, then you should take Art 1A another quarter. There are also two Los Angeles museum field trips that are an important part of the class. We are offering an alternative museum field trip in Santa Barbara for one of the field trips, if you can't get to Los Angeles twice. Please make sure that you are available on Saturday, July 6 and Saturday, July 20. These two class meetings will be in lieu of the lectures those weeks, but sections are still scheduled. Students are responsible for their own transportation to the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara museums. Neither UCSB, nor the UCSB Department of Art will furnish transportation, or organize it. However, students tend to organize their own carpools each quarter.

Please purchase your course reader and book as soon as possible because you will have written assignments due the first week of class. The course reader is on reserve at the library, and the book is on reserve every single quarter.

Please fill out the Art 1A Questionnaire (HERE), and return it to me and your TA ASAP. This will help us get to know you, and it will also let us know whether you are having any technology issues. You can find our contact information HERE.

Course Reader (cover pictured above) and book information (please have them in your possession before class meets for the first time). The course reader is on reserve at the library.

1) The Course Reader is only available from Associated Students. You can either purchase a physical copy (HERE).

Weekly assignments are due the first week of class, and if you don't have your reader you can use the Reserve Copy at the Library. If don't have it in time to do your first assignment, then you can go to the library and check out the Course Reader on reserve. The physical copy will be available at the Associated Student Ticket Office. Location Information and Hours HERE.

2) John Berger's Ways of Seeing is available from the Campus Bookstore and Amazon (Click HERE and HERE).

3) Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us. We are participating in the UCSB Reads program (For more information, click HERE). Free copy given to you after you sign all 3 museum field trip liability waivers.

4) The Course Syllabus can be found HERE.

5) The Calendar, where your weekly reading and writing assignments are located, can be found HERE.

6) Information about Lectures and Sections can be found HERE.

7) The Research Paper prompt can be found HERE.

8) The UCSB Library Art 1A Research Page can be found HERE.

9) The UCSB Campus Learning Assistance Services (CLAS) can be found HERE.

10) View the UCSB policy about Academic Integrity and Academic Dishonesty (cheating, plagiarism, furnishing false information, unauthorized collaboration and misuse of course materials) HERE.

11) Fill out the museum liability waivers: All trips require Liability Waivers: and they will be linked to here, once they are available. Fill out all three of the liability waivers (HERE). Simply sign and date them.

12) Information about the Department of Art can be found HERE.

13) The UCSB Diversity Statement can be found HERE and the University of California Diversity Statement can be found HERE.

14) The UCSB Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) contact information can be found HERE.

15) The UCSB Health and Wellness website can be found HERE.

16) UCSB Department of Art Intellectual Challenge Policy: "Intellectual challenge and academic rigor are among the foundations of our program. Our faculty foster communities of inquiry and free speech based in self-awareness, individual responsibility, and an informed world view. We encourage divergent opinion and cogent argument, believing lively debate, exposure to differing viewpoints, and a certain level of discomfort are essential to intellectual and artistic growth.

 

In our classes, students will be shown work and introduced to theories and practices that may challenge their beliefs and assumptions. Students are expected to think critically rather than react impulsively; to consider opposing viewpoints and others’ opinions and experiences with openness and thoughtfulness; and to engage in a manner befitting themselves as artists and scholars in this university, an institution of higher learning."

Ed Ruscha Artist Talks

About Ed Ruscha:

Ed Ruscha has consistently held up a mirror to American society by transforming some of its defining attributes—from consumer culture and popular entertainment to the ever-changing urban landscape—into the very subject of his art. In 1956, Ruscha left Oklahoma City to study commercial art in Los Angeles, where he drew inspiration from the city’s architectural landscape—parking lots, urban streets, and apartment buildings—and colloquial language.

LACMA Exhibition (We will visit LACMA on Saturday, April 20): As his first comprehensive, cross-media retrospective in over 20 years, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN traces Ruscha’s methods and familiar subjects throughout his career and underscores the many remarkable contributions he has made well beyond the boundaries of the art world. The exhibition includes his early works produced while traveling through Europe, his installations—such as the Chocolate Room and the Course of Empire presented at the Venice Biennale in 1970 and 2005, respectively—and his ceaseless photographic documentation of the streets of Los Angeles beginning in 1965.

Source: https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/ed-ruscha-now-then

Artist's website: https://edruscha.com

We will view most of the first talk (listed below) in lecture on Wednesday, April 9 in preparation for our LACMA visit and your research paper.

1) Ed Ruscha on The Passage of Time (National Gallery of Art Talks) (1:25:30) 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQSzA2FeJDE

2) Ed Ruscha: In Conversation: Artist Talk Tate Talks (1:25:51) 2021:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BrTZdslSS0

3) Ed Ruscha: In Conversation (National Gallery) (50:12) 2018:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlngImw5TcU

4) Artists On Writers | Writers on Artists: Ed Ruscha and Rachel Kushner (Artforum) (46:17) 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YjZngJZtlI

MECHANICS OF A FORMAL RESEARCH PAPER WORKSHOP

 

WHEN: Wednesday, July 12 at 3:30PM PT in class.

Chizu Morihara (Art & Architecture Librarian):
cmorihara@ucsb.edu
http://guides.library.ucsb.edu/art1a

(805) 893-2766

Paper Format (PAPER TOPIC HERE): 

- 8 pages of text (this does NOT include the cover page, bibliography or images)

- Double-spaced

- Cover page

- Footnotes or endnotes

- Bibliography

- Images (in a separate document at the end of the paper)

- Use at least 8 different research sources (including peer reviewed 
journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs, monographs, etc.)

- Use at least 10 citations

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN WRITING & EDITING YOUR PAPER:

1) Do I have the proper number of citations and sources?

2) Did I properly format my citations using MLA or Chicago?

3) Do I have a properly formatted formal bibliography?

4) Did I adhere to the proper paper length?

5) Do I have a clear, and specific thesis statement?

6) Does my thesis statement specifically relate to the final draft of my paper?

7) Did I run spell check (repeatedly)?

8) Did I carefully edit to make sure that I used proper grammar, and were my tenses consistent?

9) Did I formulate clear arguments and substantiate all of my claims with clear and concrete examples?

10) Did I avoid sweeping generalizations and vague assertions?

11) Did I use casual colloquial language in my formal research paper? If so, find more precise ways to describe the point being made.

12) Did I use scholarly research sources such as peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly articles and books rather than sources such as blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias etc (that are not acceptable sources for a formal research paper).

13) Did I properly cite quotes and summaries of other people's intellectual property (footnotes and in-text citations)?

14) Did I avoid excessive biographical information about the artist? Instead I should only include biographical information that is directly relevant to their artistic practice.

15) Would anyone reading my paper understand what I am trying to convey, or do I need to more clearly define the scope of my research and ultimately the point of my paper?

16) Did I place the pictures at the end of my paper? If I embedded them in the text, I need to remove them and place them at the end of my paper.

17) Did I remember to put my name, perm number and section time on my paper?

18) Did I remember to frequently save, backup and email drafts of my paper to myself (just in case my computer crashes)?

19) When I had questions, or needed help, did I reach out to my TA, professor or CLAS?

GENERAL TIPS ON WRITING YOUR PAPER:

1) The selection of a good thesis and supporting examples is an important part of producing a good paper. Be selective. The paper is about how to look closely at works of art and how your evaluation of objects and images is expanded by the specific context in which they are presented.

2) Write primarily with nouns and verbs. Avoid unnecessary (especially vague and imprecise) adjectives and adverbs.

3) Revise and rewrite. Proofread your work. Do not rely solely on "spell check."

4) Use the dictionary to refer to words you do not fully understand.

5) Do not overstate, or excessively use qualifiers (such as very, rather, little, etc.).

6) Use orthodox diction and accurate spelling. ("Its" is possessive; "It's" is a contraction for "it is," "Its' " doesn't exist. "Their" is possessive, "They're" is a contraction of "they are," There is declarative).

7) Be clear. Make references clearly. (Do not use the word "this" as the subject of a sentence).

8) Do not let your opinions get in the way of your writing.

9) Avoid using Wikipedia, blogs, newspaper articles and other materials that are not scholarly. These ARE NOT research materials for a formal research paper.

10) Get to the point quickly. Concentrate on quality of writing not quantity of words.

11) For help with formatting MLA and Chicago citations, visit Purdue Owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

For help writing the paper contact CLAS at 893-3269. They have a writing lab that will help you with papers, and will even proofread your papers. They also offer help specifically to students for whom English is a second language. CLAS site: http://www.clas.sa.ucsb.edu/

Art 1A Artist Talk Featuring Matthew Johnson on Wednesday, March 15

Image Courtesy of Matthew Johnson 

Who: Matthew Johnson

What: Artist Talk

When: Wednesday, March 15 from 12:30-1:45

Where: Webb Hall 1100

Instagram: @matttjjjohnson

Artist Bio:

Matthew Robert Johnson (b. 1977) is a Los Angeles based artist. He holds a BFA in Printmaking from California State University, Long Beach, and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He is a multidisciplinary artist working in sound, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and video. His practice involves process-based investigations into form, abstraction, and repetitive imagery, strongly influenced by his upbringing in the codified world of the military family, and his later long-term association with Noise music.

Johnson is a Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Santa Barbara, and received the Margaret Bedell Endowed Scholarship at CSU Long Beach. He has performed at The Hammer Museum, Human Resources, and 356 Mission, and exhibited at The Meow LA, O.N.O. Gallery, CSULB, and UCSB.

Mechanics of a Formal Research Paper Workshop on Wednesday, February 1

http://guides.library.ucsb.edu/art1a

Chizu Morihara (Art & Architecture Librarian):
cmorihara@ucsb.edu
(805) 893-2766

Paper Format (PAPER TOPIC HERE): 

- 8 pages of text (this does NOT include the cover page, bibliography or images)

- Double-spaced

- Cover page

- Footnotes or endnotes

- Bibliography

- Images (in a separate document at the end of the paper)

- Use at least 8 different research sources (including peer reviewed 
journal articles, books, exhibition catalogs, monographs, etc.)

- Use at least 10 citations

- Upload an electronic copy of your paper (HERE) to the plagiarism scan in a WORD document (without pictures) and give your Teaching Assistant a hardcopy with pictures.

QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF WHEN WRITING & EDITING YOUR PAPER:

1) Do I have the proper number of citations and sources?

2) Did I properly format my citations using MLA or Chicago?

3) Do I have a properly formatted formal bibliography?

4) Did I adhere to the proper paper length?

5) Do I have a clear, and specific thesis statement?

6) Does my thesis statement specifically relate to the final draft of my paper?

7) Did I run spell check (repeatedly)?

8) Did I carefully edit to make sure that I used proper grammar, and were my tenses consistent?

9) Did I formulate clear arguments and substantiate all of my claims with clear and concrete examples?

10) Did I avoid sweeping generalizations and vague assertions?

11) Did I use casual colloquial language in my formal research paper? If so, find more precise ways to describe the point being made.

12) Did I use scholarly research sources such as peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly articles and books rather than sources such as blogs, Wikipedia, encyclopedias etc (that are not acceptable sources for a formal research paper).

13) Did I properly cite quotes and summaries of other people's intellectual property (footnotes and in-text citations)?

14) Did I avoid excessive biographical information about the artist? Instead I should only include biographical information that is directly relevant to their artistic practice.

15) Would anyone reading my paper understand what I am trying to convey, or do I need to more clearly define the scope of my research and ultimately the point of my paper?

16) Did I place the pictures at the end of my paper? If I embedded them in the text, I need to remove them and place them at the end of my paper.

17) Did I remember to remove the pictures from the electronic draft of my paper that I uploaded to the plagiarism scan?

18) Did I remember to upload my paper to the plagiarism scan (HERE), and give a hard copy to my Teaching Assistant (with the pictures)?

19) Did I remember to put my name, perm number and section time on my paper?

20) Did I remember to frequently save, backup and email drafts of my paper to myself (just in case my computer crashes)?

21) When I had questions, or needed help, did I reach out to my TA, professor or CLAS?

GENERAL TIPS ON WRITING YOUR PAPER:

1) The selection of a good thesis and supporting examples is an important part of producing a good paper. Be selective. The paper is about how to look closely at works of art and how your evaluation of objects and images is expanded by the specific context in which they are presented.

2) Write primarily with nouns and verbs. Avoid unnecessary (especially vague and imprecise) adjectives and adverbs.

3) Revise and rewrite. Proofread your work. Do not rely solely on "spell check."

4) Use the dictionary to refer to words you do not fully understand.

5) Do not overstate, or excessively use qualifiers (such as very, rather, little, etc.).

6) Use orthodox diction and accurate spelling. ("Its" is possessive; "It's" is a contraction for "it is," "Its' " doesn't exist. "Their" is possessive, "They're" is a contraction of "they are," There is declarative).

7) Be clear. Make references clearly. (Do not use the word "this" as the subject of a sentence).

8) Do not let your opinions get in the way of your writing.

9) Avoid using Wikipedia, blogs, newspaper articles and other materials that are not scholarly. These ARE NOT research materials for a formal research paper.

10) Get to the point quickly. Concentrate on quality of writing not quantity of words.

11) For help with formatting MLA and Chicago citations, visit Purdue Owl: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

For help writing the paper contact CLAS at 893-3269. They have a writing lab that will help you with papers, and will even proofread your papers. They also offer help specifically to students for whom English is a second language. CLAS site: http://www.clas.sa.ucsb.edu/

Art 1A Artist Talk Featuring Adam Jahnke on Tuesday, November 29

WHO: Adam Jahnke

WHAT: Art 1A Artist Talk

WHEN: Tuesday, November 29 from 12:30-1:45

WHERE: Via Zoom https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/86157224882

Website: https://admjahnke.com

Instagram: @vocationforever 

Photos courtesy of Adam Jahnke

Artist Bio:

Adam Jahnke is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Santa Barbara, California. Originally from San Diego, California, Adam relocated to Santa Barbara shortly after the completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2011 from California State University Channel Islands. Adam’s move to Santa Barbara was prompted by his involvement with South Coast art and transportation organizations. As a result, Adam’s work explores cultural narratives about Southern California’s culture, geography, transit and labor. Adam furthers this research through his professional capacity as both the Coordinator of a not for profit bicycle shop on UCSB’s campus and Lecturer within UCSB’s Art Department where he and students explore Applied Geography - an art practice that seeks to research and respond to the cultural and spiritual implications of both natural and man made landscapes in Southern California. 

Artist Statement:

Through a reimagining of my bicycle experience within Southern California I have become interested in creating artworks that reflect and promote the bicycle as an avatar for art and life. In addition the bicycle also serves as a necessary utility within an ideological framework that challenges car centric assumptions within urban and suburban settings. 

This experience and framework is what I refer to as the Department Of Applied Geography (DOAG) - a broader project that understands what I create  as a response to research about the historical and spiritual implications of natural and man made landscapes in Southern California. 

Within this exhibition DOAG provides the opportunity to explore the bicycle as I see it - a life art practice. The bicycle, its components and its maintenance provides a low cost opportunity for myself to meditate through tinkering as well as explore repair as a radical act of autonomy. DOAG further understands that experience between the human and their bicycle as meditative and a methodology for individual liberation. 

I possess both an avocational and professional relationship to the bicycle. As a result I often find ideas for my creations through knowledge acquired from the kinetic joy provided through trial and error. 

Antithetical to most of Southern California and the vast majority of the United States, the city of Santa Barbara California is somewhat of a cycling mecca. Not so much for cycling infrastructure but for the various people, terrains and neighborhoods that have forged cycling alliances, groups, gatherings and history. 

ART 1A ARTIST TALK FEATURING LARRY LYTLE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15

Photo Credit: Larry Lytle. Self-Portrait

WHO: Larry Lytle

WHAT: Art 1A Artist Talk

WHEN: Tuesday, November 15 from 12:30-1:45

HOW: Via Zoom https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/86157224882

Photo Credit: Larry Lytle. #0023

Artist Bio:

Larry Lytle is a native Angeleno who has traveled widely in Europe and the U.S., but has never lived outside of Los Angeles. The same can be said of his professional life as an artist, which has centered on photography. Within that subject, Lytle has traveled widely making and exhibiting photographs as a fine artist, while working as a commercial photographer; teaching photography; writing about photography; curating photography exhibitions; collecting photography; and studying the life of the American photographer, William Mortensen.

For the past 20 years, Lytle has been using 12” actions figures in scenarios and as individuals to comment on life in America. He has also used the molded plastic bits and pieces sold with the figures for commentary on our consumer society—clothes, cosmetics, computers, guns and the typical accouterments of daily life. He has exhibited in galleries in Southern California, the Mid-West and East Coast.

Lytle graduated from California State University, Northridge with B.A.s in Political Science and Speech Communication and an M.A. in Art. He has been a contributing writer for Black & White magazine for the past 10 years. In that time he has written essays about such notable photographers as: Will Connell, Marcia Resnick, Robbert Flick, Thomas Barrow, Jerry McMillan, Ann Parker and Susan Ressler, to name a few. Most notably, Lytle is recognized for his scholarship and extensive writing on the life and work of American photographer William Mortensen. On that subject Lytle contributed to The Center for Creative Photography’s 1999 seminal book William Mortensen: A Revival. In 2014, he co-edited and wrote biographical essays for the books American Grotesque: The Life and Work of William Mortensen and The Command To Look: A Master Photographer’s Methods For Controlling the Human Gaze, both published by Feral House. He is curating an exhibition of Mortensen’s work at the Laguna Art Museum for the fall of 2022. 

 

For the past 22 years, Lytle has taught photography. First at The Otis Evening College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California from 2000 – 2005 and then at California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, California as a lecturer in the Art Department from 2003 to the present. Lytle lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife Jeanie and dog Bettie.

https://www.larrylytleart.com

Photo Credit: Larry Lytle. America- US Census Data Based on Age Gender and Race

Photo Credit: Larry Lytle. Art Imitates Life

Photo Credit: Larry Lytle. Piñata for the Web

ART 1A LACMA FIELD TRIP ON SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12

Mark Bradford, 150 Portrait Tone, 2017, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

1) Fill out the LACMA field trip (on Saturday, November 12) Liability Waiver: HERE

2) Fill out the alternative museum trip Liability Waiver to SBMA: HERE

MEETING AT LACMA:

We will meet at LACMA at the Wilshire Blvd. entrance next to the ticket office and Chris Burden's Urban Light sculpture (shown below) at 12:00PM on Saturday, November 12. LACMA will be providing us with free admission to the museum.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION: LACMA’s first priority is the health and safety of our visitors, staff, and volunteers. Masks continue to be required indoors for everyone, regardless of vaccination status, until further notice. Maintaining some health and safety protocols remains critical to provide a safe environment for staff, volunteers, and visitors of all ages, including those with compromised health and families with children who cannot be vaccinated. These protocols are in place to help protect against the spread of COVID-19. Please read all guidelines HERE before your visit. https://www.lacma.org/plan-your-visit

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Phone: (323) 857-6010

PARKING & DIRECTIONS HERE

Parking costs $20.00 per vehicle, and it is not part of our free admission.

We will be spending time looking at Mark Bradford's 150 Portrait Tone (Picture above. On view at the Resnick Pavilion): Read about it HERE and HERE.

According to LACMA,

If you have been in LACMA's Resnick Pavilion over the last week, you might have noticed a new large-scale painting by artist Mark Bradford. 150 Portrait Tone is based on an idea for a work that Bradford conceived after the fatal shooting of Philando Castile by a police officer in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in July 2016. Castile, a nutrition services supervisor at an elementary school, was shot after being pulled over in his car—an incident that was livestreamed on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who was sitting in the passenger seat next to him.

The text repeats excerpts of Reynolds’s dialogue from the video. Bradford notes that he was moved by the multiple subjects Reynolds simultaneously addressed and the different spaces they occupied: her boyfriend, Castile, next to her (“stay with me”); the officer outside the car (“please, officer, don’t tell me that you just did this”); God (“Lord, please, Jesus, don’t tell me that he’s gone”); as well as the unknown receiver on the other side of her livestream (“please don’t tell me he just went like that”).

Like many of Bradford’s works, the mural-size composition contains elements of both abstraction and realism. In places, layers of manipulated paint render the text almost illegible. The dark form in the background, however, evokes all-too-real associations with the horrific shooting, such as Castile’s twisted arm and the dark-red bloodstain spread across his white shirt, both visible in the livestream feed.

The title, 150 Portrait Tone, refers to the name and color code of the pink acrylic used throughout the painting (most conspicuous in a large patch at the work’s bottom edge). Like the now-obsolete “flesh” crayon in the Crayola 64 box (the color was renamed “peach” in 1962), the color “portrait tone” carries inherent assumptions about who, exactly, is being depicted. In the context of Bradford’s painting, the title presents a sobering commentary on power and representation. 

Here are a few things to consider about our LACMA field trip: 

1) First, remember that this field trip is an all day event, and it replaces the Monday and Wednesday Lectures (Monday, July 10 and Wednesday, July 13)

2) You must fill out the University of California, Santa Barbara Waiver of Liability, Assumption of the Risk & Indemnity Agreement if you are going on the LACMA field trip, even if you are staying in Los Angeles that weekend. If you haven't, then submit it to  me ASAP. This is mandatory UCSB policy.

LIABILITY WAIVER FOR FIELD TRIPS

If you are doing any activities off campus, students must fill out a liability waiver. 

1) Fill out the LACMA field trip (on Saturday, November 12) Liability Waiver: HERE

2) Fill out the alternative museum trip for the SBMA, but you will also be going to the UCSB AD&A Museum. Liability Waiver to SBMA: HERE

Students must submit the liability waiver form, and will not receive free admission to LACMA without it. If you show up to the museum without having done this, you will have to pay full admission and you will not legally be recognized as part of the UCSB Department of Art field trip. If you have difficulty filling out your DocuSign Liability Waiver, then email your professor and our Undergraduate Advisor, Catherine Jenks: arts-undergraduate@ucsb.edu. 

3) Be sure that you have my email with you! If you arrive late, you want to be able to find us at the museum.

4) I would suggest eating a big breakfast since we won't be taking a break for lunch until later in the day. Furthermore, pack snacks for the road, and for lunch, unless you want to treat yourself to food at the museum. There are also food trucks that park across from the museum on Wilshire Blvd.

5) If you are driving from Santa Barbara, be sure to give yourself at least two hours to drive to LACMA.You never know what kind of traffic that you will encounter.

6) Wear comfortable shoes and clothing! We will be doing a lot of walking and hiking up stairs, so you want to be very comfortable.

7) Charge your phone since you will want to take a lot of pictures at the museum.

STUDENTS WHO DON'T GO TO LACMA:

Students who will not be going to LACMA will need to take a trip to downtown Santa Barbara to go to both the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the UCSB AD&A Museum.

Fill out the alternative museum trip Liability Waiver to SBMA: HERE

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
Phone: 805.963.4364
Tues - Sun 11 am - 5 pm
Thurs 11 am - 8 pm
Closed Mondays and holidays
Admission: Students with ID $3.00. Free admission for Santa Barbara County students (K – college) with current ID/proof of local residency.

UCSB AD&A Museum (Located on campus. Hours: Wednesday–Sunday: 12–5 pm)