TAM Torrance Art Museum

A TAM Artist Talk with Jeff Frost @frostjeff is now available on the TAM Website and YouTube Channel. Hope Ezcurra @hopelessarts , TAM Registrar and curator of the recent Rewilding Structures exhibition in Gallery Two talks with the filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist about his work and process. Be sure to subscribe to TAM’s YouTube and stay informed of all the latest video updates. ... #torranceartmuseum #artisttalk #contemporaryart #interdisciplinaryartist #jefffrost See more

You’re being watched! TAM Worth Remembering #tbt photos from the online TAM Archive - 2014’s (and timely as ever) Main Gallery exhibition of WATCHMEN: SURVEILLANCE AND THE FLANEUR. For more information and photos, please visit the TAM website. This exhibition examines the relationship between the notion of the ‘Flâneur’ and the City ‘dérive’ under the pressure of being watched via CCTV cameras and monitoring. How does one engage with the disinterested observations of the w...andering eye when self-consciousness about being both the observer and the observed interfere with the experience? Information is never neutral. In today’s world we are all subject to complicity in our own suppression, whether through our engagement with Facebook, our Google searches or our reliance on Wikipedia for ‘facts’. Watchmen proposes that we are required to exist in a state of hyper-vigilance and self-awareness of the bias in which our experiences are mediated and our interpretations measured via the mechanics of our own favorite online extensions of an identity forever being watched... #torranceartmuseum #surveillance #flaneur #contemporaryart

Various yellows for your enjoyment from details of the recent Baker’s Dozen 2020 exhibition. As the year comes to a close, what are you looking forward to emerging artistically in 2021? TAM has many projects in the works to keep tour inspiration flowing, but drop us a line and let us know what you want to see! #torranceartmuseum #bakersdozen2020 #contemporaryart #southerncaliforniaart #southbayla

Enjoy a little "treat"during tricky times and have a happy Halloween weekend. We've posted a video review of BAKER'S DOZEN 2020, an exhibition that highlights the work of 13 artists whose body of work that has stood out in the past year to TAM's curators. Treat yourself to a viewing! http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/bakers-dozen-2020

Three more details to dive into from the recent Rewilding Structures exhibition in Gallery Two. Find more resources online at TorranceArtMuseum (dot) com and be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel to see videos of the exhibitions and upcoming artist talks. #torranceartmuseum #details #artcloseup #contemporaryart #environmentalart

As the full moon on Halloween approaches, it feels like something magic is afoot. Mysticism abounds in the works of artist Sean Noyce @sean.noyce in the current exhibition Baker’s Dozen 2020. The exhibition is a collection of 13 artists who have made an impression upon the curator this year, and Noyce certainly casts a potent spell with his installations. Check out detailed photographs of all the works and video documentation arriving today on the TAM website. #bakersdozen2020 #artinstallations #mixedmedia #mysticism #contemporaryart #torranceartmuseum

OPEN CALL for Hobson's Choice 2.0 Due to the popularity of the first Hobson’s Choice from April-May 2020, TAM is recommitting to presenting exciting artists and programing online while we wait to re-open our doors to the public. In the new Hobson’s Choice 2.0, one artist along with up to 3 images or video and an accompanying artist statement will be selected each week and highlighted on TAM’s website and social media pages every Friday, starting January 8, 2021 through April ...30, 2021. Artists will be selected from your suggestions! Ask your friends for permission, or nominate yourself! Submissions are now being accepted, and you can reapply with a new work each week. Apply now and ongoing - FREE, no fee. Selection will be made weekly each Wednesday. Please send 3 hi-res images of works, with the artist's name, title(s)/date/size/materials, and a short statement addressing the work’s content and why you believe it should be chosen. (Note: video submissions are allowed but only via an embeddable link to the video on a site like youtube, vimeo, etc.) Send materials to [email protected] with the subject line: Hobson’s Choice 2.0: your name http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/hobsons-choice-2-point-0

It’s by diving into the details where you can find many surprises and delights in the current exhibition of Baker’s Dozen 2020. While you may not be able to see it in person, the TAM website has a variety of photos and resources to learn more about the show and its artists. These photos show details of the work by artist Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, which you’d be surprised to discover involve owl pellets encased in sugar atop a brass candelabra. Bermúdez-Silverman uses her a...ncestors’ background working on sugar cane plantations in Puerto Rico as inspiration to create a variety of pieces that critique social structures. #torranceartmuseum #sugarcane #contemporaryart #bakersdozen #bakersdozen2020

OPEN CALL Due to the popularity of the first Hobson’s Choice from April-May 2020, TAM is recommitting to presenting exciting artists and programing online while we wait to re-open our doors to the public. In the new Hobson’s Choice 2.0, one artist along with up to 3 images or video and an accompanying artist statement will be selected each week and highlighted on TAM’s website and social media pages every Friday, starting January 8, 2021 through April 30, 2021. Artists will ...be selected from your suggestions! Ask your friends for permission, or nominate yourself! Submissions are now being accepted, and you can reapply with a new work each week. Apply now and ongoing - FREE, no fee. Selection will be made weekly each Wednesday from January 6-April 28. Please send 3 hi-res images of works, with the artist's name, title(s)/date/size/materials, and a short statement addressing the work’s content and why you believe it should be chosen. (Note: video submissions are allowed but only via an embeddable link to the video on a site like youtube, vimeo, etc.) Send materials to TAMchoicecot (at) gmail.com with the subject line: Hobson’s Choice 2.0 : your name We look forward to seeing your work! #torranceartmuseum #hobsonschoice #tamhobsonschoice #opencallartists #artopencall

Details from two works by artist Yasmine Nasser Diaz @yasmine.diaz from the current exhibition Baker’s Dozen 2020, a collection of thirteen artists who caught the curator’s attention this year. More photos of Diaz’s works and the other artists can be seen on the TAM website as we must remain closed due to ordinances. More virtual resources will be arriving online soon for your enjoyment. #bakersdozen #tambakersdozen2020 #collageart #mixedmedia #contemporaryart #torranceartmuseum

Ashton S. Phillips on Catch & Release now on view as part of Rewilding Structures TAM Torrance Art Museum: "I started working with contaminated urban dirt about a year ago in response to the surreal experience of moving from the open, exposed high desert of Gallup, New Mexico, to the densely developed and populated terrain of contemporary Los Angeles. The radical absence of visible dirt struck me as profoundly strange and symbolic. Where did all of the ground that was once so... pervasive in my day-to-day life go? What exactly were we trying to cover up in so completely concealing it? And, what have we lost in this process of hiding the earth? --- It was only after I started working with the ground as a sculptural medium that I realized that most of the dirt underneath Los Angeles is literally contaminated with the pollution of post-colonial human activity. This is one of the reasons the earth is covered up and removed from human touch. And, this contamination is, itself, part of the story we are covering up by concealing the earth around us. But, hiding the scars of a trauma does not make the trauma - or the scars - go away. Before we can begin to heal ourselves, our communities, or our planet, we must first unearth those scars and expose them to the light." While the museum is waiting for clearance to open it's doors to the public, you can view general exhibition photos and detail shots of most works on TAM’s website. #excavation #unearthing #contamination #pollution #trace #toxicity #ecologicaltrauma #postcolonial #art #decolonizethisplace #catchandrelease #torranceartmuseum #ashtonphillips #contemporaryart #anthropocene #sculpture #earth #dirt #posthuman #southbay #artmuseum #environmentalart #torrance #artexhibition #materials

Selected details from the photographs of artist Jana Sophia Nolle @janasnolle that are part of TAM’s Main Gallery exhibition Baker’s Dozen 2020. Images in her Living Room series document the construction of temporary homeless shelters set up in various expensive living rooms in San Francisco using materials found on the street, highlighting the ever-growing issues of homelessness, the cost of living, and the disparity between rich and the poor. You can find more images and ...resources on the exhibition by visiting TAM’s website. #bakersdozen #bakersdozen2020 #homelessness #homelessshelter #contemporaryphotography #torranceartmuseum

While @frostjeff is best known for taking gripping photographs of California wildfires, the two photographs presented in #RewildingStructures are the debut of a study in entropy and decay on a painted dreamscape in the desert. #ghostsofthefuture #nowwhat #saltonsea #entropy #decay #painting #photography #contemporaryart #environmentalart #nature #desert #jefffrost #museum #artmuseum #southbay #torranceartmuseum #torrance #contemporaryartmuseum

This detail shot reveals the cable and rope "contaminating" Los Angeles based artist Ashton Phillips @ashtonsphillips earthen sculptures in #RewildingStructures. While the museum is waiting for clearance to open it's doors to the public, you can view general exhibition photos and detail shots of most works on TAM’s website. #torranceartmuseum #ashtonphillips #contemporaryart #anthropocene #sculpture #earth #dirt #posthuman #southbay #artmuseum #environmentalart #torrance #artexhibition #materials

Detail shot reveal some of the commonplace objects present in Brooklyn based artist Jack Henry @jackbhenry sculpture PLS14. His "monument to post-industrial America" is currently on view, along side his sculpture Wilderness 5, in the TAM's Gallery Two exhibition #RewildingStructures. While the museum is waiting for clearance to open it's doors to the public, you can view general exhibition photos and detail shots of most works on TAM’s website. #torranceartmuseum #jackhenry #contemporaryart #anthropocene #sculpture #resinart #southbay #artmuseum #environmentalart #torrance #artexhibition

The three pieces of Esther Ruiz's in #Baker'sDozen2020 have a gorgeous dream like quality to them; this effect is exaggerated in the evening.

While we wait to open the museum doors once more, you can experience the Fall Exhibitions online in photographic form. Please visit the TAM website to see images from Baker’s Dozen 2020, featuring 13 artists who have caught the curators eye in the past year. #torranceartmuseum #contemporaryart #losangelesartscene #discovertorrance #bakersdozen2020

Detail shots reveal some of the fun pop cultural cartoon references at play in the three self-portraits by innovative and industrious LA based artist and rapper, Yung Jake @yungjake currently on view in the TAM Main Gallery Exhibition Baker’s Dozen 2020. You can now find general exhibition photos and detail shots of most works on TAM’s website. While we wait for opening doors to the public, its an excellent way to catch a glimpse of the artists that caught the eyes of TAM’s curators in the past year and discover how they reflect upon this historically charged moment. #torranceartmuseum #yungjake #contemporarypainting #popculture #animatedcartoons #cartoonnetwork

Detail of work by artist Matt Taylor in Gallery Two’s Rewilding Structures, a love letter to the forces of entropy and decay, asking the viewer to consider what will be left when we are all gone curated by Hope Ezcurra. While we wait for local, county and state clearance for opening, we continue to offer online resources to enjoy the art. Photographs of the Fall Exhibitions can be viewed at this moment by visiting the TAM website. More detailed photographs will arrive in the weeks ahead. #torranceartmuseum #environmentalart #anthropocene #entrophy #decay #contemporaryphotography #mixedmedia