Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd
310.665.6905
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Mark Dean Veca, Installation view of Phantasmagoria, Courtesy Otis College of Art and Design
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Opens Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (5–7pm)
Oct 11, 2008 – Dec 6, 2008
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (10am–5pm)
Thursdays (10am–7pm)
Fridays–Saturdays (10am–5pm)
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Otis Fine Arts Dept Curator-in-Residence Jan Van Woensel lectures on Tuesday, November 18, at 7:30pm.
Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with surreal pop-cultural cartoons. A master of large-scale painting, Veca creates environments that are all-encompassing and combine a flair for color and design with a Kelly Wearstler-like whimsy — but without the overpriced hotel-bar drinks. Veca's highly evolved graffiti and street-art aesthetics work in tandem with a perfectly executed trompe l'oeil technique, transforming traditional white boxes into spaces that simultaneously titillate and confound. On opening night, Bruce Yonemoto's new video screens in the plaza outside the gallery.
