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  • Ernest Bruce Nelson, The Summer Sea, Completed by 1915
    Ernest Bruce Nelson, The Summer Sea, 1915, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, Gift of The Irvine Museum
  • John M. Gamble, Calce de Oro (Poppy Field near Banning), probably completed by 1939
    John M. Gamble, Calce de Oro (Poppy Field near Banning), circa 1939, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, Gift of The Irvine Museum
  • Gordon Onslow Ford, Constellations and Grasses, 1957
    Gordon Onslow Ford, Constellations and Grasses, 1957, Casein on mulberry paper, 38 x 56 in. The Buck Collection at UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art © Courtesy of the Lucid Art Foundation
  • landscape painting of two oak trees on a hill with sunlight streaming through clouds
    John Bond Francisco, Scrub Oak in a Canyon, circa 1910, Oil on canvas, 26 x 34 in. UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, Gift of The Irvine Museum
  • Arthur F. Mathews, Monterey County Landscape, 1907, Oil on canvas, 26 x 30 in. UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art, Gift of The Irvine Museum
  • Lee Mullican, Untitled, circa 1950, Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. The Buck Collection Oskar Fischinger, Triangles / Blue Triangles, 1949, Oil on Masonite, 27 x 21 in. The Buck Collection
    Lee Mullican, Untitled, circa 1950, Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. The Buck Collection at UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art
    Oskar Fischinger, Triangles / Blue Triangles, 1949, Oil on Masonite, 27 x 21 in. The Buck Collection at UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art

The Resonant Surface: Movement, Image, and Sound in California Painting

Curated by Erin Stout, PhD

September 11, 2021 – February 12, 2022

The Resonant Surface encouraged us to slow our gaze and to experience paintings in an embodied and immersive way. Musical landscapes, rhythmic abstractions, sound and color experiments, and other multisensory subject matter played with the immediacy of visual perception. The exhibition considered these kinds of explorations in image, movement, and sound in early to mid-20th century California painting. It traced the ways artists have long used painting to investigate the complex nature of perception beyond vision, building connections across time, space, images, objects, and sensations. 

Four main themes developed these connections: correspondences, rhythm and abstraction, dynamism and flux, and visual music. By activating our multiple senses—looking, but also listening and feeling—the 26 presented works of art could be experienced as vibrant, interconnected surfaces that “resonate” within and beyond the spaces they occupy.

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