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New Arts Pavilion Opens This Week at Oceanside Museum of Art

A new arts pavilion opens at the Oceanside Museum of Art this week. The inaugural exhibition documents 50 years of San Diego painting. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

New Arts Pavilion Opens This Week at Oceanside Museum of Art

(Photo: Oceanside Museum of Art's new art pavilion. Alison St John/KPBS )

A new arts pavilion opens at the Oceanside Museum of Art this week. The inaugural exhibition documents 50 years of San Diego painting. KPBS reporter Alison St John has more.

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The $5 million expansion quadruples the museum's space.

The clean lines of the new pavilion by L.A. architect Frederick Fischer complement the arches of the original Irving Gill building where the Oceanside Museum of Art opened 10 years ago.

Assistant Director Beth Smith says the new gallery opens with 50 paintings by San Diego artists done before 1950.

Smith : You’ll look around you'll see landscape paintings here, from what the county looked like before it was developed. Some of them take you back and some of them you can see where we've come, so there's a historical aspect to these paintings.

Guest curator, UCSD'S Bram Dijkstra, assembled the paintings from private collections around Southern California.

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Alison St John, KPBS News.