San Diego Weekend Arts Events: SDMA Reopens, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bach’s Birthday, And Chantal Peñalosa
Speaker 1: 00:00 If you've been missing in person arch, this weekend's arts and culture, pics are a feast for the census, even smell. Joining me is KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dickson Evans with some options for finding art and music this weekend. I Julia. Speaker 2: 00:15 Hi Jane. Thanks for having me. Speaker 1: 00:16 So now that we have returned to the red tier San Diego museum of art, finally reopens for the public tomorrow, what's a work you'd recommend. We check out. Speaker 2: 00:26 Yeah, there's actually a new work by contemporary artists, Colleen Smith, it's immersive and includes a video piece and it takes up the entirety of one of those upstairs rooms. And the museum Smith took as her inspiration and influential 1602 work by one Sanchez, Katon. It's called still life with quince cabbage, melon and cucumber. It's one of those hyper realistic food, still lifes, but Smith was inspired by the way, the realness kind of melted away. The more you looked at it, I spoke to Colleen Smith in July Speaker 3: 01:03 And the kind of impossibility of the painting because you can't see very much, you don't see where the string is hanging. Even what the light source is, let alone where it is. And so the shadow stop making sense. If you look really closely. Speaker 2: 01:16 And another thing that struck her was the angles of the shelf. There also impossible, and this, this heavy black void in the back. So she constructed in her studio to the best of her ability, the shelf that Katon had painted for the, for her video. And she was also inspired by Cotons highly detailed studio inventory. He left after he joined a monastery and it made her want to create a work that documented her own studio in some way, recording the day-to-day sounds and shadows there. There's also women's voices singing about nature. It's not something with a plot per se. You can spend just a few minutes with the video or you can spend the full half hour of it. And Catanz painting is also installed in the room. The exhibition opened March 14th of last year. So it's had a full year of not really getting a lot of visitors and it's definitely a work to see in person Speaker 1: 02:13 San Diego museum of art is open to the public with COVID precautions, of course, 10 to five on Saturday, noon to five on Sunday. And Colleen Smith's installation will be on view through September. Uh, and now for some Afro Cuban jazz. Tell us about the live in person show queen bees, art and culture center is presenting tonight. Speaker 2: 02:34 Yeah. So queen bees is hosting an outdoor concert and it features queen bees, music, director, saxophonist, Charlie arbelaez and friends he'll perform Afro Cuban jazz with trombonist. Matt hall, keyboard of serving Flores basis will Lyle drummer, Johnny Steele and percussionists Charlie Chavez. Arbelaez who hosts their regular jazz Botanica jam session. On Tuesday nights. He takes inspiration from the likes of dizzy Gillespie Chano Pozo Mongo, Santa Maria, and more. And we're listening to Charlie. Arbelaez performing at queen bees. Speaker 4: 03:24 [inaudible] Speaker 2: 03:24 They're taking over the parking lot next to their North park venue for this outdoor show, but you can also buy a ticket to live stream the event from home. Speaker 1: 03:34 All right, Charlie, [inaudible] performs. Afro-Cuban jazz at queen bees in North park tonight at 7:00 PM. Best practice gallery in Barrio. Logan has a new solo exhibition on view from a Takata based artists. Tell us about this. Speaker 2: 03:48 So Shanta Penn Ulyssa is an interdisciplinary artist. She lives in Takata and this exhibition is called there's something about the weather of this place. So you can imagine it's really rooted in place, this specific place of the United States, Mexico border, and Penalosa coated some canvases with fresh white paint and set them outside to collect falling Ash from wildfires. She also made a photography work capturing changes to the cloud formations that would have happened in the exact duration of a border crossing. And she's even created a scent to the fuse in the gallery that evokes the smells of a border crossing. So hold all your smell of vision jokes. You have to go and check this one out in person. And I think that the centerpiece of this, this show is a looped performance work. It's a video called [inaudible] where pendula says sits in a chair on a rooftop, right at the edge of the border. It's the very last street into [inaudible] and she is eye level with a border patrol truck. You're kind of taken inside her mind as she narrates that experience. Speaker 1: 05:03 And Shantelle Penalosa is on view at best practice in Barrio Logan through April 17th, gallery hours are Saturdays from 11 to two or by appointment. And finally the Spreckels Oregon society is celebrating a full year of virtual performances as well as 336 years of Bach. Tell us about this special performance. Speaker 2: 05:25 Yeah. So civic organists, Raul Preeta Ramirez used to play a live concert every Sunday afternoon in Balboa park at the Oregon pavilion. And he's been recording weekly streaming concerts instead during the entire pandemic. And he also does a bilingual live chat. They record these in secret. So as not to attract a crowd to Bubba park, which I kind of love, it's like pipe, organ, spy intrigue. And in addition to that mystery, they, this week, they're also celebrating Johann Bach's birthday. Ramirez will perform some of Bach's most beloved works, including the iconic Toccata and fugue. Speaker 4: 06:27 [inaudible] Speaker 1: 06:31 The Spreckels Oregon weekly streaming concert is Sunday at 2:00 PM. Online for more arts events or to sign up for Julia's weekly KPBS arts newsletter go to kpbs.org/arts. I've been speaking with KPBS arts editor and producer Julia Dixon Evans. Julia, thank you so much. Thanks Jane. Have a good weekend. You too.
