University
Museum exhibits known artists
By Oscar Montealegre
On-line Forty-Niner
The
University Art Museum and the Odyssey project
are co-sponsoring an art exhibit of Ken
Price’s “Small is Beautiful” “selfportrait.map”
by Lilla Locurto and William OutCault.
The exhibition is being held at Cal State
Long Beach’s University Art Museum.
 Ken
Price has already established a reputation
of being a legendary Los Angeles sculptor.
However, this collection contains picture
art of a collection of colorful acrylic
drawings. His drawings are largely
unknown, but according to the University
Art Museum’s press release, his three-dimensional
art forms have not lacked appraisal and
recognition in the last decades.
Furthermore, this particular exhibition
is the first museum investigation of Ken
Price’s drawings.
According to Ilee Kaplan, associate director
of the University Art Museum, Price’s drawings
are works that are not easily accessible.
“Ken Price is known for his ceramic work,
yet we [the museum faculty] were able to
convince him to allow us to exhibit his
private paintings,” Kaplan said.
Locurto and Outcault’s self-portraits are
a husband-and-wife team creation.
They worked with scientists, mathematicians
and computer experts to produce digital
images of themselves. Their attempt was
to make a projection that maps the human
body and has much resemblance to a Mercator
map projection.
They invented this form of artistic expression
by digitally scanning both of their bodies
into a whole body scanner. With the aid
of three-dimensional imaging software, they
were able to produce digital prints of self-portraits
that are two-dimensional.
The body scanner should not be confused
with a CAT scan or an MRI. This type of
scanner the artists used scans and photographs
only the surface of an object, as opposed
to the CAT scan or MRI which photographs
internally.
Ilee Kaplan said that this type of art is
a new type of artistic expression that explores
a new genre.
Locurt and Outcault’s art works has been
exhibited at Cambridge University, Colorado
State University, Northwestern University
and Frederick Taylor Gallery in New York.
“The self-portraits are real interesting,
they are definitely creating new dimensions
in art,” Junior Art major Kelly Romero said.
“I do hope that some students do make an
attempt or are aware of the awesome paintings
that are being displayed at the museum.”
There is no fee admission to the museum,
unless there is a special event. The University
Art Museum is open from Tuesday through
Thursday noon to 8 p.m. and Friday through
Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. The museum is
closed on Monday and all university holidays.
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