link.dice.fm\/q164ab05c27b?pid=KAMPQZ6O<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u2018Flesh, Memory, Becoming\u2019<\/p>\n
Does the body remember what the mind cannot?<\/p>\n
That question sits at the center of \u201cFlesh, Memory, Becoming,\u201d a new exhibition at Long Beach City College that has brought together four Southern California artists whose work examines the complicated territory between physical form and inner experience.<\/p>\n
On view at the LBCC Art Gallery until early next month, the exhibition features the works of Anna Azarov, Bianca Berrios, David Julia Castro and Hannah Justesen.<\/p>\n
While their approaches and mediums differ, all four artists use the body as a way into questions of identity, emotion and self-perception.<\/p>\n
The exhibition description frames their practices as an attempt to translate intangible emotional states into visual language, asking viewers to engage with the work on something deeper than a purely observational level.<\/p>\n
Take Long Beach artist Azarov as an example. For her, the human body becomes a kind of emotional landscape.<\/p>\n
Working primarily in photography and painting, Azarov is interested in giving physical form to feelings and psychological states that can be difficult to articulate in words. Gesture, movement and color become essential to her vocabulary, allowing the \u201cbody\u201d to become a vehicle through which emotion can be understood.<\/p>\n
Berrios, based in Huntington Beach, approaches similar questions through self-portraiture. Her work focuses on self-perception and identity, particularly the uncomfortable distance between the person we imagine ourselves to be and the person we actually see.<\/p>\n
Painting becomes an act of observation \u2014 but also one of acceptance.<\/p>\n
For Long Beach artist Castro, the key is in what he describes as the human body\u2019s \u201cdiscord and confusion.\u201d He uses moments of unease to give visual form to the queer and the unstable.<\/p>\n
Finally, there\u2019s Justesen, another Long Beach artist, but one whose mixed-media practice combines painting, fiber arts and elements of sculpture. Her work explores womanhood and her relationship to the physical body, while also examining the ways our society influences self-identity.<\/p>\n
Together, the four artists of \u201cFlesh, Memory, Becoming\u201d offer different perspectives on a shared idea: that inhabiting a body is an experience as psychological and social as it is physical.<\/p>\n
The exhibition is on view at the LBCC Art Gallery, 4901 E. Carson St., Building K, through Sept. 3. An artist talk featuring the participating artists is scheduled to take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 3.<\/p>\n
The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, with Friday and Saturday hours available by appointment.<\/p>\n
For more information, go to lbcc.edu\/arts\/flesh-memory-becoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With autumn only a few weeks away, it\u2019s a good time to rediscover Cal State Long Beach\u2019s Carolyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,36858,37726,131,133,132,137,3738],"class_list":["post-438372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-grunion-entertainment","tag-grunion-things-to-do","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-the-grunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Pennywise will be among the bands performing at Alex\u2019s Bar on Sunday, Aug. 23, for \u201cLong Beach City Rockers: A Celebration of Joe Strummer & The Clash.\u201d Pennywise frontman Jim Lindberg performs at the BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach, on Friday, May 2, 2025. (File photo by Michael Hixon\/SCNG)<\/p>\n