At the Museum of Latin American Art, \u201cred\u201d becomes much more than just a color.<\/p>\n
\u201cRED RED RED, Geometry of a Scar,\u201d which opened on Sunday. Oct. 4, and remains on view through Feb. 21, brings together the work of about 40 women artists from 20 countries in an exhibition organized by MIA Art Collection and curated by guest curator Sebasti\u00e1n C. Strenger.<\/p>\n
Across painting, sculpture, video, textiles and installation, the exhibit considers red as a color of passion, love and attraction \u2014 but also of power, resistance, danger, violence and freedom.<\/p>\n
The exhibit offers a broad view of women\u2019s artistic perspectives by placing works from different generations and geographic backgrounds in conversation.<\/p>\n
Red moves between abstraction and figuration, sometimes appearing as a literal subject and elsewhere functioning more subtly as a psychological state.<\/p>\n
Color, here, is not simply an aesthetic choice but a way of exploring the experiences and associations carried by women-created art.<\/p>\n
That conversation is grounded in a longer history of these artists struggling for recognition. \u201cRED RED RED\u201d looks back to a time when women were excluded from state art academies, and established their own schools and artistic networks, as well as to artists whose contributions were subsequently overlooked or minimized.<\/p>\n
Among the historical figures represented is Ottilie W. Roederstein, whose crimson-toned \u201cPortrait of a Young Man\u201d reflects the career of an artist who successfully exhibited internationally but later fell into obscurity.<\/p>\n
The exhibition also points to the shifting understanding of artists such as Hilma af Klint, whose early experiments with abstraction predated the work of Wassily Kandinsky but remained largely unrecognized for decades.<\/p>\n
Gabriele M\u00fcnter, meanwhile, spent much of her career understood primarily through her relationship with Kandinsky before her own artistic accomplishments received greater attention.<\/p>\n
These stories provide a historical backdrop for the contemporary artists included in the exhibit and the wider question of whose work becomes part of art history.<\/p>\n
From there, \u201cRED RED RED\u201d moves into the modern era, where women artists increasingly challenged conventional ideas about gender, the body, sexuality, domestic life and power.<\/p>\n
Works by artists such as Marina Abramovi\u0107, Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim and Simone Haack demonstrate the range of approaches to those subjects.<\/p>\n
The exhibit is organized by MIA Art Collection, an international nonprofit founded by philanthropist and collector Alejandra Castro Rioseco to support and promote women artists. The collection encompasses more than 900 works by artists from more than 35 countries, with a mission that includes increasing women\u2019s participation in museums, galleries, art fairs, leadership and scholarship.<\/p>\n
In fact, \u201cRED RED RED, Geometry of a Scar\u201d marks MIA Art Collection\u2019s first international exhibition presented in a museum and continues its collaboration with MoLAA following a joint exhibition in the United Arab Emirates in 2025.<\/p>\n
For MoLAA, 628 Alamitos Ave., the exhibition arrives during the museum\u2019s 30th anniversary year, adding an international and cross-generational perspective to its programming.<\/p>\n
For more information, go to molaa.org\/2026-red-red-red<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alex\u2019s Bar<\/p>\n Long Beach\u2019s underground music scene will get a midweek, Midwestern jolt when Blanky, The Pangs and Y Try take over Alex\u2019s Bar, 2913 E. Anaheim St., on Wednesday, Oct. 14.<\/p>\n The three-band bill brings together a lineup of alternative-leaning sounds for a night in one of our city\u2019s coolest live-music rooms \u2014 with Blanky, The Pangs and Y Try each bringing their own take on alt music.<\/p>\n Blanky, hailing from Lawrence, Kansas, brings a hazy blend of shoegaze, jangly surf rock and folk noir, led by the distinctively dry vocals of songwriter Anthony Cunard.<\/p>\n The Pangs and Y Try, on the other hand, are both local Long Beach acts.<\/p>\n This eclectic, left-of-center triple bill will begin at 8:30 pm.<\/p>\n