Saturday I decided to go to San Diego to check out their museums. In a span of about 7 hours, I ended up going to 1 gallery, and 4 Art Museums.
First I went to La Jolla’s Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery which was a small gallery containing many paintings and sculptures. One I found particularly interesting were works by Joshua Smith who’s paintings capture dreamscapes.
Joshua Smith "The Prayer Walk"
I really enjoy the aesthetic look of his paintings… So beautiful.
After the gallery I headed over to the La Jolla location of the Museums of Contemporary Art San Diego.
I couldn’t take pictures inside the museum, but the alot of the artworks were pretty interesting. I particularly enjoyed the works by Julie Mehretu because of her detailed line drawings of architecture were simply amazing. Also Jakob Kolding’s works had an urban, relatable aesthetic to them that was attractive to veiw.
After La Jolla, I visited one of the 2 locations of MCASD in Downtown San Diego. There I saw works by Tara Donovan who’s sculptures seemed surreal and amazing. Her works dealt a great deal with using everday materials such as cups, straws, buttons, pins, glass, hay, tape, paper plates, etc… to create large scale sculptures. The works were simply amazing.
After MCASD I headed over to Balboa Park to check out Mingei International Museum, and the San Diego Museum of Art.
Mingei had a small collection of art that I guess I didn’t find too interesting. I appreciated the bits of Chinese/Tibetan art that they had on display.
SDMA had a large collection of older art. They had exhibitions of Mexican art, Celtic Art, American historical art, and a Jewelry exhibit, which was somewhat interesting. I was interested more in the renaissance art that was featured in their permanent galleries, though their small collection of Asian art was also interesting (but I guess I can’t expect much on the Asian art aspect since I’ve gone to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco several times).
All in all it was a good day in San Diego. Despite the drive and the never ending walking frmo museum to museum, I enjoyed myself and want to go back. It was definitely an art inspiring day.
