Outdoor Gallery Hosts Exhibit At Manhattan Beach Arts Center

MANHATTAN BEACH, CA — A one-day Outdoor Gallery exhibit called Form and Movement by Simon Ouwerkerk is being staged today only from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. outside of the Manhattan Beach Art Center. Facial coverings are mandatory as is social distancing, according to information from the City of Manhattan Beach Cultural Arts Division. Homeira Goldstein and Time4Art are presenting the free exhibit, which is being staged indoors at the Arts Center October 16 through January 3.

"We are taking the sculptures from the current exhibition outdoors so people can come experience the art in a safe, outdoor setting," said Ginna Muzingo, acting cultural arts coordinator.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to create their own mini-sculpture by purchasing a Craft Kit for $20 using credit cards only.

Ouwerkerk, who has studios in Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach, is a renowned sculptor and installation artist. His "work is an ongoing dialog between form and movement playing with shapes, materials, volumes and textures. His work also delivers a visionary and elevated senses of strength and serenity. Notably though his commissioned installations are massive, conveying and creating experiences which examine emotional process of grandness, spirituality and achievement, carrying the audience within their own deep and rich potentials of reaching out for higher planes," reads information on a video of the Manhattan Beach exhibit on YouTube also found on the Time4Art website. Time4Art is a Manhattan Beach-based non-profit art educational organization with the mission of enhancing cultural art awareness in the South Bay and Greater Los Angeles.

The YouTube video is a virtual gallery tour and interview with artist Ouwerkerk and guest curator Goldstein, who envisioned the exhibit. "Our heartfelt thanks to Manhattan Beach Art Center for their spirit of comaraderie and community," said Goldstein.

The Manhattan Beach Art Center is located at 1560 Manhattan Beach Boulevard.