
CALIFORNIA SON is a takeover of ARCANE Space as artist Matt Mahurin presents hundreds of paintings, illustrations, photographs, filmworks, writings, and objects in a visual timeline of a life and career spanning multiple mediums and diverse subject matter. Not only a reflection of a long career, CALIFORNIA SON is a celebration of all that is possible in seeking that next opportunity for inspiration, change, and growth as an artist and a person.
WHEN: October 25 – November 18, 2018 HOURS: Thurs – Sun 11-6pm
ARTIST RECEPTION: October 27 Sat 6:00 -8pm
EVENTS: Matt Mahurin will be on site at ARCANE Space to talk about his work Thursdays and Saturdays and will be giving workshops Oct 27, Nov 10, and Nov 17 2:30pm – 4pm
Mahurin has spent the last 30 years creating political and social illustrations for Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The London Observer and New York Times Op-Ed pages and magazines; photo essays on The Texas Prison System, Abortion Clinics, Mental Hospitals, Haiti, Belfast, and Nicaragua; publishing three collections of fine art photography; and directing music videos for U2, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Ice -T, Tracy Chapman, Metallica, Sting, REM, Lou Reed, and Joni Mitchell. His films and photographs are in collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.