Ben Brough Lights Out Beach City At AR4T

On May 5, 2012 (yes, it’s Cinco de Mayo) Laguna Beach, California’s AR4T Gallery will host an opening reception for Ben Brough’s new solo show, Lights Out Beach City.

Lights Out Beach City expands on the highly vagrant work imagined by Brough over fourteen years using space, color, cartooning, collage, and painting techniques. Screeching imagery of food, music, coastal living, cinema, sex and landscapes in styles and mediums selected to clash by intention. Using mediums “found within arm’s reach” and presenting the show in a space as imagined, designed and installed by Brough, the viewer will be presented with a raucous landscape that brings to mind the fast and hard-edged DIY ethic only ever found lurking in the deepest subcultures of youth and punk rock. Brough’s ‘Lights Out Beach City’: art anthem of summer 2012.

The opening starts at 6 PM. AR4T is located at 210 North Coast Highway, in Laguna Beach, California. Follow the jump for more info.LIGHTS OUT BEACH CITY
ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, May 5, 2012, 6-9pm
WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT from O’NEILL

AR4T Gallery is pleased to present Lights Out Beach City, Ben Brough’s new solo show, presented as loud thoughts and after thoughts derived from nomadic journals kept from 1998-2012. Lights Out Beach City will feature works from six feet in size to 2.5×2.5-inches. The opening reception is on Cinco de Mayo, Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 6-9pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public through May 26, 2012.

Lights Out Beach City expands on the highly vagrant work imagined by Brough over fourteen years using space, color, cartooning, collage, and painting techniques. Screeching imagery of food, music, coastal living, cinema, sex and landscapes in styles and mediums selected to clash by intention. Using mediums “found within arm’s reach” and presenting the show in a space as imagined, designed and installed by Brough, the viewer will be presented with a raucous landscape that brings to mind the fast and hard-edged DIY ethic only ever found lurking in the deepest subcultures of youth and punk rock. Brough’s ‘Lights Out Beach City’: art anthem of summer 2012.

Says the artist:

“I wanted to put everything out there. Moving around has always been a way of life, and 1998 is the year I started really spending a lot of time abroad and recording images and enjoying it. I have always worked in different styles and I wanted to see them together in one room at one time. The fast-paced consumerist lifestyle mixed with the richness of the laid-back surf history here, I’ve grown to see the great qualities of California.”