8-Piece Collection Previewed : Exhibit Sheds Some Light on Sculptor’s Lucite Work

Twenty works of sculptor Frederick E. Hart, who is best known for his works in Lucite, are on display at Galerie Michael in B$SYSTEM SYSTEM WIREOUT A022789 3/10/89 16:09:43 ; the other four will be rendered in Lucite.

“Sculpting with Lucite is sculpting with light,” said Hart, who last year created “Fidelia,” an all-Lucite sculpture of a woman inspired by Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio.”

Hart’s major public works include the Vietnam Veterans Memorial--a statue in front of the granite wall--and the main entrance to the National Cathedral, both in Washington.

The exhibit, which opened to the public Friday, will continue through March 19.

Galerie Michael, 430 N. Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills. (213) 273-3377. Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 6 p.m. Sundays.

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HISPANIC TOUCHES: Carlos Almaraz, a leading exponent of the Hispanic art movement in California and a former member of the recognized Latino art group “Los Four,” is exhibiting his paintings, pastels, monotypes, etchings and serigraphs at the Jan Turner Gallery in Los Angeles.

Almaraz’s solo show at the Turner Gallery coincides with his inclusion in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new traveling exhibit, “Hispanic Art in the United States.”

The Turner Gallery is featuring new works by Almaraz, with a retrospective at some of his most significant pieces of the last 10 years. The new works blend Native American, Mexican, Spanish, Anglo-Saxon and Southwestern influences.

The exhibition continues through March 4.

Jan Turner Gallery, 8000 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles. (213) 658-6084. Open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturdays.

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MIND OVER MANOR: London artist Nicola Rosalie Atkinson-Griffith’s newest installation, “Shadow of Ideas,” is on display at the Santa Monica College Art Gallery.

Atkinson-Griffith creates gallery-sized installations that surround the viewer with the interior of a 19th-Century manor house of the Regency Period, a house that is rendered surrealistic with bold colors and aggressive exaggeration.

Sanford Suzan Wakefield, gallery director and curator, refers to the exhibit as “walls that are better suited to the Mad Hatter’s tea guests than those of a duchess.”

The exhibit, which opened Friday, continues through March 18.

Santa Monica College Art Gallery, 1900 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica. (213) 452-9231. Open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.