Beverly Hills artSHOW Coming Up: Save The Dates

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – The City of Beverly Hills is holding its annual spring Beverly Hills artSHOW on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, featuring 250 talented artists and giving attendees an opportunity to acquire limited editions and newly released pieces.

Soon to enter its 45th year, the free event, that draws artists from Southern California and the Southwest, will be in the historic Beverly Gardens, at the city’s center, along four park blocks of Santa Monica Boulevard. The event typically draws more than 40,000 worldwide visitors, including those from Europe, Canada and Middle and Far East countries.

Organizers highlighted this year's artists:

• Mixed-media artist Ivan Butorac, originally from Yugoslavia, emigrated from a war-torn place where he was born and raised. Trained in both Belgrade and New York, he creates big black holes and giant mandalas that draw the viewer into kaleidoscopic, three-dimensional spaces which he uses to heal himself and his audience.

• Ivano Stocco, is a mixed-media painter who captures dramatic perspectives of Los Angeles’ long alleys, streets and other man-made attractions, like steps which appear to lead to the sky. Stocco said his "muse is the modern environment we've built for ourselves and other living beings to live in, cut with roads, electrified, and slathered with makeup, for better or worse."

• Talented photographers include: Karchi Perlmann, who created an exuberant, multi-exposure series called Discombobulated and also made photographic dioramas which wrap around entire rooms, incorporating continuous views of the whole Los Angeles basin; underwater photographer Mallory Morrison depicts women falling and dancing, immersed in aqua spaces without beginning or end; and Marshall Vanderhoof will show his black and white, noir-like photographs of Southern California cityscapes.

Also on tap will be live music, family-friendly art projects, popular food trucks, a Wine and Dine Garden, and a Beer and Small Bites Garden.

Convenient, inexpensive parking is located across from the show grounds. The show’s charitable partner is Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and its sister organization, Healing Art with Kids.

For more info, visit www.beverlyhills.org/artshow.

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--Karchi Perlmann image via City of Beverly Hills