MEMBERS ONLY: Gallery Opening at the Philosophical Research Society!
Wed, Oct 23
|Philosophical Research Society
Celebrate PRS's new gallery exhibit: Burt Shonberg: Momentary Blasts of Unexpected Light.
Time & Location
Oct 23, 2024, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Philosophical Research Society, 3910 Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE EVENT: LABC Members are invited to a Private Members Preview of the new PRS Exhibit: MOMENTARY BLASTS OF UNEXPECTED LIGHT: THE VISIONARY ART OF BURT SHONBERG. The LABC Foundation awarded PRS a grant to help fund this exhibit.
The event will take place in the Hansell Gallery at PRS. Please RSVP here.
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: Burt Shonberg was one of the premiere psychedelic and esoteric artists in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a close friend and associate of artist, poet, and actress, Marjorie Cameron. Shonberg also embraced the Fourth Way system of Gurdjieff, and his canvases began to reflect the mystical illumination inspired by his higher states of consciousness. His work was prominently featured in Roger Corman’s Vincent Price-starring horror film The Fall of the House of Usher and on the walls of venues like the long-gone, bohemian Laguna Beach coffeehouse Café Frankenstein. His…