Torrance Art Museum

Hours of Operation

Tuesday - Saturday
From 11 am - 5 pm
FREE ADMISSION
Closed Sunday, Monday, and all major holidays
Museum Closed between exhibitions

About TAM

The Torrance Art Museum is located at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center in the City of Torrance. It is a program of the Cultural Services Division of the City of Torrance Community Services Department. The Cultural Services Division is responsible for City-sponsored arts and cultural initiatives held at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center and throughout the City.

The Museum encourages all people to develop and increase their understanding and appreciation for modern and contemporary artwork via a variety of exhibitions offered in its two gallery spaces, as well as educational programs, artist talks, lectures, and symposia.

Through its emphasis on contemporary artistic expression in Southern California and globally, the Torrance Art Museum brings together visual artists and community members; fosters personal and civic well being by inspiring understanding and appreciation of the visual arts; promotes meaningful experiences in the arts to strengthen creative and critical thinking skills; and builds bridges between the visual arts and other disciplines in the humanities and sciences.

The Torrance Art Museum is Located in the Northwest Section of the City of Torrance Civic Center Campus, Home to The Largest Arts Complex in the South Bay Area
Parking

Parking is free anywhere on the Civic Center campus. Torrance Art Museum is at the corner of Civic Center Drive and Cultural Arts Way. It is adjacent to the Fine Arts Wing of the Torrance Cultural Arts Center (TCAC) and across the street from the Torrance Police Department.

Directions

Traveling South on the 110 Freeway:
Exit at Torrance Boulevard off ramp.
Turn left at stop sign.
Turn right at the light onto Torrance Boulevard.
Travel west for 3 miles.
Turn right onto Maple Drive.
Pass through the lighted intersection at Maricopa St.
Turn left on Civic Center Dr.
Turn left onto Cultural Arts Way to park.
Limited parking also available adjacent to the Fine Arts Wing of the Torrance Cultural Arts Center.

Traveling South on the 405 Freeway:
Exit Redondo Beach Boulevard off ramp.
Turn left onto Redondo Beach Boulevard.
Turn right on Prairie Avenue.
Travel approximately 3 miles south.
Prairie Avenue becomes Madrona Avenue at the intersection of 190th Street.
Continue on Madrona Avenue, past Del Amo Boulevard.
At Civic Center Drive, turn left.
Turn right onto Cultural Arts Way to park.
Limited parking also available adjacent to the Fine Arts Wing of the
Torrance Cultural Arts Center.

Exhibitions:

Gallery One:
Ryan Taber - Looking out fearfully upon the confined deep
March 6 – April 17

OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, March 6, 6 pm – 9 pm

The Torrance Art Museum is proud to present the first museum solo show of artist Ryan Taber in the first of the TAM's SUNRISE SERIES - Curated by Max Presneill

Looking out fearfully upon the confined deep, an Installation by Ryan Taber at the TAM, takes it's name from an 1845 description of Hornby lodge, an early retreat in the Adirondacks. The exhibition will feature a number of new, large scale sculptural works and artifacts alongside a series of furniture pieces from the artist's collaborative design project, Kaguya.

The furniture works were conceived by the artist as a series of unique pieces to be released as the first run in a seasonal line, thematically designed by guest curators/designers and produced by Kaguya. This series and the rest of the works in the show, examine notions of Nationalism, cultural identity and place through our forefathers fossil fixation and design languages ranging from the neurotic rusticity of Robert Reamer to the Industrial Persona of Raymond Loewy. Throughout the works, the visual languages of Noguchi's Akari, Loewy's Space Suit, Indiana's Hickory and Jefferson's Megalonyx are all employed in considering the history of the increasingly convoluted 19-20th century adaptation of the psychology of entitlement and models of cultural and environmental othering.

Gallery Two: The Torrance Art Museum is proud to present 12 GAUGE; a series of year-round solo exhibitions of 12 different artists which each last for 3 days. These exhibitions provide a short, sharp, rapid-fire look at current artistic practices amongst contemporary artists today, particularly in Southern California, and act as a real time barometer of art here and now.

Sea and Space
March 4 – March 6, 2010
ABOUT SEA AND SPACE EXPLORATIONS
Founded in 2007 as a non-profit artist run gallery, Sea and Space is a highly collaborative venue dedicated to presenting challenging contemporary art practices largely unsupported by commercial spaces. The space hosts exhibitions, lectures, workshops, performances, and happenings. Sea and Space Explorations is a portal to a place where notions of good and bad, market constraints, and fixations with progress are understood to be peripheral, where artists take risks without fear. This space hosts artists whose practices resonate with the conceptual, theoretical, relational, and political.

For more information and schedule of events, please visit www.seaandspace.org

Kristin duCharme
March 11-13

Monte Vista
March 18-20

Phantom Galleries
March 25 – 27