Join us for two engaging programs featuring Michael Rotondi & Ravi GuneWardena, two artists in Brand Library & Art Center’s current exhibition, ‘It’s About Time’. An Art Talk with Michael Rotondi will be preceded by an Ikebana Demonstration with Ravi GuneWardena. Attendees will have the chance to speak with the artists as well as the exhibition curators, April Grieman & Stacie B. London, in between presentations.

6pm: Ikebana Demonstration with Ravi GuneWardena – GuneWardena is an architect and partner at Escher GuneWardena and has been a practitioner of Ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arranging) since 2005. From 2019-22, he was Director of the Sogetsu Ikebana, Los Angeles and expanded the visibility of Ikebana as a contemporary art form by facilitating collaborations with various local artists and organizations. GuneWardena’s Borrowed Landscape, on view in the gallery, was inspired by the history of the gardens surrounding Brand Library & Art Center.

7pm: Art Talk with Michael Rotondi – Rotondi has practiced and taught architecture locally and internationally for over forty years, always operating from his base in Los Angeles. He was a founding Partner of Morphosis (1975-1991), founding Principal of RoTo Architects (1991-present), and a co-founder of SCI-Arc, where he co-created and directed the Graduate Program (1978-1987), was the second Institute Director from 1987-1997, and currently teaches as Distinguished Faculty. On view in the gallery are selected pages from Rotondi’s journal and sketchbooks. According to Rotondi, “Drawing allows me to live and speculate in various timescales and experience life giving form to architecture.”

Attendees also have the option to arrive early for a special tour of ‘It’s About Time’ with artist and co-curator Stacie B. London at 5pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the curatorial process as well as the 17 artists on view and their art practices.

‘It’s About Time’ is on view through November 22, 2023. For more information and to view the digital catalog, visit: https://www.brandlibrary.art/post/Its-About-Time.

This event is sponsored by the Brand Associates.
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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this exhibition, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at 818-548-2051 or send us an email at info@brandlibrary.org.