“Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?” opens Saturday at the P.V. Art Center
Hold that thought! How one art show benefited from being postponed by Bondo Wyszpolski On occasion, something delayed may turn out even better when it does finally happen, and this may be the case with “Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?”, an art show that was to open on March 15 of last year but finally debuts this year, on Saturday, Sept. 25, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Palos Verdes Art Center, and just upstairs from a remarkable exhibition of work by sculptor Eugene Daub. Déjà vu, or take two? “Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking?” was conceived in 2019 with 35 visual artists invited to La Venta Inn in Palos Verdes Estates to spin a wheel of fortune, upon which were attached a constantly replenished supply of fortune cookies. The usual fortune, about romance, travel, or an unexpected inheritance, had been removed from each cookie—a procedure as difficult as coaxing a hermit crab from its shell—and replaced with a random title (from my hand, no less) that the artist was then obligated to reimagine and visualize and set down in paint or pastel or any other 2D medium of their choosing. “Fear of the Mouse,” by Fei Alexander Among the titles that emerged on that…
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