Bloom Projects
This exhibition series is programmed at MCASB’s Main Space location. Bloom Projects features artwork by regional, national, and international emerging, early-career, or under-recognized artists. Bloom Projects gives contemporary artists whose work has begun to garner significant attention an opportunity to move beyond their studio practice, encouraging experimentation and giving them the resources necessary to further their careers as professional visual artists. An online brochure, with scholarly essays written by MCASB or guest curators, accompanies each exhibition.
Current & Future Bloom Projects
Past Bloom Projects
Bloom Projects: Ro Snell, All That is Left
Santa Barbara-based artist Ro Snell has been invited to create a new body of work for Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara’s Fall 2013 iteration…
Bloom Projects: Edgar Orlaineta, Katsina Horizon
Orlaineta's work focuses on the minutiae of everyday life, thus transforming them into sculptural forms. Inspired by modernist design and its legacy, the artist combines…
Bloom Projects: Glen Fogel, Recent Video
CAF invites New York-based artist Glen Fogel for the next installment of Bloom Projects. Inspired by a recent visit to Santa Barbara, Fogel explores the…
Bloom Projects: Molly Smith, Root
Molly Smith's Bloom Project is a response to her experiences and records from visiting Santa Barbara. Natural matter and found refuse collected during walks and…
Bloom Projects: Ethan Turpin, Video Feedback: Pixel Behaviors
Pointing a live video camera at it’s own projection gives what is known as a "video feedback loop." The camera reads the screen and then…
Bloom Projects: Annie Lapin, History =ing
Annie Lapin's artworks mine from a wide swath of art historical references and search for an intersection where image and memory become another material that…