Look Up’ multimedia exhibit featured at Claremont Museum of Art

The Claremont Museum of Art is exhibiting “Look Up,” an immersive artwork by Elizabeth Turk, through Aug. 29.

“Look Up” was produced by ET Projects with the residents of Mt. San Antonio Gardens retirement community in Pomona. The exhibition shares intimate moments and aerial video clips of the residents’ movement patterns while carrying brightly colored umbrellas throughout the gardens.

The exhibit includes a “Post-It mural,” featuring the words of Mt. San Antonio Gardens residents in answer to the question, “What do you tell yourself when you face adversity?” Visitors are invited to add their own Post-It notes in answer to the question, sharing their personal guidance with others, according to a news release. Children are invited to color their own umbrella design to take home.

Intimate still images of residents and staff, along with overhead and kaleidoscopic compositions, play across the mural.

This aerial photo shows line dancers on the putting green at Mt. San Antonio Gardens in Pomona Nov. 12, 2020, during the creation of “Look Up,” an immersive artwork that is a collaboration between ET Projects and Mt. San Antonio Gardens senior community. The immersive artwork is on exhibit at the Claremont Museum of Art through Aug. 29, 2021. (“Look Up,” ET Projects: Jay Brown)

In the museum’s atrium, there are videos of the various “Look Up” venues at Mt. San Antonio Gardens, with music. Aloft, a cloud of umbrellas draws the viewer’s eye upward.

Rose-like windows, created from various layers of drone footage, take advantage of the upper area of the atrium to complete the multi-media exhibition.

The exhibition is sponsored by ET Projects and Mt. San Antonio Gardens.

Elizabeth Turk, a native of California, is an artist known for marble sculpture and, through ET Projects, community art events. She splits her time between a studio in Santa Ana and New York City. She is a MacArthur Fellow, an Annalee & Barnett Newman Foundation recipient and a Smithsonian Artist Fellow, among other awards.

Turk received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Scripps College in 1983 and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture, in 1994. She has been represented by Hirschl & Adler, Modern in New York City since 2000.

ET Projects is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit launched in 2018 with the goal of inspiring imagination. It partners with other organizations to create community events such as the 2018 Shoreline Project.

For information about Elizabeth Turk’s work, go to elizabethturkstudios.com

The Claremont Museum of Art is in the historic Claremont Depot at 200 W. First St. It is open noon-4 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

For information, go to claremontmuseum.org.

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