CSUN art exhibit spans the San Fernando Valley historically and creatively NORTHRIDGE >> Comedian Jay Leno once dubbed it “Off-Ramp Acres.” Cooler Angelenos called the 818 uncool. Others pooh-poohed the San Fernando Valley as a mecca for mini malls and Valley Girls as a vast banal ‘burb without culture.’ The largest exhibition by Valley artists ever assembled that opens Monday at Cal State Northridge means to dispel the over-the-hill stereotypes. “The stereotypes of the Valley — the home of the airheaded, materialistic teenage culture, a smog-filled polluted deluded place — have roots in Los Angeles as a whole,” said art historian Damon Willick, a Van Nuys-Sherman Oaks native and curator of “Valley Vista: Art in the San Fernando Valley, ca. 1970-1990.” “In terms of an exhibit, this is the first to present the Valley as a whole.” The “Valley Vista” exhibit, which runs through Oct. 11 at the CSUN Art Galleries at North University Drive and Etiwanda Avenue, features 80 artworks by 40 artists central to Valley conceptual, performance and installation art. A public reception will be held at 4 p.m. Sept. 6, a gallery talk at 10 a.m. Sept. 15, with a panel discussion at 1 p.m. Sept. 27. Go to csun.edu/artgalleries. Focusing on two decades, from a tumultuous ‘70s [...] newsinca/csun-art-exhibit-spans-the-san-fernando-valley-historically-and-creatively/
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