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back to list Super A Stefan Thelen’s anti-superhero identity Super A is a Dutch artist who uses traditional painting technique and a knack for design to create compositions that manipulate familiar iconography into mind-bending and inquisitive pieces. His alter-ego, Super A is the filter with which the life and observations of Stefan Thelen are distilled down and turn into inspiration. All of his work evolves out of personal experiences or thoughts that grow into concepts which tightrope between fiction and nonfiction. Super A is a mystery that leans on the art doing most of the talking for Stefan Thelen, taking the viewer into a wonderland walking down a yellow brick road in which Thelen’s figurative and modern surrealist compositions are providing playful puzzles to decipher.

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2014 < View Public Art Projects One Desert Sky 2014 Permanent Art Project By Brad Howe Drawing upon the stories of local Antelope Valley residents, artist and Antelope Valley native Brad Howe created the installation that now hangs in the atrium of the High Desert Regional Health Center, located on Avenue I and. Taking mental pictures from these stories, Howe turned them into actual images – 8,000 laser-cut aluminum plates painted blue. Spearheaded by the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, a naming contest took place with the winning name being “One Desert Sky” – an imagine invoked by the blue images and the stories behind them.

2015 < View Public Art Projects Yarn Bomb at MOAH 2015 Temporary Art Project After receiving much acclaim from the community for organizing the yarn bombing of Lancaster City Hall, Kris Holiday was commissioned again to install outside MOAH’s main entrance. Holiday expanded her idea to a district-wide project. She and her team were inspired by the whimsical humor art can bring into the world so they created yarn flowers, hung yarn balls from the roof, and covered up bicycles, planters, pillars and walls. A desk they covered from MOAH’s Young Artist Workshop was later donated to R. Rex Parris High School as a permanent installation.

< Back Mela M Featured Structure Artist MANIFEST STRUCTURES FROM THE IMAGINAL is a new body of work from Mela that captures the artist's concept of "a provocative stream of consciousness as the past informs the present… to imagine multiple future possibilities." For Mela, these works bear witness to species-driven archetypes that result in how humans structure their lives on a physical and emotional level. The acceleration of science and technology have made these cultural systems increasingly complex, and these intricacies are reflected in Mela's structural representations. Mela strives to create visualizations of the different layers of human consciousness as imagined through multiple dimensions and timelines, and hopes her work challenges upcoming artists to draw inspiration from this not-so-common era. There are five distinct but related components from throughout the museum that make up MANIFEST STRUCTURES FROM THE IMAGINAL: a set of four acrylic paintings titled THE EVOLUTION OF THE OMEGATROPOLIS THROUGH FOUR SEASONS OF ARCHITECTONIC METAMORPHOSIS (lobby atrium), the hand-drawn CITYSCAPES OF ARCHITECTONIC METAMORPHOSIS FOR THE COMMON ERA (wall leading to the Jewel Box), a symbolic monument titled THE TOTEM OF THE MOON CASTLE (Jewel Box), and two architectural wooden sculptures titled THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE MOVES THROUGH IRREGULAR ANGLES IN A RISING WALL FROM AN ARCHITECTONIC CITY WITHOUT NAME OR PLACE OR TIME and THE WALL TEMPLE AT THE VANISHING POINT (Ralph and Virginia Bozigian Family Gallery). Mela M has an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California and an MFA from the Technological Institute of Art and Textile Design in Belarus. Her work has garnered national and international recognition with over twenty solo exhibitions, twenty-seven museum group exhibitions, and dozens of group shows in colleges and universities. She has been honored with numerous prizes and awards internationally, and her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Long Beach Museum of Art in California, the Southwestern Oregon College at Coos Bay in Oregon, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belarus. Previous Next

Walk of Honor The Aerospace Walk of Honor program pays tribute to the outstanding accomplishments of distinguished test pilots. Sidewalk monuments along West Lancaster Boulevard continue to honor the contributions of these brave men and women. As the first project in the United States to honor test pilots, the Lancaster's Aerospace Walk of Honor program acknowledges the City of Lancaster's seventy-five year tradition as the nation's Host City and aerospace center. The program's purpose is to honor a distinguished group of internationally known experimental test pilots who flew at Edwards Air Force Base during their careers. The Aerospace Walk of Honor was established by the Lancaster City Council in 1990. The project awards recognition to test pilots whose aviation careers are marked by significant achievements beyond one specific accomplishment. In a profession where extraordinary achievement is the norm, honorees selected for the Aerospace Walk of Honor were those who soared above the rest. The Aerospace Walk of Honor program was completed in 2009 when the 100th honoree was inducted. California artist Robert Schaar has painted a series of portraits of the Center’s NACA/NASA pilots inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Honor. These Include: A. Scott Crossfield Walk of Honor 1990 Joseph A. Walker Walk of Honor 1991 Fitzhugh L. Fulton Jr. Walk of Honor 1991 Neil A. Armstrong Walk of Honor 1991 William H. Dana Walk of Honor 1993 Milton O. Thompson Walk of Honor 1993 Fred W. Haise Walk of Honor 1995 John B. McKay Walk of Honor 1996 John A. Manke Walk of Honor 1997 Thomas C. McMurtry Walk of Honor 1998 Stanley P. Butchart Walk of Honor 1999 Donald L. Mallick Walk of Honor 2000 C. Gordon Fullerton Walk of Honor 2000 Rogers E. Smith Walk of Honor 2003 Bruce A. Peterson Walk of Honor 2003 Edward T. Schneider Walk of Honor 2005 John H. Griffith Walk of Honor 2006 View or Download the Official Walk of Honor Map by clicking on the cover image or here . Visiting one of our museums? Let us help you plan your trip!

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2016 < View Public Art Projects Astral Challenger 2016 Permanent Art Project Commissioned by the City of Lancaster as part of the Arts and Public Places program, “Astral Challenger” was created by Los Angeles-based artist Shana Mabari. The sculpture was commissioned in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and was installed at the intersection of Challenger Way and Avenue L. Challenger was assembled at the Palmdale Lockheed plant and used what is now known as Challenger Way as its transportation route from Palmdale to Edwards Air Force Base. Formerly named 10th Street East, the street was renamed shortly after the disaster by the Lancaster City Council to honor the lives that were lost. The blue panels on the sculpture represent the seven lives lost, plus an additional panel for the remaining loved ones who still mourn their loss. The roundabout was opened in February, 2016, and “Astral Challenger” was installed in May.

Previously known as POW!WOW! Antelope Valley, Antelope Valley Walls™ is returning with a bang for its fourth installment September 11-17 as international and local talent adorn the community with vibrant murals throughout the Antelope Valley. 2024 Mural painting started Sunday, September 8, with artists putting their first strokes to the wall for the week-long endeavor. Previously known as POW!WOW! Antelope Valley, Antelope Valley Walls™ has returned for its fifth installment September 8-16 as international and local talent adorn the community with vibrant murals throughout the Antelope Valley. These new murals will accompany previous murals painted in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022, adding 13 new murals for the Antelope Valley community. Artists will paint throughout the week and final murals will be ready to view by September 17. MEET THE ARTISTS Amandalynn Grazier Ben Brough Brandon Thompson Carlos Mendoza Carly Ealey Chloe becky Christopher Konecki Kim Sielbeck Lily Brick Lori Antoinette MamaWisdom Nuri Amanatullah Sasha Swedlund Sean Banister Christopher Minsal Spenser Little Jayson Bascos Kelsey Brown Tina Dille Vojislav Radovanovic Yolanda Glass Mural Map 2018 2020

back to list Jayson Bascos Jayson Bascos, also known as “State”, is a local artist whose preferred medium is spray paint. Bascos likes to explore realism and lettering for his subject matter but is never afraid to try different styles. Bascos majored in Chemistry in college, so all his artistic skills were self-taught, with some guidance from his artistic peers. Bascos has been painting for 12 years and is currently working as a tattoo artist and muralist.

back to list Andrew Hem Raised as the child of Cambodian immigrants in Los Angeles, Andrew Hem’s illustrative paintings bridge disparate aesthetic influences as well as cultural touchstones and sensibilities. Hem’s paintings typically highlight an individual within a group of figures, homing in on the one person who is often somberly staring out from the canvas. Using a cool palette in which the colors do not quite match up with the real world, the artist creates somber moods in illusionistic spaces set at a remove from reality. Although his color scheme—with its supernatural rendering of the natural world—elicits comparisons to impressionism, Hem also echoes graffiti art based on his straightforward and illustrative rendering of figures and space, as well as allusions to street culture, art, and fashion.

< Back Chelsea Dean Featured Structure Artist Chelsea Dean is an American multidisciplinary artist whose work examines and documents the relationship between the landscape, home, and time. While rooted in photographic processes, Dean’s work is ultimately an assemblage of various media. She utilizes paint, collage, print, illustration, as well as found objects to help produce a physical interpretation of the spaces she encounters. Informed by her time spent in and around decrepit and abandoned desert dwellings in southern California’s Wonder Valley, her artistic practice is defined by both structure and entropy. Physical and metaphysical structures can be examined in her work through the use of architecture and personal artifacts that link the memories of an almost forgotten, bygone era to today’s consciousness. These elements are in constant flux, left to the mercy of the natural world. Time proves to be the main subject of her work, acting as the catalyst for decay. Aspects of home life are prominent in Dean’s work. Remnants of a past life no longer act as detritus, but instead embody a sense of humanity. The use of older furniture, rugs, and other home decorations are utilized in her installation works while her mixed-media and photographic work are filled with the imagery of structures and interior spaces. This highlight of the domestic space creates a sense of familiarity within her work. Architectural elements such as wooden posts and siding are showcased in a deteriorated state. Metallic media such as silver foil and gold leaf act as a reminder of once glamorous and ambitious ideals of past homesteaders now left behind. Textures of paint, fabric, and paper inform the idea of domesticity. Her compositions tend to hold a state of tension between environmental stresses and man-made structures, capturing moments that seem to perpetually teeter towards the edge of oblivion. Dean earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Puget Sound in 2000 and then her Master of Fine Arts from Claremont Graduate University in 2005. Dean has exhibited work in numerous group and solo exhibitions worldwide at galleries such as PØST, Cirrus Gallery, Gallery Lara Tokyo, as well as many others. She currently resides and continues her art practice in Los Angeles, California. Previous Next