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Being Here

Artist: Lohrer Hall, Betsy

Date: 2013

Medium: Gouache and graphite on paper

Artwork Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 15 in.

County Department: Mental Health

Artwork Site: Long Beach Mental Health Center

Supervisorial District: 4

Location Status: Portable

About the Artwork:

The renovated facility for the Long Beach Mental Health Center serves over 4,000 clients annually ranging from children, adolescents, families and adults to provide psychiatric, early intervention and clinical services. To further promote the Department of Mental Health’s mission statement of “hope, recovery and well-being,” the LA County Department of Arts and Culture's Civic Art Program developed a curatorial approach that focuses on artworks that provide warmth, contribute to the healing process and reduce stress. The 18 works in the collection are by local artists, with an emphasis on abstract work evoking the California landscape and include artists Betsy Lohrer Hall, Brian Hollister, Margaret Lazzari, Kimiko Miyoshi, Leo Rivas and Ashley Shumaker.

About the Artist:

Betsy Lohrer Hall is a Long Beach-based artist who creates works on paper, installations, performances and ephemeral object works. She has a longstanding interest in process and impermanence, which is expressed in a variety of ways, from delicate, repeated marks of gouache on paper, to her use of simple, fragile materials such as thread, eggshells or collected cast-off objects. Some of her works allude to unnoticed aspects of everyday life, or to current environmental or socio-political concerns. Most often, these are approached in an abstract, lyrical way. To learn more, please visit: betsylohrerhall.com/home.html