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Water or Sky

Artist: Lazzari, Margaret

Date: 2013

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

Artwork Dimensions: 38 x 48 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:

Margaret Lazzari is a painter based in LA. She is a professor of Painting and Associate Dean at the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California. In addition to gallery exhibitions of her paintings, she has completed public art commissions for LA Metro and the cities of Pasadena and Santa Monica. For more information, please visit: www.margaretlazzari.com.