Long Beach Creative Group

💥 All media welcome
📅 Deadline: September 3 at 10PM PST
📍 Exhibition runs Oct. 11 – Nov. 15 at Rod Briggs Gallery
👀 Juried by Michael Biagiotti, Michele Rene, and Lucas Gordon

CALL FOR ART
LONG BEACH VIBEZ: Long Beach isn’t just a city; it’s a vibe!! A layered, loud, soulful, sun-soaked vibe. We’re looking for art that captures YOUR Long Beach.

Show us what Long Beach means to YOU.

Click the link for more information and to submit: bit.ly/LBVIBEZ

This exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant from the Arts Council for Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and the ongoing support of the Briggs Family Trust.

From identity and resilience to empowerment and everyday life, these works invite you to experience the world through the lens of the female experience.

✨ Opening Reception: June 22
⏰ 1:00 – 4:00 PM
📍 More events to be announced soon!

We’re proud to kick off the 50th anniversary celebration of the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art with The Woman’s Perspective — a bold and inspiring exhibition featuring a diverse group of women artists from across Southern California.

The Woman’s Perspective
In collaboration with the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art (@scwcawomenartists)

🗓️ June 22 – July 19, 2025
📍 Rod Briggs Gallery | Long Beach Creative Group
📌 2221 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90803

Artwork Name: Flowers 111
Artwork Discipline: Acrylic on Canvas
Artwork Dimensions: 24” x 18” x 1”
Price: $2,000.00

The Flower Power exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant funded by the Arts Council for Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and the support of the Briggs Family Trust.

His paintings bloom with the rounded, flowing forms of his youth—symbols of renewal, regrowth, and a reminder to simply enjoy life. There’s no agenda here—just color, composition, and a whole lot of soul.

Using his signature lyrical style and a retro-muted palette—avocado greens, burnt oranges, and warm browns—Todd invites us into a world where shapes flow, colors hum, and happiness takes the lead.

A resident of the iconic Brewery Arts Colony in Los Angeles, Todd’s work is all about feel-good vibes.

Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: “Flowers 111” by Todd Westover.

📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

With Flowers 111, Todd Westover channels the free-spirited energy of 1960s and ’70s flower-power into a modern-day celebration of joy.

The Flower Power exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant funded by the Arts Council for Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and the ongoing support of the Briggs Family Trust.

Artwork Name: The Boy & the Silver Flower
Artwork Discipline: Oil on Canvas
Artwork Dimensions: 34” x 30” x 2”
Price: $1,100.00

His figures wear traditional Mexican and Indigenous garments in bold, defiant color—symbols of a self once shamed but now fully seen.

Luna's art asks us to reflect: what is the cost of abandoning our roots? And what strength can we reclaim when we bloom from them?

Raised between Guadalajara and Yakima, Luna paints from a place of reclamation—his work a vibrant defiance of assimilation, homophobia, and colonial erasure.

Inspired by pre-Columbian art and the cultural heritage of Jalisco, Luna breathes ancestral strength into every brushstroke.

Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: “The Boy & the Silver Flower” by Luna de Jesus Licea.

📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

In The Boy & the Silver Flower, self-taught painter Luna de Jesus Licea reclaims culture as resistance.

Artwork Name: Otherworld
Artwork Discipline: Ceramic
Artwork Dimensions: 19.5” x 13” x 13”
Price: $1,500.00

The Flower Power exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant funded by the Arts Council for Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and the ongoing support of the Briggs Family Trust.

Her pieces hum with ancestral energy—animal guardians, sacred trees, shapeshifters, and masks that whisper of other realms.

A former fashion designer turned ceramicist, Vanessa creates from her home studio in Los Angeles, channeling myth into clay and crafting visions that blur the seen and unseen.

In Otherworld, flowers are not just flora, but sentient beings bearing witness to the cycles of life and death, joy and grief.

Rooted in summers spent in her mother’s haunted hometown of Valle de Allende, Chihuahua, Vanessa’s sculptural language invites us to question the boundaries of reality.

Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: “Otherworld” by Vanessa Estes-Quintero.

📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

Vanessa Estes-Quintero’s ceramic work is a portal—shaped by memory, myth, and the mysticism of her Mexican heritage.

The Flower Power exhibition is made possible, in part, by a grant funded by the Arts Council for Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and the ongoing support of the Briggs Family Trust.

Her answer is a tender wish—forgiveness for our fallen petals, and the grace to keep blooming despite it all. 🌬️🌸

Artwork Name: White Tulips and Dandelions
Artwork Discipline: Mixed Media
Artwork Dimensions: 6” x 4” x 1”
Price: $180.00

As an immigrant and artist, her work reflects the experience of belonging nowhere and everywhere at once—where ethereal beings rise from the fragility of displacement.

In White Tulips and Dandelions, Yeri asks: What is my root, as someone who no longer belongs to their homeland?

Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: "White Tulips and Dandelions" by Yeri Hwang

📍On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

In delicate lines and layered symbolism, illustrator Yeri Hwang captures the quiet strength of blooming in-between.

His art reminds us: visibility is power, and softness is strength.
🎨 Untitled (Collage 3409)
📐 10” x 8” x 1”
💵 $400
🖼️ Medium: Collage

Part of Flower Power, made possible by the Arts Council for Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and the Briggs Family Trust.

That lived experience of advocacy, care, and healing is central to his work—where visual intimacy becomes resistance. Based in LA and a recent MFA grad from ICP-Bard, McFadden explores collage, photography, and video to unpack how desire and vulnerability shape identity.

He blends found photos from family albums and vintage gay porn to build a visual language rooted in love, loss, and longing. It’s an homage to queer archives and chosen families—preserving what was once erased or hidden. Before pursuing art, McFadden worked in LGBTQ+ health and HIV/AIDS services.

Michael McFadden’s work bridges the personal and the communal—exploring memory, shame, sexuality, and identity through layered imagery. In “Untitled (Collage 3409),” photography becomes both artifact and altar.

🌸 Featured in Flower Power: “Untitled (Collage 3409)” by Michael McFadden
📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery in Long Beach
🎟️ Free and open to the public
🧵 A thread on intimacy, memory, and queer resistance ⬇️

Flower Power is made possible by the Arts Council for Long Beach, the City of Long Beach, and the Briggs Family Trust. See Folium Lux through May 24 at Rod Briggs Gallery.

Her work uplifts other disabled artists and redefines accessibility in contemporary art. 💡 Materials: vinyl, plexiglass, copper wire, and light
🎨 Medium: Lightbox
🖼️ Title: Folium Lux
💵 Price: $650
🔗 More: alexisneumann.com