Original photo of 1010 Broad Street (property of the History Center of SLO County)
This fall, works of art from nearly 60 years of collecting will form the last exhibition of its kind in the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art‘s current home at 1010 Broad Street in downtown San Luis Obispo.
With plans to open in its new home on Higuera Street next summer, the museum looks back in “Vista: Selections from SLOMA’s Permanent Collection,” on view October 24 to February 7.
Including paintings, sculpture and more, “Vista” will take up both the Nybak Gallery and the Gray Wing, celebrating the artists and individuals whose work and dedication shaped the museum across decades.
Overseeing the show, SLOMA’s chief curator Emma Saperstein says “It has actually been a very beautiful process.”
SLOMA’s Permanent Collection was conceived by longtime volunteer curator Arne Nybak, a staunch supporter of the visual arts and of this region’s artists since the early days of the Art Center in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Board of Directors established the collection in 1998 as a testament to the artistic richness of the Central Coast and to honor Nybak’s decades of service.
“Sixty years ago, the Art Association was a hardworking group who were passionate about bringing art to the community,” according to SLOMA curatorial assistant Mac Wilkinson, who helped prepare the exhibition. “Decades later, so was the Art Center, and that’s still who we are at SLOMA.
“It feels really special to celebrate all the triumph and artists who were foundational in the establishment of our (soon to be much bigger) little museum.”
The exhibit serves as an homage to the creative vision of the 30 artists represented in the exhibition.
SLOMA members are invited for a sneak preview of the show on October 23 from 5:30 to 8 p.m.