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Miro Blue

Artist: Arrowsmith, Dawn b. 1951

Date: 2021

Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas

Artwork Dimensions: 30 x 30 in.

County Department: Medical Examiner

Artwork Site: Medical Examiner OPS Building

Supervisorial District: 1

Current Status: On view

About the Artwork: Dawn Arrowsmith describes her Circle paintings as a meditation on the profound experience of color. They are experiential. In an essay on the Circle paintings Christopher Miles wrote, "looking into them, one experiences an afterglow, which I like to think of as a kind of perceptual afterburn, that over time bathes the periphery in a complementary tint and that allows you to take the color of the painting with you on your eye like a taste lingering on your tongue."

About the Artist: Dawn Arrowsmith is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. She has exhibited her paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations and performance work in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her work is included in museum, corporate and private collections including Eli Broad/Sun America; Claremont Lewis Museum of Art; The Capital Group Foundation; Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy; Princess Madawi M. Aboulaziz of Saudia Arabia and the Jeffrey Schrager Collection.


Exhibitions include the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles; Eli Broad Foundation in Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Barnsdall); Claremont Lewis Museum of Art; Huntington Beach Art Center; Torrance Art Museum; Toomey-Tourell Gallery in San Francisco; Daniel Saxon Gallery; Jancar Gallery; 515 Gallery, Los Angeles; William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, Tufenkian Gallery, Glendale, CA, PRJCTLA; David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Brennan & Griffin, New York.

International exhibitions include the Lidovy Gallery in Prague and Galerie Califia in Horazdovice, Czech Republic; Ducale Palace in Gubbio, Italy; East China University in Shanghai, China; Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk, Belarus; Zirrat Bankasi Gallery, Ankara, Turkey; Giacomo Projects, Venice, Italy; and Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. 

Arrowsmith was born in San Francisco and received her B.F.A. from California State University Fullerton and her M.F.A. at Claremont Graduate University. She lives and maintains her studio in Los Angeles.

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