Brian Wilson Art Exhibit

Surf’s up! in the coastal town of Cornwall, England where Beach Boy Brian Wilson is the subject of an exhibition at the contemporary art museum, the Tate St. Ives. For “If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition,” over thirty artists have compiled paintings, sculptures, installations, photo-text works and films, which view developments in art history and Southern California from the 1960s, when Wilson was a member of the Beach Boys.The exhibit includes three installments: “The first considers the interplay between avant-garde art and popular culture, particularly in relation to surf, custom cars and Southern California as a mythical teenage utopia. The second is made up of multi-coloured, more or less abstract images and objects that share what Wilson called the ‘psychedelicacy’ of his kaleidoscopic studio productions, this becomes the exhibition’s instrumental section. The third evokes the gap between the popular image of The Beach Boys and Wilson’s own more turbulent internal world. It suggests the dystopian flipside of the Californian dream, together with the loss of innocence that 1960s baby boomers underwent at the close of that revolutionary decade.”The exhibit opens today, May 26th, 2007 and runs through September 23rd, 2007, around Wilson's six-night residency at London's Royal Festival Hall. For more info visit http://www.tate.org.uk/stives/exhibitions/brianwilson/default.shtmBrian Wilson summer tour dates:6/08: Santa Rosa, CA, Sonoma Co. Fairgrounds 6/09: Monterey, CA, Golden State Theatre 6/11: Saratoga, CA, The Mountain Winery 6/12: Pasadena, CA, Civic Auditorium 6/16: Aalborg, DEN, Skovdalen 6/17: Oslo, NOR, Norwegian Wood festival6/18: Malmo, SWE, Kulturbolaget 6/20: Brussels, BEL Ancienne Belgique 6/21: Amsterdam, NET6/22: Groningen, NET, Oosterpoort 6/24: Kunzelsau, GER, Wurth Open Air 6/26: Paris, FRA, Grand Rex 6/27: Strasbourg, FRA, Palais De Congres 6/28: Mainz, GER, Zelt Festival 6/30: Leipzig, GER, Parkbuhne 7/03: Vienna, AUT, Opera House 7/06: Isle Of Man, UK, Royal Hall 7/07: Kinross, UK, Balado, T in the Park 7/08: Naas, IRE, Punchestown Race Course, Oxegen Festival9/10: London, UK, Royal Festival Hall 9/11: London, UK, Royal Festival Hall 9/12: London, UK, Royal Festival Hall 9/14: London, UK, Royal Festival Hall 9/15: London, UK, Royal Festival Hall 9/16: London, UK, Royal Festival Hall