The Weekly Newspaper of Torrance
Herald Publications - Torrance, El Segundo, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, Lawndale, & Inglewood Community Newspapers Since 1911 - (310) 322-1830 - Vol. 8, No. 5 - February 1, 2018
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West Gets Cross Country Kudos
At last week’s Torrance City Council meeting, members of West High School’s boys cross country team and coaches received special recognition for winning the CIF State Division III championship.
Photo Courtesy of City of Torrance.
New Exhibits Smoke & Mirrors and
Solar Flare at The Torrance Art Museum
TerriAnn in Torrance
By TerriAnn Ferren
Two new exhibits at the Torrance Art Museum,
Smoke & Mirrors, curated by Gioj De
Marco and Elizabeth Withstandley, and Solar
Flare, curated by Manual History Machines,
opened Saturday, Jan. 20 and runs until
Saturday, March 10. Featured artists include
Adler Guerrier, Alejandra Urresti, Barry
Markowitz, Bettina Khano, Clifton Childree,
Dorsey Dunn, Elizabeth Withstandley, Gioj
De March, Gordon Winiemko, Heta Kuchka,
Joséphine Wister Faure, Lewis Colburn and
Thomas Müller. “The artists in Smoke &
Mirrors investigate the nature of reality; how
objects, memories, and ideas come into being;
how they persist; and how they cease to
exist,” the description of the program reads.
Solar Flare, curated by Manual History
Machines includes artists Shanna Waddell,
Heather Rasmussen, Paul Pescador, Elizabeth
Folk, Sofia Córdova and Daniel Gibson.
This show is located in Gallery Two and
the Dark Room (where film is shown). The
Torrance Art Museum website notes, “The
artists selected for this exhibition each respond
to their environment and life through
a unique lens of recollection and mediation.
They reconstruct experiences that reflect the
personal, psychological and the subjective…
Solar Flare serves to honor each of the artists
and reinforces the crucial role of the subjective
experience as a central core – which
everything orbits.”
Special events planned for later in the show
run include Levitation and BMT-IRT-IND,
performances by Joséphine Wister Faure
and Barry Markowitz on Feb. 10 from 2
p.m. to 5 p.m. and on March 3 from 3 p.m.
to 5 p.m. Also don’t miss the MAGICAL
EXPERIMENTS OR SCIENCE IN PLAY, a
moderated panel discussion with the artists.
I spoke with Gioj De Marco and Elizabeth
Withstandley, the two curators of Smoke &
Mirrors. “We came together in a funny way,”
said Elizabeth. “We started a not-for-profit
space in Miami called Locust Projects and
a few years ago we had done an open call
and there was 350 artists that had sent in
proposals. So I was one of the people going
through the proposals and getting them ready
for the committee that was going to review
them…and you know you have [only] a few
slots available – way more artists than you
can do things with. But there were a few
proposals that I really enjoyed that I felt I
needed to reach out to these artists and say,
‘I am sorry -- you’re not having a show at
Locust Project, but I really enjoyed your
work.’ Through that I sent Gioj one of those
emails.” The two artists met, connected and
realized their work dovetailed beautifully
together, so they looked for other artists who
would fit in their genre. “How the work connects
is that we were both working parallel
with the notion with cinema and objects
in film,” said Gioj. “At the time, Elizabeth
was photographing props in prop houses
and then writing imaginary scripts about it
and presenting them as photographs. So that
was such a clear, esthetic and conceptional
connection. That it was also wonderful for
me to receive news that I was not alone in
my thinking. So we had this real artist experience.”
These two talented women both
live in Southern California and have come
together for this and other projects. The two
have reached out to artists in Los Angeles,
Florida, Argentina, Finland and Germany
and feel as if this is the first attempt at the
conceptional organization of the work.
The Smoke & Mirrors grand opening was
a huge success. People were crowded into
the museum perusing, studying, reading,
See TerriAnn in Torrance, page 6
Torrance PD Welcomes New
Deputy Chief Jon Megeff
Deputy Chief Jon Megeff began his law
enforcement career with the Torrance Police
Department in 1987. He has worked
assignments as an officer in Patrol (Field
Assignments, METRO, Field Training
Officer, and SWAT), Special Investigations
Division (Vice and Narcotics), and
the Personnel Division (Academy Drill
Instructor). He was promoted to Sergeant
in December 2001 and worked assignments
in Patrol (Field Supervisor, Field Training
Sergeant, and SWAT), Services Division
(Jail Sergeant), and the Personnel Division
(Personnel Sergeant).
He was promoted to Lieutenant in November
2005 and worked assignments in
Patrol (Area Commander, South Bay Platoon
Commander), and as the Emergency Services
Division Commander, Traffic and Special
Events Division Commander, Research and
Training Division Commander, Personnel
Division Commander, and Community
See Deputy Chief, page 8
Deputy Chief John Megeff.