Andrew Tonkovich curates a show of the painting, drawing, and writing of his mentor-teacher: “Peter Carr: Artist for Survival.” It opens at Cerritos College Art Gallery Monday, October 28 with a reception talk by Tonkovich: a long-ago student of the “outsider artist,” Comp Lit professor, activist, and writer at CSU Long Beach. Carr’s paintings, drawings, and illustrations evoke Blake, Whitman, German Expressionism, Kenneth Patchen, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti with celebratory emphasis on the ecosystem of Laguna Beach and popular resistance to war, nuclear power, US intervention, and ecological destruction. Carr self-published a dozen books including Aliso Creek. Free through December 13. More info here.
