Artist to lecture on her work

Laguna Art Museum’s curator will host a discussion with Ruby Osorio, the L.A.-based creator of whimsical works on paper.Artist Ruby Osorio will join chief curator Tyler Stallings at 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15, in a discussion of the artist’s current exhibition at Laguna Art Museum.

“Ruby Osorio: A Story of a Girl (Who Awakes Far, Far Away)” is the first solo museum exhibition in California for the Los Angeles-based artist. The exhibition continues through Feb. 19. Lectures are free to museum members and to nonmembers with admission.

The exhibition features Osorio’s gouache paintings on paper, incorporating thread and ink, that explore female identity.

Osorio was born in Los Angeles, where she now lives and works. She received a bachelor’s degree in sociology at UCLA and studied art at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City. Osorio has exhibited nationally and internationally and was awarded the California Community Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship in 2003. Her work has been reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Artweek, and New York Arts Magazine.

A full-color catalog published by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis features essays by Shannon Fitzgerald and Sue Spaid and an interview of the artist by Tyler Stallings.

The exhibition was originally conceived and organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and curated by that museum’s chief curator, Shannon Fitzgerald. A revised version has been reorganized for Laguna Art Museum by the museum’s chief curator, Tyler Stallings.