Monterey Museum of Art opens `Michael Bevilacqua: Homegrown`
(Artdaily.org)

In celebration of its 60th Anniversary Season, the Monterey Museum of Art announces “Michael Bevilacqua: Homegrown”. The exhibition will mark the first Central Coast showing of the Monterey Peninsula born and raised artist’s dynamic work. “Growing up in Pacific Grove was like a trip without a suitcase,” remarked the prolific artist now residing in New York. Bevilacqua has been exhibited worldwide for over two decades, but his exhibition at MMA will mark his first return to his hometown. With his finger on the pulse of current cultural dialogue, Bevilacqua draws inspiration from contemporary literature and music, synthesizes and layers images drawn from nature and technology, and creates work that is at once innovative, vibrant, and stylistically diverse. “I am so pleased to be exhibiting a condensed version of the past