Steampunk Exhibition: San Diego Automotive Museum
This current exhibition at The San Diego Automotive Museum is certainly worth the trip.
You can find my entire photo shoot of this amazing exhibition here;
It's a small museum basically just one large hall and I have been there before but this is one of the best exhibitions I've seen there to date. As you enter be sure to stop to check out the works of local artists Dan Jones and Jeff Steorts.
A self proclaimed "junkaholic" and all around geek enthusiast, Dan Jones (a.k.a. Tinkerbots) is one of San Diego's premier found object and assemblage sculptors. A native San Diegan, Dan has been a tinkerer for as long as he can remember.
Like most boys, Dan Jones is obsessed with robots, laser guns and building things. But even though he considers himself a big kid, Jones has plenty of responsibilities—like balancing a fulltime job as a post-office clerk with a rigorous junk-collecting schedule and finding the time to create Tinkerbots—whimsical mini-sculptures of the steampunk and dieselpunk genres that are currently on exhibit at the San Diego Automotive Museum and the Oceanside Museum of Art.
Jeff Steorts is a local self taught artist. He says that he is intrigued and inspired by objects and designs that come from the past. As a result, his completed works usually reflect this, although there is definitely a synthesis of the past and present.
Baron Margo is a prolific Los Angeles artist whose unique metalworks include robots, spacecrafts, whimiscal metal creatures as well as concept metal cars, boats, planes and trains.
Born in Florida, if you ask him, he says he's lived in L.A. "Foreva". When asked what inspires him to create his unique brand of fantasy-meets-reality he will tell you, "Everything"! though he will concede his second favorite artist (second only to himself!) is Dali.
Not one to mince words (wink! wink!) he is always quick with an answer that usually throws everyone off guard. When asked about his upbringing he will tell you it was "Normal", though there is nothing normal about the man or his amazing creations.
His collection of Art Cars is a collaboration with great fabricators and his keen eye that was inspired by his belief that the automobiles of today should be more futuristic and imaginative than they are.
When cruising around town these always draw A LOT of attention. When asked by curious on-lookers, "What is that?" His reply would be, "Just your everyday, average rocket ship!" Well we should all be so lucky. Anyone whose had a glimpse into "Baron's World" usually walks away with a little inspiration and a big smile.
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