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Rod Briggs Gallery
Community Art Gallery
📍 2221 E. Broadway, Long Beach
CALL FOR ART
LONG BEACH VIBEZ: Long Beach isn’t just a city; it’s a vibe!! A layered, loud, soulful, sun-soaked vibe. We’re looking for art that captures YOUR Long Beach.

Show us what Long Beach means to YOU.

Click the link for more information and to submit: bit.ly/LBVIBEZ
July 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The Woman’s Perspective
In collaboration with the Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art (@scwcawomenartists)

🗓️ June 22 – July 19, 2025
📍 Rod Briggs Gallery | Long Beach Creative Group
📌 2221 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90803
May 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: “Flowers 111” by Todd Westover.

📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

With Flowers 111, Todd Westover channels the free-spirited energy of 1960s and ’70s flower-power into a modern-day celebration of joy.
May 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: “The Boy & the Silver Flower” by Luna de Jesus Licea.

📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

In The Boy & the Silver Flower, self-taught painter Luna de Jesus Licea reclaims culture as resistance.
May 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: “Otherworld” by Vanessa Estes-Quintero.

📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

Vanessa Estes-Quintero’s ceramic work is a portal—shaped by memory, myth, and the mysticism of her Mexican heritage.
May 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Featured in Flower Power Exhibit: "White Tulips and Dandelions" by Yeri Hwang

📍On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

In delicate lines and layered symbolism, illustrator Yeri Hwang captures the quiet strength of blooming in-between.
May 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
🌸 Featured in Flower Power: “Untitled (Collage 3409)” by Michael McFadden
📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery in Long Beach
🎟️ Free and open to the public
🧵 A thread on intimacy, memory, and queer resistance ⬇️
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🌸 Featured in Flower Power: Folium Lux by Alexis Neumann
📍 On view through May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach ✨ A glowing meditation on wholeness, disability, and light. Folium Lux is a 12” x 12” hand-drawn light-box built with layered transparent vinyl. #FlowerPower
May 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Featured in the Flower Power exhibition: “Wild Roses” and “Rosy Delights” by Carmen Daugherty.
On view: April 26–May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery.
Two watercolors. Infinite layers. Unmistakable joy.
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
🌼 Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit: “A Bright Spot” by Alexandra Sullivan

🖼️ On view: April 26–May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery

🎨 Watercolor | 16" x 12" | $180
May 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
🚨 FINAL WEEK! 🚨

Artists & curators—our Call for 2026 Exhibit Proposals closes May 10! Pitch your bold, creative vision to the Long Beach Creative Group.

Submit now 👉 bit.ly/LBCG2026

🖼️ Make something unforgettable. #LongBeach #Art #Artist
May 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit: Blue Flowers (Purgatory II) by Michael Nannery.
⁕ On view: April 26–May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery.
⁕ Medium: Natural pigment from Asiatic Dayflowers on paper
⁕ Dimensions: 22” x 30”
⁕ Price: $800
May 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🌸 Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit: “Wishful Thinking” by Ziyi Tan
📍 On view: April 26 – May 24 at the Rod Briggs Gallery
🎨 A quiet meditation in oil, grounded in tradition and shared emotion.
May 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “The Riot” by Juno Rinaldi.

On view: April 26th to May 24th at the Rod Briggs Gallery.

Juno Rinaldi has always been a storyteller—first with her voice, now with vibrant, unapologetic paint strokes.
May 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “Retrospect” & “Youth Bloom” by Tonya Burdine.

On view: April 26th to May 24th at the Rod Briggs Gallery.

A celebration of life’s quieter moments and natural beauty, Tonya Burdine’s paintings invite us to pause, observe, and connect.
May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🌼 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening weekend of Flower Power at the Rod Briggs Gallery!

We are so grateful to our amazing artists and community for helping us bring this celebration of creativity and florals to life.

Flower Power will be on view through May 24th— come visit! 🌼
April 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “Archetypal Peonies” by Erin Roach

Part of her Derivative series, Erin Roach (@erinqroach) blends history, identity, and the digital age into striking risograph prints—playfully “borrowing” from art history to tell new, contemporary stories.
April 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “Floriography”

Maureen Vastardis (@maureenvastardis) invites us to see flowers not just as flora—but as language. She blends her passion for abstraction, color, and emotion into a striking photographic composition that speaks in whispers and blooms.
April 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “Forget-Me-Knot” by Adam Abraham

In Forget-Me-Knot, Adam Abraham (@adamabrahamceramic) transforms clay into a celebration of nature, queerness, and the decorative—a lush, hand-built sculpture that flirts with Rococo excess and Art Nouveau elegance.
April 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “Twin Trumpets” by Martha Spelman

On view: April 26th to May 24th at the Rod Briggs Gallery.

Martha Spelman’s (@marthaspelman) piece “Twin Trumpets” merges photography, drawing, and digital manipulation into a joyful floral symphony.
April 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “White Rose” by Michele Rene

Best known for her evocative portrayals of the human form, Michele Rene (@michelereneart) brings a striking stillness to “White Rose”—a moment of softness and beauty rendered by an artist who usually centers people over petals.
April 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit “Saguaro: Life in Bloom” by Stephanie Rozzo

In “Saguaro: Life in Bloom,” Stephanie Rozzo (@stephanierozzoart) captures the stages of a saguaro cactus from bud to seed—symbolizing the resilience, growth, and complexity of womanhood.
April 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
On view: April 26th to May 24th at the Rod Briggs Gallery

Lainey Atwood (@elainemaxinestudio) honors Southern California’s native plants in “Over Sunflower Hill,” an immersive mixed-media painting that captures the rhythms, resilience, and spiritual memory of the land.
April 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Featured in the Flower Power Exhibit
“Sunflower” by Emma Speelman

On view: April 26th to May 24th at the Rod Briggs Gallery

Emma Speelman (@artbyemmalian) captures the quiet beauty of nature in “Sunflower,” a detailed watercolor that reflects joy, resilience, and the power of being present.
April 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Floral Slam: The Language of Petals

🌼 May 18 | 6–8 PM | Free 🌼

Join us for an all-ages poetry slam where flowers meet verse! Share your original work or just enjoy the magic as poetry and petals collide.
April 17, 2025 at 11:31 PM