Long Beach Creative Group
banner
lbcreativegroup.bsky.social
Long Beach Creative Group
@lbcreativegroup.bsky.social
Rod Briggs Gallery
Community Art Gallery
📍 2221 E. Broadway, Long Beach
💥 All media welcome
📅 Deadline: September 3 at 10PM PST
📍 Exhibition runs Oct. 11 – Nov. 15 at Rod Briggs Gallery
👀 Juried by Michael Biagiotti, Michele Rene, and Lucas Gordon
July 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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
Using his signature lyrical style and a retro-muted palette—avocado greens, burnt oranges, and warm browns—Todd invites us into a world where shapes flow, colors hum, and happiness takes the lead.

A resident of the iconic Brewery Arts Colony in Los Angeles, Todd’s work is all about feel-good vibes.
May 15, 2025 at 2:48 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
Raised between Guadalajara and Yakima, Luna paints from a place of reclamation—his work a vibrant defiance of assimilation, homophobia, and colonial erasure.

Inspired by pre-Columbian art and the cultural heritage of Jalisco, Luna breathes ancestral strength into every brushstroke.
May 12, 2025 at 3:45 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
In Otherworld, flowers are not just flora, but sentient beings bearing witness to the cycles of life and death, joy and grief.

Rooted in summers spent in her mother’s haunted hometown of Valle de Allende, Chihuahua, Vanessa’s sculptural language invites us to question the boundaries of reality.
May 11, 2025 at 4:06 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
As an immigrant and artist, her work reflects the experience of belonging nowhere and everywhere at once—where ethereal beings rise from the fragility of displacement.

In White Tulips and Dandelions, Yeri asks: What is my root, as someone who no longer belongs to their homeland?
May 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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
Michael McFadden’s work bridges the personal and the communal—exploring memory, shame, sexuality, and identity through layered imagery. In “Untitled (Collage 3409),” photography becomes both artifact and altar.
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🌸 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
Inspired by traditional Rose Windows, Alexis reimagines the symbol of wholeness through the lens of disability and resilience. Each vinyl layer—like a leaf (folium in Latin)—builds intricate, glowing complexity. The result: a luminous celebration of the body, nature, and interconnectedness.
May 7, 2025 at 4:11 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
Using just 5 colors or less, Carmen creates luminous depth, subtle shifts in temperature, and that dreamy softness watercolor does best.
Her process is like solving a puzzle—slow, satisfying, and always full of surprises.
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
While Carmen often paints plein air, these floral works are born from a different process: negative painting.
She starts with loose, expressive washes… and slowly carves out the forms of flowers, petal by petal, with each layer.
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
After retiring from a 21-year career teaching first grade, Carmen Daugherty became a full-time watercolorist and urban sketcher. Now she paints nearly every day—outside on location, or inside her Seal Beach studio.
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 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
A Matilija poppy, aglow in sun and shadow—A Bright Spot lives up to its name.
Painted in watercolor, it radiates the calm clarity of an artist who knows how to listen to light.
Alix, as she’s known, came to watercolor through design.
May 6, 2025 at 5:22 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
These aren’t brushstrokes.
They’re flowerprints.
Blue Flowers (Purgatory II) was made from hundreds of real Asiatic Dayflowers, each pressed directly onto paper. A quiet ritual. Faint. Fleeting. Honest.
May 3, 2025 at 4:19 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
Ziyi Tan doesn’t paint to express herself—she paints to disappear.
Based in Long Beach and trained on two continents, she blends Eastern and Western traditions into something strikingly her own.
May 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM