Art Film: Beauty is Embarrassing, brought to you by the Lynda Fairly Carpinteria Arts Center

Film: BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING – A funny, irreverent, joyful and inspiring documentary featuring the life and current times of one of Americas most important artists, Wayne White. @waynewhiteart Brought to you by the Carpinteria Arts Center. Showing at the Alcazar Theatre [4916 Carpinteria Avenue].Suggested donation at the box office: $5. Raised in the mountains of Tennessee, Wayne started his career as a cartoonist in New York City. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the TV show, Pee-wees Playhouse, which led to more work designing some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Most recently, his word paintings, which feature pithy and often sarcastic text statements crafted onto vintage landscape paintings, have made him a darling of the fine art world. This film chronicles the vaulted highs and the crushing lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art. Acting as his own narrator, Wayne guides us through his life using moments from his latest creation: a hilarious, biographical one-man show. The pieces are drawn from performances at venues in Tennessee, New York and Los Angeles including the famous Roseland Ballroom and the Largo Theater. Whether hes parading a twenty-foot-tall puppet through the Tennessee hillside, romping around the Hollywood Hills dressed in his LBJ puppet suit, relaxing in his studio picking his banjo, or watching his children grow up much too soon, Wayne always seems to have a youthful grin and a desperate drive to create art and objects. It is an infectious quality that will inspire everyone to find their pleasure in life and pursue it at all costs. At its core, this film is a reminder that we should all follow our passion. It is those creative impulses that will lead us to where we need to go. (Excerpt from beautyisembarrassing.com) Read the New York Times film review ‘Far Beyond Playhouse, Artist Remains Playful; Beauty Is Embarrassing, Directed by Neil Berkeley’, athttps://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/movies/beauty-is-embarrassing-directed-by-neil-berkeley.html