beach-combing

Minister of the Treasury and Chief of the Customs, and acted as intercessor and mediator between the missionaries on one side and the beach-combing crowd, the trading crowd, and the Hawaiian chiefs on the variously shifting other side.

THE KANAKA SURF 2010

"You bet it will be a big telling, if Alice ever begins," the beach-combing and disreputable kamaainas (old-timers) gleefully told one another over their Palm Tree gin.

WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

Included in this exhibition of more than 50 works are such pioneering artists of assemblage as Gordon Wagner, whose early beach-combing finds and other found objects were combined in a manner that wed abstract expressionism with Wagner's interest in surrealism; Wallace Berman, often cited as the leading influence of the Beat Generation artists; Bruce Conner; and George Herms, the most significant living artist associated with the Beats.

Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20) Bill Bush 2011

Included in this exhibition of more than 50 works are such pioneering artists of assemblage as Gordon Wagner, whose early beach-combing finds and other found objects were combined in a manner that wed abstract expressionism with Wagner's interest in surrealism; Wallace Berman, often cited as the leading influence of the Beat Generation artists; Bruce Conner; and George Herms, the most significant living artist associated with the Beats.

Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20) Bill Bush 2011

Hamish spent most of his days obsessively beach-combing, and in due course created several enormous necklaces out of the carefully matched little flat, round shells with a hole in the middle that seem to make up almost the entirety of the reef.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Included in this exhibition of more than 50 works are such pioneering artists of assemblage as Gordon Wagner, whose early beach-combing finds and other found objects were combined in a manner that wed abstract expressionism with Wagner's interest in surrealism; Wallace Berman, often cited as the leading influence of the Beat Generation artists; Bruce Conner; and George Herms, the most significant living artist associated with the Beats.

Bill Bush: Too Many Openings, Too Little Time: This Artweek.LA (February 14-20) Bill Bush 2011

Birk and his wife Elyse, also a socially conscious artist, have been collaborating on several projects in the past few years, including a powerful pair of oil platform sculptures made of objects found while beach-combing in Southern California.

John Seed: Don't Fear These Oil Rigs: They are Just Works of Art 2010

Flats will be in full force for summer -- ballet styles, gladiators, thongs, T-straps, embellished looks, espadrilles and trusty, beach-combing flip-flops.

Tory Burch: Flats: A Brief History (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010

Here picnics and beach-combing for shells, rocks, sponges, bones and other assorted "treasure" absorbed the exploratory hours.

Walking the walk, talking the talk - San Patricio/Melaque revisited 2007

Here picnics and beach-combing for shells, rocks, sponges, bones and other assorted "treasure" absorbed the exploratory hours.

Walking the walk, talking the talk - San Patricio/Melaque revisited 2007