ASIAN INFLUENCE ON SOUTHLAND.Byline: - Daily News LANCASTER - Art with Asian themes will be on exhibit Saturday through Aug. 1 at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, 44801 Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling . The show, ``Expressions of Asian Artists,'' will feature the artwork and collections of Buklod Ng Pagkakaisa, Renato De Guia, Jerome Esguerra, Tamotsu ``Tom'' Fujiwara, Jeane Lehnhoff, Donna Plummer, Magi Romero, Prapat Sirinavarat and Suzy Shiu Shiu So. The artists draw inspiration from China, Japan, Tibet, the Philippines, Thailand, Korea and Vietnam. Some of the Asian-American artists follow traditional Asian themes, while others work in contemporary non-Asian styles. Among the items on display are colorful Japanese kimonos, paintings on hanging screens and folded screens, furniture, decorative handicrafts, Buddha statuary stat·u·ar·y n. pl. stat·u·ar·ies 1. Statues considered as a group. 2. The art of making statues. 3. A sculptor. adj. Of, relating to, or suitable for a statue. and a Tibetan thangka painting, hung in a monastery monastery Local community or residence of a religious order, particularly an order of monks. Christian monasteries originally developed in Egypt, where the monks first lived as isolated hermits and then began to coalesce in communal groups. or over a family altar place of family devotions. See also: Altar . The show will open with a free public reception from noon to 4 p.m. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays. For more information call (661) 723-6250. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery treasurer Steve Kucharik views a collection while Jessica Parker hangs a scroll To continuously move forward, backward or sideways through the text and images on screen or within a window. Scrolling implies continuous and smooth movement, a line, character or pixel at a time, as if the data were on a paper scroll being rolled behind the screen. See auto scroll. for the ``Expressions of Asian Artists'' show to open Saturday. (2) Artist Renato De Guia calls this drawing ``Nicollete.'' (3 -- color) Suzy Shiu Shiu So's painting ``Lotus and Fish'' will hang in a local show. (4 -- color) A tiger ``walks'' the wall for an ``Expressions of Asian Artists'' show to open Saturday at the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, 44801 Sierra Highway. Michael Owen
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