SaveArtSpace is proud to present Your Art 4, a solo public art exhibition in Salinas, CA, opening December 20, 2024. Curated by SaveArtSpace.

The Your Art 4 selected artist is Myra Eastman.

Opening December 20, 2024, SaveArtSpace will launch a public art installation for the selected work on billboard ad space in Salinas, CA. The public art will be on view for at least one month.

Selected Artist

Location: W Market St & Clark St, Salinas, CA

Myra Eastman is a narrative painter whose work is grounded in political, social and personal narratives. She was born in Los Angeles, California and has lived in Santa Cruz, California for fifty years. Myra was an arts educator in the Santa Cruz County schools until she retired in 2024, and is now working full-time in her studio. She is the 2019 recipient of the Santa Cruz County Rydell Fellowship which helps individual visual artists pursue their creative work and are made solely on the merits of their artistry and not tied to the completion of any specific projects. In addition her work has been featured at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Museum Educado Carrillo, and Monterey Peninsula College. She was invited to the Santo Foundation’s 2019 10th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition held at Webster University in Saint Luis, MO. She has work in the Catamaran Literary Reader, American Art Collector and Studio Visit. Her paintings have recently been purchased by the Contra Costa Medical Center to be a part of their “Resilience Project” permanent collection.

Statement:

This series, God & Country charts the intrusion of White Christian Nationalism into mainstream American life. The lines separating church and state are getting blurry. Christian fundamentalist demagogues seek to manipulate and corrupt core American institutions that threaten the very foundation of personal freedoms in the United States.

Connect with Myra on Instagram at @myraeastman.

Curator

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a progressive message of social change. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.