Boxing coach 'Pete G!' puts his student Karen through some sparring drills atop of the public art sculpture titled "Ocean Park Segue" (by artist Joyce Kohl) on Ocean Park Beach and Barnard Way in Santa Monica on Sunday, February 24, 2008. Fabricated on the site, Ocean Park Segue consists of two raised concrete performance platforms, each made of six horizontally stacked concrete slabs, pivoted to create stairs and overhangs. The surface of the slabs is imprinted with cast beach artifacts both human-made and natural. The platforms are used for sponsored and spontaneous performances, picnicking and playing. The installation measures forty inches in height with a total area of fifteen feet by fifteen feet for each slab.

Jonathan Borofsky's controversial 30-foot-high sculpture "Ballerina Clown" graces the Renaissance building at the corner of Rose Avenue and Main Street on Saturday, February 23, 2008. The Ballerina Clown was fabricated in 1989 out of aluminum, steel, fiberglass and an electric motor that activates the extended kicking leg. This sculpture is an accommodation or resolution of opposites in one. Not only does this image bring the male and female together into one figure, but also, two opposite types of performers are represented: the formal classical ballet dancer and the traditional street performer.

A woman examines Jerry Berta's Ceramic and Neon Sculpture of a Drive-in Theater during the Second Annual Santa Monica Art Festival at the Civic Center on Friday, February 22, 2008. Jerry Berta is the artist formerly known as the owner of Rosie's Diner. Berta always looked at Rosie's Diner as a giant piece of art. Now he is getting back to making smaller diners that are a little easier to take to Art Shows.

People stroll past the public art sculptures 'Dinosaurs of Santa Monica' (by 1989, Claude and Francois Lalanne) at the Third Street Promenade on Saturday, February 16, 2008. There are six topiary sculptures made of stainless steel, copper and foliage that run along the Third Street Promenade between Broadway and Wilshire Boulevard. 

Finger painter, Orlando Guernandes, 30, creates art on the Santa Monica Pier on Friday, January 25, 2008. Guernandes, who hails from Mexico, has been painting on the Santa Monica Pier for the past eight years.

1) Guests admire the art during the opening reception of Maurizio Barattucci's  art show "Choosing the Quiet" at SMC Emeritus College on Thursday, Aug 17, 2008. 2) Maurizio Barattucci poses for a portrait during his art opening  on Thursday. The show is curated by Myung Deering.