Long Beach, CA.- The Long Beach Museum of Art is pleased to present “Ray Turner: Population, Good Man/Bad Man”, on view at the museum until September 11th. This exhibition, consisting of paintings, monotypes, and sculptures, will be installed on the entire first floor of the Museum Pavilion. Population is a unique gathering of over 200 portraits of Southern California residents painted over the past four years by Pasadena artist Ray Turner. Ray has spent the spring of 2011 painting dozens of individuals to represent the rich, diverse community of Long Beach, including elected officials, philanthropists, artists and a host of Long Beach citizens encountered in our everyday lives. Turner has focused his career on the human face with the objective of creating a narrative between the viewer and the subject. Turner paints his subjects after carefully studying the multiple photographs he has taken with a concentration on their essence as opposed to their features.