NEW YORK, NY.- To launch the 2011 season at Meulensteen, artist Zach Harris presents a “nocturnal” survey of the Los Angeles art scene. Taking his cue from “Midnight at Malibu”, a song written in the 1950s by his Los Angeles based Tin Pan Alley-musician grandfather Victor Harris, the show eschews the superficial ethos and image-obsessed culture that typically satirize the place in order to render a deeper, darker side of the City of Angels. Nocturnes, landscape abstraction, beach assemblage, Chet Baker, Greek mythology and the psychedelic experience all haunt the content of the exhibition. In Harris’s words: The show’s tonal concept derives from the nocturnal, deep blue mood that the title suggests. The experience of the beach at night is its central theme: the oceanic gestalt, the psycho-visual abstractions generated by near darkness, and the immersive rhythms of a vast moving landscape. Specific attention was