Art Exhibitions Archive

Shizu Saldamando
Momento

March 1 - April 7, 2023
11am-4pm Monday-Saturday
Boone Family Gallery

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Jason Hanasik
John Who Lives in the Dark

Ocgtober 27 - December 3, 2022
11am-4pm Monday-Saturday
Boone Family Gallery

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Jason Hanasik
I Slowly Watched Them Disappear

Ocgtober 27 - November 19, 2022
11am-4pm Monday-Saturday
V-Gallery

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Virtual Exhibitions

Artist in Residence 2021, Elliott Hundley: Coloratura

One of the most highly regarded contemporary artists coming out of the United States, Elliott Hundley has achieved international acclaim for his emphatically unique works. This exhibition aspires to offer a sampling of Hundley's works in hopes to provide a glimpse into the creative evolution of this unparalleled creative mind.

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Natalie Bookchin: Speech Network (Virtual Exhibition)

Pasadena City College presents Speech Network, an online exhibition of media artworks by internationally recognized artist Natalie Bookchin. Since the 90’s, Bookchin’s work has explored how new technologies critically engage contemporary political, media and internet cultures. Educated as a photographer, her work embraces a new context for image culture, functioning less as unique works of art, and instead as an endless archive of data that can be recontextualized to examine ideas in our networked culture.

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Visual Arts and Media Studies Scholarship Exhibition 2020

The Visual Arts and Media Studies Scholarships are awarded to current Pasadena City College students who display high academic and creative achievement. In our first online VAMS Scholarship Exhibition, we showcase the creative works of our award recipient and celebrate them as artists.

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The Annual Juried Student Exhibition 2020

Each year the Pasadena City College art gallery holds a student art competition that is open to all students who have enrolled in a course in the Visual Arts and Media Studies division that year. A guest juror, typically a distinguished gallery director, curator or art critic, selects and installs a show from the submitted artwork, and awards cash prizes to outstanding student artists. Like many traditions, the PCC Annual Juried Student Exhibition this year had to revision itself for an online socially distant exhibition. Students were asked to submit up to three works through an online submission process. This year's exhibition was juried by digital artist and independent curator Jody Zellen.

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Exhibitions at the Galleries

Oct

24

Artist in Residence 2022

Jason Hanasik’s work includes a broad range of subjects and is unified by themes of resilience and post-traumatic growth. His work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, screened at multiple international film festivals, presented on stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Ace Theater in LA and featured on the BBC, The Guardian and in The Los Angeles Times. His scholarship has been published in the academic journal Critical Military Studies and his photography monograph, I slowly watched him disappear, is in the research collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA NYC, The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, Stanford University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Jan

1

Sharpener

This Event Has Passed The annual fall Faculty Show where PCC faculty members display their creative works.

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Feb

21

Art Exhibition: "Tactile: Function Re-envisioned"

Event Dates: Feb. 21 - Apr. 14, 2017.

A three-person show of Lynn Aldrich, Miyoshi Barosh and Doug Harvey presented by the Galleries at PCC. In our Gallery V, as a companion show to the Tim Hawkinson solo in the Boone Family Art Gallery, we present this group show of artists whose works re-envision function, recasting materials into new, unexpected roles in artworks that embody a strong textural or tactile aspect in their materiality as they are reinvented from their original mundane or cast-off status. At times bridging sculpture and painting, these repurposed media enjoy a new life, giving us pause to consider that art fodder is all around us if we can embrace a fresh perspective and open our minds to the possibilities around us.

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Feb

21

Tim Hawkinson Exhibition: "Spirit of Invention"

Event Date: Feb. 21 - Apr. 14, 2017

Tim Hawkinson is recognized internationally for his unsurpassed and uncanny creativity. Mixing high tech and low tech in unexpected confluence, his resulting artworks are a wonder of creative ingenuity. Because of his remarkable spirit of invention and the wonderfully unpredictable outcomes of his inquisitive postulations, Tim Hawkinson is an inspiration, modeling creativity as a playful dance with life itself.

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Oct

7

Oct 7 - Nov 6, 2015: "Lore and Behold: The Art of Carole Caroompas"

Oct 7 - Nov 6, 2015. Carole Caroompas’ multi-layered composite works juxtapose elements of pop culture, fairy tale lore, advertising icons, and crochet-like designs from hand-crafted patterns often found in thrift stores. These disparate, post-modern fragments are compositionally woven together into a playful, family album-like scrapbook, affectionately nodding to our shared popular experience. Lore and Behold: The Art of Carole Caroompas Oct 7 - Nov 6, 2015

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Oct

7

Oct 7 - Nov 6, 2015. "Pierre Picot: Take Me There"

Oct 7 - Nov 6, 2015. There is a tactile feel to his artist’s hand, akin to the effect of Charles Burchfield’s work yet entirely his own. We sense his drawing acumen and relish his assertive and yet fanciful line quality. The works bridge painting and drawing and offer a rich example of a well-crafted window into a mysterious and magical world.

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Aug

3

Aug 3 - Sept 11, 2015: "The Multi-faceted Norman Abbey"

Aug 3 - Sept 11, 2015. It is with great pride that Pasadena City College presents this sampling of the varied and skillful works of professor emeritus Norman Abbey. Throughout the many stages of his art career, Abbey has explored a wide range of mediums including painting, graphic design and photography.

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Aug

3

Aug 3 - Sept 11, 2015: "Setting Forth" The Annual Faculty Show

Exhibition Dates: Aug 17 - Sept 11, 2015.

The galleries at Pasadena City College are proud to present the Annual Faculty Show in the Boone Family Gallery. This year’s theme ‘setting forth” is meant to suggest the notion of setting forth a good example. Our faculty in the Visual Arts department aspires to model excellence as educators, practicing artists and human beings.

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Feb

23

Feb 23 - Apr 4, 2015: Artist In Residence, Mario Ybarra Jr. with Slanguage

Feb 23 - Apr 4, 2015. Mario Ybarra Jr.‘s art practice inhabits the intersection of the globalized “art world” and the specific cultural experiences of Mexican-Americans living in Southern California. His work has adopted many forms—including sculptural installation, painting, photography and performance—extending to the socially-engaged activities of the collective Slanguage, which he co-founded with Karla Diaz in 2002. Based in Wilmington, California, Slanguage embraces what the group calls “a three-pronged approach to art-making,” including education, community-building, and interactive exhibitions.

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