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Past Exhibitions

Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2015 at 9:20 pm.

Beatriz Cortez: Cosmic Portals

February 5–April 12, 2022

Beatriz Cortez, Cosmic Mirror (The Sky over Los Angeles), 2022, steel with patina, dimensions variable. Photo: Ramak Fazel

Beatriz Cortez’s new body of work continues her exploration into Indigenous knowledges, multiple temporalities, and ancient forms of abstraction. A two-part installation, the exhibition features a large-scale indoor sculpture referencing an ancient Mayan observatory placed in dialogue with an outdoor work inspired by a mosaic built twenty-nine centuries ago by the ancient Olmec people. While one structure looks out toward the skies the other is directed towards the underworld.

For full exhibition information view Beatriz Cortez: Cosmic Portals.

Pau S. Pescador: Working

January 29-April 12, 2022

Pau S. Pescador, Working 2 (2021), photographic collage, 16 x 12 in.

Pau S. Pescador: Working explores the stories of trans individuals employed in the civil service sector at a time when legal protections have become contested ground. Pescador addresses these conditions in a video comprising interviews with US government trans employees and cultural historians to understand the challenges that this bureaucratic environment presents for a trans, non-binary, gender queer individual. In a series of photographic collage works, the artist’s body interacts with everyday objects in spaces where they worked during the early stages of their transition. Despite the legal protections for gender expression as well as the support from some colleagues, Pescador and other trans non-binary individuals are subject to constant microaggressions as they navigate the complexity and conservative nature of government bureaucracy.

For full exhibition information view Pau S. Pescador: Working.

Faculty-Driven Exhibition #2

Pato Hebert: Lingering

(with a collaborative work by Sarah Gilbert)

Curated by Associate Professor in Media Studies Ruti Talmor

January 22 – April 16, 2022

Pato Hebert, Lingering (2020), archival pigment print on silk charmeuse.

Lingering addresses the COVID-19 condition of long-hauling, in which ongoing COVID symptoms persist well after the initial infection. The exhibition traces the ongoing process of recovery as a site for healing, creativity, and questioning, and the frustrations of seeking care for the varied and extensive symptoms of long-term illness.

For full exhibition information, view Pato Hebert: Lingering.

Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend

July 22–December 18, 2021

Installation view of Sadie Barnette: Legacy and Legend at Pitzer College Art Galleries (Lenzner Family Art Gallery) at Pitzer College, July 22 to December 18, 2021. This exhibition is co-organized with the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College. Photography courtesy of Fredrik Nilsen Studio.

Sadie Barnette: Legacy & Legend, a partnership between Pitzer College Art Galleries and the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, is the artist’s most ambitious exhibition to date.

For full exhibition information and images, visit our Sadie Barnette: Legacy and Legend and the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College.

Jenny Perlin: Maelstrom

September 11–December 11, 2021

Jenny Perlin, Maelstrom (2020), 16mm hand-processed high contrast film, black and white, sound, 5:10

“The great whirlpool arrives and sucks everything into its center, spitting out only fragments and noises. The shoreline is in view, but unreachable. The maelstrom pulls us under. This 16mm hand-processed high contrast experimental film is covered in scratches and scrapes, giving the impression it’s been retrieved after many years from the bottom of the sea.”
Jenny Perlin

For additional exhibition information and images, visit Jenny Perlin: Maelstrom

2021 Senior Thesis Virtual Exhibition: Waffle Breakfasts
Spring 2021

Minerva Cuevas: Disidencia
Fall 2020 – Spring 2021

2020 Senior Thesis Virtual Exhibition: No Single Sources
Spring 2020

Curatorial Internship Project #4: Jessica Sass ’22: Radical Learning Beyond Incarceration
Spring 2020

Candice Lin, Natural History: A Half-Eaten Portrait, an Unrecognizable Landscape, a Still, Still Life
Spring 2020

Hans Baumann: 5 Distillations (Salton Sea)
Spring 2020

Disruption! Art and the Prison Industrial Complex
Fall 2019

Ashley Hunt: Degrees of Visibility
Fall 2019

2019 Senior Art exhibition: About Time 瞬息
Spring 2019

Curatorial Internship Project #3: Julie Heine ’21: Intertext / By the Book
Spring 2019

Publishing Against the Grain
Spring 2019