Emerging Artist Series #3: Nuttaphol Ma September 24 – November 20, 2009 Lenzner Family Art Gallery In the third installment of Pitzer’s Emerging Artist Series, Thai-born, Los Angeles based artist Nuttaphol Ma combines references to Manzanar—an abandoned Japanese relocation camp at the base of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range—with Woody Guthrie’s missing lyrics from “This […]

Emerging Artist Series #2: Karen Lofgren July 23 – September 11, 2009 Lenzner Family Art Gallery In the second Emerging Artist series, Los Angeles-based Canadian artist Karen Lofgren creates a site-specific project for the Lenzner Family Art Gallery at Pitzer College. Lofgren’s richly evocative and provoking objects—a gigantic gold-linked chain, a life-size unicorn made from […]

Kyungmi Shin, Babel: The Chaos of Melancholy July 16 – September 11, 2009 Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College 18 pages, with color reproductions ISBN: 978-615-30465-6 Introduction by Max King Cap Interview by Ciara Ennis Edited by Kira Poplowski Catalogue designed by Gabriela Contreras & Anna Mendoza

Kyugmi Shin July 16 – September 11, 2009 Nichols Gallery Los Angeles-based Korean American artist, Kyungmi Shin will develop a site-specific installation for the Nichols Gallery at Pitzer College. Synthesizing and expanding upon many of the formal and conceptual themes explored in her recent projects, this solo exhibition is Shin’s most ambitious work to date. […]

April 23-May 16, 2009 PITZER COLLEGE ART GALLERIES: Nichols Gallery, Broad Center; Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Atherton Hall; Salathe Gallery, McConnell Center; Barbara Hinshaw Memorial Gallery, Grove House Soo Kyung Bae I am a senior at Pitzer College, majoring in media studies and art. I have been taking photographs since high school and dreaming about […]

Emerging Artist #1: William Ransom January 29 – March 27, 2009 Lenzner Family Art Gallery Pitzer College Art Galleries inaugurates its new Emerging Artist Program in the Lenzner Family Art Gallery with its first artist-in-residence, William Ransom. Ransom, who makes meticulously crafted, large-scale sculptural works from recycled and found wood, will transform the space into […]

01-22-09 through 03-27-09 Nichols Gallery, Broad Center & Lenzner Family Art Gallery, Atherton Hall By intentionally corrupting the digital files of these insistently barbarous Abu Ghraib pictures, Los Angeles-based artist Clayton Campbell transformed them into large-scale, geometric, painterly works. Bands of translucent reds, blues and purples migrate across the surface, shredding and obscuring as they […]

September 25 – November 23, 2008 Pitzer College Art Galleries Lynn Blumenthal, Juan Downey, Antonio Muntadas, Marshall Reese, Michael Smith, Bill Viola, Natalie Bookchin, Mark Boulos, Regina Jose Galindo, Pablo Pijnappel, Artur Zmijewski Curated by Ciara Ennis and Ming-Yuen S. Ma as part of Resolution 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces Pitzer Art Galleries & […]

05-16-08 thru 08-08-08 Nichols Gallery & Lenzner Family Art Gallery Featuring: Steve Cahill, Eddie Gonzalez, Alexandra Juhasz, Gina Lamb, Jesse Lerner, Jessica Lawless, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Jessica McCoy, Kathryn Miller and Kelly Sears Steven Cahill Steve Cahill’s 360° digital images are the contemporary descendents of the panoramas of Eadweard Muybridge and other nineteenth-century photographic pioneers. […]

02-02-08 thru 03-22-08 Nichols Gallery Known for his mural-scale, lushly colored paintings, engineer-turned-artist Sandeep Mukherjee concocted an exhibition of paintings and drawings made specifically for the Nichols Gallery. Restricting his palette to black and white, Mukherjee’s three massive horizontal works, that function in concert as well as singly, allude to the natural landscape but never […]