Post
a temporal condition differentiating
the now from the previous
December 2nd, 2004- Jan 9th, 2005

Post:
Contemporary existence is always a condition that is post-something.  Post is an ever-mutable human condition: it is conceptually the antithesis and grammatically the antonym of history. The artists in this show have to attempted to communicate their current (post) relationship with history. Some of these conditions are the result of very personal and private histories; others are the result of more socially shared histories. Common to all of the work presented is the contemporary relevancy of the pieces only as they are a response to a past condition—Post is always a relative term: without a precedent, post does not exist. Each artist’s personal set of precedents influences their current post-existence.

FORm and FUNction4
Local artists create art that has function and sell at this show pre-Christmas boutique
December 3rd - 5th, 2004

Journeys
Jeffrey Crussell and Nancy Harlan, and guest artist William Catling
October 1st- 31st, 2004

We take many different kinds of journeys. There are physical, spiritual, emotional, and life journeys, to name a few. Passages from one state or place to the next. Some journeys we take alone, some with company.

If life itself is a journey, not a destination, then Journeys is about taking time to reflect on life’s journey and explore the ways that the journey shapes us as human beings. Journeys will include episodes from the artist’s lives, small vignettes or passages.

Pareidolia, National Juried Exhibition
Exploring the art of misperception and projected meaning
Juror: Eleanor Antin
September 1st -26th, 2004

Eleanor Antin: An artist/filmmaker working for many years in installation, photography, video, film, performance, drawing and writing, Antin has an international reputation.

She has had one-woman exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the La Jolla Museum (now the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art), the Long Beach Museum, etc., as well as a major 30-year retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has created major installations at the Hirschhorn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Jewish Museum in New York City, among others.

She is represented in major collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, etc. Antin's most recent work includes the Sydney Biennale with performances at the Sydney Opera House and the premier of a major new photographic work “The Last Days of Pompeii” at the Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York, the Kunsthalle in Vienna, the Craig Krull Gallery in Los Angeles, and in 2003, at the Marella Arte Gallery in Milan, Italy.

State of the Union: L.A. Graffiti Artists
Curated by Greg Stone & Pamela Grau Twena
August 4 – 29th, 2004

Some of the artists included in show are:
MANONE, Chaz, Vyal, Sacred194 and Victor Sepulvada.

There will be a weekly lecture series during this exhibition on Chicano art, Graffiti art, and the social context of this contemporary work.

Landscape Gestures: Mind, Place and Environment
Bart Palisi: Arnhem Land to Southern California:
Nature and the City
Stephen Anderson: Burned Fingers Series of 1,000
Kimmy McCann: Paintings
June 2nd - 27th, 2004

June 19th
Music Performance by The Lloyd Rodgers Group

Ink Under Pressure
Juror Patrick Merrill
May 1st - 30th, 2004

An exciting juried show that explores contemporary printmaking.
Show includes the artwork of 52 national and international printmakers

Juror’s Statement
Anyone can say, “this is better,” but that pronouncement always says more about the speaker than the work - revealing bias, prejudice, conditioning. I bring this understanding with me when I curate or jury an exhibit.

I can’t be truly objective. I believe objectivity in art is a myth. Art must speak to me. I look for the narrative. I look for an intentionality, a philosophy.

Process is akin to play for me and while it has its place I don’t see it as serious art. I place content before form. I ask that the formal structures support and inform the narrative especially when that narrative is the formal structure itself.

I want to be caught up in a dialogue with the artist. I want to be intrigued. I prefer enigma over solution.

In Between
Lilla Hangay, Bobbie Mandel, guest artist: Laura Siquieros
April 1st - 25th, 2004

Three women artists exploring our world through the media of paint. Their work has figurative elements but is not strictly representational.  Bobbie’s new series reflects on subjective presence in inanimate objects, the metaphors that I am using is "stone walls", from monolithic structures to dwellings that can reflect safety or imprisonment.

Our Differences 
Can we be different and still live in harmony?
Linda Miser, Sergio Salgado, guest artist: Michael Mass
March 3rd - 28th, 2004