Future Exhibitions

 

 

 

Images: Al Held, West End, 1985
Acrylic on canvas, 96 x 144 inches
Collection of the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach. Gift of the Gordon F. Hampton Foundation, through Wesley G. Hampton, Roger K. Hampton, and Katherine H. Shenk;Art © Al Held Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Norman McLaren: The Masters Edition, cover art. Paul Shambroom, Level A Hazmat suit, yellow (“Disaster City” National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center, Texas
Engineering and Extension Service [TEEX], College Station, Texas), 2004, pigmented inkjet on canvas with varnish.

 

 

Al Held: The Evolution of Style
June 26– August 10, 2008
The University Art Museum (UAM) is pleased to present the second exhibition in the Hampton series, Al Held: The Evolution of Style on view from June 26 through August 10, 2008.  Held, who demonstrates an intriguing transition from gestural painting typical of the Abstract Expressionist movement to intricate geometric imagery, bridges Modernism with contemporary painting. The 25 works in the exhibition span from the year 1958 to 2005, including one of Held’s last two public commissions, a series of watercolor studies for the stained glass windows installed in the United States Courthouse in Orlando, Florida in 2006. In addition to the eight Held works in the UAM Hampton Collection of American Paintings, the exhibition includes works on loan from the Al Held Foundation, Inc., Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Crown Point Press, Manny Silverman Gallery, the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, and private collectors. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with texts by Robert Storr, Dean of the Yale School of Art, Yale University, and the exhibition curators.

Colour Box
Summer Film Series
June 26 – August 10, 2008| Friday + Saturday, 12:30 + 2:30
The UAM Summer film series, held in conjunction with Al Held: The Evolution of Style, will focus on experimental short films and animation that explore color and abstraction in movement. The series will include work by Len Lye and Norman McLaren, with special screening of films by Stan Brakhage. Free Admission on Fri + Sat.

art/tapes/22
September 4 – October 19, 2008
The University Art Museum announces a partnership with the Venice Biennale contemporary art archives (ASAC) to mount an exhibition of the newly restored videotapes from Maria Gloria Bicocchi’s pioneering Florence media studio art/tapes/22 in Italy, to open September 4, 2008 at the University Art Museum in Long Beach. Art/tapes/22 operated from 1973 to 1976, just over three exceptionally prolific years of production as an international residency for artists, and Europe’s first production and distribution studio for artist’s video. Curated by Alice Hutchison in collaboration with Maria Gloria Bicocchi and La Biennale di Venezia (ASAC), Italy.
For more information, click here to download early press release (pdf file)

Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power
January 22 – April 5, 2009
The exhibition Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power is the first to bring together selections from all five of Shambroom's most important–and highly acclaimed–series to date: Factories (1986-1988), Offices (1989-1990), Nuclear Weapons (1992-2001), Meetings (1999-2003), and Security (2004-current). This traveling exhibition was produced by the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. Paul Shambroom, who lives and works in Minneapolis, has made an indelible mark on the landscapes of photography and political discourse. His series-based color photographs reveal both local and global manifestations of power, depicting scenes in industrial, business, community, and military environments. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication of the same name with an essay by UAM Director Christopher Scoates.