Future Exhibitions








2010
Reframing the Collection
January 28 – April 18, 2010Pieces of 9: Reframing the Collection draws upon a broad selection of work from the University Art Museum’s permanent collection and, in a departure from a singular curatorial voice, each member of staff was given a segment of the museum space and asked to curate a small portion of the exhibition. Those who work behind the scenes have offered a diverse exploration of the collection and, when taken as a whole, lent a unique perspective by indicating a fond familiarity with the work, while at the same time charging it with new associations. Ranging from the light-hearted to the political to the many faces of angst, each micro-exhibition reflects the participants’ unique insight into our permanent collection.
Included in the exhibition are works by Tina Barney, Leonard Baskin, Ruth Bernhard, Dorr Bothwell, Marilyn Bridges, Calum Colvin, Susan Crile, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Walton Ford, Candida Höfer, Sara Holt, Corita (Sister Mary Corita Kent), Käthe Kollwitz, Robin Lasser, Ken Light, José Orozco, Gilles Peress, Ken Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth, Mark Ruwedel, Lucas Samaras, Howard Schatz, George Segal, Dick Swift, Arthur Tress, Eugenia Vargas, Catherine Wagner, Tom Wesselmann, and Jennifer Yorke.
Curated by Angela Barker, Shirley Brilliant, John Ciulik, Elizabeth Hanson, Ilee Kaplan, Christopher Scoates, Pet Sourinthone, Brian Trimble, and Sarah G. VinciPress Release (pdf file)
On view in the Wesley G. Hampton Gallery:
The Celestial Spheres, by Timothy Hutchings
January 28 – February 21, 2010In the video The Celestial Spheres, scored by David T. Little, rectangles and circles bob gently off one another with suggestive organic movements. While it appears to be a flat plane, the work looks almost three-dimensional as the objects alternately come forward and recede into space in a visually challenging way. Teased by the series of erratically moving shapes reminiscent of 1960s experimental animation, the watchful viewer soon uncovers the secret embodied in the movements.*
Timothy Hutchings was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1974. He received his B.A. from Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri; and his M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
The Celestial Spheres, 2008, HD video TRT:6:16, score by David T. Little
* http://www.i-20.com/exhibition.php?exhibition_id=223SMS
March 11 – April 18, 2010SMS, the abbreviation for Shit Must Stop, was a limited-edition series of work created in 1968 by over eighty artists, including Yoko Ono, Joseph Kosuth, Meret Oppenheim, John Cage, Claes Oldenberg, and Marcel Duchamp. Using a variety of media, these boxed collections were mailed to individuals with the objective of creating a personal experience with the objects. The UAM at CSULB has all six mailings from the series. This seminal collection of work embodies the dissention of the art world during a time in the late 1960s when cultural norms were being challenged, and razed. Collectively, the works symbolize a monumental shift in thought—a reification of concepts. SMS represented a route that diverged sharply from the authority of the institution, furthering the notion that art was to be experienced rather than worshipped. SMS is organized for the University Art Museum by participants in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies and is funded by the Department of Art and the College of the Arts at California State University, Long Beach.
Insights 2010: The Annual Student Exhibition
May 2010Resistance/Reactions: A Michael Goldberg Retrospective
September 9 - December 12, 2010
Image credits: Martha Rosler, Lounging Woman (from the series: Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful), 2004, Photomontage on paper, 22.88 x 15 in., © Martha Rosler, courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery; Ruth Bernhard In the Box - Horizonta, 1962 (printed 1992), Silver gelatin print, 13 x 23 in., Gift of the Estate of Ruth Bernhard, Reproduced with permission of the Ruth Bernhard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum, © Trustees of Princeton University; Tina Barney, The Trustee and the Curator, 1991, Chromogenic color print, 28 x 36 in., © Tina Barney, courtesy Janet Borden, Inc; Corita (Sister Mary Corita Kent) feelin' groovy, 1967 Serigraph print, Edition of 250, 30 x 36 in., © Courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles; Man Ray, Monument, 1968 Lithograph, Edition 77/125, 22.75 x 17.36 in., © 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris; Walton Ford, Sights, 1997, Watercolor, gouache and pencil and ink on paper, 30 x 22.25 in., © Walton Ford, courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Irving Petlin, Little Box of Earthquake and Cotton, cover design for portfolio cover #1, 11 x 7 x 1 in.; Christo, Store Front, 10.75 x 6.75 in.