Upcoming Exhibitions
Solastalgia
Main Gallery, September 11 - December 11
Solastalgia is an exhibition about eco-grief that explores the emotional effects of environmental devastation as well as radically hopeful narratives about the future of life on Earth. Bringing together nine artists working across different media, many of the works bear witness to widespread species loss and degraded landscapes. Others examine the sources of climate crisis and demonstrate the ways particular forms of life and human populations are disproportionately affected. Still others consider ways of coping with environmental uncertainty and ecological decline, calling for a radical reexamination of our relationship to the natural world. Taken together, the works make a profound statement about grief as an unavoidable emotional response to environmental collapse that we must acknowledge, tend to, and learn from if we are to collectively build a sustainable future for life on our home planet.
Featured artists: Christine Atkinson, Saif Azzuz, Carolyn Castaño, Velia De Iuliis, Paige Emery, Merion Estes, Alicia Piller, Heather Renée Russ, and Jonathan Schwartz
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery, Ongoing
Notes to Future Selves: A Community Engagement Project is a participatory exhibition that invites the community to create artwork in response to the prompt: What do you want the future of your community to look like? Participants are given the option to display their artwork in the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery for the duration of the exhibition.
Inspired by the Museum’s 50th anniversary in 2024 and this year’s 75th anniversary of California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), Notes to Future Selves embraces these milestones as a powerful moment for collective reflection. The exhibition celebrates the CSULB community’s diversity of voices, perspectives, experiences, and visions for the future.
Notes to Future Selves will be updated weekly as artwork submissions are received from the community.
Learn how to participate in the exhibition.
In conjunction with Notes to Future Selves, a section of the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery features selections from the Museum’s permanent collection that engage introspective practices, such as recording everyday events, experiences, or observations in a sketchbook or journal or expressing one’s thoughts and feelings through personal iconography. Featured artists include Hannelore Baron, Carolyn Kleefeld, Joyce Treiman, and Beth Van Hoesen.
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Archives Room, Ongoing
A selection of artwork from Kleefeld Contemporary's permanent collection is displayed in the Archives Room on an ongoing basis.
The Archives Room is available to reserve for research requests. To make a reservation, please fill out a request at least two weeks in advance.
