Visual Arts


Local Museums to Celebrate Arroyo Culture on May 19, 2013

Here’s a recipe for a memorable Sunday: great art, architecture, and family fun with plenty of local historical discoveries. The best part? It’s all free. On May 19, 2013 the 24th annual Museums of the Arroyo (MOTA) Day invites the public to tour five museums located along the celebrated Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles and ...

Art & Design Open Market at One Colorado Old Pasadena – May 26

One Colorado in Old Pasadena will host its annual Art & Design Open Market on Sunday, May 26, 2013 from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. This one-day free event showcases over 100 local artists whose artwork will fill the One Colorado central courtyard and its historical, tree-shaded pedestrian alleys. One Colorado’s elegant environment makes the ...

Steven Bankhead Stables Napoleon’s Horse In Northwest Pasadena

Armory Center for the Arts presents Eighteenth Brumaire, a large-scale sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Steven Bankhead. The temporary public work will be on display through May, 2013. Bankhead’s monumental sculpture, which utilizes the materials of billboard construction, stands prominently in the garden of the Madison Neighborhood Casita, 805 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena. A public ...

Offramp Gallery Presents Nicholette Kominos’ Wandering Boundaries

Offramp Gallery is pleased to present Nicholette Kominos: Wandering Boundaries from April 28 – June 2, 2013. Wandering Boundaries is Kominos’s second solo show at Offramp Gallery. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, April 28, 2013 from 2-5pm. There will be a closing reception on Sunday, June 2 from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. ...

Offramp Gallery Presents In the Guest Room: Works by Anita Bunn, Chuck Feesago & Patssi Valdez

Offramp Gallery is pleased to present works by Anita Bunn, Chuck Feesago and Patssi Valdez in the Guest Room in conjunction with Nicholette Kominos: Wandering Boundaries from April 28 – June 2, 2013. There will be an opening reception on Sunday, April 28, 2013 from 2-5pm and a closing reception on Sunday, June 2 from ...

California Art Club to Present the 102nd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art in June 2013

The California Art Club will present the 102nd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Southern California from June 2 to 23, 2013. While this annual display of contemporary-traditional art, ranging from landscape paintings to figurative works and sculpture, is being staged at ...

Pasadena ArtWalk Call to Artists

The Pasadena Playhouse District Association is inviting artists to submit artwork for the 8th annual Pasadena ARTWalk. The Pasadena ARTWalk will take place on Saturday, October 12 from 11 am until 5 pm at El Molino Ave. between Colorado and Green St. All artists are welcome to apply to exhibit in the Pasadena ARTWalk. Artists ...

Charles Mason Steps Down at Pacific Asia Museum

Pacific Asia Museum announced today that Executive Director Charles Mason will step down at the end of June to become the founding Executive Director of the Kruizenga Art Museum at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. “We are extremely grateful for the scholarship, strategic vision and broad community outreach that Charles has provided during his time ...

Huntington Gets Two New American Paintings

The Art Collectors’ Council of The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens made possible the purchase of two major paintings for the institution’s American art collections at its annual meeting on April 27. The group, made up of 43 donors from across the region, first voted to acquire The Locomotive (tempera on concrete 58 ...

California Art Club Celebrates the Lazy Days of Summer with the Exhibition ‘On the Water’ at its Gallery at The Old Mill

As the longer and lazier days of summer approach, the California Art Club will present the exhibition On the Water at its gallery at the historic Old Mill from May 7 to September 1. A reception with the 43 participating artists will be held on Thursday, May 9, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition ...

‘Dangerous Beauties’ Exhibit Opens May 5 at Descanso Gardens’ Sturt Haaga Gallery

“Dangerous Beauties,” an exhibition of artwork and living plants exploring the theme of the danger of confusing “beauty” with “goodness,” opens with an artists reception at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 5, in the Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens. The public is invited. The show continues through July 31. Nature doesn’t attach value judgments to ...

Pacific Asia Museum Announces New Contemporary Exhibition Takashi Tomo-oka

Pacific Asia Museum presents the new exhibition Takashi Tomo-oka in the Focus Gallery from April 19 through July 28, 2013. This exhibition is the first in a year-long series of contemporary Asian art exhibitions in this gallery. Takashi Tomo-oka features six scroll-mounted photographic works that combine the classical and contemporary. As a young artist, Tomo-oka ...

Focus on the Subject: The Art of the Harari Collection Opening April 5

Pacific Asia Museum presents the new exhibition Focus on the Subject: The Art of the Harari Collection from April 5, 2013 to March 30, 2014 in the Frank and Toshie Mosher Gallery of Japanese Art. The exhibition includes a full object rotation in October 2013 to accommodate a greater number of objects and protect them ...

Unprecedented Exhibition on Junipero Serra and Mission Indians to Include Some 250 Rare Objects

The life of Junípero Serra (1713-1784)—and his impact on Indian life and California culture through his founding of missions—is the subject of a comprehensive, international loan exhibition this fall at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. The show runs from Aug. 17, 2013, to Jan. 6, 2014, in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries ...