L.A. Stories:
Engaging the City
August 29 - October 11

This exhibition brings together artists whose work explores the city of Los Angeles. While their art is personal and highly individual, it is linked by a commitment to knowing the city as it is, not as it is commonly portrayed by Hollywood and the media. These artists tell stories--particular ones about neighborhoods and communities, and broader ones about the city's culture and history. In so doing, they reveal a different Los Angeles from the one most of us know, one frequently overlooked or forgotten. The artists selected for this exhibition focus primarily on downtown and on everyday life, countering the city's defining stereotypes: glamorous Hollywood, the beach culture, and the noir myth of urban violence. The artists raise issues of social concern by addressing aspects of the city's past and present.

The exhibition, conceived and organized by Rebecca McGrew, presents work by individual artists and by groups working collaboratively; all are from the Los Angeles area. Artists include Kim Abeles; Harry Adams; Nancy Buchanan; Collage Ensemble (Alan Nakagawa, Steven M. Irvin, Brandy Maya Healy, Alessandra Moctezuma); Mallory Cremin; Don Normark; Public Works Administration (Karina Combs, Frank Gutierrez, Valerie Tevere, Cecilia Wendt, and the electronic music group Ultra-Red: Marco Larsen and Dont Rhine); May Sun; and a collaborative project by Stephen Callis, Leslie Ernst, and Rubén Ortiz Torres. The range of media is broad, and includes photography, video, CD ROMs, Web sites, and installations. More...

"Lockdown USA"
A Video Installation by Deep Dish Television
Curated by DeeDee Halleck and CheChe Martinez
August 29 - October 11

This video installation on the subject of education in federal prisons is co-sponsored by L.A. Freewaves' 6th Celebration of Independent Video and New Media.

The L.A. Freewaves Festival, "All Over the Map," is a citywide festival of experimental, documentary, animation and new media works by artist, activists, and mediamakers, from September 8 to October 4, 1998. For more imformation about the Festival, please see the L.A. Freewaves Website.

Chance Encounters:
The L.A. Project Douglas McCulloh
September 25 - October 11

Montgomery Gallery presents a traveling interactive computer kiosk by artist Douglas McCulloh. Organized by the University of California, Riverside/California Museum of Photography, the exhibition will be on view in Riverside from September 25 through December 31, 1998.

Interactions:
Enrique Martinez Celaya and Francisco Goya
Janet Neuwalder and Jessica Newman-Skrentny
Sheila Pinkel and Michael Miller
Mercedes Teixido and James Sheehan
October 25 - December 13

No artist creates in a vacuum. Each work of art, while expressing the uniqueness of its maker, also reflects a context that is, at least in part, artistic. Examining that context--an artist's sources, influences, relationships--can expand our understanding of an individual's art.

This exhibition of recent work by members of the Pomona College studio art faculty explores these formative interactions by juxtaposing the work of each faculty member with that of another artist--living or historical--whose work has been influential or relates instructively to his/her own. This approach will, it is hoped, shed new light on the work of our faculty and demonstrate some of the ways in which artists' work reflects and responds to other art.