Inland Specific:
Installations by artists of the San Gabriel Valley
August 29 - October 15

This exhibition, which showcased the work of San Gabriel Valley installation artists, was a collaborative venture undertaken by Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, with five regional arts organizations-the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; Pasadena City College Gallery; the Harris Gallery at the University of La Verne; the Claremont Graduate University Art Galleries; and the Rex R. Wignall Museum and Gallery, Chaffey College. Artists who exhibitied at Pomona Museum of Art were Annabelle Aylmer, Enid Baxter Blader, Castillo, Georgia Fee, Megan Geckler, Christian Mounger, and Michelle Pauline. Their work ranged from outdoor installations and large scale sculpture to video and photography. The exhibition was juried jointly by curators from the six participating organizations, including the Gallery's Rebecca McGrew assisted by Getty intern Stephanie Porras. A catalogue documenting all six sites is available. More...

Toyko 1945:
Photographs by Cliff McCarthy
August 29 - October 15

In late 1945, Cliff McCarthy was a young GI photographer in Japan. More than fifty years later, he came across the negatives of images he had taken in Tokyo, just months after the end of World War II. Many had never been printed. In 1998, McCarthy's photographs were first shown, appropriately, in Tokyo. Their exhibition at the Montgomery Gallery was co-sponsored by the Pacific Basin Institute of Pomona College

Project 7: Elizabeth Saveri
August 29-October 15

For several years, Elizabeth Saveri has been creating site-specific painting installations based on movement and daily experience. Using the language of film, photography, and painting, Saveri presented a new body of work that combines depictions of the places the artist inhabits and objects she observes, or thinks about, while moving through those spaces. More...

Within Our Walls:
The Museum at Pomona College
November 4 - December 17

The human tendency to see least clearly what is under one's nose is as widely shared as it is paradoxical. For a small academic museum and gallery, especially one located near an art-rich metropolitan center, it is an ongoing challenge to assure that the works of art it contains are known to the public. This has been a particularly vexing problem for the Montgomery Gallery, which has never had sufficient space to accommodate the temporary exhibitions required by curriculum and, at the same time, to give the permanent collections their due. Now, thanks to a major interior renovation, this imbalance has been addressed by means of exhibition spaces redesigned to reflect and enhance the Gallery's role as a collecting museum that preserves, exhibits, and interprets the works of art in its keeping, while also serving as a venue for temporary exhibitions. This comprehensive survey of Pomona's permanent collection was organized by Steve Comba and Marjorie Harth, assisted by guest curators Bruce Coats and Sheryl Miller and offered interpretive essays on key objects by members of the Pomona community. The exhibition celebrated the treasures within our walls and the new opportunities made available to us for bringing them to public view. The extent, depth, and quality of the collections as seen here may have come as revelation, even to our regular visitors, and our electronic database ensures the widest possible public access.

Project 8: Jody Zellen
November 4 - December 17

Images of the city have been the primary focus of Jody Zellen's work for over ten years. In her work, the artist appropriates and alters text and images drawn from popular culture. At Montgomery Gallery, Zellen presented a series of large-scale outdoor digital banners, most of which have never been exhibited in the Los Angeles area. More...