Spring 2007

Hunches, Geometrics, Organics: Paintings by Frederick Hammersley
January 23 - April 8, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 27, 5 – 7 p.m.

Lecture by David Pagel: Wednesday, March 21, 4:15 p.m.

	Frederick Hammersley Deja View #3, 1996 Oil on linen 30 x 30 inches

This exhibition presents an overview of Hammersley’s work through the early 21^st-century and includes never-before-seen drawings, lithographs, and paintings. An abstract painter most famously linked with a pivotal moment in Los Angeles art history, the 1959 exhibition called “Four Abstract Classicists,” Hammersley’s mature body of work consistently has explored three distinct categories—the “hunch” paintings of 1953-59, the “geometric” paintings of 1959-64 and 1964 to the mid-1990s, and the “organic” paintings from 1964 and 1982 to the present.

Hammersley’s earliest paintings, the “hunch” paintings, were works in which the artist started with an initial color form and intuitively completed the rest of painting, adding more forms and colors. One of his early “hunch” paintings is included—a 1954 painting completed while he taught at Pomona College. Most of the “geometric” paintings are based on a series of lithographs completed in 1949-50 in which Hammersley worked within a nine-square grid. Predominantly black and white, each painting reflected decisions the artist made about shape and color within the grid format. The “organic” paintings employ no rules or straight lines, with curving natural forms and blending colors.

A full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes essays by Pomona College Professor Arden Reed and Museum Director and Professor of Art Kathleen Howe. The exhibition is curated by Kathleen Howe and Rebecca McGrew. More...

Project Series 32: Liat Yossifor
January 23 - April 8, 2007

Artist lecture: Wednesday, March 7, 3 p.m.

	The Tender Among Us, 2006 Oil on Panel 72 x 62 inches

Yossifor will present a suite of new monochromatic paintings based on her investigations into war imagery, figure/landscape relationships, the processes of painting, and art historical imagery. Her paintings merge the tradition of modernist abstract color field painting with a conceptual and political focus on topical issues—identity, the body, images of war, and staged photography. Inspired by Jacques Callot’s 1633 etchings The Miseries and Misfortunes of War, Francisco Goya’s 1810-20 etchings The Disasters of War, El Greco’s 1608-14 painting Laocoon, and Theodore Gericault’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa, Yossifor uses a wet-on-wet oil painting technique to render the emotionally charged and complicated subjects of war and its victims.

Now in its ninth year, the Project Series is the Museum's program of focused exhibitions of work by Southern California artists. Its purpose is to bring to the Pomona College community art that is experimental and that introduces new forms, techniques, and concepts. Organized by Rebecca McGrew, this series is supported in part by the Pasadena Art Alliance and Sarah Miller Meigs. A catalogue accompanies each exhibition.  More...

	Enrique Chagoya Homage to Goya II: Disasters of War (Plate 71: ontra el bien general), 1983-2003 Etching and aquatint on paper, Museum purchase with funds provided by the Estate of Walter and Elise Mosher

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 27, 5 – 7 p.m.

"An Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond"

Lecture by Peter Selz: Wednesday, February 21, 4:15 p.m.











 

Glitter
Senior Thesis Exhibition
April 27 - May 13, 2006
Reception: Wednesday, May 2, 7 - 9 p.m.

Lily Braverman, Josh Clavell, Andrew Extein, Kaitlin Goodwillie, Forbes Lipschitz, Kimberly Ye