Spring 2008

 

Project Series 35: Evan Holloway
March 1 - May 17, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 1, 5 – 7 p.m.
Artist lecture: Tuesday, March 11, 10 a.m.

Evan Holloway will present a new installation based on his long-term investigations into the history and theory of modernist sculpture. Holloway’s practice—including sculptures, drawings, sound works, and videos—is as diverse as his personal studies, topics of research, material choices, and the objects themselves. Grounded in conceptual art, art history, pop culture, funk assemblage, and music, Holloway’s works—from the abstract to the figurative—are fabricated from materials such as steel, plaster, rope, wood, and often include found objects like batteries, furniture, musical instruments, etc. Holloway also considers the relationship between his objects, the meanings of those objects, the viewer’s body, the viewer’s perceptions, and the social environment and the physical spaces surrounding these elements. Holloway’s work ultimately succeeds because it combines a personal vision of the world today and human experience in it, with formal and creative innovations that map sculptural history.

The Project Series
Now in its tenth 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. 

That Star Aura: Photography and the Studio System
January 22 - February 24, 2008
Red Carpet Reception, Thursday, February 21, 4 - 6 p.m.; Sponsored by the Hart Institute

From the 1920s on, motion picture studios employed photographers to photograph stars, contract players, and hopefuls, as well as scenes from films in production. The images, thousands of them, circulated to magazines, newspapers, and fans. Studio stills, formal portraits, and “candid” shots of stars relaxing defined glamour and established actors’ personas. This exhibition presents photographs from the era of silent film to the 1950s, a selection of the iconic and the forgotten faces of Hollywood’s star machine.

Exhibition drawn in part from the Watson Archive and presented in conjunction with the Hart Institute for American History.