SPRING 2010

 

POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART AWARDED $220,000 GETTY FOUNDATION GRANT. Funds will support major exhibition:
It Happened at Pomona: Art at Pomona College 1969-1973

The Pomona College Museum of Art has been awarded a $220,000 Getty Foundation grant for the future exhibition “It Happened at Pomona: Art at Pomona College 1969-1973” under the Getty Pacific Standard Time initiative. The exhibition will focus on the intensely creative period from 1969 to 1973, when the Pomona College Museum of Art (then the Pomona College Gallery) presented some of the most experimental exhibitions of contemporary art in Los Angeles.
The Pomona College Museum and Art Department served as an incubator for artists like Pomona alumni Chris Burden, James Turrell and Mowry Baden, among others. Pomona College’s exhibition of groundbreaking artworks (by Michael Asher, Jack Goldstein, and Allen Ruppersberg, for example) that integrated the legacy of Minimalism with the more contemporary concerns of Conceptualism formed the educational backdrop for a generation of artists who spent their formative years in Los Angeles.

Scheduled to open August 30, 2011 and to run through May 13, 2012, the “It Happened at Pomona” exhibition and accompanying catalogue will place projects developed at Pomona College in the context of a transformative moment in the Los Angeles art world, while also providing insight on how contact between Los Angeles and New York shaped art history.

The grant to Pomona College is one of 26 grants—totaling nearly $3.1 million—that will launch an unprecedented series of concurrent exhibitions at museums throughout Southern California starting in Fall 2011. Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, a joint initiative of the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute, aims to document the history of art in the region’s vibrant post-World War II decades, and will be a unique opportunity for audiences to explore and celebrate L.A.’s artistic legacy.



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Peter Schjeldahl, writer for The New Yorker discusses how West Coast minimalism was influenced by the California culture and analyzes works by Helen Pashgian...

	Helen Pashgian Studio View

Peter Schjeldahl, writer for The New Yorker discusses how West Coast minimalism was influenced by the California culture and analyzes works by Helen Pashgian,Larry Bell, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, and others in the exhibition “Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970,” an exhibition at the David Zwirner Gallery, in New York City.

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"Pomona College Museum of Art highlights works of contemporary artists"  in San Gabriel Valley News

For the next three months, it's an art lover's dream at the Pomona College Museum of Art.Travel to the tree-lined campus gallery, and you'll be able to see the works of pop artist Andy Warhol, light and space movement artist Helen Pashgian, and an up-and-coming experimental artist Amanda Ross-Ho, all in one visit.

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Pomona College Museum of Art partners with dA Arts Center, in Pomona for the exhibition" In Front of the Real Thing".

It started as an idea from Jessica Wimbley and Steve Comba at the Pomona College Museum of Art, as a means to encourage the production of new works of art inspired by the museum’s permanent collection. The idea was to choose a group of local artists who would be allowed to spend time in the newly remodeled collection study room, designed to provide unprecedented access to objects not on view in a traditional exhibit. The invited artists would choose an artist or particular artwork from the permanent collection and create a new, original work informed and inspired by their choice.

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In Front of the Real Thing featured in Inland Empire Weekly

dA Artist

In the vein of this new perspective, however, Pomona College Art Museum Director Steve Comba and Museum Coordinator Jessica Wimbley have put into motion a series of programs designed to draw the surrounding civilian community into the museum’s artistic fold. Reaching out to students and citizens has been the priority, but recently, Comba and Wimbley hit on an entirely new idea, one that not only embraces local artists, but hopes to ignite interest in the Museum’s extensive permanent collection from patrons and would-be patrons of the arts.

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