Upcoming exhibitions are listed in chronological order by opening date.
Main Gallery:
California Design Biennial: Action/Reaction
July 18, 2010 – October 31, 2010
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Building on the success of previous biennials, the PMCA presents a new format for the 2010 California Design Biennial (CDB). Whereas past CDBs were juried competitions, this year, the PMCA invited a notable design professional to curate each category in response to a theme, Action/Reaction, which describes designs that respond to current events, whether sociopolitical or economic, in a creative or innovative way. Rose Apodaca curates Fashion; Stewart Reed curates Transportation Design; Louise Sandhaus curates Graphic Design; Alissa Walker curates Product Design; and for the first time in CDB history, Architecture is included as a category, curated by Frances Anderton.
This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Back Gallery:
Desire: Six Los Angeles Artists
July 18, 2010 – October 31, 2010
Desire: Six Los Angeles Artists focuses on six Los Angeles-based artists whose works exemplify the contemporary landscape of desire in the City of Angels, a city known for commodifiying sex through its various entertainment industries. Although desire is typically viewed only in terms of pleasure, these artists have also interpreted desire as a feature of alienation, spiritualism, consumerism, and cultural/gender identification. Featured artists include Gajin Fujita, David Grant, Iva Gueorguieva, Tom Knechtel, Monica Majoli, and Linda Stark.
This exhibition is supported by the Pasadena Art Alliance.
Project Room Gallery:
Megan Geckler: Every Move You Make, Every Step You Take
July 18, 2010 – October 31, 2010
The work of Los Angeles-based artist Megan Geckler lies somewhere between art and design, with architectural installations that are assembled from thousands of strands of multicolored flagging tape, a plastic ribbon typically utilized by surveyors to demarcate space on construction sites. The end result resembles an updated three-dimensional version of string art that shares the seemingly kinetic territory of the Op Art and Light+Space movements. These site-specific projects are also strongly influenced by minimalism, but retain a sense of play and delight.
This exhibition is supported by the PMCA Board of Directors.
Gardens and Grandeur: Porcelains and Paintings by Franz A. Bischoff
November 14, 2010 – March 20, 2011
This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Edgar Payne: A Retrospective
June 2012 – October 2012
