Exhibitions

Gretchen Andrew: FUTURE NEWS
On view August 20, 2020 – January 3, 2021 Future News reframes conversations about truth online in terms of what search engine artist Gretchen Andrew calls “positive failures.” By using her vision boards to playfully hypnotize Google search results, she exposes the inherent and structural […]
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Joan Takayama-Ogawa in Virtual Currents
On view October 30 – November 22 Joan Takayama-Ogawa b. 1955 Mimbre, Pattern Painting, and Feminist Inspired Vessels Mimbre pottery techniques of painted black dots and ovals contrast the simple with the complex, the clear with the obscure, the easily perceived with persistent patience, dark […]
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Miniatures
November 17 – December 11, 2022 Calling All Artists! The Monterey Museum of Art announces Miniatures 2022 – the Museum’s annual members fundraising exhibition that celebrates our talented community of artists. All current Museum members are invited to donate an original work of art (no […]
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Artist Residency: Victor-Mario Zaballa
October 20 – November 6, 2022 The Artist Residency program is a public programming initiative in celebration and support of California’s diverse arts community. Through dynamic art displays and participatory gallery experiences, the Museum invites visitors to connect more deeply with our resident artists and […]
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Ken Hale in Virtual Currents
On view November 17, 2020 – January 3, 2021 Ken Hale b. 1948 Carmel Valley, CA The indirect qualities of printmaking suited my temperament and certainly provided an aesthetic framework for my decisions in painting, drawing and collage. I appropriate and manipulate images of historically […]
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Currents: Michelle Yi Martin
October 7 – December 18, 2022 Currents is a gallery space dedicated to recognizing the work of emerging and evolving California artists. Featuring a different artist every two months, Currents presents a range of media, styles, and genres. Being able to call a place “home” has […]
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John H. Marble Galleries of California Art
The Marble Galleries were established in 2006 by a gift in memory of Louise Bougie Beland from the John H. Marble Endowment Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County. The upstairs galleries feature changing installations of California Art in diverse media from 19th century […]
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William F. Ritschel Memorial
Ongoing Exhibition William F. Ritschel (1864-1949) was a German-born painter who lived and worked in Carmel from 1911 until his death in 1949. A free-spirited bohemian, Ritschel was an important part of the California Impressionist movement. Most of the paintings, watercolors and ephemera on display […]
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Dora Lisa Rosenbaum in Virtual Currents
dora lisa rosenbaum b. 1979 Pacific Grove, CA Performative Memory Performative memory is defined as a “means through with societies remember.” Household day to day tasks, routines, rituals, consumption practices, and use of space within the home are all forms of performative memory. Focusing […]
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Currents: Erin E. Hunter
March 31 – May 28, 2023 Currents is a gallery space dedicated to recognizing the work of emerging and evolving California artists. Featuring a different artist every two months, Currents presents a range of media, styles, and genres. As a born-and-bred Californian, I’m particularly interested in […]
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