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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Virtual Miniatures 2020 – Schedule your Pick Up!
Congratulations Miniatures Winners! Thank you for participating in this year’s virtual Miniatures exhibition and fundraiser! We look forward to seeing you when you stop by to pick up your new masterpiece. Staff will be on site at MMA Pacific Street (559 Pacific Street, Monterey) Staff […]
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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 early California […]
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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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Gil Family Art Shoes in Virtual Currents
Jose Gil and the Gil Family Salinas, CA Gil Family Art Shoes Jose Gil knows a thing or two about motivating teams — even the one under his own roof. The Alisal High School boys basketball coach and athletic director refused to let the virus […]
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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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