Current Exhibitions
The Califas Legacy Project: The Ancestral Journey/El Viaje Ancestral
January 8 – April 11, 2021 The Califas Legacy Project is a multi-year, multi-medium, collaborative endeavor launched by Museo Eduardo Carrillo in Santa Cruz to document the legacy of our region’s Chicano/a cultural treasures. In 1982, Professor Eduardo Carrillo conceived of the Califas conference to bring […]
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Felicia Rice in Virtual FLUX
On view January 8 – April 11, 2021 Felicia Rice b. 1954 Santa Cruz, CA As a printer, my job is to confront complex issues and render my response in book form. As an artist, my job is to do so with profound integrity. As […]
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Francis McComas: Rediscovering California’s First Modernist
January 21 – April 4, 2021 An influential artist once rated “among the twenty best painters of the world,” Francis McComas (1874 – 1938) is one of art history’s greatest lost treasures. While his name is less familiar than Pollock or Monet, there was a […]
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Marc Trujillo: Fast
January 28 – April 18, 2021 In his brilliant and eye opening series Fast, artist Marc Trujillo looks at one of America’s most ubiquitous urban environments, the take-out franchise and its drive up windows. A Los Angeles resident, he resides in the heart of fast […]
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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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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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California Art Before 1945 Online Gallery
Ongoing Exhibition The Museum’s important collection of early California paintings and works on paper celebrates the Monterey Peninsula’s legacy as an influential art colony. You can now view an expanded gallery of our permanent collection on our website along with image information. Image: Francis Mc Comas […]
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