Past Exhibitions
Grace Aniela Wodecki: Traced
March 11 – April 8, 2023
Batista Moon Studio Photographers: Images of the Old West
January 21 – February 18, 2023
Phil Lemley: Sanctuary
November 19 – December 17, 2022
Phil Lemley utilizes underwater photography to shed light on otherworldly scenes hidden just below the surface of the Monterey Bay.
Barney and Carli: Ascend
October 1 – October 22, 2022
Barney and Carli Cullen explore their Japanese roots with multimedia artwork.
Patricia Ludovici: It's Just a House, Not a Home
August 6 – September 10, 2022
Mass-produced unhoused objects, remade, and given a second life examines how effective ugliness has the power to subvert, and, as such, is often the territory of the radical, it has the power to transform, shift opinion, and to shape taste.
Sea Sevilla: Transitions
June 11 – July 22 2022
Mexican-American, queer, multimedia artist Sea Sevilla’s newest exhibition Transitions combines her series Transitions with new three-dimensional sculpture pieces and work from a new two-dimensional painting series.
Alana Rios: Postpicturesque
April 16 2022 - May 28
Postpicturesque consists of four projects that register and dismantle the colonialist spirit of early 19th century landscape photography that lingers in our everyday lives. Iconic images are everywhere—from the souvenirs sold in National Parks to calendars hanging on our walls— they stake a claim in our psyche.These visual records trace a history of objectification and possession of the land that often excludes marginalized voices and sanctifies patriarchal systems.
Greg Mettler: The Inward Eye
Sat, Feb 19 - Sat, Apr 2, 2022
The exhibition The Inward Eye consists of photographs and a video that represent this inward perspective of artist Greg Mettler. The selected works exist in a space outside of conventional time, to reflect the inner verse of the artist’s mind. By merging photography and video with sculpture and installation, Greg Mettler seeks to create photographic artifacts and experiences rather than traditional documentations of the physical world.
Marcia Perry: Rainbow Dance
Sat, Jan 8, 2022 - Sun, Feb 6, 2022
I create art to promote a kinder, more colorful world that embraces the spirit of wildness and the wildness of spirit. I love birds, fish, flowers, trees, animals, butterflies, dragonflies, and humans, especially children -pretty much everything alive on this miraculous planet, including the planet itself. I have always been attracted to the beautiful truths found in nature and spiritual symbolism. It is my intention not just to replicate them but to illuminate them. My art is my love made visible.
Temple Sisters
Sat, Oct 9 - Fri Dec 31, 2021
The Temple Sisters, Holly and Ashlee, work in mixed media to generate works on paper, canvas and create small assemblages. Each work they devise is meant to engage the viewer in questions about the temporal and fluid nature of image, memory, and cultural language of expression.
Abiam Alvarez: Field Spoils
Sat, Aug 14 - Sept 25, 2021
With the pieces presented for Field Spoils, I elevated the crop and the dirt by making it out of a new medium, by placing the ceramic dirt onto pedestals and attaching it to the wall. There are also in bins of ceramic that are erupting or flooding. The soil itself is valuable for the production and creation of the produce, but here, the dirt and soil are just seen in their most simplified form.
The work here is contradictory. Just like our relationship with produce. Although some forms are celebratory, others are decaying or ripped. While the bins are containers for holding the produce they also function as receptacles for throwing away that which is unused, rejected, spoils.
Andrew Jackson: Castroville Lights
Sat, Jun 26 - Jul 31, 2021
To capture what a place feels like at night, this is how I am inspired to paint since the age of 19. More than half my life I have applied my best efforts and attention to seeing and translating light on to canvas.
Drift: An Art Expedition
Apr 24 - June 12, 2021
With Drift: An Art Expedition, artists Andrea Dingeldein, Emily Hess, and D.J. Jackson present a bridge between the worlds of scientific exploration and fine art. Drawing inspiration from the natural world around them, these classically trained artists – all three are graduates of the prestigious Science Illustration Program at California State University Monterey Bay – invite viewers to suspend reality for an expedition of discovery, leading them from the shallow coastal waters, into the Twilight Zone, before diving deeper and deeper to dark ocean depths where nature illuminates from within.
Mason Hershenow: But That’s No Way To Tell You
Feb 15 - Mar 28, 2020
But That’s No Way To Tell You is an interdisciplinary installation which explores the ways in which both technology and academic thought affect our ability to communicate. Through the use of photography, machine writing, and printing techniques both archaic and contemporary, Mason Hershenow asks the viewer to consider how they separate fact and opinion in an age where it has never been easier to combine the two.