2008 Exhibition Schedule

The public is invited to attend the TGIF opening night reception for these exhibitions, where guests can meet the artists and mingle with other visitors. The convivial gatherings are held in the Art Rental & Sales Gallery from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Refreshments are served.

Current Exhibition

June 6 (opening night reception)–July 17, 2008

In Searching for Clarity, four abstract artists remind us of how we navigate through life’s confusion, seeking meaning. Karin Aggeler paints with acrylic on canvas to express forms and landscapes, memories and moods to reflect and embrace the experiences and visions of the viewer. Photographer Richard Chow crafts a style that melds technical precision with compelling interpretative content to invoke a cognitive emotional connection. The simplistic imagery in Bruce Dean’s current series of spheres, conjunctions, and eclipses uses mixed media on paper to tap into the memories and ideas we all share at a subconscious level. Gold leaf and oil on layers of plexiglas is the ideal medium for obscuring and revealing as Valerie Mendez invites the viewer to look closer and deeper, through to the bottom of things.

Karin Aggeler, October 3, acrylic on canvas

Richard Chow, All Right Now, digital archival

Bruce Dean, Occulation, oil on canvas

Valerie Mendez, Harmony, mixed media on plexi/canvas

Only museum members may rent or buy from the extensive and reasonably priced array of art displayed on the gallery walls—artworks of the featured artists as well as others—but anyone may attend the gallery's openings and peruse the art on display.

There are six ARSG shows each year, always for four emerging Southern California artists. The gallery is a fifty-three-year-old fundraising effort of the Art Museum Council, a volunteer group founded in 1952, all of whose funds go to purchase new art for the museum or to fund exhibitions.