armory exhibitions

The Armory is excited to present exhibitions at various locations throughout Pasadena. Visit us at these sites:

• Armory Gallery
• Community Room & Mezzanine Gallery
• Armory Gallery
• Armory at 2948

For more information about any Armory exhibition, call 626.792.5101 x 140.

 

THE ARMORY GALLERY
 145 North Raymond Avenue, near Old Pasadena
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, noon- 5 p.m. Free admission. Free group tours are available with reservations.

Good Doll Bad DollGood Doll Bad Doll
March 16 – June 1
Opening reception Saturday, March 15, 7–9 p.m.
This exhibition surveys work by modern and contemporary artists who use dolls as substitute selves or esthetic alter egos. Refining everyday experience, these artists create alternate, more ideal worlds filled with beings of their own making. Playing with dolls can be an experience of release. The creation of fictive worlds fleshes out each artist’s private fantasies and unrealized psychological needs. Going beyond the usual notion of dolls as simply representations of Freud’s “uncanny,” this exhibition looks at handmade creatures as liberators of fantasy and the artistic imagination. Michael Duncan, guest curator. On view in the Caldwell Gallery.

 


IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM & ON THE MEZZANINE
at 145 North Raymond Avenue, Old Pasadena

The Community Room presents exhibitions from arts organizations and from the Armory's own programs and faculty. These exhibitions are open to the public during Gallery hours except when scheduled for other events.

PUSD: Visual Arts and Design Academy, Lamps
April 13 - June 8, 2008
Opening reception, Saturday, April 12, 3-5 p.m.
Every year senior year students at VADA are assigned to create their own lamps, including the sculptural form of the lamp and visual representations on lamp shades. Organized by Alex Schultz. On view in the Community Room.

Alicia BeachAlicia Sterling Beach, Meditations
April 13 - June 15, 2008
Opening reception, Saturday, April 12, 3-5 p.m.
This exhibition will include four series of drawings and works on paper by artist Alicia Sterling Beach, produced from 2003 through 2006, ranging from a controlled academic methodology to a more gestural, free flowing approach in her watercolor abstractions. Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, curator. On view in the Mezzanine Gallery.

 

 

 

Fernandez photoConscientious Projector Photographs by Maria Theresa Fernandez
May 8 – June 12
Sustainable World will host a reception for Maria Teresa on May 8, 6-7 p.m. (before the screening of the documentary)
Exhibition of color photographs of the fence at the United States and Mexico border, produced by Mexican photographer Maria Theresa Fernandez. This exhibition is in conjunction with a film screening of Crossing Arizona, presented by Conscientious Projector. On view in the Pasadena Art Alliance Gallery


 


THE ARMORY AT ONE COLORADO
The Courtyard at One Colorado, Old Pasadena
(located between Colorado Blvd. and Union St. and between Fair Oaks and DeLacey)



THE ARMORY AT 2948
at 2948 E. Walnut Street, Pasadena
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Saturday, noon – 5 p.m.

InteractionsInteractions: Armory Artists & Their Art
April 13 - June 15, 2008
Opening reception, Saturday, April 12, 3-9 p.m.
This exhibition includes art by MFA students and graduates participating in the Armory’s Fellowship program. The artists talk to visiting school classes about their own art and personal process. Students then interact with the artist in a unique hands-on art workshop based on the work in the exhibition. Artists include Carly Steward, Sergio Hernadez, Janice Gomez, Malisa Humphrey, Melissa Manfull, Chelsea Dean, Asad Faulwell, Amy Mauck, Scott Sheldon and Andy Walker. Lorraine Cleary Dale, Armory Director of Professional Development, curator.