Regional Scholastic Art Awards
Exhibition February 28 – March 14
Opening: Saturday, February 27, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
The Armory recognizes the students who earned regional Gold Key awards in the Scholastic Art Awards in this exhibition. These works, selected by jury, will go on to New York to be judged in the national Awards .
At the Armory, Mezzanine Gallery

Laura Parker
March 14 – April 18
Opening: Saturday, March 13, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Parker’s show features three photographic wall-installations that are individually printed in a color darkroom yet reference the kinetics of experimental film. Three short animations, also contending with photography’s link to spatial and temporal aspects of film, accompany the installations. This exhibition is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
At the Armory, Art Alliance Gallery

Stitches
April 11 – June 13, 2010
Stitches is a group exhibition that investigates contemporary approaches to the traditional techniques of sewing, weaving, and knitting. Espousing a twisted view of the 21st century Martha Stewart-esque return to domesticity, the exhibiting artists share an unconventional take on these versatile and often obsessive art forms. Stitches will explore process and material based works ranging from conventional yarn and thread to used blankets, plastic bags and cassette tape. Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, curator.
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Contemporary Vietnamese Artists
April 17– June 13
Opening: April 16, 2010, 6-10 p.m.
An exhibition of Vietnamese-born or –based artists, and artists of Vietnamese decent living and working in the United States, held in conjunction with the Southwest Chamber Music and Department of State’s Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange that brings 19 Americans to Vietnam (March 2010) and 19 Vietnamese to the U.S. in (April-May 2010), each for three weeks. The Ascending Dragon Music Festival will present public concerts in Vietnam in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the city of Hanoi, followed by a festival in Southern California. The Armory will host a Southwest Chamber concert the night of the exhibition opening.
At the Armory, Mezzanine Gallery

International Mail Art Exhibit- In Memory of Judith Hoffberg
June 27 – August 22, 2010
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Steve Roden: In Between; a mid-career survey
September 12 – November 14, 2010
Howard Fox, Curator
This is the first exhibition to bring together Roden's art in all its divergent forms and reveals his work as a homogenous, conceptually coherent practice. The survey includes early pieces and a new group of works conceived and executed specially for the exhibition. The overall presentation is rooted in a five-year series of paintings, sculptures, sound works, musical compositions, text works, and video installations from 2004 through 2009 that, while formally divergent, are generated by Roden's systemic operations on the same musical score.
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken
September 25 – December 31, 2011
Sam Mellon and Claudia Bohn-Spector, Curators
Speaking in Tongues brings, for the first time, two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation. The exhibition examines how Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Spring 2012 City Site: Street Photography and Southern California Neo Urbanism 1945 – 1980
Tim Wride, Curator
City Site will explore the post World War II period shift in Southern California-based photography from imagery that was picturesque, image-oriented, and existential in nature, to a more conceptually motivated style of representation that was decisively suburban, process-oriented, and experiential. Additionally, the exhibition will look at how the city-based, neo-urban photography of the time on the West Coast differed from concurrent activity on the East Coast. Artists include John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Lori Brown, Jerry Burchfield, Jack Butler, Darryl Curran, Joe Deal, John Divola, Robert Fichter, Judy Fiskin, Robbert Flick, Tony Friedkin, Harry Gamboa, Robert Heinecken, Tony Hernandez, Dennis Hopper, Graham Howe, Barbara Kasten, Joe Lewis, Gary Leonard, Grant Mudford, Virgil Murano, Arthur Olman, Ed Ruscha, and Hank Wessel.
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery