Current Exhibitions
”From Field to Frame: The PAC6 Show How It’s Done”
On view March 9, 2024, to July 7, 2024
PAC6 is a group of six women artists from Southern California who joined forces in 2014 to travel and paint across the country. The artists are Linda Brown, Marian Fortunati, Nita Harper, Debra Holladay, Laura Wambsgans, and Sharon Weaver. For PAC6, this show, their third major showcase for the Santa Paula Art Museum, marks ten years of collaboration.
The over 70 all-new works include scenes from the group’s most recent “bucket list” trips to the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley in Arizona, and Hope Valley and the Monterey Peninsula in California. In other paintings, the artists have revisited some of their favorite destinations from the past decade, including Yosemite, Ediza Lake, and Lake Tahoe. All of the artworks are available for purchase.
The journey of every finished painting and every artist is different, even among a close working group like PAC6. From inspiration and field notes to finished work and framing, this exhibition offers a peek behind the curtain of the creative processes used by the PAC6 to create artwork inspired by their travels together. Each of the six artists has chosen two instances in which to show two distinct stages in their artistic process: a small, plein air (outdoors) painting or sketch executed on location alongside a larger, companion piece created in the studio.
Between field and frame, an artist applies a lifetime's worth of looking, and feeling, and knowledge about color, composition, light, and value. The magic of PAC6 is that they make the artistic journey together and with a shared sense of joy.
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”30 Under 30”
On view January 20, 2024, to May 5, 2024
"30 Under 30" is a group exhibition showcasing art by 30 California artists between the ages of 18 and 29. Emanating from Berkeley to San Diego, all of the featured artists are current college students or recent graduates just starting their careers as painters, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, ceramicists, and more.
Radically diverse in subject, style, and media, these 30 works of art reflect a playful curiosity and refreshing experimentality not unexpected of a young group of artists. What is remarkable: their wisdom and boldness in embracing art as a means of examining the world—deconstructing histories, structures, and norms—to better understand and express themselves, and inspire others to do the same.
Young artists are pushing the boundaries and challenging the rules of traditional art-making, and heralding a new age and vibrant future for California art.
“30 Under 30” features art by Thea Berman, Lennin “Grey” Bernal, Andres Cabanos, Roxanne Casas, May Caiwei Chen, Amanda Colacchia, Sandra Michelle Garcia Cruz, Carolina Danu, Jessica Diaz, Rosaura Pila Godinez, Ryan Interrante, Gabriel Islas, Antonio Hyoung Seok Kim, Sang Lam, Veronica Lemus, Aaron MacDonald, Crystal Marshall, Roger Martel, Jem Morris, Tara O’Gorman, Jameson Orcutt, Dev O’Reilly, Isaac Pelayo, Kaylie Pendleton, Emily Rudnick, Jake Ryno, Cristina Serrano-Long, Katherine Terrell, Zoe Van Beurden, and Roy Vessil.
