Past Exhibitions
PAST EXHIBITION
September 18, 2011–January 8, 2012
"...you feel as if you're witnessing an intense, spiritual ceremony channeled by the artist with a generous dollop of flair and eloquence."
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PAST EXHIBITION
June 5–September 18, 2011
Powerful images by photographers Frank Magallanes and Althea Edwards witness the rebirth of ancient maritime traditions of the Southern California coastal and Channel Islands first peoples. Plank-sewn watercraft, the Tongva ti'at and...
PAST EXHIBITION
May 29–September 11, 2011
Radiance and Resilience offers a first chance to view highlights from the major bequest of 180 objects to the Fowler Museum by Barbara and Joseph Goldenberg. The selection was made to emphasize the qualities of radiance and...
PAST EXHIBITION
March 20 – August 14, 2011
This exceptional collection of photographs and documents drawn from important archives around the country chronicles the tours of American jazz legends as they traveled the globe on behalf of the U.S. State Department. From the mid-1950s through the...
PAST EXHIBITION
February 13 – July 24, 2011
"Surprises appear at every turn: a strikingly abstract buffalo mask carved of wood; an ax with a tongue-like blade that emerges from a metal figure's mouth; an ominous ceramic spirit vessel with spiky...
PAST EXHIBITION
September 18, 2011 – January 1, 2012
The Fowler Museum has invited painter and installation artist José Bedia to curate an exhibition that draws on the Museum’s permanent collection to accompany...
PAST EXHIBITION
January 9–May 22, 2011
Showcasing selected works collected by the Fowler Museum over many decades, Fowler in Focus: Art and the Unbreakable Spirit of Haiti juxtaposes pieces fashioned for the international art market with those used in Vodou ceremonies and popular...
PAST EXHIBITION
January 23 – May 29, 2011
In a specially created edition of new and recent work, San Francisco-based performance and photo-conceptual artist Allan deSouza uses digital manipulation to play with notions of artistic and technological mastery and to blur the boundaries between...
PAST EXHIBITION
August 22, 2010 – February 13, 2011
Life in Ceramics surveys the range of perspectives found among contemporary Korean ceramicists, bringing together for the first time the work of five important artists: Yikyung Kim, In Chin Lee, Kang Hyo Lee, Youngjae Lee, and Kwang...
PAST EXHIBITION
September 19, 2010 – January 16, 2011
Filmmaker and photographer Larry Yust applies his panoramic perspective to emergent—and often controversial—art forms that enliven metropolitan streetscapes. For this exhibition Yust turned his lens on Los Angeles, Paris, and...
