Current Exhibition

Reframing the Collection
January 28 – April 18, 2010

Pieces of 9: Reframing the Collection draws upon a broad selection of work from the University Art Museum’s permanent collection and, in a departure from a singular curatorial voice, each member of staff was given a segment of the museum space and asked to curate a small portion of the exhibition. Those who work behind the scenes have offered a diverse exploration of the collection and, when taken as a whole, lent a unique perspective by indicating a fond familiarity with the work, while at the same time charging it with new associations. Ranging from the light-hearted to the political to the many faces of angst, each micro-exhibition reflects the participants’ unique insight into our permanent collection.

Included in the exhibition are works by Tina Barney, Leonard Baskin, Ruth Bernhard, Dorr Bothwell, Marilyn Bridges, Calum Colvin, Susan Crile, Jim Dine, Otto Dix, Walton Ford, Candida Höfer, Sara Holt, Corita (Sister Mary Corita Kent), Käthe Kollwitz, Robin Lasser, Ken Light, José Orozco, Gilles Peress, Ken Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth, Mark Ruwedel, Lucas Samaras, Howard Schatz, George Segal, Dick Swift, Arthur Tress, Eugenia Vargas, Catherine Wagner, Tom Wesselmann, and Jennifer Yorke.

Curated by Angela Barker, Shirley Brilliant, John Ciulik, Elizabeth Hanson, Ilee Kaplan, Christopher Scoates, Pet Sourinthone, Brian Trimble, and Sarah G. Vinci.

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On view in the Wesley G. Hampton Gallery:

S.M.S.: An Archive of the 60s
March 11 – April 18, 2010
Reception March 11, 5-7 PM

S.M.S., the abbreviation for Shit Must Stop, was a limited-edition series of work created in 1968 by over eighty artists, including Yoko Ono, Joseph Kosuth, Meret Oppenheim, John Cage, Claes Oldenberg, and Marcel Duchamp. Using a variety of media, these boxed collections were mailed to individuals with the objective of creating a personal experience with the objects. The collection of the University Art Museum (UAM) at
CSULB contains all six mailings from the series. This seminal collection of work embodies the dissention of the art world during a time in the late 1960s when cultural norms were being challenged, and razed. Collectively, the works symbolize a monumental shift in thought—a reification of concepts. S.M.S. represented a route that diverged sharply from the authority of the institution, furthering the notion that art was to be experienced rather than worshipped.

Under the direction of Nizan Shaked, head of the museum and curatorial
studies, S.M.S.: An Archive of the 60s was curated and organized by Grace Chu, Sarah Finer, Tracy Gorden, Elizabeth Hanson, Denielle Johnson, and Seija Rohkea in partial requirement for the CSULB Graduate Program in Museum Studies.

Special Event

UAM@Noon - March 16th - Gallery talk with Christopher Miles
Art critic, curator, artist, lecturer, Miles is the Interim Associate Dean of the College of the Arts at CSULB.

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Artist Bios

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Image credits: Martha Rosler, Lounging Woman (from the series: Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful), 2004, Photomontage on paper, 22.88 x 15 in., © Martha Rosler, courtesy Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery; Ruth Bernhard In the Box - Horizonta, 1962 (printed 1992), Silver gelatin print, 13 x 23 in., Gift of the Estate of Ruth Bernhard, Reproduced with permission of the Ruth Bernhard Archive, Princeton University Art Museum, © Trustees of Princeton University; Corita (Sister Mary Corita Kent) feelin' groovy, 1967 Serigraph print, Edition of 250, 30 x 36 in., © Courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles; Man Ray, Monument, 1968 Lithograph, Edition 77/125, 22.75 x 17.36 in., © 2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris; Walton Ford, Sights, 1997, Watercolor, gouache and pencil and ink on paper, 30 x 22.25 in., © Walton Ford, courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Christo, Store Front, 1968, Mylar and paper construction, 10.5 x 6.75 in. (closed), © 2009 Christo, 1966- 68; Roy Lichtenstein, Folded Hat, 1968, Printed vinyl sheet folded into hat, 7.25 x 14 in., © 2009 Estate of Roy Lichtenstein; Diane Wakoski, The Magellanic Clouds, 1968, Folder containing poem and photographic portrait of the poet, impressed with grooves that play recording of artist’s voice reciting, the work, 6.75 x 7 in., © Courtesy of Diane Wakoski; All images collection of University Art Museum, CSULB.