Upcoming Exhibitions
Inner Vision: Abstraction and Cognition
Main Gallery, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Inner Vision: Abstraction and Cognition considers the use of abstraction to investigate the nature of thought, experience, and the senses. Exploring abstraction as a language that spans lived experience, scientific inquiry, and diverse epistemological frameworks, Inner Vision examines a range of abstract representations of cognition and sensation including emotional states, dreams, hallucinations, mystical experience, and neurological phenomena. While their visual dialects vary, each artist investigates the complexities of inner perception and sensation. Some works offer critical perspectives on cultural signifiers to convey belief systems. Others examine altered states of consciousness through abstracted scientific models. Still others investigate the ways color and form activate personal and collective memory. Many of the works explore and engage perceptual awareness. Together, they demonstrate the potential of abstraction to understand and communicate the full spectrum of lived experience.
Featured artists: Bhakti Baxter, Terri Friedman, Rema Ghuloum, Dennis Koch, Robin Mitchell, Bridget Mullen, Angeline Rivas, Adee Roberson, Barbara Rossi, and Vian Sora
Bruce Conner: Lithographs
Main Gallery Corridor, February 13 – May 8, 2025
With this group of lithograph prints, artist Bruce Conner (1933-2008) intentionally preserved a series of highly detailed but fading images he originally produced using felt-tip pens in the early 1970s. The nine prints on display explore the act of perception by prompting prolonged, up-close viewing. The meticulous black and white compositions recall mandala forms as well as microscopic imagery. The selected prints on view are part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
Jodie Mack: Glistening Thrills
Mini Gallery, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Jodie Mack’s handmade collage films blend techniques of abstraction and optical science to create richly layered perceptual tapestries. Glistening Thrills is an approximately 9-minute audiovisual film is set to play on a loop for the duration of the exhibition. The gallery setting facilitates an immersive experience that builds upon the themes of the Main Gallery exhibition, Inner Vision: Abstraction and Cognition.
Laurie Steelink: A Love Supreme
Glenn Court, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Brittany Mojo: A Vocabulary of Objects
Community Gallery, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Word & Image: Prints from the Permanent Collection
Prints and Drawings Hallway, February 13 – May 8, 2025
Notes to Future Selves: A Community Engagement Project
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery, Ongoing
Walasse Ting: 1¢ Life
Prints and Drawings Room, Ongoing
1¢ Life (1964) is a collaborative book project by Chinese-American visual artist and poet Walasse Ting (1929-2010). The book combines written works by Ting with artwork by various artists associated with Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, including Sam Francis (who edited the book), Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol, among others. Ting’s witty wordplay and biting sense of humor is evident throughout the book, as is 1960s experimentation and iconoclasm. The book includes thirty-one folios, which will be on display with weekly rotations over the course of fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters. 1¢ Life is part of the Museum’s permanent collection.
Reservations are available for visitor exhibition viewing sessions in the David Campagna Prints and Drawings Room. To make a reservation to view this exhibition, please fill out a request at least two weeks in advance. Make a reservation to view this exhibition.
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Archives Room, Ongoing
INSIGHTS 2025
Select museum galleries, May 21 – July 11, 2025
INSIGHTS is the annual juried School of Art (SOA) student exhibition at California State University, Long Beach. A selection of student artwork from INSIGHTS 2025 will be on display at Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum.
