2008 Exhibition Schedule

The public is invited to attend the TGIF opening night reception for these exhibitions, where guests can meet the artists and mingle with other visitors. The convivial gatherings are held in the Art Rental & Sales Gallery from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Refreshments are served.

Current Exhibition

November 7 (opening night reception)–January 8, 2009

Michael Giancristiano’s complex wood pieces are inspired by elements of nature and the concept of change, as he reveals the natural beauty of wood.

Paul Guillemette creates mixed media and plywood panels that are inspired by elements of nature and the concept of transformation.  His work is largely abstract but also represents a geographical area of the earth undergoing dramatic change.

The views found in Rebecca Hamm's watercolor paintings illustrate beauty and transformation in nature. Her work presents nature’s strength and resilience in response to destructive human intervention.

Yoichi Kawamura’s unique photographs explore the meaning of physical space, while allowing the viewer to discover something within the images that is familiar .

Michael Giancristiano, Frozen Desert #19, acrylic on panel

Paul Guillemette, Found Wood 08 #22, found wood and resin

Rebecca Hamm, Monte Vista Pond, watercolor on paper

Yoichi Kawamura, Untitled, C-print

Only museum members may rent or buy from the extensive and reasonably priced array of art displayed on the gallery walls—artworks of the featured artists as well as others—but anyone may attend the gallery's openings and peruse the art on display.

There are six ARSG shows each year, always for four emerging Southern California artists. The gallery is a fifty-three-year-old fundraising effort of the Art Museum Council, a volunteer group founded in 1952, all of whose funds go to purchase new art for the museum or to fund exhibitions.