Past Exhibitions
Family Matters
August 21, 2023 to November 09, 2023
Family Matters incorporates memory, metaphor and allegory to express the challenges, burdens and joys of an artist’s role as daughter and caretaker of her elderly parents. When her parents faced a daunting move into assisted living, they were struggling after a series of strokes with memory loss and the decline of their cognitive abilities. Using childhood possessions, and simple items that had been in the family for years, Jane Szabo creates tableaus that hint at complicated family dynamics. The presentation of these objects is not merely a catalog of possessions, but a catalog of feelings: pain and disappointment, burden and loss, memory and hope.
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What You Carry: A Sabbatical Exhibition by Sarah Meyer
March 20, 2023 to June 01, 2023
For several years, Los Angeles-based artist Sarah A. Meyer has been hiking and backpacking to seemingly forgotten places and observing the cultural stewardship of open spaces. During her professional sabbatical leave, she intensified her exploration to include routes traversed by ancient peoples since the Paleolithic period. Using only what she can carry, Meyer provides an intimate window into the wild places that connect people to the natural world. Using diffused colors and the written form, the culmination is an interdisciplinary body of work that chronicles the plein air experience, and poetically maps Meyer’s internal transformation as a designer. Hike your own hike…it will change you. – Sarah A Meyer
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Selections from the Don B. Huntley Collection: The Life & Terrain of the Wild West
October 17, 2022 to February 16, 2023
Don B. Huntley‘s passions include a collection of western art that he shares with the Cal Poly community. Over the years, Mr. Huntley has donated a number of oil paintings and sculpture that depict wildlife, or landscapes, and buckaroo art to the University.
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Treasures of Fauxtopia Artifacts, Memorabilia and Souvenirs from The Most Believable Place on Earth
March 17, 2022 to September 11, 2022
“To all who come to this fictitious place: WELCOME. Fauxtopia is your land. Here, age relives distorted memories of the past, and here, youth may savor the challenge of trying to understand the present. Fauxtopia is made up off the ideals, the dreams and the fuzzy facts which have re-created reality... with the hope that it will be a source of edutainment for all the world.” - Fauxtopia Dedication
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LA Biblioteca: Artists' Books from Los Angeles/Italia
October 14, 2021 to February 13, 2022
LA Biblioteca is an exhibition of artist's books made by seven Italian artists and one collaborative and eight LA-based artists. The exhibition is facilitated by Curator Michele Cairella Fillmore and co-curated by Raffaella Lupi, John David O’Brien and Stefania Severi who have been working with, creating and curating artist books for decades.
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Through the Toy Shop and Behind the Curtain: The Artistry of Gina M.
January 21, 2020 to September 16, 2021
Enter a toy shop of childhood fantasy, fun and games! But look closely: what you think you see, may not be what you think. Well-loved toys and plush animals gradually melt into a melancholy menagerie of misfits, displaying their busted and corroded wheels, sorrowful and broken faces, and worn-out and rusty exteriors. On display are the nostalgic elements of one’s youth –a toy box of whimsy, over-stuffed with humor and symbolism. Upon first glance, they are full of joyful memories. Upon closer look, they are aged and ragged, unmasking the gloomy overtones of childhood desolation.
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Through the Toy Shop and Behind the Curtain: The Artistry of Gina M. Reopening Aug 23rd
August 23, 2021 to September 16, 2021
Through the Toy Shop and Behind the Curtain: The Artistry of Gina M. will reopen on August 23rd at the Don B. Huntley University Art Gallery! Enter a toy shop of childhood fantasy, fun and games! But look closely: what you think you see, may not be what you think. Well-loved toys and plush animals gradually melt into a melancholy menagerie of misfits, displaying their busted and corroded wheels, sorrowful and broken faces, and worn-out and rusty exteriors.
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John T. Lyle and the Future of Regenerative Design
October 17, 2019 to December 08, 2019
John T Lyle (1934-1998) was a professor of landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona from 1968-1998. He is perhaps best known for his work in the field of regenerative design and for founding the Center of Regenerative Studies, located on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona. In writing about the...
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Art of the West: New Acquisitions
June 24, 2019 to September 26, 2019
New acquisitions have been added to the Don B. Huntley Collection. "Art of the West: New Acquisitions" features pieces of artwork that have been acquired by Mr. Huntley over the past few years.
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Art Department Faculty Show
April 17, 2019 to May 14, 2019
This exhibition showcases art and graphic work by the Cal Poly Pomona Art Department Faculty. 2019’s participating artists include: Anthony Acock, Melissa Flicker, Joyce Hesselgrave, David Hylton, Gina Lawson Egan, Crystal Yachin Lee, Sarah Meyer, Kevin Moore, Devora Orantes,...
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John David O’Brien: O’Bibliology A Personal History of Books as Physical Objects
January 22, 2019 to March 28, 2019
The exhibition explores the collected book works, artist books and book-related objects that have been in central part of John David O’Brien’s oeuvre from the start.
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Olga Lah: Lucent Shifts
October 06, 2018 to December 06, 2018
Lucent Shifts is a site-specific installation made up of discarded material—hundreds of sheets of silver reflective plastic. The work ascends across the space, creating an illusion of floating midair. The surface appears active as the material mirrors any objects or figures that pass...
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Morocco: Crossroads and Meeting Grounds
April 26, 2018 to September 20, 2018
Fourteen members of the Cal Poly Pomona community travelled through Morocco in the summer of 2017 on a five-week Fulbright-Hays grant from the Department of Education directed by Dr. Faiza Shereen and Dr. Mahmood Ibrahim. Designed for educators in a variety of fields, the program...
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Positively Fourth Street - An Encounter with the Fourth Street Viaduct
January 27, 2018 to April 12, 2018
Positively 4th Street An Encounter with Los Angeles Fourth Street Viaduct through Drawing, Painting, and Text Caught between Los Angeles’ past and future, the Fourth Street Viaduct of 1931 is an enduring artifact in an area of enormous flux. Bridging the...
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Francis Dean: The Art of Modern Landscape Architecture
October 21, 2017 to January 11, 2018
In commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of Cal Poly Pomona's Landscape Architecture Department, we are honoring one of its most celebrated faculty members - Francis H. Dean, FASLA (1922-2003). Dean was a leading figure in postwar landscape architecture. Working in partnership with the firm...
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College of Environmental Design University Collections and Archives
May 22, 2017 to October 17, 2017
The exhibition celebrates the College of Env. Design’s University Collections of Fine Art, Design, Industrial Design, Architecture and Archives by highlighting a selection of works from each of its collections. The Collections include those donated by the estates of Richard Neutra, Col. James Jones, Raymond Burr & Robert Benavides, and Channing Gilson.
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Bia Gayotto: Prequel to 2018
January 04, 2017 to April 13, 2017
For several years, Los Angeles-based artist Bia Gayotto has been using an interdisciplinary approach that combines video, collaboration, fieldwork and interviews to examine how ideas of identity and culture intersect in places, objects, and people's everyday lives. In previous projects, Gayotto...
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Marvels, Mysteries & Miniatures
October 01, 2016 to December 08, 2016
Small and precious, child-like fascination, attention to the littlest of details, intimacy, discovery –all words used to describe the "cabinet of curious" artworks by Cindy Cronk, Marianela de la Hoz, and John Montich. Symbolic messages, relics inside reliquaries, and quiet, mysterious places –...
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Creatures of the Wild West: Selections from the Don B. Huntley Collection
August 01, 2016 to September 08, 2016
Don B. Huntley‘spassions include a collection of western art that he shares with the university and Cal Poly community. Over the years, Mr. Huntley has donated a number of oil on canvas paintings that depict wildlife, landscapes, and buckaroo art to the University. These pieces, plus other paintings and antique items included in his estate, constitute the Huntley Western Art Collection.
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Poly-Kroma 2016: 2D3D Fine Art Juried Competition
May 23, 2016 to June 12, 2016
The Kellogg and Huntley University Art Galleries welcome the public and the Cal Poly Pomona campus community, students and their families, faculty, staff and administrators to PolyKroma 2016, celebrating Fine Arts, Art History and Graphic Design on campus with its 2D3D Juried Art Exhibition at The Huntley Gallery...
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Sasha vom Dorp Prequel to 2018
January 23, 2016 to April 07, 2016
Sasha vom Dorp has made photographs to better know his place in the universe. The human ability to travel the cosmos being limited, he has built a machine in an attempt to observe elemental transactions. He created a mechanical solution to what is a metaphysical problem: forcing basic elements...
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Who Looks Inside: The Art of Babette Mayor - A 25-year Retrospective
November 15, 2015 to January 07, 2016
The idea that humans go through various stages of life is not a new one: Carl Jung as well as many other psychologists theorized extensively about the cycle of life identifying universal themes, stages, and archetypes. It is their ideations that have been the inspiration behind the creation of...
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David Jang: Prequel to 2018
September 21, 2015 to October 29, 2015
Jang’s exacting, fanciful and obsessive re-appropriation of common materials articulates the countervailing forces inherent in what is considered “the everyday” within our world. Through a special transformation of “everyday” materials into kinetically-engineered and freestanding sculpture, he...
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The Huntley Western Art Collection: Living Life in the West
July 01, 2015 to August 27, 2015
Don B. Huntley‘spassions include a collection of western art that he shares with the university and Cal Poly community. Over the years, Mr. Huntley has donated a number of oil on canvas paintings that depict wildlife, landscapes, and buckaroo art to the University. These pieces, plus other paintings and antique items included in his estate, constitute the Huntley Western Art Collection.
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PolyKroma 2015: 2D3D Juried Art Exhibition
May 18, 2015 to June 14, 2015
This student exhibition features art and graphic design by students at all academic levels. This year’s exhibition was juried by: Peter Emmerich, Art Director and Character Designer for Walt Disney Television Animation, who also studied illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology; fine artist Roxene Rockwell...
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Roxene Rockwell In The Forests and Trees
February 28, 2015 to April 18, 2015
Roxene Rockwell’s work is primarily about layering and using nature, trees in particular, to symbolize humankind and life’s experiences. For Rockwell, using the tree image is very personal and complex. A single tree has the power to represent the human condition, as we stand morally strong, alone, or physically frail, bending resiliently with the wind, or succumbing to the storm. However, to Rockwell, trees also show visible scars and life experiences so much more so than humans do.
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The Gilson Collection: Midcentury Industrial Design
December 06, 2014 to February 19, 2015
Interest in mid-20th century product design has increased dramatically since 1987 when Channing Wallace Gilson began donating his design collection to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
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925,000 Campsites The Commodification of the American Experience
October 30, 2014 to November 20, 2014
There is a satisfying immediacy about the prospect of establishing an encampment for the night—clearing the site, erecting the tent, chopping wood, building a fire and cooking over the live flame—that in turn suggests a meaningful connection to landscape, place, and the rugged life of backwoods adventurers. At its essence camping is an act of faith and survival, a way to buttress an isolated human settlement against the forces of nature.
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Poems, Folklore and Ghost Stories: Tales My Firewood Told Me The Woodwork of Fred Rose
September 13, 2014 to October 23, 2014
Reminiscent of artists like Isamu Noguchi, David Nash, Giuseppe Penone and Martin Puryear, Fred Rose captures a spectrum of traditions in wood from utilitarian woodwork to carved and assembled wood sculpture. He delightfully engages the viewer with a variety of intriguing woodwork techniques of which the boundaries of each is often blurred.
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The Don B. Huntley Collection of Art of the West Exhibition
July 14, 2014 to August 28, 2014
Don B. Huntley‘s passions include a collection of western art that he is sharing with the university. Over the years, he has donated a number of oil on canvas paintings that depict wildlife, landscapes, and buckaroo art to Cal Poly Pomona. Those pieces, plus some additional paintings and antique items included in his estate, constitute the Huntley Western Art Collection.
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Poly-Kroma 2014: 2D3D Fine Art Juried Competition
May 19, 2014 to June 14, 2014
Poly‐Kroma, celebrates the Fine Arts, Art History & Graphic Design on campus with this 2014 2D/3D Juried Art Exhibition at The Huntley Gallery, the 2014 Fine Art Senior Show, AND Industry Night‐the senior Graphic Design exhibition, presented concurrently at the Kellogg University Art Gallery. 2014 2D/3D Juried Art Exhibition features the “best of” Cal Poly Pomona’s the Fine Arts and Graphic Design students at all academic levels.
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