The Chan Gallery of Pomona College is pleased to announce Painting: New Approaches, an exhibition synthesizing current and emerging voices from across the United States. The artists featured in the exhibition present new conceptual and material attitudes toward a highly traditional, historically rich medium. They wrangle with the legacies of painting by pushing the medium to new material limits and reframing our notion of what a painting may be. In doing so, traditional subjects such as portraiture, still life, landscape, figuration, and abstraction are reclaimed and reimagined. Hung salon-style, in a nod to the famed painting exhibitions of the 17th century Royal Academy of Art, Painting: New Approaches offers a rich exploration of innovative, experimental, and diverse practices that play with the medium and its many possibilities for interpretation and representation.
Collaboratively curated by Pomona College students SeoJin Ahn, Alex Dean, Alicia Garza, Austin Kim, Maddie Rubin-Charlesworth, Aja Trice, Scarlett Wang, Chan Gallery Manager Tricia Avant, and the artists themselves, Painting: New Approaches presents an opportunity for our community to interact with engaging artists whose work is shaping the world of contemporary painting. Arists included in the exhibition: Joeun Kim Aatchim, Dabin Ahn, Liz Ahn, Lindsay August-Salazar, Sarah Awad, Jacob Todd Broussard, William Burton Binnie, Pui Tiffany Chow, Karla Diaz, Lauren Faigeles, Jenny Gagalka, Andrew Holmquist, Pearl C. Hsiung, Annette Hur, Daniel Ingroff, Alex Jackson, Leasho Johnson, Josh Meier, Mich Miller, Yae Jee Min,Salim Moore, Sarah Sarchin, Aparna Sarkar, Jenn Smith, Zoe Walsh, and Marian Williams.
The Bernard Charnwut Chan Gallery is a 1,500-square-foot gallery located in the Studio Art Hall of Pomona College. The Chan Gallery has hosted a variety of solo, two-person, large, and small group exhibitions including works by faculty, staff, students, and emerging and mid-career contemporary artists.
A selection of artists featured since opening in 2014 include Tanya Aguiñiga, Lee Blalock, Cirilo Domine, Katie Grinnan, Anthony Lepore, Candice Lin, Katie Mendoza, Aaron Morse, Michael Parker, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Gala Porras-Kim, Martine Syms, Este Sánchez, Cauleen Smith, Cammie Staros, LeRoy Stevens, Ryan Taber, Gray Wielebinski, Rosten Woo, Suzanne Wright, Samira Yamin, and Kim Ye.
The gallery was made possible by the generosity of Bernard Charnwut Chan, Pomona College trustee, a former art major, and ’88 alumnus.
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