Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

Cameron Harvey: The Shape of Being

Saturday, August 24–Sunday, December 8, 2024

For her first solo museum exhibition, Cameron Harvey shares a new body of work inspired by her walks in the Santa Monica Mountains surrounding the Pepperdine campus. Her paintings and sculptures are based on the formal qualities of the human body and their similarities to local flora and rock formations. Employing a strong midline as a unifying element, her work reveals the diversity and variability that exists within a repeated form, prompting us to reflect on the universal aspects of the human experience and our relationship to our environment.

 

Loop, Hum, Wave

Saturday, August 24–Sunday, December 8, 2024

Guest curated by adjunct professor Kira Maria Shewfelt, Loop, Hum, Wave presents a selection of works by Pepperdine fine arts faculty exploring the passage and movement of time. Across diverse subjects and mediums, these works engage memorialization, self-documentation, aging, childhood, nostalgia, and imagined and alien life, connected by an understanding of the flux of space and time. Participating artists include Berfin Ataman, Gretchen Batcheller, Kathy Bates, Isabel Beavers, Richard Bott, Mariquita Davis, John Emison, Yvette Gellis, Michael Kennedy Costa, Kate Parsons, Ty Pownall, Renée Reizman, Conrad Ruiz, Kira Maria Shewfelt, and Kim Truong. 

James Clar: Powers of Ten

Saturday, January 11–Sunday, March 30, 2025

Featuring the artist’s signature light sculptures, videos, and installations, James Clar’s first solo museum exhibition explores sensory experience and personal narratives through the lens of technology and new media. In this mid-career presentation, guest curated by Larissa Kolesnikova, Clar reflects on personal transformation and his journey across the globe from New York to Manila. He also revisits his earlier work with world-class athletes and professional video gamers, which investigated energetic patterns of the human mind, information retention, and semantic memory.

 

Isabel Yellin: Mothership

Saturday, January 11–Sunday, March 30, 2025

Over the last decade, Los Angeles-based artist Isabel Yellin has earned a reputation for her sculptures made from fabric sewn into twisting, serpentine shapes evocative of the body. Mothership, her first solo museum exhibition, represents a new era in her work, aiming to give form to the defenses we build in and around ourselves to encase and protect our most vulnerable parts in the wake of profound loss. In a new series of abstract paintings and metal-and-silicone reliefs, Yellin reflects on her own experiences of trauma, loss, and grief, pairing her work for the first time with recently discovered paintings by her late mother, Anne Locksley.

Exhibition Archive

An archive of past exhibitions from 2016 to present.