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Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University showcases modern and contemporary art with a focus on art made in California. Read more about us

Museum hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 11 AM–5 PM.

Questions? Please email museum@pepperdine.edu or call 310.506.4851.

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Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art

 

Current Exhibitions

Saturday, January 13–Sunday, March 31, 2024

 Makoto Fujimura, Water Flames — Doe of the Dawn, 2021

Makoto Fujimura: Water Flames

Makoto Fujimura has earned an international reputation for his beautiful, deeply moving abstract paintings made using traditional Nihonga materials with delicate washes of natural pigments. Makoto Fujimura: Water Flames brings together a number of his major paintings of the last 20 years, focusing on the poetic paradox between the elements of water and fire, which symbolize, in Fujimura’s words, art’s power to “[turn] the flames of destruction into the flames of sanctification.”

Jeni Spota C -  Mistakes 2008

Jeni Spota C.: Encore!

In her thickly impastoed paintings, Jeni Spota C. explores her own Italian heritage and the power of religious imagery by obsessively reworking scenes from Giotto’s 14th-century monumental fresco The Last Judgment. Spota C. abstracts her figures and collapses the neat order of Giotto’s fresco, merging the zones of heaven and hell into chaos. Jeni Spota C: Encore! unites three bodies of work, putting the artist’s earliest and most recent works into conversation, alongside a series that references Spota C.’s great-uncle, a magician, to consider the relationship between painting and magic, myth, and illusion. 


 

Upcoming Exhibitions

The Orchard Senior Showcase

The Orchard

Pepperdine Studio Art Senior Thesis Exhibition 
April 11–27, 2024

The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art and the Art Program at Pepperdine University are pleased to present The Orchard, a group exhibition featuring the work of 12 graduating students in Art.


 

Past Exhibitions

Past Exhibitions

Exhibition Archive

 An archive of past exhibitions from 2016 to present.


 

Visit Us

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Getting Here

The Weisman Museum is located on Pepperdine University's Malibu Campus at:
24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA, 90263

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Accessibility and Covid Policy

The Weisman Museum is wheelchair accessible. Accessible parking is available for free in our main lot.

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Free Family Art Days

Enjoy hands-on art activities with multiple projects designed for children of all ages and free museum tours.