Christina Pierson: Artist-In-Residence @ One Colorado
June 8 - September 6
The Artist Studio @ One Colorado
24 Smith Alley, Pasadena

The Armory and One Colorado are pleased to announce that Christina Pierson has been selected as the second Artist-in-Residence at The Artist Studio — a collaborative endeavor between the contemporary art center and Pasadena’s popular retail location. From June 8 - September 6, Pierson will create art and interact with the public at a former One Colorado storefront converted into an artist studio and exhibition venue (located at 24 Smith Alley, in the pedestrian walkway behind Il Fornaio). This innovative collaboration unites commerce and culture at One Colorado and is dedicated to bringing artistic talent into the mainstream life of this outdoor shopping and dining destination. The Artist Studio is open to the public Tuesday (noon-4:00) Wednesday (noon-4:00), Thursday (2:00-4:00), Friday( noon -8:00), and Saturday (2:00 - 8:00).

Pierson’s project, entitled Solar Catch, will transform The Artist Studio into a magical environment through the creation of several “light interventions,” made from photographs printed on light reflecting and magnifying materials to turn seemingly insignificant beams of light into sparkling wonders. This installation will harness the suns rays, track and magnify its movements during daylight and use stored sunlight (through the use of solar cells) to light the installation at night. Solar Catch invites visitors to not only witness the changes in the installation as the sun traverses the studio, but to be photographed and become part of the installation. At the end of each three month residency, the public will be able to experience the completed work at a closing reception. Solar Catch will be on view through September 6, 2010.

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Lynn Aldrich: Three Founts
July 4 - November 7
The Courtyard @ One Colorado

Three Founts, a new site-specific work by artist Lynn Aldrich, opens July 4th in the courtyard at One Colorado. In place of a former water source, Aldrich draws from Pasadena history to create a fanciful and tranquil fountain that acts as a respite for visitors to beat the summer heat. In her signature style, Aldrich creates the work out of clustered hoses in multiple shades of blue and green, which sprout out of three flower pots on fabricated plant stands. From most of their tiny, brass hose ends, a trickle of water will fall into the pond covered in floating plants. It is Aldrich’s hope that the people of Pasadena will consider the fountain a "blessing" - a site to slow down and take a break from working, shopping, dining or visiting before returning to their activities with renewed energy.

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Urban Transplanter and Water Harvester
Through the end of 2010
The Armory’s Public Art Initiative at 733 North Fair Oaks

As it becomes more challenging to live within the capacity of our supporting eco-system, many contemporary artists are investigating how changes in individual lifestyles and developing green technologies can help conserve natural resources. The Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to present two projects – Urban Transplanter by Matt Moore and Urban Harvester by Lydia Vilppu– that specifically address issues of sustainability. Both works can be seen at The Armory Center for the Arts public arts initiative in a vacant lot at 733 North Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA through the end of 2010.

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Steve Roden: In Between, a 20 Year Survey
September 12. 2010 – January 9, 2011
Howard N. Fox, Curator
In The Caldwell Gallery

This is the first exhibition to bring together Roden's art in all its divergent forms and reveals his work as a homogenous, conceptually coherent practice. Featured in the exhibition is selection of early works that are precursors to the artist's numerous later directions, as well as several new works which will be exhibited for the first time, revealing the wide trajectory of his artistic evolution. The overall presentation is rooted in a five-year series of paintings, sculptures, sound works, musical compositions, text works, and video installations from 2004 through 2009 that, while formally divergent, are generated by Roden's systemic operations on the same musical score.

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NewTown: Convergences
September 12, 2010 – January 9, 2011
In The Mezzanine Gallery

In one of NewTown’s most ambitious gallery shows, eleven digital and media artists appropriate the ubiquitous tools of their media into cutting-edge, highly personal, curiously accessible experimental art forms. Convergences seamlessly integrates media with sculpture and installation into an immersive experience. The exhibition will be a multi-station journey through a labyrinth of interactions, aesthetics and technologies, from garage pillaged elegance to experimental circuitry. The exhibition will feature work by artists; Nancy Buchanan and Ismael De Anda, Claudia Bucher, Robert Ladislas Derr, Heidi Kumao, Katja Loher, Lisa Mann, Anne Oren, Steve Shoffner, Rachel Siegel, Trixy Sweetvittles, and Laura Yilmaz.

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Ribét Academy: Past, Present, Future
September 12 - November 21
In The Community Room

A group show reflecting the expressive and creative young minds of art students from Ribét Academy in Los Angeles. Curated by Charles Dailey and Andrea Lee. For more information call (323) 344-4330.

Lifelines: A Retrospective Exhibition
of Performance, Installation, Sculpture, Painting and Drawing by John M. White
March 27 – June 5, 2011
Betty Ann Brown, Curator

John M. White has made a significant contribution to California art for more than four decades. An innovative and highly respected performance artist, inspirational teacher, and accomplished painter/sculptor/installation artist, White has exhibited consistently to overwhelmingly positive reviews. In spite of his remarkable accomplishments, White’s groundbreaking oeuvre is not as well known as that of many of his contemporaries. This retrospective exhibition seeks to situate White’s work in the place of prominence it deserves. Throughout his career, White has transformed his lived experience into compelling aesthetic forms that are always profoundly intellectual and often engagingly humorous. White mines his personal environment—his first performance literally involved mining—then merges the treasure and dross of existence into intriguing visuals that hint at but never fully resolve into contained narratives. He alludes to the birth of his daughter (Rachel in the Vault) but does not deliver a medical timeline; he references the game of golf (Sand Traps) then springs to philosophical considerations.
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken
September 25 – December 31, 2011
Sam Mellon and Claudia Bohn-Spector, Curators
In The Caldwell Gallery

Speaking in Tongues brings, for the first time, two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation. The exhibition examines how Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.

Spring 2012 City Site: Street Photography and Southern California Neo Urbanism 1945 – 1980
Tim Wride, Curator
In The Caldwell Gallery

City Site will explore the post World War II period shift in Southern California-based photography from imagery that was picturesque, image-oriented, and existential in nature, to a more conceptually motivated style of representation that was decisively suburban, process-oriented, and experiential. Additionally, the exhibition will look at how the city-based, neo-urban photography of the time on the West Coast differed from concurrent activity on the East Coast.

Artists include John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Lori Brown, Jerry Burchfield, Jack Butler, Darryl Curran, Joe Deal, John Divola, Robert Fichter, Judy Fiskin, Robbert Flick, Tony Friedkin, Harry Gamboa, Robert Heinecken, Tony Hernandez, Dennis Hopper, Graham Howe, Barbara Kasten, Joe Lewis, Gary Leonard, Grant Mudford, Virgil Murano, Arthur Olman, Ed Ruscha, and Hank Wessel.