VAS + SqC Group Announcement, June 18, 2025

EXHIBITION GROUP ANNOUNCEMENT

PRESENTED BY SQUARE CYLINDER and VISUAL ART SOURCE

Selected Gallery and Museum Exhibitions

Throughout the Western U.S.

Week of June 18, 2025

Greg Miller, “True Romance”

Jennifer Wolf, “Utopalypse”

June 21 - August 16, 2025

Opening Reception:

Saturday, June 21, 5-8pm

William Turner Gallery

Bergamot Station Arts Center

2525 Michigan Ave., E1, Santa Monica 90404

Email: turnergallery@gmail.com

Phone: (310) 453-0909

Website: williamturnergallery.com

Facebook: facebook.com/WTGallery

Instagram: instagram.com/williamturnergallery

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-6pm, & by appointment

Celebrated for his visually arresting and conceptually layered collages, Greg Miller continues his decades-long excavation of American mass media, memory, and myth-making. In this newest body of work, True Romance, Miller revisits the imagery that has long defined his practice—pulp fiction, billboard advertisements, vintage comics, magazine spreads, and Hollywood’s golden illusions—reassembling these cultural fragments into densely layered vignettes that are both nostalgic and interrogative.

Jennifer Wolf’s “Utopalypse” merges two seemingly opposing forces: utopia, the ideal or perfect place, and apocalypse, a moment of revelation often associated with collapse or ending. This fusion forms the conceptual core of Jennifer Wolf’s new exhibition, where the aspiration for beauty, harmony, and renewal exists alongside a deep awareness of fragility, decay, and transformation.

(l.) Edgar Degas, “Portrait of M. Mathilde Salle,” c. 1892, bronze. (r.) Ed Ruscha, “Gal Chews Gum,” 2019/2021, bronze.

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts presents “Sculptors: From Degas to Ruscha!” a major exhibition of works by some of the major sculptors of 20th- and 21st-Century art. This continues the gallery's presentation of museum quality exhibitions since its move to Pasadena, as one of the longest established fine art galleries in Los Angeles.

“Sculptors: From Degas to Ruscha!” provides a rare opportunity to view more than fifty works by a wide range of artists in an intimate setting. Artists exhibited include Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Aristide Maillol, Pierre Bonnard, Auguste Rodin, Max Klinger, Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Max Weber, Chaim Gross, Reuben Nakian, Elie Nadelman, Alexander Archipenko, Antoniucci Volti, Henry Moore, Marino Marini, Francisco Zuniga, Alexander Calder, Karel Appel, Claire Falkenstein, Hannelore Baron, George Nama, Louise Nevelson, Arman, George Herms, Gordon Wagner, Peter Linde Busk, Brandon Ballengée, Robert Graham, Alison Saar, Jordi Alcaraz, and Ed Ruscha.

“Sculptors: From Degas to Ruscha!”

June 29 - September 11, 2025

Opening Reception:

Sunday, June 29, 3-6pm

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

600 South Lake Ave., #102, Pasadena, CA 91106

Email: jrutberg@jackrutbergfinearts.com

Phone: (323) 938-5222

Website: www.jackrutbergfinearts.com

Hours: Tues - Fri: 10am-6pm; Sat: 10am-5pm

Gallery Entrance Through Lobby

Free Parking Entry on South Lake Avenue

Robert Minervini, “Bare Pine,” 2024,

acrylic on Arches watercolor paper, 8 1/2 x 11 3/4”.

RBG at 50: Photo & Video

Robert Minervini, “36 Views”

June 21 - August 23, 2025

Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present “RBG at 50: Photo and Video.” Over the decades we have continually offered a platform to often overlooked artists, including many early adopters of photography, specifically large-scale and color, and video. Bransten has championed photographers who push the medium forward – notably Candida Höfer, Vik Muniz, Uta Barth, Henry Wessel, & Dawoud Bey, and she began showing video artists at a time when the medium was not yet an accepted form of art, among them Jim Campbell, Judith Barry, Dana Birnbaum. READ MORE

We are also pleased to present "36 Views," a solo exhibition of small paintings on paper and canvas by Robert Minervini. The concept and title pays homage to Japanese artist Hokusai (1760–1849) and his iconic series "6 Views of Mount Fuji." READ MORE

Rena Bransten Gallery

1275 Minnesota St. #210

San Francisco, CA 94107

Email: info@renabranstengallery.com

Phone: (415) 982-3292

Website: renabranstengallery.com

Contact: Trish Bransten

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm

Concentric Circles:

Tracing the Radiance of Bay Area Figuration

Extended to June 28, 2025

Pamela Walsh Gallery is proud to present Concentric Circles: Tracing the Radiance of Bay Area Figuration, currently on view in the gallery. The show will be extended till June 28th. This exhibition is a major survey of works by the founding artists of the Bay Area Figurative Movement and those whose practices radiated outward from its transformative core. This exhibition revisits the fertile artistic period of 1950–1965, when a group of San Francisco Bay Area painters, led by David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and Richard Diebenkorn, made the radical choice to return to figuration at the height of Abstract Expressionism. One you do not want to miss!

Artists:

Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Nathan Oliveira, Joan Brown, Theophilus Brown, Paul Wonner, James Weeks, Manuel Neri, Frank Lobdell, Bruce McGaw, Henrietta Berk, Wayne Thiebaud, Raimonds Staprans, Kim Frohsin.

Pamela Walsh Gallery

540 Ramona St.

Palo Alto, CA 94301

Email: info@pamelawalshgallery.com

Phone: (650) 300-6315

Website: pamelawalshgallery.com

Contact: Pamela Walsh

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-6pm

Artwork by Katy Bishop

“The Woman’s Perspective”

June 22 - July 19, 2025

Opening Reception:

Sunday, June 22, 1-4pm

Closing/Artist Talk/Art Pick-up:

Saturday, July 19, 1-4pm

“The Woman's Perspective,” at the Long Beach Creative Group, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Southern California Women's Caucus for Art (SCWCA). This thought-provoking exhibition delves into the world through the eyes of women showcasing their experiences, emotions, and narratives across various mediums.

Featuring works by diverse female artists, “The Woman's Perspective” highlights themes of identity, resilience, empowerment, and the everyday realities of womanhood. By presenting stories that are often overlooked or underrepresented "The Woman's Perspective" invites viewers to engage with art that challenges perceptions, sparks conversation, and celebrates the multifaceted nature of the female experience. Through art, this exhibition creates a space where women’s voices are amplified, their perspectives honored, and their creativity embraced.

Exhibit Location:

Long Beach Creative Group (LBCG)

2221 East Broadway, Long Beach, CA 90803

Street parking only.

Southern California Women's Caucus for Art (SCWCA)

Creating community through art, education & social activism

Email: socalwomenscaucus@gmail.com

Website: scwca.org

Marianna Baker, “I am flying a UFO without a navigator”

Laurence Barbera, “Figures”

Somaya Etemad, “A Life Rebuilt Alone”

Sally Lamb, “Santa Monica Series”

Gina Leon-Gutiérrez, “Resilience”

Pedrin Garcia, “Human Figure: The Postcard Series”

TAG Artists Present: “Nothing to See Here —

Nudes and the Human Figure”

June 18 - July 11, 2025

Gallery Reception:

Saturday, June 21, 5-8pm

Fiber Art, Landscapes, Narratives, Figurative, Expressionist and Abstracted works take center stage – join us to see original works from: Marianna Baker, Laurence Barbera, Somaya Etemad, Pedrin Garcia, Sally Lamb and Gina Leon-Gutiérrez.

These solo exhibitions bring human form and experience, identity, memory and place into focus, while amplifying themes about hope and resilience.

TAG Artists also proudly presents “Nothing to See Here – Nudes and The Human Figure.” TAG artists reimagine depictions and interpretations of the human form through drawing, painting and sculpture.

TAG, The Artists' Gallery

5458 Wilshire Boulevard,

Los Angeles, CA 90036

Email: gallery@taggallery.net

Phone: (310) 829-9556

Website: www.taggallery.net

Hours: Open Wednesday-Sunday, 1-7pm

The Power of Paint

Curated by Women Painters West

June 21 - August 16, 2025

Opening Reception:

Saturday, June 21, 6:30 - 9pm

Art For Lunch: Thursday, July 10, 11am - 1pm

Experience Women Painters West’s newest curated exhibit, “The Power of Paint,” at the Huntington Beach Art Center. This exhibition celebrates women painters and their camaraderie within the wider artistic community. We invite all to explore the main gallery’s newest lively exhibit and celebrate "The Power of Paint."

During the opening reception you will also have the opportunity to be a part of our 30th anniversary exhibition, We Are HBAC. This installation will feature photo portraits of the many people who have made the HBAC so special these past 30 years. If you would like to have your portrait included in the photo installation, our photographer will be available June 21, 6:45-8pm.

Huntington Beach Art Center

538 Main St., Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Email: artcenterstaff@surfcity-hb.org

Phone: (714) 374-1650

Website: huntingtonbeachartcenter.org

Hours: Tues, 12-8pm, Weds.-Thurs, 12-6pm, Fri.-Sat, 12-5pm

We are thrilled to celebrate Jim Dine on his 90th birthday. Jim is truly an inspiration to the world! At an age when many people have slowed down, Jim has chosen a different path. A renowned artist since the 1950's, seventy years later he is more active and acknowledged than ever.

Just last year, Jim was selected to exhibit at a collateral event at the Venice Biennale. His well-received one-person show at the historic 17th century Palazzo Rocca welcomed 30,000 visitors in three months. Jim's works are rich with passion, discovery, and beauty and are endowed with his resolute and fearless philosophical statements.

While sculpting extraordinary monumental bronzes and creating larger-than-life paintings and drawings, Dine has concurrently been honored with numerous museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the world. All the while, he has continued to write and publish thought-provoking poetry—a practice that began in the 1960s during the “Happenings”—frequently incorporating these textual elements into his visual work. Jim has shown us that the combination of a positive attitude, creativity, unbridled optimism, love, and a sense of humor make age irrelevant.

Happy birthday Jim. May this year and all the years that follow be filled with the best that life has to offer.

- Jonathan Novak

Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art

1880 Century Park East, Suite 100,

Los Angeles, CA 90067

Email: jnca@novakart.com

Phone: (310) 277-4997

Website: www.novakart.com

Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm