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Back to Exhibitions Bearing Witness January 31 - April 19, 2026 • Past Exhibition Ralph and Virginia Bozigian Gallery A twenty-five-year survey of Kagan’s practice, exploring knitting as an allegory for human interconnectedness and intergenerational trauma across drawing, painting, installation, and performance. Part of Metaphor exhibition season Image Credit: Sharon Kagan, Untitled #6 (detail), 2015, Mixed media drawing Courtesy of the Artist About the Artist Big Title I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.

Back to Exhibitions Metaphor January 31 - April 19, 2026 • Past Exhibition Experience the launch of Metaphor , an exhibition season featuring seven solo exhibitions and projects exploring visual metaphor, memory, identity, and collective experience. This season brings together artists who use symbolism and layered imagery to reveal complex stories about self, place, history, and imagination. Image Credit: Nathan Huff, Phantom Limbs (detail), 2019, Gouache and watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the Artist About the Artist Big Title I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. Nathan Huff Heavy Hope Learn More Sharon Kagan Bearing Witness Learn More Bachrun LoMele Burn Pile/ All Kinds of Murmuring Here and There Learn More Vojislav Radovanović Fables from the Valley in Between Learn More Francis C. Robateau Jr. Halftone Histories: Memory, Erasure, and Belonging Learn More Brian Singer It was a pleasure to burn Learn More Diane Briones Williams The Precarious Life of the Parol Learn More

Aerial View of Lancaster Airport Aerial View of the Lancaster Airport Lancaster Airport (aerial) Lancaster Airport (aerial) 1/1 Aerial View of the Lancaster Airport, c. 1942 Photographic Print 2012.999.53 MOAH Permanent Collection Gift of Edwards Air Force Base (AFFTC-HO) Scan the QR Code for more information Aerial View of Lancaster Airport

An assorted community quilt project portraying visual representations of home, highlighting the humanist aspect of her work. Up We Are Home Shelley Heffler An assorted community quilt project portraying visual representations of home, highlighting the humanist aspect of her work. Cut, slash, crunch, and weave. These words encapsulate the fluidity of motion that defines the work of Los Angeles-based artist Shelley Heffler. Growing up in the Bronx, Heffler’s experiences navigating the subways of New York City root her artistic practice. The traces of transit maps are visible in the lines and forms in the composition of her work. Heffler’s recent work, We Are Home (2020), is an assorted community quilt project portraying visual representations of home, highlighting the humanist aspect of her work. Heffler, in her work, often uses glimpses and collages of various colors and textures to create an urban aesthetic. Heffler’s work combines waste and other byproducts of consumerism meshed with paint to create a trance-like cartographic composition, manifesting into the landscape of an altered world. With We Are Home , Heffler utilizes her artistic process in quilt-making, soliciting local residents to submit a 12” x 12” quilt block using objects and inspiration from their home. These assorted squares are then curated into the community quilt. This end product addresses the feeling of isolation during the quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing the thoughts of what home means to oneself. June 5 – September 5, 2021 Back to list

< Back Among Quiet Peaks Moore Family Trust Gallery Mark Jeffrey Santos Artist Mark Jeffrey Santos creates works that transport viewers into surreal and whimsical landscapes, far away from the stresses of reality. His muted, earth-toned fantastical scenes are marked by dreamlike instances, such as larger-than-life creatures, a cast of peculiar characters, and fantastical natural landscapes. Among Quiet Peaks demonstrates Santos’ ability to draw from his own experiences and influences in order to create whimsical and placid environments. Along with warm backdrops bathed in serenity, objects such as Japanese Kabuki masks and kimonos are some of the many motifs that call to cultural imagery important to the artist. Each painting is an individual instance, a unique tableau, in the world that Santos has built out. IMAGE CREDIT: Mark Jeffrey Santos, Flock of Fish (detail), Oil on canvas, 2025 Courtesy of Thinkspace Projects Previous Next

< Back Kimberly Brooks Featured Structure Artist Contemporary American artist Kimberly Brooks examines identity, history, and memory by utilizing a combination of landscape, abstraction, and figuration in her work. Stemming from a long tradition of American painting, her scenes depict subject matter that meets the edges of realism and abstraction. Examination of feminine identity is also present in a majority of her work. Projects such as The Stylist Project (2010), Fever Dreams (2019), I Have a King Who Does Not Speak (2015), as well as many others include the depiction of women in relation to their surroundings. Their identities and histories are depicted in loose brushstrokes, hinting to ambiguity and fleeting memories.The hand of the artist is apparent; the painterly quality of her work stands out in her varying compositions. Painting Architecture (2021) showcases the use of the built environment as landscape and subject matter. Both interior and exterior scenes are depicted: Rococo walls adorned with paintings hung salon style, arches and tilework of a mosque, an outdoor gate and pathway flanked by foliage. While these spaces may seem innocuous and arbitrary, these environments carry strong associations that are informed by their architectural styles. Brooks calls forth the provenance and significance of these spaces. The line between contemporary and antiquity is blurred. Instead of deviation, similarities are shown. A quiet, more meditated atmosphere is harmonious between the works. The play of light provides a still and almost objective showcase of these environments. There is a formal rigidity that is present between all of the works that is made apparent by the strong perspective lines that indicate the boundaries of these spaces. Juxtaposed to this is again, the use of loose brushstrokes and painterly techniques that are a mainstay of her practice. Kimberly Brooks was born in New York City, New York and raised in Mill Valley, California. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and studied painting at the University of California, Los Angeles and Otis College of Art & Design. Brooks hosts monthly artists talks on her discourse platform First Person Artist and is also the author of The New Oil Painting. Her works have been showcased internationally. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Previous Next

Back to Exhibitions Curated by Thinkspace Projects September 27 - January 4, 2026 • Past Stello Gallery Strange Pathways showcases works from artists: Nicola Caredda, Leo Eguiarte, Frank Gonzales, Anthony Hurd, Charlie Immer, Suanjaya Kencut, JoleneLai, Scott Listfield, Justin Lavato, Dan Lydersen, Brian Mashburn, Alexis Mata, Fumi Nakamura, Hallie Packard, Kevin Peterson, Michael Polakowski, Melly Tichez, Wiley Wallace, Rick Watts, Casey Weldon. Presented throughout the museum's galleries, Strange Pathways , highlights the theme of landscapes and how these artists both interpret and incorporate the subject in their work. Curated by Thinkspace Projects Eli McMullen, Kismet Gateway (detail), acrylic on cradled wood panel, 2025 Courtesy of Thinkspace Projects (Los Angeles) About the Artist Big Title I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy. Alexis Mata Purple Sunset Read More Eli McMullen Earth Signals Read More Mark Jeffrey Santos Among Quiet Peaks Read More Stephanie Buer Relic Read More

< Back to ACTIVATION 1/18 Mark Steven Greenfield A Survey, 2001-2021 January 22 - April 17, 2022 Mark Steven Greenfield is a native Angeleno. Born into a military family, he spent his early years in Taiwan and Germany, returning to Los Angeles at the age of 10. Entering into an American adolescence after being abroad gave Greenfield a unique look at the negative stereotyping of African Americans like himself, sparking his interest in the complexities of the Black experience both historically and in contemporary society. Greenfield’s creative process is based on research that delves into topics of Black genealogy, heritage, and cultural representation. His artwork is anchored in aspects of Black history that have been buried, forgotten, or omitted. Mark Steven Greenfield studied at what is now the Otis College of Art and Design and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Education from California State University, Long Beach in 1973. To support his artistic practice, he held various positions as a visual display artist, park director, graphic design instructor, and police sketch artist before returning to school to earn his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from California State University, Los Angeles in 1987. Since then, Greenfield has been a significant figure in the Los Angeles arts scene, serving as arts administrator for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, director of the Watts Towers Arts Center and the Towers of Simon Rodia, director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and as a board member for the Downtown Arts Development Association, the Korean Museum, and The Armory Center for the Arts — to name a few. Greenfield has been teaching painting and design courses at Los Angeles City College since 1997. Previous Next

Up A print collection Nuri Amanatullah Nuri Amanatullah is an Antelope Valley-based painter, illustrator, and designer whose stylized, graphic depictions of flora and fauna are represented in a variety of mediums including illustration and large-scale murals. Employing both traditional techniques and digital media, Amanatullah has designed for Disney, storyboarded for Uber, illustrated for Airbnb, and painted walls at numerous sites around the Antelope Valley including a mural with Antelope Valley Walls in 2018, as well as in Flint, Michigan as part of the Free City Mural Festival. He has also lent his talents to the non-profit Housing Corporation of America for the past three years helping to jump-start and brand a wide variety of art programs at affordable income housing properties. Illustrating animals and plants in a colorfully bold and vibrant style, Amanatullah subverts the idea of the desert as a barren and desolate setting by exploring the intersection of our everyday lives and the natural world. These brief, chance encounters with wildlife take place in the “vacant” spaces between housing and commercial developments, highlighting our own place amongst nature--often at odds with it, and far separated from our surroundings. February 2019 - May 2021 Back to list

Kiel JohnsonNotes on a Morning WalkThe idea of “work as play” is central to Kiel Johnson’s art practice bringing a sense of curiosity and exploration through his whimsical creations. His primary focus is on drawings and sculpture that speak to the travels and adventures of his everyday life. Johnson’s sculptures and drawings serve as a visual diary that captures his animated and vast stream of consciousness. < Back Kiel Johnson, Notes on a Morning Walk Kiel Johnson, Notes on a Morning Walk 1/1 Kiel Johnson Notes on a Morning Walk The idea of “work as play” is central to Kiel Johnson’s art practice bringing a sense of curiosity and exploration through his whimsical creations. His primary focus is on drawings and sculpture that speak to the travels and adventures of his everyday life. Johnson’s sculptures and drawings serve as a visual diary that captures his animated and vast stream of consciousness. Inspired by odd discoveries, coincidence and chance, Johnson seeks to personify inanimate subjects. Johnson brings a sense of curiosity and exploration to the viewer, utilizing the world and its curiosities as his palette and canvas. His creations are inspired by robots, Greek sculpture, Egyptian gods, boats, and spaceships, among others, are a visual language that is an embodiment of Johnson’s humorous and energetic mind and eye. Through his heightened level of inquisitiveness and playfulness, Johnson continues to explore places, objects, and spaces that exist within his imagination. Previous Next

Up Art Activations at the Preserve Dani Dodge Los Angeles artist Dani Dodge uses unexpected sculptural materials to alter spaces. Her experience as an embedded journalist during the 2003 invasion of Iraq changed her forever. Since then, she has created art and installations that change and challenge expectations. From brightening a black and white snowy forest in Ireland with luminescent tree stumps to turning a Los Angeles gallery into a gantlet of rotating car parts made from baby blankets, her works play with surrealist ideas using innovative forms. The installations merge the rational and the dream state. They often require interaction with the viewers. Although she creates individual works for group shows, she is best known for her installations that confront emotion. In the past she has invited participants to share burdens, joys and sins. Her work often incorporates interactive elements that require participants to reveal personal truths, and in doing so recognize our shared human frailties. She has burned people’s fears, thrown people’s burdens into the ocean and typed people’s secrets for the purpose of posting them publicly. Dodge created site-specific installations at the Coos Art Museum, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, New Museum Los Gatos, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Inglewood Public Library, San Diego International Airport, San Diego Art Institute and more. Dodge’s installation/performance CONFESS at 2015’s LA Pride was named one of the outstanding public art projects of the year by Americans for the Arts. Her work is included in four museum collections and has been shown across the U.S. and internationally. Peace on Earth at the Preserve ... and MOAH /January 25, 2019 Learn More> Dawning of a residency at the Prime Desert Woodlands Preserve /January 1, 2019 Learn More> 2019 Back to list

2023 < View Public Art Projects Superbloom! by Joseph O'Connell 2023 Permanent Art Project Superbloom! is a captivating public art piece that combines the vibrant colors of the wildflowers found in Lancaster's desert landscapes with the city's renowned aerospace industry. Inspired by the resilience, healing, and growth of both our natural environment and our own human population, this art installation celebrates the spectacle of wildflower blooms, known as ”superblooms,” that occasionally grace the region. The art piece features a collection of brilliant-colored disks, carefully arranged on sturdy aluminum stalks held together with bolts and rivets reminiscent of the aerospace industry. The varying heights of the disks symbolize not only the organic growth of wildflowers but also the continuous progress and development of the community. Superbloom! serves as a visual reminder of the coexistence between nature's beauty and human ingenuity, inviting viewers to reflect on what a superbloom in the human realm would look like.