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Opening January 13, 2024, Formation will feature nine artists who explore clay in their body of work. The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce Formation , an exhibition that explores clay’s inherent malleability and concern for the body, its politics, and experience. Formation highlights the work of nine artists: Kiel Johnson, Kevin Kowalski, Galia Linn, Elana Mann, Elyse Pignolet, Aili Schmeltz, Diane Silver, Camilla Taylor, and Sean Yang. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, January 13, 2024, through Sunday, April 14, 2024. Galia Lin n’s Guardians and Vessels is a twenty-year survey of Linn’s work that centers her embrace of both strength and vulnerability in her art practice. The exhibition is comprised of sixty individual pieces from various bodies of work. Artist Aili Schmeltz’s Cairn 24 creates works that are informed by the environmental, philosophical, and architectural histories of the American West. Camilla Taylor’s The Knot explores the tension between the process of individualization and being a member of a collective. Diane Silver’s Stones Throw minimalist aesthetic tangibly showcases a woman’s reproductive reality, commenting on the state of female autonomy in the present day. Elana Mann’s Bellows and Quakes explores the power of collective voice and sound while Elyse Pignolet’s Hysterical explores ideas of post-colonial ethnicity, global exchange, and intersectionality through a feminist lens. Kevin Kowalski’s work takes cues from the natural world and visual landscapes while Kiel Johnson’s Notes on a Morning Walk is an autobiographical series documenting Johnson’s daily walks in the small, idyllic village he currently resides. Artist Sean Yang’s TOUCH THE TRUESELF WITHIN exploits the tension between reproduced and handcrafted objects through his sculptural ceramics and mixed media works, seeking to examine social control, collective unconsciousness, individual identity, and cultural transformation. Formation Exhibition 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. Read More Kevin Kowalski Sculptural Landscapes Inspired by the natural word, artist Kevin Kowalski creates ceramic works that call to the visual landscapes around him. His travels and experience in clay provide the foundation for his creative process, allowing him to develop his skills in techniques such as mocha diffusion and many other decorative processes. Read More Galia Linn Vessels and Guardians Surrounded by archeological sites and spaces in war-torn Israel, Galia Linn gained inspiration from ancient and contemporary relics from past and present civilizations. She reacts to these relics and stories through her sculptures, paintings, and site-responsive installations. Read More Elana Mann Bellows and Quakes Through sculpture, sound, and community engagement, the artwork of artist Elana Mann explores the power of the collective voice and the politics of listening. Mann’s sculptures, resembling the horns and rattles prominent in musical instruments, serve to create, amplify, and embody sound. Read More Elyse Pignolet Hysterical Primarily working in ceramics, artist Elyse Pignolet has been inspired by and dealt with various themes including political and social issues, the dialectic between feminism and misogyny, and cultural stereotypes. Often projects reflect the urban environment from where she lives and works. Read More Aili Schmeltz Cairn 24 Informed by the environmental, philosophical, and architectural histories of the American West, artist Aili Schmeltz creates sculptures and wall-hung works that combine painting, collage, embroidery, and ceramics. Her practice stems from a fascination of the desert landscape, research into feminist history, and an examination of the politics and utopian ideology associated to the development, destruction, and conservation of the West. Read More Diane Silver Stones Throw For Diane Silver, working with her hands is a transformative act taking inspiration from the natural world. Silver utilizes ceramic, wax, and textiles like hemp and thread to create organic forms that resemble those in nature. Silver allows for the material to speak for itself with a raw and organic feel. Read More Camilla Taylor The Knot Camilla Taylor’s monochromatic sculptures often cite figurative and architectural forms through references of the human body and home. Her work features a subtle and limited palette of blacks, greys, and graphite. For Taylor, certain colors feel too “loud,” opting for a color palette that feels more intimate and introspective. Read More Sean Yang TOUCH THE TRUESELF WITHIN Through sculptural ceramics and mixed- media works, artist Sean Yang’s practice exploits the tension between reproduction and handcrafted objects, using this dialogue to examine social control, collective unconsciousness, individual identity, and cultural transformation. Read More

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Public Art Projects Anthony James: "Portals" Ongoing Read More Antelope Valley Walls™ Ongoing Read More Joseph O'Connell's Superbloom! 2023 Read More Nancy Baker Cahill's Lifelines 2023 Read More Nuri Amanatullah Crosswalk Mural 2022 Read More Skytower Park Murals by Community Engagement Artist, Vojislav Radovanovic 2022 Read More Woods Davy's Colima 2022 Read More Dan Droz's The Greeting 2022 Read More Paleolithic Herd by Devin Thor 2021 Read More THEN | NOW | A | DREAM by Nathaniel Ancheta and David Martin 2021 Read More Charlie Edmistion Crosswalk Mural 2021 Read More Cinta Vidal Mural 2021 Read More Kim Sielbeck Crosswalk Mural 2021 Read More Little Giant by Ann Weber 2020 Read More #CountMeIn Poster Project 2020 Read More Chase Erachi Crosswalk Mural 2019 Read More ALEX COUWENBERG : APOLLO 2019 Read More Guy Dill Roundabout 2018 Read More #ArtOutDoorAV 2017 Read More Astral Challenger 2016 Read More Eco-Quilt 2016 Read More Yarn Bomb at MOAH 2015 Read More Random Acts of Music 2014 Read More One Desert Sky 2014 Read More Yarn Bomb At City Hall 2013 Read More Pete Knight Mural 2012 Read More The Musical Road 2008 Read More

September 16 - December 17 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce Framework , an exhibition that explores wood’s inherent versatility and enduring creative integrity. Framework highlights the work of seven artists: Charles Arnoldi, Angela Casagrande, Susan Feldman, Terry Holzgreen, Dan ‘Nuge’ Nguyen, Valerie Wilcox, and Douglas Tausik Ryder, each of whom bring their own unique artistic processes to the medium. The exhibition will be on view from September 16, 2023 through December 17, 2023. Charles Arnoldi: Master of Ceremony is a survey of the artist’s wood works, which explore the medium’s ability to define positive and negative space, utilizing color and form. Angela Casagrande’s The Body is a House for Thoughts is a mixed-media work that reconstructs time and memory though photographs and found material. Susan Feldman’s MOC (My Own City) and Valerie Wilcox’s Constructs , focuses in on wood’s architectural associations, repurposing wooden elements and fragments to generate a new narrative. Dan ‘Nuge’ Nguyen and Terry Holzgreen deconstruct wood’s structural qualities and redefine its organic characteristics. Douglas Tausik Ryder’s Your Myth Here utilizes artificial intelligence and newer means of production to create wooden sculptures that examine the relationship between ancient myth and mass media. Each of the artists in Framework explores the unique relationship with this fascinating material, examining how this timeless medium continues to help us meet our most pressing societal challenges today. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, September 23, 2023 from 2 to 4 PM. Framework Exhibition Angela Casagrande The Body is a House for Thoughts To Angela Kahoali’i Casagrande, the camera is her third eye. Her lens-based process creates a visual assemblage of reconstruction and remembrance. For Casagrande, photography is a tool that encapsulates a moment in time, forging it into a tactile record of memory. From this, she retells the stories of personal and familial narratives utilizing a variety of photographic methods and mixed media. Read More Charles Arnoldi Master of Ceremony Charles Arnoldi is a multi-disciplinary artist whose varied body of work includes traditional oil paintings on canvas, bronze sculpture, monoprints, lithographs, “chainsaw paintings,” aluminum paintings, and polyethylene wall reliefs. Nurtured in Los Angeles’ burgeoning art scene in the late 1960s, Charles Arnoldi started his art career in Downtown Los Angeles and would move to Venice Beach alongside experimental Light and Space artists like Peter Alexander and Billy Al Bengston. Read More Dan "Nuge" Nguyen Selected Works Dan ‘Nuge’ Nguyen’s artistic practice seeks to explore the relationship between structure and fluidity. Utilizing wood as his primary medium, Nuge creates works that defy the physical qualities of the material while still preserving its warmth and tactility. These vibrant sculptures are visually dense, combining color and organic forms into a single composition. Read More Douglas Tausik Ryder Your Myth Here Douglas Tausik Ryder has always had the desire to push the creative boundaries of sculptural art through technology. Inspired by innovation, the artist combines the conventional form of woodworking and contemporary technology, bringing a 21st century conversation to traditional wood working and sculptural practices. Read More Susan Feldman MOC (My Own City) Susan Feldman’s artistic practice centers around architecture and the idea of home, primarily working with found wood and other mixed media. Her art practice is often inspired by her meditation practices and contextualizes this process through the physical act of “rising up.” Read More Terry Holzgreen Branching Out Straying away from traditional notions of woodworking, cabinetmaker and self-taught artist Terry Holzgreen, creates both functional and sculptural wooden works. His works are a visual compilation of the uniqueness and variety of lumber. Wood fragments from different tree species are arranged into a multitude of shapes, turning into a collage of texture, form, and natural wood color. Read More Valerie Wilcox Constructs Using a myriad of salvaged and repurposed materials, artist Valerie Wilcox creates compositions that explore the associations and contradictions between abstract shapes, mark-making, and painting. Wood, plaster, paint, textiles, cardboard, and other architectural media are sourced, then assembled into abstracted arrangements. Read More

ACTIVATION January 22 - April 16, 2022 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History is opening its latest exhibition season, Activation, a series of solo exhibitions from artists Mark Steven Greenfield, April Bey, Paul Stephen Benjamin, Carla Jay Harris, and Keith Collins. The opening reception for Activation will be held on Saturday, January 22, 2022 from 4 to 6 p.m., in tandem with What Would You Say? Activist Graphics from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the second exhibition in its Local Access series. The exhibitions will remain on view until April 16, 2022. Lee mas April Bey Lee mas Carla Jay Harris Lee mas Keith Collins Lee mas Mark Steven Greenfield Lee mas Paul Stephen Benjamin Lee mas Sergio Hernandez Lee mas What Would You Say?

Photographic Transmutation The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) is pleased to announce their latest exhibition Before You Now: Photographic Transmutations. Before You Now: Photographic Transmutations will be on view at MOAH from Saturday, January 25 to Sunday April 13, 2025. The opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Saturday, January 25 from 2 to 4 PM. Before You Now: Photographic Transmutations features the work of artists Naida Osline, Andrew K. Thompson, Ellen Friedlander, Osceola Refetoff, and Brad Miller. Through traditional and non-traditional methods, these artists transcend the photographic medium, creating works that transcend the two-dimensional plane of standard photography. Naida Osline Botany of Transcendence Naida Osline is a photographer and filmmaker whose work merges conceptual and documentary practices. Balancing studio control with the unpredictability of public spaces, her imagery blurs the organic and synthetic, creating thought-provoking visuals. Since 2009, Osline has explored psychoactive plants in a long-term project examining their connections to creativity, morality, economics, legality, addiction, and spirituality. Read More Andrew K. Thompson A Sky Full of Holes Andrew K. Thompson challenges photography's ideals of perfection through a playful and experimental approach. Guided by a simple “What if?” question, his work embraces research and discovery, exemplified by projects like Melting Cameras, where camera-shaped ice cubes made with Caffenol melt onto black-and-white photographic paper. Read More Osceola Refetoff Magic and Realism Osceola Refetoff is a Canadian American visual artist and photojournalist renowned for his experimental use of infrared and pinhole photography to explore humanity's connection to the physical world. His work blends photojournalism and fine art, producing hyper-realistic yet surreal images. Read More Ellen Friedlander The Soul Speaks Ellen Friedlander’s photography captures life’s imperfections and fleeting moments through bold, complex imagery. Influenced by over a decade in Hong Kong, her work combines in-camera and post-processing techniques, showcasing her technical expertise and fascination with human presence. Read More Brad Miller Water Shadows Brad Miller’s work draws inspiration from the fractal patterns of the physical world, which have been transformed into symbolic motifs across cultures for thousands of years. Miller’s practice explores archetypal patterns such as spirals, close-packing forms, and dendritic systems. Read More

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Mark Steven Greenfield's Hey-Lo Series Mark Steven Greenfield's most recent body of work, Hey-Lo, tells the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, visionaries, and even a few scoundrels. Many of the figures are from the 1400s-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. In this series, Greenfield puts halos on historical and contemporary figures alike, highlighting remarkable stories on enslaved Black figures as well as people who are seen as modern-day saints in their respective communities. "I am reimagining what a saint is," Greenfield says. "Maybe by studying their stories, it can inform us on better ways to live." Hey-Lo is a rich representation of the complexities of the historical Black identity. The figures in the paintings emerge from a variety of geographic locations, time periods, ethnicities, stages of life, and levels of freedom — each representing a person who was nearly blotted out from written history despite their incredible feats or attributed miracles. Greenfield honors their simultaneously astounding and disturbing existences by bestowing them with halos, which are theological symbols of adoration and respect. The lustrous gold leaf backgrounds and mantra discs help lift the figures to a place in the heavens. This is a Title 01 Lee mas This is a Title 03 Lee mas This is a Title 02 Lee mas

back to list Lori Antoinette Lori Antoinette's earliest memories are drawing with her Mom, who was a wonderful painter. Art classes were a major part of her upbringing. Antoinette earned a degree in fine Art from the University of Maryland and also has a certification in textile design from Otis Parsons in Los Angeles. Antoinette loved painting people and architecture, a contrast to her degree in abstraction. After college, she returned to figurative work. For a time, she had a wearable art business and was a co-owner of a downtown LA art gallery. She recently started a social group showcasing her chalk family called Chalk Mafia. Antoinette has been creating street art (chalk) for almost 30 years now, beginning in Pasadena, CA. Since retiring from a 30-year airline career, she able to focus on her art career to include wall murals, public art, paint parties, and portraiture as well as developing partnerships with other talented artists.

Branching Out < Back Previous Terry Holzgreen Branching Out Straying away from traditional notions of woodworking, cabinetmaker and self-taught artist Terry Holzgreen, creates both functional and sculptural wooden works. His works are a visual compilation of the uniqueness and variety of lumber. Wood fragments from different tree species are arranged into a multitude of shapes, turning into a collage of texture, form, and natural wood color. Pieces and fragments are sourced from both scraps and found material. These assemblages are presented in various formats: cubes, spheres, vessels, wall works, each retaining this pieced-together quality. Holzgreen’s process derives from his background in carpentry and a fluke idea in which he created a small hollow cube and then attached thin cuts of wood pieces into a grid pattern along the cube’s surface. Holzgreen sees the reuse of these fragments and materials as a way of refining and showcasing the natural beauty of the material. This idea of improvisation and experimentation still resonates in his practice today. Next

back to list Aaron De LA Cruz Aaron De La Cruz's work, though minimal and direct at first, tends to overcome barriers of separation and freely steps in and out of the realms of fine art and design. The act and the marks themselves are very primal but tend to take on distinct and sometimes higher meanings in the broad range of mediums and contexts they appear in and on. His work finds strengths in the reduction of his interests in life to minimal information. De La Cruz gains from the idea of exclusion, just because you don't literally see it, doesn't mean that it's not there.

< Back to ACTIVATION 1/12 April Bey The Opulent Blerd January 22 - April 17, 2022 Raised in The Bahamas, Los Angeles-based artist April Bey provides reflective and social critique of American and Bahamian cultures. Her artworks are often weaponized with concepts of Afrofuturism, a genre of speculative fiction regarding the future and significance of peoples and cultures within the African Diaspora. Pop culture, racial construct, and feminism are some of the many topics that Bey discusses. Research, material, and processes are crucial contributors to Bey’s work, she often travels on a national and international scale, allowing her to gather experience, material, and cultural information directly from the source. Using an Afrofuturist lens, Bey repurposes familiar brands, phrases, and portraits to create what she refers to as her “rule-based” and “process based” artworks. Across graphic design, installations, paintings, prints, collages, videos, and handmade artist books, she creates visual commentary on the world’s rapidly increasing set of issues. Bey considers her work a physical representation of “power dynamics destroyed and radically alien views.” Her utilization of witty humor, along with her close attention to texture and color are visually striking, purposefully drawing viewers to decipher the message before them. April Bey is both a practicing contemporary artist and art educator. She is currently a tenured professor at Glendale College and is well known for teaching a controversial course, Pretty Hurts, at the Art Center College of Design. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing in 2009 from Ball State University and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting in 2014 at California State University, Northridge in Los Angeles. Bey is in the permanent collection of the California African American Museum, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, and Baha Mar in Nassau, Bahamas. She has exhibited internationally in biennials NE7, NE8, and NE9 in The Bahamas, and in Italy, Spain, and Ghana. Previous Next