Exhibitions

Twice Drawn returns in a new iteration, revisiting last spring’s eccentric survey of modern and contemporary drawing to explore how context affects our understanding of art. Drawings by more than one hundred artists in a range of styles, including many works seen in the first installation, hang thematically in a... See more 

Nina Katchadourian makes engaging and irreverent artworks that combine investigative practices with a more elusive, poetic logic. Incorporating sculpture, photography, video, and sound, her multilayered projects are propelled by deliberate attempts to observe, scrutinize, order, and disorder her surroundings. All... See more 

In our dreams, the familiar becomes strange and the bizarre is made believable. Fragments of recognizable settings, people, and events are woven into seamless narratives that are mysterious or unexpected, and yet somehow inevitable. These images can blur the distinctions between illusion and reality, offering a... See more 

Two drawings by over forty artists comprise this eccentric survey of the last half-century of modern and contemporary drawing. Artists included range from mid-century stalwarts like Philip Guston, Roy Lichtenstein, Lee Bontecou, and Ellsworth Kelly, to established draftsmen such as Robert Gober, Nancy Grossman, Brice... See more 

Billboard is a digital analysis of every number one single from the Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart from its inception in 1958 through the year 2000. Using a technique he developed called time-lapse phonography, R. Luke DuBois creates a spectral average of each song that generates a sustained chord of an average... See more 

And Therefore I Am takes its title from philosopher René Descartes's famous dictum, cogito, ergo sum - "I think, therefore I am." It presents contemporary art about the experience of human consciousness, thought, perception, and the working of the mind and brain. The exhibition features Janet Cardiff and George... See more 

The Tang Museum and the Laguna Art Museum have co-organized the first retrospective exhibition of Richard Pettibone’s artwork in over twenty years. The show presents the full range of the artist’s career, from his early shadow-box assemblages to his more recent sculptures and paintings. Pettibone’s earliest works... See more 

Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer and performer. For the Tang Museum, she will create a commissioned multi-channel audio installation for the Elevator Music series and combine segments of her new piece with previous works in a scintillating live performance kicking off the Tang's Fifth Anniversary Fall... See more 

During their decade-long collaboration (1985-1995), Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced some of the most profound and influential conceptual art projects of the time, ranging from important public projects and site-specific installations to drawings and mixed media sculptures. Ericson and Ziegler redefined public... See more 

Kathy Butterly makes colorful porcelain and earthenware objects that push quirky forms, cartoonish actions and surprising textures into pint-sized packages. Each of Butterly’s cup-like vessels begins as a cylindrical form cast in wet clay; she then manipulates these simple, symmetrical shapes into curvaceous,... See more