January 27, 2017 – April 3, 2017
One of America’s icons, Sister Mary Corita became known as the rebel nun in the tumultuous 1960s. Like Pop giant Andy Warhol, she borrowed from advertising, bill posters and pop culture to make her works, and quoted everything from the Bible to Thoreau, Jefferson Airplane, Philip Roth and Gertrude Stein.
Pop Art was the dominant movement in early 1960s American art. Short for “popular art,” it featured common household objects and consumer products like Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup cans, as well as forms of media—such as comics, newspapers, and magazines—recognizable to the masses. Artists often created Pop works using mechanical or commercial techniques, such as silk-screening.
September 16, 2016 – December 11, 2016
In 1980, Jack Reilly burst into L.A. with his solo show at the indomitable Molly Barnes Gallery (a tastemaker who gave early shows to John Baldessari, Billy Al Bengston and Gronk). This formative exhibition helped to cement Reilly’s reputation of creating visually powerful and unique works of art – works that converge abstract expressionistic boldness, minimalist restraint with trompe l’oeil wonderment.
September 19, 2015 – November 1, 2015
CMATO’s inaugural exhibition in 2015 featured a selection of Betty Gold’s signature steel and painted bronze sculptures. The exhibition provided visitors with the extraordinary opportunity to experience powerful works from one of America’s pioneering female artists in the field of monumental metal sculpture.
