Listen to the Gradient

Opening Night:
Friday, January 3, 5-7 pm

Mark your calendars for Listen to the Gradient, an upcoming art exhibition curated by Cassandra C. Jones, featuring works by Jones herself alongside Joel Fox and Shana Moulton. Known for transforming traditional art spaces into immersive experiences, Jones invites visitors to step beyond the gallery walls and engage with art in unexpected ways.

While details of the show remain under wraps, expect Jones’ surprising juxtapositions. From Joel Fox's humor-infused explorations of nature to Shana Moulton's surreal multimedia narratives and Jones' own boundary-pushing work, this exhibition promises to create a kaleidoscope of emotions and perspectives.

About the Curator: Cassandra C. Jones is a remix artist and storyteller living and working in Ojai, CA. She uses digital photography to create collage, installation, and video works that spin narratives and present a prismatic reflection of our self-involved, technology-based, snap-happy contemporary lifestyles. She does this to offer a space of possibility, growth, and discovery. And within that space, aims to create experiences that are magical and transformative.

What is Beauty? Rethinking Women’s Portraiture in Art invites us to explore diverse perspectives on beauty through fourteen portraits by Ventura County artists from the Museum’s permanent collection. Spanning works created between 1939 and 2011, this exhibition showcases a range of styles — from vibrant realism to minimalist simplicity — challenging traditional standards shaped by art, media, and society. Featured artists Carlisle Cooper, Hiroko Yoshimoto, Johanna Spinks, John Nava, John Nichols – featured in the exhibition, Kitty Botke, Lis Schwitters, Michael Ward, Neal Barr, Omar d’León, and Robert Clunie offer eclectic interpretations of women’s portraiture.

This exhibition features over 40 powerful photographic portraits of representatives of Mexican Indigenous communities in Ventura County, taken by internationally acclaimed photographer Diego Huerta during his month-long Artist-in-Residence at the Museum of Ventura County. For more than 18 years, Diego has been photographing Pueblos Originarios — Indigenous communities — in Mexico. This is the first time he has photographed these groups outside of Mexico.

Canvas + Paper, Ojai’s cozy modernist gallery, presents a new exhibition featuring works by Margaret Mellis, Keith Vaughan, and William Scott. Through their distinct approaches to still life, these 20th-century British artists transform everyday objects into explorations of light, form, and abstraction.

Set in a classic California bungalow near the Arcade, Canvas + Paper offers a quiet space to experience 20th-century modernism.

Above: William Scott, Still Life

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