Arts Winter 2025
Listen to the Gradient
CAROLYN GLASOE BAILEY FOUNDATION | SHANA MOULTON, CASSANDRA C. JONES, JOEL FOX
248 South Montgomery Street | January 3 - 25
Don’t miss "Listen to the Gradient", now showing — a captivating art exhibition curated by Cassandra C. Jones. Featuring works by Jones, Joel Fox, and Shana Moulton, this exhibition transforms the traditional gallery experience into a thought-provoking journey.
Explore Joel Fox’s witty takes on nature, Shana Moulton’s surreal multimedia storytelling, and Jones’ boundary-defying creations. Together, these works offer a kaleidoscope of emotions and perspectives that push beyond the expected.
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.
Shaped by Nature
OJAI ART CENTER | GROUP SHOW
113 South Montgomery Street | January 2025 | Reception January 11, 1 - 3 PM
The Main Gallery will feature the abstract landscapes of Emily Thomas Maharry, whose work reflects how she interprets her surroundings and emotions through abstract landscapes.
The Signature Gallery will showcase Susan Guy’s abstract expressionist works inspired by Ojai’s natural beauty and the interplay between human energy and landscape.
In the Beato Showcase, Lindsay Thomson’s photography will capture the awe of unpolluted night skies. “The dark skies above us reveal a glorious world of stars and planets twinkling like diamonds,” she notes. Her work highlights the preciousness of these vanishing vistas due to urban light pollution.
The Front Showcase will present Robin Riley’s nature-inspired ceramics. Influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement, Riley creates organic vessels that evoke the natural world and a sense of timeless craftsmanship. Each piece celebrates the beauty of simplicity and connection to nature.
Ojai Visions
BEATRICE WOOD CENTER FOR THE ARTS | OJAI STUDIO ARTISTS
8585 Ojai Road | January 11 - March 2 | Opening Saturday, January 11, 2 -4 PM
Come visit this beautiful working ceramics studio, home of renowned artist Beatrice Wood, which will house two galleries of artwork by Ojai Studio Artists, including painting, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics, photography, textile arts, and more.
The Cloud
SPORE SPACE | LUCINDA TRASK
221 East Matilija Street | January 19 - March 15 | Reception January 19, 5 - 7:30 PM
Spore Space presents The Cloud by Los Angeles-based artist Lucinda Trask, an installation exploring the hidden infrastructure behind global information flow. Trask uses textiles, ceramics, and fiber optics to make these often-overlooked systems tangible and proximate, connecting the viewer to the material and political realities of the built environment. Through works like a towering denim radio tower and a cotton cord fiber optic cable weaving through the gallery, Trask highlights the physicality of the networked world, urging a reevaluation of humanity’s relationship with land, resources, and technology.
What is Beauty?
THE MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY | GROUP SHOW
100 East Main Street, Ventura. | January 17 - May 11 | Opening January 17, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
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.
Black History Month
VC GOVERNMENT CENTER HALL OF ADMINISTRATION | R.L. GREENE
800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura | Opening Reception January 17, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Ross Harris has brought the work of R.L. Greene back into the spotlight, rediscovering and acquiring key pieces by the late Southern California painter at an estate sale. Timed to honor Black History Month, Greene’s paintings are now on display on weekdays at the Ventura County Government Center’s Hall of Administration. Don’t miss the chance to celebrate this important artist at the Opening Reception on January 17, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., in the Atrium Gallery.
From @teardrop_estates: During the opening reception, @giftedandblessed will perform his Frankie Reyes project. Come early and get married, or submit plans for a septic tank. Curated by @jenvbenitez
ENFOQUE
THE AGRICULTURE MUSEUM | DIEGO HUERTA
926 Railroad Avenue, Santa Paula | Opens February 8
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.
Three Works
CANVAS + PAPER | Group Show
311 N. Montgomery Street | December 12 – February 2
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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