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Staging California in Early Hollywood

June 26 – October 4, 2026
  

  

Staging California in Early Hollywood explores how Southern California painters helped shape Hollywood cinema through set design, visual effects, and creative collaborations, revealing how the seemingly disparate worlds of film and plein air painting were rooted in the same California landscape.

Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden 

Spanning more than five decades, Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden explores Raymond Saunders’s improvisational approach to painting, in works that blend abstraction and figuration through found imagery, text, drawing, and everyday objects.