Armory Center for the Arts
145 N. Raymond AvePasadena CA, USA
(626) 792-5101
www.armoryarts.org
About Armory Center for the Arts
The Armory Center for the Arts is a community arts center that offers innovative approaches to creating, exploring, and presenting the visual arts to students of all ages. In addition to providing an outlet for contemporary art exhibitions and performances, the Armory offers studio art classes and a variety of educational outreach programs to schools and in the community.
Upcoming Openings
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Robert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg at Gemini
Robert Rauschenberg
Rauschenberg at Gemini
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, January 17, 2010 - Sunday, March 21, 2010
Reception: January 16, 2010, 7-9pmFor more than three decades Robert Rauschenberg created works at Gemini G.E.L., the world-famous multiple workshop in West Hollywood. A retrospective of Rauschenberg’s creative achievement at Gemini G.E.L. is being organized by the Armory Center for the Arts, where it will be on view in the Caldwell Gallery, January 17 through March 21, 2010. The exhibition is organized by Jay Belloli, Director of Gallery Programs at the Armory. Its initiation was approved by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. ...more info
Past Openings
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Craig Kauffman
A Drawing Retrospective
Craig Kauffman
A Drawing Retrospective
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, September 20, 2008 - Sunday, November 16, 2008
Reception: September 20, 2008, 7-9pmThis major exhibition will include over half a century of works on paper by one of the founders of contemporary art in Southern California....more info
Artful Solutions: Pathways from Homelessness
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, November 16, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Reception: November 15, 2008, 2-4pmThe purpose of this exhibition is to showcase the cultural and artistic talents of our community’s homeless population....more info
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Andrew McPhail
World AIDS Day Exhibition
Andrew McPhail
World AIDS Day Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Monday, November 17, 2008 - Friday, December 5, 2008
Andrew McPhail addresses the question of HIV and AIDS in the form of sculpture in this exhibition....more info
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At the Brewery Project, 1993-2007: the Finale
At the Brewery Project, 1993-2007: the Finale
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Sunday, March 1, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 7-9pmThe Brewery Project has made an important contribution to contemporary art in Southern California. This unique exhibition that spans the Armory building and will document and celebrate this legacy, featuring multiple artists and curators....more info
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Off the Wall 2009-Benefit & Biennial Art Auction
Off the Wall 2009-Benefit & Biennial Art Auction
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, March 7, 2009 - Saturday, March 14, 2009
Reception: March 14, 2009, 7pmOn view for one week are works of art that will be up for auction during our biennial fundraising event, including more than 85 works of art by some of Southern California’s finest contemporary artists....more info
Under the Knife
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, March 21, 2009 - Sunday, May 10, 2009
Reception: March 21, 2009, 7-9pmA group exhibition exploring the technique of cutting in the development of works of contemporary art....more info
Art High
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, April 12, 2009 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
Reception: April 12, 2009, 5-7pmThis exhibition includes paintings, drawings, letterpress, photography, and video from the Armory’s extensive Art High program for middle and high school students. Carrie Whitney, curator....more info
Interactions
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, May 3, 2009 - Sunday, June 14, 2009
Reception: May 2, 2009, 7-9pmAn exhibition of work by the current Armory Fellows, a group of talented artists that teach in the Armory’s New Visions Field Trip Program. Lorraine Cleary Dale, curator....more info
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Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon
Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon
Exhibition Dates: Friday, May 22, 2009 - Sunday, August 30, 2009
Reception: May 22, 2009, 7-9pmEchoing both Raymond Pettibon’s Weatherman ’69 (1989-1990) and Yoshua Okon’s Lago Bolsena (2004) and Bocanegra (2005-7), this video installation, a collaboration between the two artists, explores the subculture of old hippies and beach bums from Venice Beach....more info
Drama of the Gifted Child – The Five Year Plan
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, June 28, 2009 - Sunday, August 30, 2009
Reception: June 27, 2009, 7-9pmThe works included in this exhibition examine these artists’ recent work as a process by which they explore the relationship between an often-hyped academic training and the raw demands of a career. ...more info
Jennifer Vanderpool
A Pocketful of Posies
Exhibition Dates: Friday, August 7, 2009 - Thursday, October 15, 2009
Armory Center for the Arts and One Colorado are pleased to present Jennifer Vanderpool as the first Artist-in-Residence in an innovative program that unites commerce and culture at One Colorado. ...more info
Villa Esperanza
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, August 9, 2009 - Saturday, September 5, 2009
Reception: August 8, 2009, 2-4pmA collection of art by children and adults from Villa Esperanza services, which provides programs for people with developmental disabilities. ...more info
Daniel Buren
A Rainbow in the Sky
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, August 15, 2009 - Sunday, November 15, 2009
Internationally celebrated artist Daniel Buren returns to Pasadena with a large-scale site-specific artwork in the One Colorado Courtyard. Buren’s installation, A Rainbow in the Sky, will consist of 2,268 colorful striped flags suspended and hovering like an open “ceiling” overhead. ...more info
Bruce Nauman
Skywriting Over Pasadena
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, September 12, 2009 - Saturday, September 12, 2009
The sky above the Pasadena Arroyo will be transformed by a never-before produced work by noted American artist Bruce Nauman. This major work, Untitled, 1969/2009, takes the form of skywriting that will say, with Nauman’s classic mischievous humor, “Leave the Land Alone.” ...more info
Installations Inside/Out: Armory 20th Anniversary Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, September 20, 2009 - Sunday, December 13, 2009
Reception: September 19, 2009, 5-8pmThis exhibition will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Armory Center for the Arts by commissioning 20 contemporary artists, who have created art installations in the past, to make new site-specific art installations both inside and outside the Armory...more info
Armory Center for the Arts Historical Survey – 20th Anniversary
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, September 20, 2009 - Thursday, December 31, 2009
Reception: September 19, 2009, 5-8pmPhotographic history of the Armory....more info
Reviews October 2009
Review of Under the Knife
Under the Knife at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena Typical of the Armory Center's high curatorial standards, Under the Knife took a broad theme and made it memorable through impeccable selection. Cutting -- with scissors, ...more info
Review of at the Brewery Project, 1993–2007: the Finale
In a museum setting, a project space is reserved for the coolest new emerging artist making experimental, edgy work. In a community like the Brewery Arts Complex of arts studios, a project space and its participants tend to run the gamut. ...more info
Review of Marsia Alexander-Clarke
In her multi-room video installation Tapestries, Marsia Alexander-Clarke explodes the boundaries of the medium, conjugating abstract and imagistic vocabularies and playing them out in sequences and systems that appear and ...more info
Preview of A Drawing Retrospective
This major exhibition will include over half a century of works on paper by one of the founders of contemporary art in Southern California. Curated by Jay Belloli, director of Gallery Programs at the Armory Center for the Arts, this show ...more info
Review of Good Doll, Bad Doll
Puppet Show hosted a range of expressions that second-handedly voiced darker tendencies, laments, and subverted desires. Puppets have a history of acting out, providing stern commentary on politics, gender, race, society, ...more info






