Exhibitions

(this is also true)                                                                                     
September 4 – September 27, 2024                                           
A showcase of creative research by faculty and staff in the Department of Art, Media, Performance & Design. The exhibition features painting, ceramics, sculpture, drawing and photography as well as new media design. Curated and organized by Jill Vasileff and Jessica Fong.

STOCKTON SEEN: Barbara Flaherty, Carla Malone, Larry Walker, Chisato Watanabe
October 8 – November 22, 2024                                                                      
This exhibition honors the work of four influential artist educators whose time at Pacific from 1964 to 2011 significantly impacted the Stockton arts community. Featuring painting, drawing, prints and ceramic sculpture by Larry Walker and Barbara Flaherty, both tenured professors who also served as department chairs, and Chisato Watanabe and Carla Malone adjunct faculty whose presence enriched culture in the classroom and the community. Curated and organized by Lisa Cooperman and Jessica Fong.

4 x 4 Show and Sale                                                                              
December 3 – 6, 2024                                                            
A holiday tradition returns! Small work by students, faculty, staff, and community artists on view and for sale. Sponsored in part by the UOP Ceramics Club.                                                                             
 

Just Scratching the Surface                                                          
January 21 – February 28, 2025                                                                                          
Professor of Graphic Design Brett DeBoer presents work including sculpture, installation, and digital prints from his faculty development leave. A series beginning with rusted plow disks from old farm equipment incorporates the ancient process of gilding with metallic foil. In exploring the original purpose of these objects, the artist revisits their function as metaphor. The result is a revelatory process that emerges from a sensory relationship with actual material.  

A Year in Review – ASUOP Creative Team                                                              
March 18 – March 2, 2025                                                                  
A Year In Review highlights the collaborative efforts and artistic achievements of the ASUOP student in-house creative team, featuring work by designers Caroline Rivera, Edel Razo, Rosalyn Ung, Autum Begley, and photographers and videographers Liv Navarro and Z Campbell, along with contributions from Vice Chair of AE Ethan Fontes and Director of Creative Services Ethan Niemeyer. The exhibition reflects student designers’ contributions to the visual and social landscape of Pacific. 

Made You Look 
April 8 – May, 2025                                                                 
Graduating and rising seniors present their art, graphic design, and media x projects in a variety of media. Made You Look demands attention, evokes curiosity, and challenges assumptions through bold design, interactive installations, and surreal imagery. Featured Graphic Design students incude Jovani Batuyong, Autum Begley, Sophia Charles, Mark Eresanara, Ethan Fontes, Arina Kelekhsaeva, Peiwen Liang, Payton McDougall, Ethan Niemeyer, Lizette Orozco, Edel Razo, Caroline Rivera, Rosalyn Ung, and Mihailo Vukazic. And featured Senior Studio artists are Kasandra Rubi Mejia and Giao Nguyen. Also on view in the lobby of the Art Building enjoy work by Art and Media X students Melary Alcazar Garcia, Ardon Aragon, Aimee Cordova Delgado, Hyunsoo Kim, Mahnoor Mahmood, Maria Marquez, Mike Santos-LaPlaca, and Andrea Tapia. Awards presented at the reception and celebration. 

Drought, Dust, Flood: Owens Lake and the Los Angeles Aqueduct  
Photography by Jennifer Little
September 11 – October 14, 2023
The last few years have seen the dramatic impacts of climate change in California, from the worst droughts and fire seasons to unprecedented precipitation. When the Sierra snowpack melted Owens Lake flooded and became a full lake again for the first time in a century. The rapidly melting snowpack destroyed roads in the Eastern Sierras and caused a breach in the LA Aqueduct near the shore of Owens Lake. Little’s photographs capture water and transportation infrastructure struggling to accommodate these rapid shifts. 
 

Powell Art: Personal Marks
October 23 – November 24, 2023
Powell Art: Personal Marks turns the scholarly and personal lenses of four Powell Scholars on seven works of art from the Robert and Jeannette Powell collection. Using frameworks from their own disciplines and interests, Leah Brent, Imani Jaldin-Hartsough, Josephine Kinlan, and Emily Padilla created novel interpretations to help visitors better understand and appreciate prints, paintings, and sculpture by Jasper Johns, Sam Francis, Jake Berthot, Ruth Rippon, Wayne Thiebaud, and Joe Draegert as well as each other. The result is intersectional meaning created through contrast and continuity. Organized by Lisa Cooperman.
 

Creatures, Birdsong, Memory
December 8, 2023
A pop up exhibition featuring the sculpture and ceramic work of 30 students led by Professors Jill Vasileff and Jessica Fong. 

New York State of Mind: Student work inspired by the AIGA Conference & New York City
January 18 – February 17, 2024
Eight Pacific students attended the American Institute of Graphic Arts conference in New York city with their professor Brett DeBoer. This exhibition featuring digital art, sketches, photography, videography, and more is a response to the experience. Immerse yourself in their diverse expressions celebrating the artistic expression and spirit of New York City design. Featuring: Caroline Rivera, Emily La Russa, Ethan Fontes, Felicity Andrews, Kristy Karan, Lizette Orozco, Peter Williams, and Rosalyn Ung.

SPOON: A Food Historian Learns to Carve
February 26 – March 15, 2024
This exhibition features over 60 hand carved spoons and hand thrown pottery place settings made by Professor of History Ken Albala as an extension of his research into the relationship of craft to cuisine. Albala began carving about two years ago after becoming intrigued by the trimmings of an olive tree from his yard. His research led to the specialized tools that enabled him, after a year, to make something that worked well and looked nice. This exhibition is an exploration of his speculation on the relationship between the aesthetics of handcrafting and seasonal harmony with food preparation and presentation. An outstanding example of interdisciplinary research, the gallery setting not only highlights aesthetic aspects of wood carving but also makes concrete the effortful practice required to learn a new skill. Ken Albala is the Tully Knoles Endowed Professor of History and recipient of the 2023 Distinguished Faculty Award. He has authored or edited more that 25 books on food including Eating Right in the Renaissance, Food in Early Modern Europe, The Banquet, Beans, Pancake, Nuts: A Global History, At the Table: Food and Family Around the World, and Noodle Soup: Recipes, Techniques, Obsession. The recent publication of The Great Gelatin Revival increased the enthusiasm of his many social media followers. This is his first solo exhibition.

Transitions
March 19 – 23, 2024
Collaboratively devised pop exhibition organized around the game of visual telephone by student Maggie Klemer DeLasse with Hanna Grossenbacher, Giao Nguyen, Ray Magu, and Alyssa Arguello. Richardson. 

HUE-MANITY: A Colorful Array of Perspectives
April 9 – May 13, 2024
HUE-MANITY is an exhilarating student exhibition that celebrates the rich tapestry of human experience through the lens of art and color. Set against the backdrop of a diverse cultural landscape, this vibrant showcase invites audiences to explore the kaleidoscope of hues that reflect the myriad facets of human existence and shape our understanding of the world. Featuring senior graphic design students Felicity Andrews, Quintin Belcher, Kristy Karan, Emily La Russa, Nicky Nguyen, Jazzy Woods and Brianna Yoritate. The featured senior studio artists are Giao Nguyen, Alicia van de Bor, Kayleigh Woods and Xiaomeng Xu (Iris). Media X students featured in the Art Building lobby: James Greer, Isaac Gomez, Mercy Gomez, Ray Magu, William Navarro, and Andrea Tapia

Pray and Be Thankful 4 Everything

September 6 - October 21, 2022

Artist Professor Zélie (she/her) is premiering a multimedia body of work in the show Pray and Be Thankful 4 Everything. The show explores gender identity, bodily autonomy, and Trans rights through works spanning three decades, including sketches, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and murals. The work uses absurdist humor to present difficult ideas and experiences surrounding Zélie's own recent transition and the general state of gender/sexuality discourse. View > 

13%

November 10 - December 9, 2022

In 2019, researchers investigated gender and ethnic diversity in the collections of 18 major US museums including two university museums. They discovered that regardless of size or collecting mission around 87% of their collection was made up of art created by white men. The remaining 13% is composed of art made by women and artists of color. The University of the Pacific’s own permanent art collection yields the same number. This student curated exhibition is a selection from Pacific’s own 13%. View >

I Will Listen for Your Laugh & Turning Basin

January 30 - March 10, 2023
Painting and printmaking instructor Jill Vasileff presents a series of abstract work exploring the apex between childhood and motherhood. Tender and melancholy, I Will Listen for Your Laugh, features shifting grids in veiled colors that explore the ephemeral imprint of memory. University Curator Lisa Cooperman presents wall hung and free-standing, textile-based sculpture in Turning Basin. Layered, knotted, and dense with sensation they propose irrational instructions generated by a mash up of found materials. View >

Student Perspectives - A Pop-Up Exhibition

March 23 - March 30, 2023 A spicy array of student work in game design, photography, visual arts exploration, ceramics, branding, and painting. 
 

Becoming 20-23

April 13 – May 13, 2023
Pacific Graphic Design and Studio Art seniors and juniors showcase their growth. Finding their identities and voices during their studies at Pacific, the student exhibition showcases what they ‘became’ in the here and now. Student artists have searched themselves, learned to answer to audiences and lead change through their art. The featured senior graphic design students are Melanie Belisario, Madison Miller, Xitlali Olivares, Leonardo Rigamonti, Addie Romelfanger, and Umm-E-Salma Zaman. The featured senior studio artists are Paola Baltazar Salcedo and Juanita Patterson. The Interdisciplinary Studio students, whose work can be found in the Art Building lobby, are Ary Molina Hernandez, Kayleigh Woodward and Xiaomeng Xu (Iris). 

Womens Rights are Human Rights

October 4 - November 18, 2021

The gallery is excited to begin the fall semester by presenting this first in-person exhibition since January 2020. Originally curated by Elizabeth Resnick, design educator and professor Emerita at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the show was presented to the Pacific community virtually in November 2020. Resnick was inspired by Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on women in Beijing in 1995. In her remarks Clinton said, “If the term ‘women’s rights’ were to be interchangeable with the term ‘human rights,’ the world community would be a better place.” View >

Visual Voices: Senior Class Exhibition

April 12 - May 13, 2022

Pacific's Graphic Design and Studio Art seniors and juniors retake the Reynolds Gallery after two years of virtual senior exhibitions. In the visually powerful exhibition, students exercise their artistic voices to communicate with the audience. This class spent over a year learning remotely, carving out the space necessary for sustained concentration in shared rooms and at the kitchen tables. Since the return to in-person learning this year, they’ve built on those experiences creating work of depth and polish, that loudly proclaims their presence back on campus.

Gone Viral

May 2020 - October 2020
Virtual exhibition of art based around students' experiences during the COVID-19 lockdowns. View >

Women’s Rights are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination

November 2020 - December 2020
Virtual exhibition of international posters on gender-based inequality, violence, and discrimination. View >

Dreaming of Equ>lity

January 2021 

University of the Pacific student curators selected work from an open call addressing social and political discourses stimulated by the global crises of 2020. Thirty-one artists at all stages of their careers from across the US contributed work focused on their hopes for an end to the collective traumas of injustice, racism, discrimination, and climate destruction. View >

Vision 2020

October 2020 - May 2021
The Studio Art and Graphic Design “quarantine” class of 2020 at the University of the Pacific presents Vision 2020, a virtual exhibition of their art and design work. View >

Where We Live: Carolyn Lord, Peggi Kroll-Roberts

August 27 – September 21, 2018
Award winning, master artists, Carolyn Lord and Peggi Kroll-Roberts, are California painters, as such their work embodies the hot sun, hardy flora, and visual drama of the place where they paint and live. View ›

Golden Eye: Art from the Robert and Jeannette Powell Collection

October 1 - November 2, 2018
For the first time since this artwork graced their home, selections from the Robert and Jeannette Powell art collection will hang together at the Reynolds Gallery at University of the Pacific. View ›

4 x 4: Exhibition & Sale

November 15 – December 7, 2018
Pacific Student Art Club is proud to welcome this recurring art exhibition and sale, with works in various media confined to four by four inches. View ›

Visual Storytelling: Student Documentary Projects, 2016-2018

January 28  – March 2, 2019 
An exhibition of student documentary projects from Professor Jennifer Little's Digital Photo I and Video I classes. View ›

Life's Track: A Centenary Celebration of Richard Yip (1918 - 1981)

March 18 – April 5, 2019
Featuring work from the family collection and the University's permanent art collection, the exhibition explores four decades of Richard Yip's paintings. View ›

Chromaticity: Senior Exhibition

April 16 – May 11, 2019
Graduating class of 2019 from the Department of Art & Graphic Design senior exhibition along with works from the junior class. View ›

id-eology / stories from the id: printmaker James Bailey

August 27 - September 21, 2017
James Bailey solo exhibition featuring prints and artist books that satirically explore modern life in all its grandeur and folly. View ›

Through Lines / Faculty Work : From Student to Artist

October 2 - November 3, 2017
Featuring undergraduate, graduate, and current work by Pacific's Art & Graphic Design faculty, exploring continuity and departure to show how each artist's oeuvre has evolved. View ›

Blast from the Past: Juried Student Exhibition

November 13 - December 8, 2017
Featuring art and graphic design work from students currently enrolled at Pacific, juried by a selected group of art and design students. View ›

Dawn of the Butterflies: Kam Women Artisans of China

January 16  - February 16, 2018 
Marie Lee, associate professor of graphic design, Department of Art & Graphic Design, presents her sabbatical exhibition and book publication. View ›

Shifting Gears: Making of an Art Car

February 20 - March 9, 2018
Join a selected group of Pacific student artists as they paint and transform the Art Car. Also on view, featured series of painted car parts, created by students preparing for Art Car project. View ›

The Revolution Will be DIY

March 20 - April 13, 2018
The Do-it-yourself ethos connects the intersecting social justice topics of the show and supports the university's current Sustainability theme of "Intertwined." Materials from the Holt-Atherton archives frame the history of Pacific campus activism from the civil rights era to the present including letters from the Black Student Caucus, punk photography, music, and the Delta Fusion community art project. View ›

Noegenesis: Senior Class Exhibition 2018

April 23 - May 13, 2018 
Graduating class of 2018 from Department of Art & Graphic Design, senior exhibition. View ›

Faculty Biennial: Skin in the Game

August 29 - September 26, 2016
The Reynolds Gallery opens the new academic year with an exhibition featuring works by faculty from the Department of Art and Graphic Design. View ›

The Reynolds Gallery Turns 30: Homecoming/Alumni Exhibition

October 3 - October 24, 2016
Group exhibition by alumni from the Department of Art and Graphic Design. View ›

MobileIntent: Pompeii 2079, Relics and Possibility

October 31 - November 28, 2016
Solo exhibition of sculptural works and an interactive installation by Northern California artist Ann Schnake. View ›

Eye Candy: Student Juried Exhibition

December 5 - December 16, 2016
Features artwork by students currently enrolled in University of the Pacific and Delta College. View ›

Engaging Beauty: Art and Legacy of Ron Pecchenino

January 17 - February 20, 2017
Exhibition of works by Emeritus professor, artist and former art department chair Ron Pecchenino, who passed away in August, 2015. He taught more than 25 years at Pacific, receiving both Pacific's Distinguished Faculty Award and the Order of Pacific, the University's highest honor. View ›

Cross-Eyed: Two Sibilings /Distinct Memories

February 27 - March 31, 2017
Artworks and writings by brother and sister John and Leah Harper, drawn from diverging memories of shared childhood experiences. View ›

After Hours: Senior Art Show 2017

April 10 - May 13, 2017
Graduating class of 2017 from Department of Art & Graphic Design, senior exhibition. View ›

Spare Parts and Unfinished Business

August 24 - September 22, 2015
Reynolds Gallery opens its 2015-2106 calendar featuring recent work by Department of Art and Graphic Design faculty member, Daniel Kasser. View ›

Confluences: Circumnavigating The Territory

September 28 - October 26, 2015
Solo exhibition of large-scale color photographs and video works by Dennis DeHart. View ›

A Rub with Death: The Leppelmeier Collection

November 3 - November 24, 2015 
This exhibition features rubbings taken from 15^th century monumental brasses found in Sussex, England. These images of knights and their ladies mark a time when England was transitioning from a medieval, feudal culture to Renaissance humanism. View ›

Unity: Juried Student Exhibition

December 3 - December 11, 2015
This student-juried exhibition of Pacific student works, focuses on the theme of unity, defined as the state of being united into one. View ›

Invented Forms and Imaginary Objects

January 19 - February 12, 2016
Graphic Design Professor Brett DeBoer presents an exhibition of digital images. View ›

Jillian Sokso: In the Shadow of the Mountain, As if the Sea Were Nothing

February 18 - March 18, 2016 
Solo exhibition by printmaker Jillian Sokso, whose prints are a visual extension of thoughts; part personal archive, part printmaking evangelism. View ›

Teri Frame: Channeling Raptors

Performance March 23, 2016
Teri Frame performs Channeling Raptors, a transmutational performance that examines the relationship between humans and four distinct birds of prey. View ›

ECLECTION: Class of 2016 Senior Exhibition

April 25 - May 14, 2016 
Graduating class from the Department of Art and Graphic Design, present their art and design works in this senior exhibition. View ›