Modern Women | Modern Vision: Photographs from the Bank of America Collection

January 25, 2024 - May 4, 2024

Presented by Bank of America 

Modern Women | Modern Vision presents an impressive collection of over one hundred photographic images, celebrating the innovative and captivating ways in which women have intuitively captured vital moments in journalism, history, and the art of photography. This world-premiere exhibition features the works of influential Modernist photographers from the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including Imogen Cunningham, Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, and Barbara Kruger.

This exhibition has been loaned through the Bank of America Art in our Communities® program.

Forms of Influence by David Ligare

January 25, 2024 - May 4, 2024

Presented by Traditional Fine Arts Organization

California-based painter David Ligare draws his inspiration from Greco-Roman themes and the philosophers of old like Plato, Aristotle, and the more recent, Nietzsche, in his quest for a classical ideal of visual perfection. Through his masterful integration of eternal ideals and contemporary sensibilities, Forms of Influence explores our powerful and consuming historical hunger for connections with the past and the world today.

Rochelle Botello: Free Fall

January 25, 2024 - September 7, 2024

Presented by City of Bakersfield 

Rochelle Botello’s brightly colored sculptural installations and drawn works express her curiosity and sense of wonder she finds in the simultaneously mundane and absurd experiences of everyday life, blurring the lines between reality and imagination. Free Fall is a vivid celebration of the complexity and brevity of the human condition through the contrasting themes of control/chaos, stability/instability, and strength/vulnerability.

Dynamic, Surreal, Vibrant: Marion Osborn Cunningham

January 26, 2023 - May 4, 2024

In March of 1956, the Bakersfield Museum of Art opened its doors as the Cunningham Memorial Gallery with a donation from the Osborn family who wanted to establish an art space dedicated to their late daughter, Marion Osborn Cunningham. An American Impressionist and Modern artist born in 1908, Marion’s story is deeply woven into BMoA’s history. Throughout her career she was known for her serigraphs, drawings, pastels, and paintings but it is her keen eye for composition and design that draws the viewer into her intimate street scenes and surreal landscapes.