ABOUT THE GALLERY
The Gallery at Brand Library & Art Center showcases works by established and emerging artists currently working and living in Southern California to enlighten and enrich people’s lives through art.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
SUMMERTIME: SUPERCOLLIDER + Students of Glendale Unified School District
March 23 - May 18, 2024
SUMMERTIME, curated by Marcela Vieira, considers the landscape as the consequence of human production, the result of the transformation from its natural state. The topography has long been divided, fragmented, and modified according to social, economic, and aesthetic motivations. The artists in the exhibition present works with various materials and develop strange configurations, creating relationships between their works and the gallery space. SUMMERTIME forges a path that seeks to investigate the reality and possibilities of representation, using fiction as a way to imagine alternative landscapes.
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The exhibition is a collaboration between SUPERCOLLIDER, Brand Library & Art Center, and Glendale Unified School District. High school students from Glendale Unified School District contributed artworks inspired by the curatorial concept of SUMMERTIME to show in conjunction with SUPERCOLLIDER’s exhibition.
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Image: Isabel Beavers, Nocturne, beeswax, pigment, saran wrap, LED light, 120 x 96 inches, 2023. Photo by Ian Kose.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Brand 52: Annual Juried Works on Paper Exhibition
Opens June 15, 2024
The Associates of Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California announces its 52nd Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper. Cash awards total more than $4,000, including a Juror’s Award. All accepted artworks will be included in a show at Brand’s Gallery and in both printed and online exhibition catalogs.
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This year we welcome art critic, curator and author Shana Nys Dambrot as our juror. Based in Downtown LA, Dambrot is the Arts Editor for L.A. Weekly, and a contributor to Flaunt, Artillery, and other culture publications. She studied Art History at Vassar College, has curated and juried many exhibitions, writes prolifically for exhibition catalogs and monographic publications, and speaks at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. As an experienced juror, Dambrot looks initially for artworks that demonstrate skill,
innovation, finesse, beauty, power and message. Her goal is for the final selections to produce coherence, conversation and balance across an entire group of high-quality artworks. We anticipate a wonderful Brand 52 under her careful eye.
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Image: Victoria Arriola, Faint Murmurings, Site specific installation, panels made from used paper tea bag, thread, silver & gold leaf, twine, suspended over organic material. Winner of the 2023 Juror's Award; Water Makes Many Beds, video.