ART EXHIBITIONS
BAM Gallery Entrances
2626 Bancroft Way
2621 Durant Ave
Between College and Telegraph
Directions / Parking
BAM Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Sunday
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Current Exhibitions
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Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye February 25, 2009 - August 30, 2009 Galaxy creates a new constellation of works from the Berkeley Art Museum’s eclectic collection, including pieces by major stars from Dürer and Rembrandt to Pollock and Warhol as well as many less familiar lights. |
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Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet April 1, 2009 - September 27, 2009 Can art inspire conservation? Can conservation inspire art? Human/Nature explores these questions and investigates the relationships between fragile natural environments and the human communities that depend upon them. The exhibition presents new works by Mark Dion, Ann Hamilton, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marcos Ramírez ERRE, Rigo 23, Dario Robleto, Diana Thater, and Xu Bing. |
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Deborah Grant: Bacon, Egg, Toast in Lard / MATRIX 228 May 31, 2009 - October 11, 2009 Deborah Grant’s paintings are densely layered with marks and meanings drawn from popular media, history, and personal experience. The centerpiece of her MATRIX exhibition views contemporary concerns—race, sexuality, violence—through the surprising prism of an imagined meeting between painter Francis Bacon and comedienne Jackie “Moms” Mabley. |
Upcoming Exhibitions
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Material Witness July 22, 2009 - December 20, 2009 Artists from Francisco Goya to Carrie Mae Weems bear witness to social issues and consider cultural memory in a new selection of works from the Berkeley Art Museum collection. |
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Earth August 26, 2009 - December 20, 2009 Conceptual art takes on elemental themes in this exhibition of works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, drawn from the artist’s archive at BAM/PFA. |
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Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach September 23, 2009 - February 7, 2010 Recording New York’s downtown art world or the emerging hip-hop scene, shooting snowboarders hurtling down a vertical mountain face or chronicling the vicissitudes of his own family life, photographer Ari Marcopoulos unerringly captures the zeitgeist. This midcareer retrospective surveys the intimate and compelling work of a key documentarian of contemporary culture. |
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Fernando Botero: The Abu Ghraib Series September 23, 2009 - February 7, 2010 Internationally acclaimed artist Fernando Botero offers a powerful critique of the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in a series of paintings and drawings recently donated to the Berkeley Art Museum. |
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What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect March 17, 2010 - June 20, 2010 This retrospective surveys the witty, idiosyncratic, and introspective work of William T. Wiley. Layered with ambiguous ideas and allusions, autobiographical narratives and private symbols, Wiley’s art is also enlivened by self-deprecating humor and a sense of the absurd. |
