Galleries

February 18, 2017 through March 8, 2017

Traveling Exhibit at Various Locations

This traveling exhibit showcases suitcases that have been transformed into powerful narrative art pieces shining a light on emotional events experienced by clients form the Domestic violence Center of Santa Clarita Valley.

Local artists from the Santa Clarita community were each paired with a domestic violence client to learn about their struggles and triumphs and to translate their escape stories into art using a simple suitcase as their frame.  Suitcases were chosen to symbolize the paths the domestic violence clients took to escape their dangerous situations.

The exhibit is in conjunction with the Domestic Violence Center’s inaugural benefit, “The Great Escape Gala,” happening on Friday, March 17, 2017.

A local artist and Domestic Violence Center representative will be at each exhibit showing to share their experiences and answer any questions about the non-profit organization.

Dates and locations are as follows:

Saturday, February 18. 2017 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Valencia Library, 23743 Valencia Blvd.

Friday, February 24, 2017 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Canyon Country Library, 18601 Soledad Canyon Rd.

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm at College of the Canyons, 26455 Rockwell Canyon Rd.

June 1, 2017 through June 30, 2017

Canyon Country Community Center
18792 Flying Tiger Dr.
Santa Clarita, CA 91387

The REGRAM exhibit is designed to showcase the power and creative spirit of social media, specifically as it’s displayed on the Instagram platform. The exhibit is entirely curated via Instagram, utilizing various hashtags to filter and find great, creative photographs. The photos will be displayed replicating the look and feel of a social media feed/timeline. The exhibit will also include an element of interactivity, as the youth and teens of the community center will be able to make their own contributions to the show by submitting photos utilizing a unique hashtag.

March 1, 2017 through March 31, 2017

First Floor Gallery at City Hall
23920 Valencia Blvd.
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

The “It’s All in the Numbers” exhibition is being displayed in conjunction with the cities One Story One City program, which is presented by the Santa Clarita Libraries. The book for 2017 is “Rise of the Rocket Girls.”  It tells the story of the women who served as “human computers” for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Artworks in the exhibit feature a variety of themes including numbers, math, and rocket science.

January 2017 through March 2017

Valencia Westfield Arts Education Community Wall (near Sears)
24201 Valencia Blvd.
Valencia, CA 91355

Rio Norte Junior High’s Art Exhibition invites viewers to scrutinize their artwork in the contemporary. A quote from Anabelle Gogol, “Each day we are discovering new things, improving old things, and always learning”.  Rio Norte students share a variety of artwork with you that are about tradition, medium, technique, relevance, and ideology.

The art world is constantly evolving; every artist is creating, exploring, and working on defining they’re own style. Some will hold onto tradition and others will strive towards what has not been done before.  Yet, there is significance to tradition.  In order to push boundaries and create the avant-garde, artists still need a background that includes traditional mediums, techniques, and aesthetics.

Here are some additional quotes from Rio Norte Visual Artists:

“As our society continually evolves, our mindsets change and we begin to create and accept new ideas, nonetheless we still manage to cling to our traditions.” – Katrina Hou

“In the classroom or art studio as many prefer to call it that, we all have different styles of art. Some of us like to draw in the style of photorealistic, or some of us like to draw cartoon like drawings.  We all still look for improvement by working together and asking for opinions on how to make our artwork better.” – Nathan Stephen

“There are endless possibilities for artists to express themselves, and that is why I love it so much. There are always so many resources, inspirations, and every artist is unique through their style and medium.” – Isabel Buriel

Connecting with the world as it evolves each and every day, yet at the same time Rio Norte artists are still embracing tradition and the foreseen.

January 27, 2017 through March 5, 2017

Santa Clarita Artists’ Association Gallery
22508 6th Street
Newhall, CA 91321

Join the Santa Clarita Artists Association for their new “Art for the Heart” exhibit running from January 27-March 5, 2017. An opening reception will be held on January 28th from 5-10 with music, food, cocoa, chocolate, and of course lots of amazing art!

February 1, 2017 through February 20, 2017

Fast Frame Gallery
24204 Valencia Blvd. 
Valencia, CA 91355

Local artists Zony Gordon and Cecily Willis are featured in the “2 for the Road” art exhibit. Both artists use watercolor for the main medium.  Cecily Willis specializes in realistic portraits, old historic locales, and icons of the city. Zony is an impressionist artist mostly focused on nature, including flowers, landscapes, and seascapes. She also uses mixed media as an accent on some of her art. Both artists are members of the Santa Clarita Artists’ Association.

May 8, 2017 through May 12, 2017

California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

See artwork from students one of the top art schools in the country right here in Santa Clarita. California Institute of the Arts is hosting several exhibitions of student work throughout the campus. Viewing hours are M-F from 9 am to 5 pm.

D300 Gallery: Graphic Design Showcase

D301 Gallery: Graphic Design Showcase

L-Shape Gallery: Art Pilot’s Class Exhibition

Main Gallery: CLOSED

A402 Gallery: CLOSED

Lime Gallery: CLOSED

Mint Gallery: CLOSED

January 17, 2017 through May 17, 2017

Canyon Country Library
18601 Soledad Canyon Rd
Santa Clarita, CA 91351

Uncle Tim’s World of Birds is a series of 16×20 acrylic paintings, each united by a common theme or locale. Initial inspiration was provided by a squawking Western Scrub Jay perched on a branch of an ancient live oak in Ventura County. The project involved chasing birds around as well as very extensive research conducted through a vast number of libraries in no fewer than five Southern California counties. The artist dedicates these paintings to these wonderful organizations and the competent people who staff them.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Timothy Doe grew up in an artistic household. His father was a successful illustrator and portraitist who had worked for Walt Disney in the early days, and Tim began dabbling in art at a young age. He soon found that his aptitudes and interests leant themselves to a wide variety of styles, media, and materials, so he put himself on the path to becoming a multi-media artist.

Tim has studied and experimented with Native American design & beadwork, Japanese landscape design, portrait painting, calligraphy, plein air landscapes, clay sculpture, cartooning, framing & matting, and abstract designs, as well as various obscure and little-known techniques and styles. He is a published author, as well as an accomplished self-professed archaist. A former circus advance man, he has travelled the Western U.S. extensively and has been the subject of feature newspaper articles in three different states.

The paintings in this exhibit were done in acrylics and produced over an eighteen month period. all were painted outdoors under shade trees in the natural light, primarily at parks in a wide variety of locales.

January 28, 2017 through February 28, 2017

Canyon Theatre Guild
24242 Main Street
Santa Clarita, CA 91321

Featured artwork will include landscapes, florals, people portraits, horses, dogs and cats. The public is invited to view paintings in oil, watercolor, and pastel during the run of CTG’s play, Willy Wonka, from January 28 to February 28.

In her earlier advertising career, Kaczmar created layouts and renderings for patent applications, ads, exhibits and brochures. Her computer-generated famine-genocide posters have been shown in USA, Canada, Ukraine, France, Australia and United Kingdom. In 2007 & 2008, her art was used to promote a film and book on the Ukrainian genocide of 1932.

April 18, 2017 through May 25, 2017

College of the Canyons Art Gallery
26455 Rockwell Canyon Road
Santa Clarita, CA 91355

The Annual Student Art Exhibition takes place at the end of the spring semester and features examples from all the visual arts disciplines, including Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Graphic Design, Photography, Animation, 3D Design, Sculpture, Illustration and Film.  Students submit work that is then juried by an independent arts professional who curates the exhibition to showcase the best work. The exhibit provides students a rare opportunity to showcase their work publicly in a professional gallery setting. In addition to exposing the public to the arts present on campus, the COC Student Art Show also fosters a community for the visual arts in Santa Clarita.

The College of the Canyons Art Gallery is open for viewing Mondays from 11 am to 4 pm and Tuesdays through Thursdays from 10 am to 4 pm.

A reception for the artists will be held Tuesday, April 18th from 2 pm to 4 pm.