Exhibitions & Events
The Contemporary hosts over 12 onsite and offsite dynamic exhibitions every year which include emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in a variety of media to provide a full range of the depth and scope of contemporary art.
Past Exhibitions
Charged Environment, 2020, Ink and colored pencil on antique paper (dated 1934), 13.75 x 11.25 inches
Terran Last Gun
COVID Cases by Continents
2021
Weaving with cotton ends and newspaper on a handdyed cotton warp
20 in x 16 in
Doerte Weber: Shed
Loc Huynh, Mom Making Pho, 2021. Acrylic on Linen, 20 x 16 in.
The Sitter
Nine Ways to Say Hello
Adobe bricks, mirror, lime wash, mica, cotton, cochineal insects, onion skins. 8’x15’x2’. 2018
Joanna Keane Lopez: The Adobe Color Laboratory
Theresa Newsome
Theresa Newsome: Objects of Aggression
Contribute your story to the Sanctuary City Project.
Sanctuary City Project
Installation view. Ryan Takaba, A Relationship with Flight, 2020. Image courtesy of BSC.
A Relationship with Flight
Jamal Cyrus, Lemon’s New World Blues, 2014.
Please Form A Straight Line
Hye-Ryoung Min, Untitled from the series Re-membrance of the Remembrance, 2017.
Hye-Ryoung Min: Re-Membrance of the Remembrance
Posterworks
César A. Martínez, Veterano.
Veterano
César A. Martínez, El Mestizo, 2017
Red Dot Show
Victoria Rodriguez, Isolation, 2020. Prismacolor on paper, 11.5 x 14. “While being in isolation for so long, I’ve begun to feel a little out of my mind mentally, and my dreams have become more vivid. It feels like my mind is stretched thin and exhausted. Contrasting those feelings with bright colors associated with more positive feelings, I feel will draw the viewer’s attention to my work.”
Quarantine Diaries
Installation view. Rand Renfrow, More Findings, 2020.
More Findings
Installation view. Sarah Welch, Giveth and Taketh, 2020.
Giveth and Taketh
INFUSION
Publishing Against the Grain
Candace Hicks
Secret Passage
Novel Ideas at Blue Star Contemporary. Photo credit: Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray
Novel Ideas
Arturo Herrera, Set #1 Flüsse und Seen, 2012, Silkscreen and mixed media on paper, 26,8 x 20,2 x 1,2 cm, 3 of 12
2020 Spring Exhibitions Preview
Zeandra Menjares, In Bloom, 2019.
CUT OUT
Johanna Cerda Elizondo Te Amo, Mi Vida, 2020. Oil on canvas. (Above, detail) Leonardo Arteaga Toledo, An Apple, 2020. Ceramic. (Below, detail)
Intuitive Exploration
Novel Ideas Art Book Fair
Installation detail. Tsuyoshi Anzai, Healthy Machines, 2019. Photo credit Jacqueline Saragoza McGilvray