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Various Artists Solstice May 30 - June 28, 2015 Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Solstice Marthe Aponte, Christine Kline, Antoinette De Paiva and Terry Cervantes led an intimate and explorational tour about their artistic processes.

Karchi Perlmann CODE August 13 - October 23, 2022 CODE is a collection of images that have been deconstructed within its digital file, or in other words, hacked in its “DNA.” Toppling the code of the original image file can affect properties such as contrast, RGB (Red-Blue-Green) values, and the pixel properties’ structure and order. It may even cause an image to cease to exist. These changes appear like glitches from a motion picture, presenting new forms and conditions, contributing to the large-scale artworks’ prominent and subtle sensory experience. While Perlmann specifically targets certain image properties, the final results are always unexpected and randomly calculated, leaving traces of human activity in the subject’s virtual and physical environment. This ongoing body of work is rooted in the conventions of the alternative processes of photography. However, this exhibit pushes beyond these processes by examining the foundation and entity of an image. Perlmann proposes the following questions for consideration when viewing his work: is an image a virtual or physical entity? Is a traditional photograph an image or a physical expression of a perception? Are all visual artists, in essence, image makers, constructors of ideas and concepts, generators of mirages of a world that resides in the human psyche? And lastly, what is the place of an image in the human experience? Leaving to interpretation whether an image’s building blocks are its code or the image is, in effect, a code of human perception. Perlmann is interested in creating images that yield an exchange between reason and the enigmatic, or the explainable and unexplainable. Many of his works are reactive for both the viewer and himself, “giving voice to profound encounters that trigger the instinctive, emotional, and intellectual self.” Perlmann was born in Budapest, Hungary, where his journey began as a photographer, independent filmmaker, and imaging artist. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where his work focuses on Southern California and his immediate environment.

Royal Disillusion Zära Monet Feeney January 30, 2021 - June 27, 2021 Zara Monet Feeney_Encore.jpg Zara Monet Feeney_Killer Crown.jpg 3_Zara Monet Feeney.jpg Zara Monet Feeney_Encore.jpg 1/4 360 virtual tour by Birdman ​ There is a specific moment when we suspend our disbelief and are seduced by an illusion. When this happens, we are not looking at something, but looking at ourselves perceiving it. This exhibition psychoanalyzes the horrors of our current pandemic, political warfare, personal trauma, and the mental delirium of quarantine. The paintings scintillate and fade between sinister and majestic, grotesque and imperial, exposing the emotional upheaval of cognitive dissonance and dissociation. Using obscured installation and subtle shifts of color and light temperature, the viewing experience becomes nuanced and introspective. More broadly, the paintings also engage in a conversation with intersectional queer feminism, traditional voyueristic compositions, the male gaze and socio-sexual empowerment issues. Aesthetically, they illuminate an Old Master style; the subjects are posed, the mood is dramatic, but they also exploit and contemporize it; the locus of composition is skewed, the light logic is reversed. Meticulously choreographing a dramatic dynamic between the subject and the space it occupies, the work is able to guide, critique and call into question the generic way a painting is received. The work is aimed to reify a psychological and reflexive viewing experience that ultimately transcends the viewer into an unknown consciousness. Feeney’s paintings are published in Huffington Post, Manifest, Juxtapoz, BeautifulBizarre, Young-Space, Uproxx and Art in America. She has been awarded fourteen solo shows and thirty seven selected group exhibitions in the past five years. Her credentials also include numerous national and international art residencies and first place honors at juried group competitions. She has a Bachelor of Arts from University of California Los Angeles and a Master of Fine Arts from Laguna College of Art and Design. Feeney is a college professor and exhibiting artist based in Los Angeles Back to All Exhibitions

Nay & Julie Schuder The World According to Sim February 5, 2015 The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim The World According to Sim Best friends and partners for over two decades, Nay and Julie share an unusual bond. Their unspoken understanding of one another, coupled with their ever increasing desire to challenge the limits of clay create the ideal scenario for collaboration in sculpture. Benefiting by their merged strengths, their concepts evolve into surreal creations revealing a light-hearted, innocent charm and organic nature with a spontaneous quality all their own.

Various Artists Juried Art Exhibition 2016 June 11, 2016 - July 17, 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 Juried Art Exhibition 2016 The Lancaster Museum of Art & History and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce that, beginning this June, the museum’s annual all-media juried exhibition will be moved to the Cedar Center for the Arts. The exhibition kicks off with CEDARFEST, a one-night-only festival celebrating the artists. This year’s jurors include local, internationally recognized artist Stevie Love and Los Angeles Arts Association Executive Director and curator Peter Mays. ​ CEDARFEST, the exhibition, will be on view Saturday, June 4th, through Saturday, July 9th, 2016. Upper and lower galleries will be open to the public during MOAH:CEDAR’s hours of operation, Thursday – Sunday, 2 P.M. – 8 P.M. Community members are invited to view the art and share photos on social media using #CEDARFEST. Visitors are also encouraged to vote for their favorite pieces using #CEDARFESTCHOICE2016, as the artwork with the most votes on Instagram will receive a special prize following the exhibition. All exhibiting artists will receive an electronic catalog listing all participants and their displayed works. ​​Jurors ​ Stevie Love lives and works in Juniper Hills in the foothills overlooking the Mojave Desert one hour north of Los Angeles in an adobe house that she and her husband made by hand. She earned a Bachelors degree at California State University at San Bernardino and a Masters of Fine Art degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. ​ Since earning her Masters degree, she has been developing a diverse body of work that transcends the boundaries between painting and sculpture, using paint as a sculptural medium, paint that is released from the confines of the customary rectangle, blurring the boundary between us the viewer and the relationship we usually have to painting as a pictorial metaphor, instead bringing paint to us as its own reason for being. The play back and forth between metaphor and reality gives the work a life all its own. Peter Frank has described her work as “the moment where pictorial language and mental imagination, conventional thought and erratic vision give way to one another”. ​ Peter Mays is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) and its premiere La Cienega exhibition space Gallery 825. Mays believes LAAA is now poised to launch the next phase of the 91-year-old organization’s expansion and commitment to Los Angeles’ emerging artists. Since joining LAAA in June 2005, Peter has implemented cultural exchanges with Switzerland (Basel), Korea, Germany and China along with initiated collaborative programming with institutions like Harvard, MoCA and Otis. As well as with artists Tim Hawkinson and Lita Albuquerque, secured the very best curators to jury LAAA exhibitions, increased LAAA’s career development programs and direct services by 30% and created LAAA’s public art program which was selected as one of the top public art works completed in 2010 by Americans for the Arts. ​ CEDARFEST Award List Best of Exhibition: Christine Kline, Outlook. 2nd Best of Exhibition: Christopher Darga, Woman in Hat 3rd Best of Exhibition: Marthe Aponte, Virtual Landscape Beryl Amspoker Memorial Award: Rose Rieux , Genesis Emerging Artist Award: Nuri Amanatullah, Displacement Lakes and Valleys Art Guild Award: Christopher Darga, Woman in Hat Dean Webb Memorial Award: Helen Henry, Step On In Painting 1: Geoffrey Levitt, Night Train Lights Painting 2: Bryan Ida, China Basin Painting 3: Pablo Mercado, Self Portrait Photo 1: Juan Jimenez, Downtown L.A. 3rd Street bridge Photo 2: Chung Ping Chen Photo 3: Jamerson Adams Illustration 1: Nuri Amanatullah Illustration 2: Rose Rieux Illustration 3: Neil Vilppu 2D Mixed Media 1: Ulrica Bell 2D Mixed Media 2: Julius Eastman 2D Mixed Media 3: Eduardo Esquivel 3D Mixed Media 1: Katherine Stocking-Lopez 3D Mixed Media 2: Shahin Massoudi 3D Mixed Media 3: Terry Cervantes ​ Honorable Mentions: Ezequiel Marzochetti Sal Silvestre Vasquez Douglas Wade Terry Cervantes Christine Kline Karen Stocking Jim Kelso Amanda McIntosh

JJ L'Heureux Faces From the Southern Ocean December 8, 2018 - February 10, 2019 “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux “Faces From the Southern Ocean” by JJ L'Heureux Antarctica is completely surrounded by the Southern Ocean. There are no sounds except for reverberating wind and water punctuated by the cracking and booming of ice as it breaks off into the sea. It is a pristine place, overwhelming and awesome. Faces From the Southern Ocean embodies the spirit of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, a realm dominated by sky and cold. Reindeer, seals and penguins—inhabitants of this icy region—along with breathtaking landscapes are captured in photographs from L’Heureux’s more than a dozen expeditions to this region.

Juried Art Exhibition 39th Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition June 1 - July 21, 2024 Juried Art Exhibition 2024.png Juried Art Exhibition 2024.png 1/1 ​ ​ The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce the 39th Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition for this year. Back to All Exhibitions

Dani Dodge PRIME November 12, 2022 - January 22, 2023 PRIME is an exploration of place. An acknowledgment of the impact and power of location as an inspiration and means of transporting us beyond ourselves. Dani Dodge’s exhibition, PRIME , occupies each of MOAH: CEDAR’s three galleries. Works created by participants during Dodge’s 2019 residency at the Preserve are displayed in the lobby. In the North Gallery, Dodge constructs an interactive environment inspired by the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve and its sunrises. Imagery from her expeditions to the Preserve are created with gold leaf and pastels on layers of translucent curtains. A 10-minute looping soundtrack of Dodge using her cello interspersed with the sound of animals at dawn accompanies the visual work to produce a dream-like environment. A metal mattrFess spring hangs in the center of the gallery as an artifact of a Mojave desert dig reminiscent of the one she saw in the Preserve. The twisted mattress spring is emblematic of how human intrusion simultaneously modifies and is absorbed into the landscape. Visitors are invited to consider what locations bring them peace, and to write those on slips of paper that they pin to the installation as they walk through. In the South Gallery, Dodge shows three separate collections of work, and a second recovered metal mattress spring that was reshaped by nature after being discarded by humans into the desert. The collections include a video installation inspired by the images of animals at the Preserve captured on motion-sensor video cameras, a collection of paintings in gold leaf exploring her love of Joshua trees, and a collection of miniatures depicting Joshua tree sprouts that spell out nature’s cry for help in Morse Code. Dani Dodge spent 2019 focused on the Prime Desert Woodland Preserve in Lancaster, California as an artist-in-residence. During her bi-weekly visits, she traversed the trails, connecting with the desert landscape and its residents. Unsure of how her presence might affect the wildlife, she installed motion-detecting video cameras to unobtrusively monitor the area when humans were not present. To serve as a counterbalance to her personal experience, she led monthly art activations at the Preserve that allowed participants to share their perspectives of the area through art. Although the residency concluded in December 2019, Dodge returned regularly to the Preserve to record the sounds and sights, and watch each New Year’s sun rise over the Joshua trees.

Antelope Valley Union High School District 38th Annual High School Student Art Exhibition March 30 - April 30, 2023 The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH) and MOAH:CEDAR are excited to announce the Museum’s 38th Annual High School Student Art Exhibition! Hosted by MOAH:CEDAR, an institution that has a long standing history of being recognized as the community hub of art and culture. This highly anticipated event promises an unforgettable opportunity for students and community members alike. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, March 30 from 5-7 PM with an awards ceremony at 6 PM. The exhibition will remain on view through April 30, 2023. The gallery will be open to the public during MOAH:CEDAR’s hours of operation. Media categories featured in the exhibition include: painting, drawing, ceramics, digital and film photography, 2D and 3D and mixed media.

Love, Peace & Equality Wyatt Kenneth Coleman January 14, 2017 - March 4, 2017 “Love, Peace & Equality” by Wyatt Kenneth Coleman “Love, Peace & Equality” by Wyatt Kenneth Coleman “Love, Peace & Equality” by Wyatt Kenneth Coleman “Love, Peace & Equality” by Wyatt Kenneth Coleman 1/3 ​ ​ On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and spoke the words that would change the course of history and be remembered by Americans of all races for generations to come. In his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, Dr. King vocalized the issues at the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, calling for peaceful protest, justice, and equality. He was a leader, a pastor, and an accomplished scholar, but above all, Martin Luther King, Jr. lived to serve his community. Dr. King has this in common with one of the men who chronicled his legacy--photographer Wyatt Kenneth Coleman. “In the mid 1970’s,” says Coleman, “I began documenting people striving to make a difference.” A Vietnam Veteran, Coleman’s dedication to helping others is evident in both his artistic practice and humanitarian contributions. In addition to documenting Dr. King’s legacy, the artist established a collaboration with Coretta Scott King in 1979, which remained active until her death. Coleman was interested in the effect that the Civil Rights Movement had on the lives of ordinary people, stating, “When a person is committed and makes a contribution to their community, lives are changed and doing the right thing is really key.” As such, much of his work documents every-day people participating in non-violent activism by committing acts of kindness and working towards social justice. In these images, Coleman seeks to emphasize the importance that engagement and oral history play in passing down the value of serving one’s community and family. It is through this body of work that MOAH:CEDAR is excited to provide an intimate look into the artist’s personal legacy. Wyatt Kenneth Coleman is a freelance photojournalist whose career spans over fifty years. While serving in the military, he studied at the U.S. Airforce Photography School, gaining skills that would benefit him in both his military and artistic careers. He has certifications from the Winona School of Professional Photography, the University of Minnesota and Santa Fe Photographic workshops. Coleman is a member of the International Freelance Photographers Organization and has had his work regularly shown in several publications, including 3M, Ebony and Jet Magazines, The Daily Word, and TV Guide Canada. He received an award of appreciation from the late Coretta Scott King for a visual presentation he helped create, promoting the establishment of the Martin Luther King Center for Non Violent Social Change in Atlanta. Coleman has been awarded for his unselfish volunteer service in the communities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and was recognized for his volunteer work at the Elm Avenue Community Garden by Assemblyman Tom Lackey, in addition to receiving an award from Lancaster City Council, for his contributions to the community. Wyatt Kenneth Coleman currently lives in Lancaster. A Lancaster resident, Coleman is a freelance photojournalist with a career that spans more than 50 years. He first became interested in this medium as a direct result of his older brother’s photograpy studio, which ignited a passion in him that continues to this day. During his service in the U.S. Air Force, Coleman studied at the U.S. Air Force Photography School, learning skills which would benefit both his military and private professional careers. He went on to further his education by receiving certifications from Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, the Winona School of Professional Photography, and the University of Minnesota. His work has been published in Ebony magazine, as well as many other articles and publications. Back to All Exhibitions

Fairyland Leonard Greco February 23, 2019 - March 31, 2019 “Fairyland” by Leonard Greco “Fairyland” by Leonard Greco “Fairyland” by Leonard Greco “Fairyland” by Leonard Greco 1/4 ​ ​ This recent body of work he's called Fairyland has developed a definite camp sensibility (not dissimilar to the theatrical confections of Cecil Beaton in the 1920’s). Camp, having been described as the lie that tells the truth, is an innate language he has been reticent to explore until recently. Perhaps internalized homophobia has left him hesitant to make work so boldly queer – in every sense of the word – making art so openly flamboyant. Purposely stamped with informed wit and a wry knowing humor, this new work is first and foremost intended to visually delight and be taken seriously . Among other things, it touches on the weighty tableau of the Temptation of St. Anthony of the Desert and the perilous trials of Herakles. His aesthetic expression is influenced by his instinctive inclination to lighten somber somewhat ponderous existential themes with a gay touch (consciously using this word in both its current identity-laden fraught understanding and the anachronistic yet more delightful sense). While the work possesses decidedly camp sensibilities it is never ironic as is so often the current fashion. He finds irony frequently cynical; his work is never cynical for no other reason than the inherent affection he holds for his motley crew of heroes, saints and sinners .He draws indiscriminately upon diverse seemingly unrelated archetypes and themes from many sources, including Classical mythology, British folklore, Wagnerian operas and the biblical text of my Catholic youth, doing so in order to touch upon that which is culturally familiar to him, to others – and if we believe Jung – found deeply rooted as archetypes in our souls. These eternal themes provide me ample, seemingly endless, means of interpretation. As a person steeped in the Western tradition of literature and the visual arts, it is a rich fertile field he feels most comfortable in adopting. The work presented at Fairyland are these familiar themes, explored many times over by countless artist; yet this time re-imagined through a prism of his own. His play upon cultural themes hopefully adds a sentence or two to this ongoing cultural conversation. Working in variety of mediums, and a fabulist by nature, it is my intention to create a theatrical spectacle that is peculiar, visually arresting and deeply personal. Although the work is made solely for his own delight, He hopes others find the work meaningful in some way. He also hopes visitors feel inspired to resist the siren call of selfies and pause instead, if only for a moment, as these works are visually dense and to add their own voice to this enriching and frequently neglected conversation. With that, welcome to his Fairyland. Back to All Exhibitions

Matt Picon Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks August 12, 2017 - September 23, 2017 “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon “Coyotes, Whiskey and Fireworks” by Matt Picon Matt Picon was born and raised throughout Southern California and is currently living and working in El Paso, Texas. With a background in photography and graphic design, his work moved to site-specific interventions and video installations prior to obtaining his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Intermedia at Arizona State University in 2013. He invested in creating relationships between traditional and non-traditional materials and how they communicate form, history and purpose to the viewer. The objects and installations vary on material use, but are mainly constructed of repurposed wood and steel with other conventional materials applied in alternative ways. ​ Sculptures from a recent body of work entitled “Coyotes, Whiskey, and Fireworks,” are based on historical research, observations and personal experiences in the Mojave Desert, specifically the Antelope Valley. Calling Lancaster home during his formative years, Picon found it necessary to revisit and focus on not just his memories of the region but also the stories that came before his own. In response, Picon has created sculptures and installations that address the landscape, suburban development, homesteads, historical forms and personal stories.