Past Exhibits
Kurt Weston:
Seasons in the Prayer Garden
Kurt Weston is a legally blind photographer who works in both color and black and white.
“My limited visual acuity–total blindness in my left eye and limited peripheral vision with no central vision in my right eye–permits me to see the world much like it appears in an impressionist painting.” Using digital magnification, the artist views and augments images initially seen only through his limited peripheral vision.
For the past several years, Weston has been experimenting with unusual and altered photographic “views” and “perspectives” that redefine and recontextualize the very nature of seeing for both the sighted and blind communities.
His precisely detailed, saturated colored images of garden flowers capture an unsettling individualism in each blossom. These almost other-worldly portraits bypass conventional ideas of nature photography by confronting the viewer with singular instances of the strangeness of beauty itself. Hillsides and parks are experienced in sometimes fleeting, sometimes still, sometimes even out of focus mesmerizing tapestries of living color, sweeping the viewer into the world of the artist’s unique vision.
“Seeing, as we all know, is a combination of all our physical, mental, psychological and spiritual states,” Weston says. “We speak about ‘seeing’ something clearly as seeing something accurately, truthfully and in its entirety.”
Kurt Weston earned his MFA from the California State University, Fullerton. His work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in New York and other venues. In 2009, his work was included in the California Museum of Photography’s acclaimed exhibition “Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists.” (Currently scheduled to tour internationally.)
All Fullerton High School Art Exhibition
The Muckenthaler galleries spotlight the next generation with our 2nd annual Fullerton High Schools Art Exhibition. Drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture and ceramics from the young artists from Sunny Hills, Troy, Fullerton Union High and other local high schools will be on display throughout our galleries.
Pine Design ’10: Cub Scout Pinewood Derby Cars
Back for the third year! We feature pinewood derby cars from Orange County Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts. Starting with a standard block of pinewood and four plastic wheels, scouts customize simple wood race cars into dream machines, fantasy vehicles, or just plain lean-mean racing machines to compete in the tradition of pinewood derby races. Our Ranch Foreman’s Gallery will show the best of OC’s imaginative young designers.
Cliff Cramp and Don Derler
To celebrate our 16th Annual Motor Car Festival, the Main Gallery hosts a two-person exhibition of paintings and prints by Cliff Cramp and Don Derler. Both are artists and car enthusiasts.
Cliff Cramp teaches both traditional and digital illustration at California State Fullerton. His art captures the excitement of auto racing and pays tribute to classic cars of yesteryear.
Don Derler has produced paintings for many of our previous Motor Car Festival’s posters and programs as well as fanciful depictions of timeless automotive design.
Muckenthaler Cultural Center/North Orange County
Community College District Student Exhibition
June 11 – 27
Cost: Free
Summer begins with a special show of art by students from Muckenthaler classes. Pottery, painting and fine craft fill our galleries. Take an art class at the Muckenthaler and your artwork could be in our next show!
Check back for links to our past gallery exhibits!
For questions about our performances, galleries, special events, classes or to purchase tickets please contact info@TheMuck.org or 866-411-1212.
