Exhibitions

Gallery Program 2021-2022

I Will Listen for Your Laugh & Turning Basin

Jan. 30 - Mar. 10, 2023

Painting and printmaking instructor Jill Vasileff presents a series of abstract work exploring the apex between childhood and motherhood. Tender and melancholy, I Will Listen for Your Laugh, features shifting grids in veiled colors that explore the ephemeral imprint of memory. University Curator Lisa Cooperman presents wall hung and free-standing, textile-based sculpture in Turning Basin. Layered, knotted, and dense with sensation they propose irrational instructions generated by a mash up of found materials. View >

13%

Nov. 10 - Dec. 9, 2022

In 2019, researchers investigated gender and ethnic diversity in the collections of 18 major US museums including two university museums. They discovered that regardless of size or collecting mission around 87% of their collection was made up of art created by white men. The remaining 13% is composed of art made by women and artists of color. The University of the Pacific’s own permanent art collection yields the same number. This student curated exhibition is a selection from Pacific’s own 13%. View >

Pray and Be Thankful 4 Everything

Sept. 6 - Oct. 21, 2022

Artist K Pontuti (they/them) is premiering a multimedia body of work in the show Pray and Be Thankful 4 Everything. The show explores gender identity, bodily autonomy, and Trans rights through works spanning three decades, including sketches, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and murals. The work uses absurdist humor to present difficult ideas and experiences surrounding Pontuti’s own recent transition and the general state of gender/sexuality discourse. View > 

Gallery Program 2021-2022

Visual Voices: Senior Class Exhibition

April 12 - May 13, 2022

Pacific's Graphic Design and Studio Art seniors and juniors will retake the Reynolds Gallery after two years of virtual senior exhibitions. In the visually powerful exhibition, students exercise their artistic voices to communicate with the audience. This class spent over a year learning remotely, carving out the space necessary for sustained concentration in shared rooms and at the kitchen tables. Since the return to in-person learning this year, they’ve built on those experiences creating work of depth and polish, that loudly proclaims their presence back on campus.

Womens Rights are Human Rights

October 4 - November 18, 2021 

The gallery is excited to begin the fall semester by presenting this first in-person exhibition since January 2020. Originally curated by Elizabeth Resnick, design educator and professor Emerita at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the show was presented to the Pacific community virtually in November 2020. Resnick was inspired by Hillary Clinton at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on women in Beijing in 1995. In her remarks Clinton said, “If the term ‘women’s rights’ were to be interchangeable with the term ‘human rights,’ the world community would be a better place.” View >

Gallery Program 2020-2021

Dreaming of Equ>lity

January 2021 

University of the Pacific student curators selected work from an open call addressing social and political discourses stimulated by the global crises of 2020. Thirty-one artists at all stages of their careers from across the US contributed work focused on their hopes for an end to the collective traumas of injustice, racism, discrimination, and climate destruction. View >

Women’s Rights are Human Rights: International Posters on Gender-based Inequality, Violence, and Discrimination

November 2020 - December 2020
Virtual exhibition of international posters on gender-based inequality, violence, and discrimination. View >

Vision 2020

October 2020 - December 2020
The Studio Art and Graphic Design “quarantine” class of 2020 at the University of the Pacific presents Vision 2020, a virtual exhibition of their art and design work. View >

Gone Viral

May 2020 - October 2020
Virtual exhibition of art based around students' experiences during the COVID-19 lockdowns. View >

Gallery Program 2018-2019

Chromaticity: Senior Exhibition

April 16 – May 11, 2019
Graduating class of 2019 from the Department of Art & Graphic Design senior exhibition along with works from the junior class. View ›

Life's Track: A Centenary Celebration of Richard Yip (1918 - 1981)

March 18 – April 5, 2019
Featuring work from the family collection and the University's permanent art collection, the exhibition explores four decades of Richard Yip's paintings. View ›

Visual Storytelling: Student Documentary Projects, 2016-2018

January 28  – March 2, 2019 
An exhibition of student documentary projects from Professor Jennifer Little's Digital Photo I and Video I classes. View ›

4 x 4: Exhibition & Sale

November 15 – December 7, 2018
Pacific Student Art Club is proud to welcome this recurring art exhibition and sale, with works in various media confined to four by four inches. View ›

Golden Eye: Art from the Robert and Jeannette Powell Collection

October 1 - November 2, 2018
For the first time since this artwork graced their home, selections from the Robert and Jeannette Powell art collection will hang together at the Reynolds Gallery at University of the Pacific. View ›

Where We Live: Carolyn Lord, Peggi Kroll-Roberts

August 27 – September 21, 2018
Award winning, master artists, Carolyn Lord and Peggi Kroll-Roberts, are California painters, as such their work embodies the hot sun, hardy flora, and visual drama of the place where they paint and live. View ›

Gallery Program 2017-2018

Revolution Will be DIY

March 20 - April 13, 2018
Do-it-yourself connects the intersecting social justice topics of the show and supports the university's current Sustainability theme of "Intertwined." Materials from the Holt-Atherton archives frame the history of Pacific campus activism from the civil rights era to the present including letters from the Black Student Caucus and a DeltaFusion puppet. View ›

Shifting Gears: Making of an Art Car

February 20 - March 9, 2018
Join a selected group of Pacific student artists as they paint and transform the Art Car. Also on view, featured series of painted car parts, created by students preparing for Art Car project. View ›

Dawn of the Butterflies: Kam Women Artisans of China 

January 16  - February 16, 2018 
Marie Lee, associate professor of graphic design, Department of Art & Graphic Design, presents her sabbatical exhibition and book publication. View ›

Blast from the Past: Juried Student Exhibition 

November 13 - December 8, 2017
Featuring art and graphic design work from students currently enrolled at Pacific, juried by a selected group of art and design students. View ›

Through Lines / Faculty Work : From Student to Artist

October 2 - November 3, 2017
Featuring undergraduate, graduate, and current work by Pacific's Art & Graphic Design faculty, exploring continuity and departure to show how each artist's oeuvre has evolved. View ›

id-eology / stories from the id: printmaker James Bailey 

August 27 - September 21, 2017
James Bailey solo exhibition featuring prints and artist books that satirically explore modern life in all its grandeur and folly. View ›

Noegenesis: Senior Class Exhibition 2018

April 23 - May 13, 2018 
Graduating class of 2018 from Department of Art & Graphic Design, senior exhibition. View ›

Gallery Program 2016-2017

After Hours: Senior Art Show 2017

April 10 - May 13, 2017
Graduating class of 2017 from Department of Art & Graphic Design, senior exhibition. View ›

Cross-Eyed: Two Sibilings /Distinct Memories

February 27 - March 31, 2017
Artworks and writings by brother and sister John and Leah Harper, drawn from diverging memories of shared childhood experiences. View ›

Engaging Beauty: Art and Legacy of Ron Pecchenino

January 17 - February 20, 2017
Exhibition of works by Emeritus professor, artist and former art department chair Ron Pecchenino, who passed away in August, 2015. He taught more than 25 years at Pacific, receiving both Pacific's Distinguished Faculty Award and the Order of Pacific, the University's highest honor. View ›

Eye Candy: Student Juried Exhibition

December 5 - December 16, 2016
Features artwork by students currently enrolled in University of the Pacific and Delta College. View ›

MobileIntent: Pompeii 2079, Relics and Possibility

October 31 - November 28, 2016
Solo exhibition of sculptural works and an interactive installation by Northern California artist Ann Schnake. View ›

The Reynolds Gallery Turns 30: Homecoming/Alumni Exhibition

October 3 - October 24, 2016
Group exhibition by alumni from the Department of Art and Graphic Design. View ›

Faculty Biennial: Skin in the Game

August 29 - September 26, 2016
The Reynolds Gallery opens the new academic year with an exhibition featuring works by faculty from the Department of Art and Graphic Design. View ›

Gallery Program 2015-2016

ECLECTION: Class of 2016 Senior Exhibition

April 25 - May 14, 2016 
Graduating class from the Department of Art and Graphic Design, present their art and design works in this senior exhibition. View ›

Teri Frame: Channeling Raptors

Performance March 23, 2016
Teri Frame performs Channeling Raptors, a transmutational performance that examines the relationship between humans and four distinct birds of prey. View ›

Jillian Sokso: In the Shadow of the Mountain, As if the Sea Were Nothing

February 18 - March 18, 2016 
Solo exhibition by printmaker Jillian Sokso, whose prints are a visual extension of thoughts; part personal archive, part printmaking evangelism. View ›

Invented Forms and Imaginary Objects

January 19 - February 12, 2016
Graphic Design Professor Brett DeBoer presents an exhibition of digital images. View ›

Unity: Juried Student Exhibition

December 3 - December 11, 2015
This student-juried exhibition of Pacific student works, focuses on the theme of unity, defined as the state of being united into one. View ›

A Rub with Death: The Leppelmeier Collection

November 3 - November 24, 2015 
This exhibition features rubbings taken from 15^th century monumental brasses found in Sussex, England. These images of knights and their ladies mark a time when England was transitioning from a medieval, feudal culture to Renaissance humanism. View ›

Confluences: Circumnavigating The Territory

September 28 - October 26, 2015
Solo exhibition of large-scale color photographs and video works by Dennis DeHart. View ›

Spare Parts and Unfinished Business

August 24 - September 22, 2015
Reynolds Gallery opens its 2015-2106 calendar featuring recent work by Department of Art and Graphic Design faculty member, Daniel Kasser. View ›