Program Explores Color and Culture in SoCal
For Immediate Release
October 17, 2025
Press Contact: Catherine McIntosh
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It’s Complicated: Color and Culture in SoCal
Thursday, October 30, 6-7:30 pm
Albrecht Auditorium at Claremont Graduate University, 925 N Dartmouth Ave. at Tenth St.
The Claremont Lewis Museum of Art will host “It’s Complicated: Color and Culture in SoCal” on Thursday, October 30, 6-7:30 pm in the Albrecht Auditorium at Claremont Graduate University, 925 N Dartmouth Ave. at Tenth St. In partnership with CGU, the program will explore color and abstraction in Southern California culture from the Mid-Century period to the present day.
Using CLMA’s Complications in Color and CGU’s It’s All About the Benjamins exhibitions as inspiration, panelists will discuss the legacy of hard-edge painting and its influence on contemporary practice. The panel will include David Pagel, Rachel Lachowicz, Alex Heilbron, and Dave Tourje, Executive Director of the Chouinard Foundation.
THE EXHIBITION
The Claremont Lewis Museum of Art exhibition Complications in Color marks the 100th birthday of Karl Benjamin (1925-2012), legendary Claremont painter and visionary of the 1950s hard-edge abstraction painting movement. The exhibition will celebrate the beauty of abstraction while revealing its deeper complexities in the work of Florence Arnold, Karl Benjamin, June Harwood, Rachel Lachowicz, and Terry O’Shea.
Generously sponsored by Gould Asset Management LLC, Complications in Color will remain on view through November 16, 2025. The Museum is open Thursday through Sunday in the historic Claremont Depot at 200 W. First Street next to the Metrolink Station. For hours and more information visit clmoa.org.
For more about the exhibition go to: https://clmoa.org/exhibit/complications-in-color.