KEYWORD

California art

This rendering of the “Plein-Air en Plein Air” installation features an image of Granville Redmond’s painting “California Landscape with Flowers,” circa 1931, oil on canvas, 32 x 80 in., projected onto the Social Science Lab building. The artwork is a gift from The Irvine Museum to UC Irvine’s Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art.

Art as rarely experienced

‘Plein-Air en Plein Air’ installation to feature Langson IMCA paintings projected onto campus buildings

April 08, 2024
Michaela Mohrmann at UCI’s Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art.

Scenic spirituality

UCI exhibition explores role of faith in California landscape paintings

February 29, 2024
Susan M. Anderson standing in front of paintings in a gallery.

Early 1900s influencer anchors new museum show

Widow played unsung role in California art scene

September 25, 2023
Cassandra Coblentz, guest curator of Langson IMCA’s upcoming exhibition “Indefinitely Wild: Preserving California’s Natural Resources,” admires Detlef Sammann’s 1915 “Del Monte Forest.”

‘Indefinitely Wild’

Art exhibition contrasts pristine California landscapes with reality of development

May 30, 2023
A rendering is a facsimile of what the gallery spaces may look like at the Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art.

Location chosen for Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art

UCI’s North Campus site provides outdoor vistas to complement indoor masterpieces

March 28, 2022
Jack Langson, with his wife Shanaz Langson

UCI Institute and Museum of California Art receives naming gift from Jack and Shanaz Langson

Funding to provide support for construction, operation of state-of-the-art facility

December 13, 2021
Gordon Onslow Ford, Constellations and Grasses, 1957

Paintings that play with perception

New exhibition at UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art pairs abstract and representational works

August 30, 2021
Kim Kanatani, director of UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art, admires “Tree of Life,” by Carlos Almaraz, a pioneer in the Chicano art movement.

Keeping up appearances

Works at UCI’s Institute and Museum of California Art are restored in anticipation of reopening gallery

April 12, 2021
Kim Kanatani, inaugural museum director of the UCI Institute and Museum of California Art. Behind her is Richard Diebenkorn’s 1952 oil-on-canvas painting “Albuquerque #9"

What’s next: The future of museums

As cultural and educational nexuses, they must explore creative ways of engaging with diverse audiences

August 17, 2020
James Irvine Swinden

A California Art Apostle

Running an art museum was not something James Irvine Swinden ever imagined. When his mother, Joan Irvine Smith, began feverishly collecting California impressionist artwork in the early 1990s, Swinden was happily operating a 12-acre botanical garden on the island of Kauai. So when she asked him to help set up a museum to showcase the […]

June 04, 2018