A Restless Country: Selections from the Permanent Collection
October 31 - December 20, 2009
Reception: Saturday, November 7, 5-7pm
 

	Danny Lyons Crossing the Ohio, Louisville, from "The Bikeriders," 1966 Gelatin Silver print

American Studies Panel: A Restless Country
Tuesday, November 3, 4:15 pm in the Museum
A Restless Country Panel is in conjunction with the exhibition
A Restless Country: Selections from the Permanent Collection.
The Panel includes a performance, "Road Music" by Pomona faculty Joti Rockwell and is followed by a reception.

Participating faculty include:
Bill Anthes (Pitzer) on Native American Art
Frances Pohl (Pomona) on Jasper Frances Cropsey and William Henry Jackson
Hal Barron (Harvey Mudd) on Walker Evans
Matt Delmont (Scripps) on Danny Lyon's "The Bikeriders"

American identity is inextricably interwoven with ideas of movement, from the movement of population groups in an expanding nation state to the mythos of the open road and the road trip. The exhibition explores the complex trading patterns of native populations, the drive of the railroads, and the valorization of car culture and includes Danny Lyon’s The Bikeriders, Raymond Pettibon’s collaboration Faster Jim, William Henry Jackson’s railroad photographs, and selections from Pomona College’s extraordinary collection of Native American Art.

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Project Series 39: Rachel Mayeri Primate Cinema
October 31 - December 20, 2009
Reception: Saturday, November 7, 5-7pm

	Rachel Mayeri Baboons as Friends, 2008 Video Still

Artist Lecture: Rachel Mayeri
Tuesday, November 3, 2:30 pm in the Museum

“Project Series 39: Rachel Mayeri” focuses on “Primate Cinema,” a video series begun in 2006 that deals with primates and their on-screen dramas and consists of several related videos, performances, and installations. The exhibition includes the first work in the “Primate Cinema” series, Baboons as Friends, a two-channel installation contrasting field footage of baboons with human actors reenacting the primate footage, and How to Act like an Animal, a two-channel video installation juxtaposing documentary footage from Jane Goodall’s 1995 National Geographic special on The New Chimpanzees with performers reenacting a clip from this documentary footage. Working at the intersection of art and science, Mayeri observes human nature through the lenses of media studies, primatology, video art, and film history. She examines the cognitive processes involved in understanding an “other” perspective as a way of examining how human nature is represented.

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The Project Series
Now in its eleventh year, the Project Series is the Museum's program of focused exhibitions of work by Southern California artists. Its purpose is to bring to the Pomona College community art that is experimental and that introduces new forms, techniques, and concepts. Organized by Rebecca McGrew, this series is supported in part by the Pasadena Art Alliance. A catalogue accompanies each exhibition.