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Harris Art Gallery


The mission of the Harris Art Gallery reflects the university’s commitment to diversity and quality in education by developing excellent contemporary art exhibitions for La Verne and local communities, providing students and others access to the wider art community, and confronting a diverse range of ideas as expressed through contemporary art and fostering a discourse around these issues.

The gallery is located in the Landis Academic Center on the La Verne Campus campus of The University of La Verne. For more information, contact Dion Johnson at (909) 448-4383.

Structural Integrity
April 14-May 7, 2009 		Structural Integrity"Structural Integrity" is a group exhibition featuring Los Angeles based artists who reveal and obscure meaning through constructed forms and layered surfaces.
Daina Higgins & Liat Yossifor
February 10-March 13, 2009 		To Here Knows When: Daina Higgins & Liat Yossifor"To Here Knows When" balances an atmosphere of internal and external currents, where rhythmic restlessness Liat Yossifor's entanglements resonates with the inward diffusion of Daina Higgins' urban spaces.
Phillip K Smith III
October 21-November 21, 2008 		Organic Geometries: Phillip K Smith IIIThe Harris Art Gallery of The University of La Verne Department of Art and Art History presents an exhibition of work by Phillip K. Smith III including drawings and models of his public art projects.
Kelly Sears
September 9-October 3, 2008 		The Stories Behind the Images That Had Almost Been Forgotten: Kelly SearsKelly Sears is an award-winning animator and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Sears' collage animations parse together collected media artifacts to reveal secret histories, forgotten tales, and possible moments embedded in the images around us.
Naturally Synthetic
April 1-May 2, 2008 		Todd Brainard and Paul Paiement: Naturally SyntheticTodd Brainard and Paul Paiement provide interesting counterbalance to one another in that Brainard's hyper-real chemical landscapes are relatively stark, distant, and foreboding while Paiement's vividly rendered amalgams jocularly fuse various species of insects with consumer products ranging from athletic shoes to compact disc players.
Binary Articulations
February 12-March 7, 2008 		Binary ArticulationsBinary Articulations presents a cross section of artists whose disciplines cleverly synthesize traditional photographic methods with digital layering processes.