Art and Culture Exhibitions
San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts program is dedicated to providing access and connection to the Arts & Culture landscape in San Diego while providing visible opportunities to local and regional artists. The visual arts program demonstrates the library’s role as a cultural institution embracing a broad range of disciplines while assisting San Diego's emerging, mid-career and professional artists achieve wider local, regional, and national attention.
For more information about library exhibitions, email us at OnView@sandiego.gov.
Featured Exhibitions
James Hubbell: Architecture of Jubilation | March 9, 2024 - August 4, 2024 | Learn More
Featured Programming
- Film Screening - James Hubbell: Between Heaven & Earth directed by Marianne Gerdes
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Register Here - Dave Hampton on “James Hubbell at Midcentury: His Early Years in the San Diego Art Community”
Monday, April 22, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Register Here - Keith York on “James Hubbell and Sim Bruce Richards: Collaborations”
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. | Register Here - Ilan-Lael Docent Tours. Registration Required.
- Stained Glass Workshop with ArtReach SD
Friday, May 17, 2024 | 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Register Here
Upcoming
Helen & Newton Harrison: California Works
September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025
As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: Art and Science Collide, San Diego Public Library’s Visual Arts Program presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.
Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work is the first exhibition to focus on their California work, between the late 1960s and 2000s. California Work revisits the Harrisons’ groundbreaking ecological concepts through re-staged performance artworks, drawings, paintings, photography, collages, maps, archival documentation of large-scale installations, and unrealized proposals for real-world ecological solutions.
Curated by Tatiana Sizonenko
Organized by La Jolla Historical Society
Image: Helen and Newton Harrison, Serpentine Lattice, 1992
(Credit: The Harrison Family Trust)
OnView - Local Arts
Photography Exhibition: Galapagos & The Photography of Kalju Kotka
Javier Alonso & Kalju Kotka
January 10 - March 8, 2024
James Hubbell: Architecture of Jubilation-
Pacific Rim Park Project
March 12 - August 4, 2024
James Hubbell: Architecture of Jubilation-
A Mountain Home & Studios
March 9 - August 4, 2024
Various Locations
Fleet on the Go
Throughout 2024
February 8 - March 29, 2024 Oak Park: NANO-Ferrofluid Table
February 8 - March 29, 2024 Mission Hills-Hillcrest/Knox: NANO-Magnetic Powder Table, Magnetic Sand Table
February 8 - March 29, 2024 College-Rolando: How a Telegraph Works
February 9 - March 29, 2024
Previously OnView Exhibitons
Explore past exhibitions at Central Library Art Gallery, including behind the scenes content and virtual tours.