Upcoming Exhibitions
The Rebel Wore Pearls: Interiors of Frances Elkins
From 1918 to the early 1950s, artist and designer Frances Elkins worked throughout the United States designing interiors—making her greatest impact on the Monterey Bay Peninsula. Creating avant-garde rooms and a new language for residential and public interiors, Elkins made her home in downtown Monterey and deeply connected with the rest of the artistic community there. This exhibition features selections of the distinctive combinations of photographs, art, objects, fabrics, and wallpapers that made Elkins a legendary interior designer.
About the Curator
Cydney Payton is an independent curator and writer, and former CEO and Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Her leadership in the arts has been acknowledged by The New York Times, The Denver Post, Artforum, and Art in America. Payton has curated groundbreaking exhibitions by such artists as David Altmejd, Morley Baer, Lynda Benglis, Yu-Chen Chou, Jane Hammond, Brad Kahlhamer, Susanne Kühn, Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt, Wangechi Mutu, Arlene Shechet, Collier Schorr, and Fischli & Weiss, among numerous others.
Support for this exhibition provided by Laura and John Gamble, Lynn and Michael Hayford, and Mary Pat and Richard McCormick.
Eugenia McComas (1886–1982), Portrait of Frances Elkins, c. 1920, oil on canvas