Gold Medal Exhibition
Like other venerable arts organizations, such as the Royal Academy in London or the National Academy of Design in New York, the biggest event on the CAC calendar each year is the annual Gold Medal Exhibition. Today, the Gold Medal Exhibition is held at the Pasadena Museum of California Art each spring. Previous locations include the Pasadena Museum of History and the Luckman Arts Center at California State University, Los Angeles. Works are juried into the exhibition, and each year a single Gold Medal is awarded in Painting and Sculpture, voted on by the artist members of the organization. The 2009 Gold Medal was awarded to Peter Adams. Recent Gold Medalists for painting include Steve Huston, Ryan Wurmser, Mian Situ, David C. Gallup, and Jeremy Lipking.
When Peter Adams took over the leadership of the organization, the first exhibitions for the revitalized CAC were held at the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia, managed by Gold Medal Chairman Rolf Zilmer. After a few years there, the annual exhibition moved to a much more impressive space, the galleries of the Luckman Fine Arts Center, at California State University, Los Angeles. At that venue, a number of works by historic painters of the California Art Club were included for the first time, including paintings by Sergei Bongart, Colin Campbell Cooper and Theodore Lukits. The Annual Gold Medal Exhibition then moved to the Pasadena Museum of History's galleries on the ground of the historic Fenyes Mansion in Pasadena. For the first time, a comprehensive color catalog was prepared for the exhibition with an essay by an art historian biographies of all the participants. A large exhibition of historic works by significant early painters was included, along with biographies in the catalog. In recent years, the Gold Medal Exhibition has been held at the Pasadena Museum of History in downtown Pasadena, a recently built museum in downtown Pasadena.
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