Phebe Conley Art Gallery

In Progress photo of ceramic piece by Corbin Callaway

Coming Home-Corbin Itsuko Callaway 

"My work shares a dialogue of my journey, both the conscious and unconscious thoughts and the progression of finding myself and slowly working my way from darkness back to my inner core being. It is through the medium of clay that I have found a safe space for my emotions to surface and become permanent, transforming my unconsciousness into a healing journey existing for me in the physical world."

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Runs: Nov. 4th-15th

Reception: Nov. 14th 5-7pm

Angel Lesnikowski-Mourning

Graduate student Angel Lesnikowski's work utilizes landscapes to create a commentary on contemporary issues. This exhibition is a culmination of her graduate studies as part of her thesis. 

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Runs: Oct 14th-25th, 2024

Reception: Thursday Oct. 17th 5-7pm

"Needs Must as the Devil Drives" Screensprint by Matthew Hopson-Walker

2024 Faculty Art Show

Join us for the 2024 Faculty Art Show where Fresno State Art, Design, and Art History faculty and staff showcase select artworks they have created. This is wonderful opportunity to see the extrodinary and varied art from skilled faculty and staff.

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Exhibition Runs: Wed. Aug 28th-Fri- Oct. 4th, 2024

Reception: Thu., Aug 29th, 5-7pm

"Grub"
Stefania Garcia

Ceramic
2023 Student Show Best of Show Award Winner

2024 Senior Studio Art Show

May 3rd-10th, 2024 at the Phebe Conley Gallery 10:00-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday May 9th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Graphic Design B.F.A. Exhibition

April 19th-25th, 2024 at the Phebe Conley Gallery 10:00-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. April 19th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Violence-Andrew Turner

March 11th-29th, 2024 at the Phebe Conley Gallery 10:00-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday March 14th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

I Exist Both Here and There-Jose Soria

February 12th-March 1st, 2024 at the Phebe Conley Gallery 10:00-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday February 15th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

Jose Soria's show, "I exist both here and there" utilizes life size figure paintings and installation work to explore the division between sexuality and religion, as well as other conflicts within it.

Image: From the Spring 2023 Senior Art Show Best in Show Award Edward O. Lund Foundation Award “Ta’iz Street” by Hyfa Alsahybi, Oil on canvas, 2023

2023 Student Art Show

November 30th-December 8th, 2024 at the Phebe Conley Gallery 10:00-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday Novemer 390th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Timeless Tales
October 26th-Noveber 16th, 2023 at the Phebe Conley Gallery 10:00-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, October 26th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Body and Image-Julie Araujo

A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, October 12th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Small Explosions-Laura Meyer

September 5th-29th at the Phebe Conley Gallery 10:00-4:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

Artist Talk by Nancy Youdelman, Thursday, Sept. 28th at 4:00 p.m. at the Leon and Pete Peters Education Center
A Reception will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, September 28th, at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery and Courtyard.

The Conley Gallery is free and open to the public. Regular hours are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Guest parking is $5. Closed on weekends and holidays. 

For special accommodation, please contact Michelle Goans at mgoans@csufresno.edu or 559-278-2121

Image: "Fantasy Bouquet With Lavender Ground" Oil on canvas by Laura Meyer. 2022

Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall

• Exhibition | August 19 through October 31 at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery
• Reception | 5 p.m., Thursday, September 9 at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery
• Satellite exhibit | Constellating Care Networks, Fresno City College and Center for Creativity and Arts co-sponsored , Sept. 2 through Oct. 8 at the Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College.
• Performances of the Heart: Female and male impersonators, drag performers and artists of Fresno | 5 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Phebe Conley courtyard.
• CineCulture virtual screening | “Carlos Jáuregui: The Unforgettable Fag.” The event features an online screening October 18-22 and a Zoom discussion with director Lucas Santa Ana at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 22.
• Concert and Poetry Reading |  Featuring members of the LGBTQ+ community and led by Professor Benjamin Boone, details TBA.
• Panel Discussion | details TBA.
• Website | npyt.fscenterforcreativityandarts.org

If you need special accommodations for this event please call 559 278-2516.

Image Credit: My vision is small fixed to what can be heard between the ears to the spot between the eyes a well-spring to el mundo grande, 2018. Ink, graphite, twine, cut paper, glitter, and egg tempera on paper, 87 1/2 x 90 in. © Felipe Baeza. Courtesy Maureen Paley, London.

Perspectrum: A Human Eye Versus the World

Jan. 23-Feb. 14, 2020 

2019 Student Art Show

Dec.5-13, 2019 

The Center for Creativity and the Art presents

Yishai Jusidman: Prussian Blue

Sept. 19-Oct. 31, 2019

Dan Nadaner | Current, Undercurrent

Paintings and prints

Aug. 26-Sept. 3, 2019

Parallels | 2019 BFA Portfolio Show

Graphic Design | Interactive Media | Illustration

The Center for Creativity and the Art presents

Luba Lukova | Designing Justice

Jan 31-March 1, 2019

The Center for Creativity and the Art presents

Tomiko Jones:  HATSUBON

Sept. 20-Oct. 12

The Center for Creativity and the Art presents

Jaime Ruiz Otis: Mined Matter

Oct. 25-Nov. 16, 2018

2018 Faculty Art Show

Aug. 27-Sept. 13

2018 BFA Portfolio Show

May 4-11, 2018

Inside Out | Social and Cultural Design

Interior Design

April 19-27, 2018

2018 Senior Art Show

April 6-13, 2018

The Department of Art and Design presents

Doug Hansen | Bookends

Jan 25-Feb. 22, 2018

The Department of Art and Design at Fresno State will present works from Doug Hansen’s 45-year career as an illustrator at the Conley Gallery in an exhibition titled “Bookends.”

Hansen’s career as an illustrator began when he was a student in the Art Department at Fresno State in the early ‘70s. His cartoons and comics for the Daily Collegian campus newspaper earned attention and recognition for Hansen and helped launch his career.

After working for over two decades as a newsroom artist at The Fresno Bee Hansen returned to Fresno State and the Department of Art and Design in 2002, this time as full-time faculty and eventually a professor of illustration. During his 15-year tenure, Hansen illustrated 6 books, three of them his own children’s books. Hansen titled his exhibition “Bookends” for the way Fresno State and the department of Art and Design have provided the ‘bookends’ for his illustration career.

Hansen states that the exhibition includes works “From comic books to children’s books and everything in between.” Hansen self-published three comic books including Frezno Funnies and contributed to dozens more ‘underground comix’, what today might be called ‘indie’ or ‘alternative’ titles, and most examples of that early work have never been exhibited before.

Hansen’s illustrations from his years at the Fresno Bee are rendered in a multitude of media and include pen-and-ink drawings from his ‘Fresno Sketchbook’ series. Today’s consumers of news will be reminded of the memorable part illustrations played at the paper during the 1980s
and ‘90s. These artworks are also being exhibited for the first time.

Hansen’s watercolor illustrations for David ‘Mas’ Masumoto’s books Letters to the Valley and Heirlooms are included in the show as well as pieces from all three of Hansen’s children’s books: Mother Goose in California, Aesop in California, and California, the Magic Island. Originals illustrating Karen Moore’s Pen the Tale, Oogie are the most recent works included. Illustration can be described as “art put to work” says Hansen. He hopes viewers will gain an appreciation and understanding of the illustrator’s craft by seeing how the works on display demonstrate his creative and technical process and by seeing how memorably words and images can work together. 

Doug Hansen was born in Fresno, California and is the eldest of six children in an artistic family. Hansen collaborated with his mother, Janice, and brothers Craig and Keith to create the river mural installed at the Woodward Park Regional Library. Hansen received both his BA and MA in Art from California State University, Fresno. He was awarded the graduate Dean’s Medal in 2001 and is a professor emeritus in the Graphic Design area in the Department of Art and Design.

2017 Student Art Show

Nov. 30-Dec. 8, 2017

Anima Mikwa | Pamala Flores

Master of Arts Graduate Exhibition

Nov. 9-17, 2017

The Center for Creativity and the Art presents

The Other Eye on Afghanistan | Photographs by Farzana Wahidy

Oct. 9-26, 2017

Curiosity | Charles Shields

Sept. 11-29, 2017

The Department of Art and Design at Fresno State is deeply honored to present the work of recently retired faculty member, Charles Shields.  

Curiosity is the title of his retrospective currently on display at the Phebe Conley Art Gallery consisting of works beginning from Shields’s student work in the 1960’s and spanning across his professional career up until the 1990’s.  The majority of the gallery space is filled with his 1970’s pieces but one of the highlights in the exhibit is his display of logos he designed, which includes that of the Chaffee Zoo.  Stephanie Wong, Jennifer Runyon and Duran Hernandez, who were hired by Shields, collaborated in the selection and curation of the artwork.  In addition, they decided to include a “Message Wall” where visitors are encouraged to write a short message to Charles where they can then be hung on this wall for everyone to view. 

Dust to Dust by Cecilie Carnes

March 16-25, 2017

This is a Creation Story

Merritt Johnson and The Unnamed Collective

Jan 17-27, 2017

2016 Student Art Show

Nov. 30-Dec. 9, 2016

The show was Juried by Caleb Duarte and Leslie Batty.

Graphic Design Portfolio Exhibition

April 29-May 5, 2016

2016 Senior Art Show

April 11-21, 2016

Simulation Perplexia | Daniel Johnson

Go in Shadows | Emily Schellenberg

March 14-April 1, 2016

Daniel Johnson's artwork uses science fiction to explore the relationship between what is real and what is artificial.  Science fiction is a complex vehicle that can be used to explore the genre of reality. By using the possibilities of parallel worlds and the unknown, the artwork is able to break down constructed ideas of what is considered real and analyze the authenticity of reality. 

Emily Schellenberg explores through fractured figuration how young women may struggle to create an identity independently of their origin. These portraits are depicted expressively, transparent and overlapped, using an unnatural palette to depict a psychological plane. Overlapped figures are constantly changing and moving within a slow moving and fragmented psychological metamorphosis of selfhood.

Bearing Fruit |Jannai Pero Graduate Exhibition

Feb. 29-March 10, 2016

My personal journey of faith expressed through Sculpture, based on Psalm 1:2 & 3 and Galatians 5:22 & 23. 

Remembering Dr. Paulette Fleming

Feb. 1-19, 2016

Edward Lund, III Memorial Exhibition

Oct. 10-23, 2015

Memorial Service

Oct. 10, 2015 in the John Wright Thatre

Still Life in Ceramics

Five Bay Area Contemporary Artists

• Claudia Tarantino
• Nancy Selvin
• Richard Shaw
• Monica Van den Dool
• Stan Welsh

2015 Artist Invitational | Water in Crisis

Robert Dawson | Helen and Newton Harrison | Isabelle Hayeur

Jan. 29-Feb. 27

The 2015 Artist Invitational Exhibition, Water in Crisis, presents the works of four major artists, Robert Dawson, Newton and Helen Harrison, and Isabelle Hayeur, who offer unique visual strategies for engagement with issues of water in our times.  These artists approach water from a wide range of perspectives, including aesthetic, cultural, economic, and environmental. 

The artists in this exhibition exemplify some of the newer forms of artistic research and artistic practice.  They employ a broad range of methodologies, from intensive field research to the development of engaging texts and experimentation with emerging visual technologies.  Their work is related to their communities, beginning with dialogue with experts in the fields they are researching.  The works they create are not only visual representations, but opportunities for viewers to become part of a community of inquiry on significant issues.

Robert Dawson’s work explores the range of humanity’s relationship to water, from sustenance to recreation, from crises of floods to crises of droughts.   Newton and Helen Harrison have devoted a long and distinguished career to conducting research on the broad ecological context of water in the West and globally, from the snowpack of the Sierras to the changing tidal wetlands and estuaries of the San Francisco Bay and Delta.  Isabelle Hayeur has looked intensively at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and at issues of toxicity in the waterways of the Eastern United States and Canada.

Visual art has the unique ability to give a direct, sensual evocation of the subjects it treats.  Each of these installation artists, photographers and video artists invents means to convey the physicality of water and its surrounding landscape. They evoke the relationship of water to the ecosystem and to human cultures and societies.  They engage us with the physical traces of the crises that people face in relation to water, crises that are urgently omnipresent in our times.  In November, 2014, the drought in California was in its third year.  The water table was dropping, and many wells were being lowered.  Four hundred homes in Porterville were without water.  News reports documented the land dropping near Los Banos.  The median level of lakes and reservoirs in the central valley and surrounding Sierra region was 12%.  Snowpacks had been decreasing for several years, the elevation of the snowpack had been rising, and with it numerous plant and animal species were threatened.  Water left in rivers to restore ecosystems continued to be a center of debate between farmers, fisherman, and scientists.

2014 Student Art Show

Nov. 20-Dec. 10, 2014

2014 Faculty Show

August 28 – September 26, 2014

Ben White and Greg Curtis

October 6–24, 2014

Murleen Ray– Master of Arts Exhibition

Oct. 30- Nov. 7, 2014

Annual Student Art Show

Nov. 20- Dec. 5, 2014

2012 Artist Invitational

Jan. 17 – Feb. 10, 2012 

KETAB: Scroll Series by Hadieh Shafie

Four artists’ exhibit works that imply an obsessive or repetitive process at the Conley Art Gallery in the Department of Art and Design at California State University, Fresno. The artists represented in the exhibition work in the mediums of digital media and photography (Kirkman Amyx), painting (Richard Bruland), ceramics (Roger Lee) and scrolled paper (Hadieh Shafie).

Art Professor Nick Potter, who helped organize the exhibition, said that “we were interested in bringing together a diverse group of artists who spend hours and hours working in a repetitive manner to create astoundingly interesting work.” Potter continues “a thread that combines the works of all these artists is the interweaving of concepts of time, repetition and obsessive art practices into the finished works.

Photographer Kirkman Amyx is a digital media artist based in San Francisco. His recent work explores the use of photography as a data visualization tool which can allow for the seeing of patterns, structure, and meaning through image repetition. Through the use of image repetition, “Basic Cable” is a visualization that explores media over-saturation and the abundance of specialty programming. By capturing nearly 500,000 images, 7200 images per week and per channel, a unique visual representation is created of all 69 channels found on Comcast’s Basic Cable broadcasting.

Painter Richard Bruland has set himself the task of using only traditional methods and materials to produce paintings that - even in this modern world of sensory overload, can hold their own and draw people in. His work looks laborious and yet the forms he creates have an abstract quality. Born in Peru and now living in Los Angeles, Bruland is interested in making paintings that refer to landscape in a non-specific way. They are not about ‘that’ mountain or ‘this’ tree – instead they suggest the effects of nature and the real world.

Los Angeles situated ceramic artist Roger Lee explores the sensual relationship between the object and the body. He investigates forms that address the intimacy of form, scale, surface, gesture, and the human interaction. Through the repetition of folds and bulbous objects, Lee builds a relationship between the viewer and his or her body.

In creating her time-consuming paper scroll ‘paintings’, the Iranian born artist Hadieh Shafie marks the significance of process, repetition and time. In her KETAB: Scroll Series individual strips of paper have been marked with hand-written and printed Farsi (Persian language) text. Each strip is then tightly rolled to create a core, around which successive strips are added. During the repetitive process of adding paper strips to create individual rolls, text and symbols are sometimes revealed and often hidden within the concentric rings of the finished object. The time it takes to make each work can vary and the time spent in writing and rolling the strips of paper is an important part of the artistic process and a performative aspect of the making of this work.

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood

Sept. 9-Sept. 30, 2011

Contemporary fiber artist and weaver Consuelo Jiménez Underwood exhibits “Undocumented Borderlands” - an art exhibition that links physical and cultural borders and the condition of the natural environment around those national borders - at the Conley Art Gallery in the Department of Art and Design at California State University, Fresno.

Created specifically for the Conley Art Gallery the installation ‘Undocumented Border Flowers’, is a representation of the ten pairs of sister cities of the U.S./Mexican border and the environmental and political struggle along the border. By using textiles, paint, barbed-wires and nails Jiménez Underwood captures the tension and the beauty of the land between these two states. “My art is a combination of land, spirit and struggle” says Jiménez Underwood “and by weaving historical, social and personal references into my artwork I am representing cultural resistance and spirituality.”

Frequently using the tortilla as a symbol, Jiménez Underwood uses fibers, wire, corn husks and other materials to visually represent the beauty and the political and cultural struggle of the Mexican border. Melding weaving and fiber techniques, Jiménez Underwood encourages viewers to consider borders as cultural constructs. Writing of her work, Dr. Clara Román-Odio of Kenyon College says: “the artist presents us with multiple iterations of the simple tortilla, as a symbol of the pervasiveness of indigenous cultures, and of the immemorial eating habits they shared. Masterfully she also employs the tortilla as a platform to engage the viewer in political commentary about national territories, while addressing spirituality as a form of cultural resistance.”

Born in Sacramento in 1949, Consuelo Jiménez Underwood is the daughter of migrant agricultural workers —a Chicana mother and an undocumented father of Huichol Indian descent. Her work is in the collections of the Oakland Art Museum, CA; the American Art Museum of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC; and the Museum of Art and Design in New York City among others. She has degrees in religious studies and art, and is an Emeritus Professor at San Jose State University, California.

Artist Invitational:  Diran Lyons, Terrance Reimer, Jen Sachs, Monica Van den Dool

Jan.-Feb. 2011

Spring 2011

• February 10 - 16 - Azusa Ozoe and Ali
• February 22 - 28 - David Brooks
• March 3 - 9 - Edgar Saldivar
• March 14 - 18 - Yalle Ondarza
• March 28 - April 1 - Senior Art Exhibit
• April 11 - 15 - Graphic Design Portfolio
• May 2 - 6 - Interior Design Portfolio