Jorge Pardo
March 8, 2026 – January 3, 2027 | Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Jorge Pardo, Untitled (Sea Urchin), 2012. Collection of SBMA. Museum purchase funded by The Museum Contemporaries and the 20th Century Art Quasi Endowment Fund.
The artworks in 'As if in a Dream: History, Fantasy, Future' started from a kernel of reality, glimmer of lived experience, or sliver of memory. Like dreams, they combine real and familiar elements but in illogical or uncanny ways. With works from the Museum’s collection supplemented by loans, this exhibition shows artists giving fleeting memories durable form, envisioning a future, and transforming the everyday into the visionary. Spread across the McCormick, Wasserman Family, and Davidson Galleries, and predominantly featuring collection items with a few special loans, the presentation is divided into two sections: landscapes and bodies (mostly human).
This exhibition features works by Rodolfo Abularach, Alice Baber, Roger Brown, Dominic Chambers, Edward Chávez, Rafael Coronel, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Jules de Balincourt, Marsden Hartley, Alexei Jawlensky, Max Hooper Schneider, Wifredo Lam, Dave McDermott, Mimi Lauter, Wright Ludington, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Jorge Pardo, Patricia Peco, Howardena Pindell, Lari Pitman, Kenneth Price, Odilon Redon, Alison Saar, Fernando de Szyszlo, Tom Wudl, Brenna Youngblood, among others.