Great Park Gallery: 3 Solo Exhibitions

Opening Reception: Sunday, January 25, 1–3 p.m.
Exhibitions: January 25–April 12

Daniela Garcia Hamilton: Embroidered Paintings

Daniela García Hamilton is a Mexican-American artist whose vibrant, embroidered paintings reflect the traditions, stories, and memories that shaped her childhood. Through visual storytelling, she explores what it’s like to grow up between two cultures — expressing ideas about identity, belonging, and the experience of navigating more than one world at once.

Kristina Rose Baker: The Diver

Kristina Rose Baker: The Diver presents new large-scale paintings and drawings by California-based artist and Irvine native Kristina Rose Baker. Drawing on over 2,500 years of art historical representations of diving, Baker re-imagines the figure in moments of suspension — between water, earth, and sky. With her distinct use of oil paint and charcoal, she captures fleeting moments between motion and stillness, presence and absence.

Vonn Sumner: This is Krazy!

Since the 1950s, comic strips have profoundly influenced artists — fueling bold, graphic imagery drawn from everyday life and pop culture, helping launch the Pop Art movement. That influence lives on in the work of contemporary California-based painter Vonn Sumner, who continues this tradition by reimagining Krazy Kat, the American comic strip created by George Herriman. Sumner uses Krazy Kat as a vehicle for visual storytelling, placing the character in surreal, painterly narratives that blend art history, mythology, and introspective humor.