Santa Monica Studios 3026 at the Airport Arts Center Opening Reception for "Under One Roof" on February 22, 2026


Have you ever wondered what the colorful building across the street from Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport is? Kick that wonder to the curb!


Santa Monica Studios 3026 at the Airport Arts Center holds the studios of 34 artists, each with their own methodology and practice.


Please join us on Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 from 2-5 pm for the opening of our Peter Frank curated group exhibition entitled "Under One Roof"


The show is already gathering attention from @whitehotmagazine , @13thingsla , @diversionslablog and more!

"A few enticing examples to highlight as a sort of teaser 

to the forthcoming show include:

 Gregg Chadwick’s narrative paintings that chronicle today’s history-in-the-making events;" - Liam Otero in Whitehot Magazine



EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION 

SUNDAY 2/22 FROM 2:00 - 5:00 PM

Join us as we welcome Peter Frank, the curator of Under One Roof, and the artists of Santa Monica Studios 3026 at the Airport Arts Center for an opening reception of this multi-disciplinary group show that runs from February 22 - May 3, 2026

The exhibition features 32 artists working in the historic airplane hangar turned art complex.

The opening reception is scheduled for Sunday, February 22, 2:00 - 5:00pm


It is free and open to the public, with plenty of free parking as well. 

Enjoy light refreshments, drinks, exploring the show and meeting the artists.

 3026 Airport Ave, Santa Monica, CA


 “Under One Roof” is a group exhibition opening February 22 in the four-room Propeller Gallery at Santa Monica Airport Arts Center Studios 3026 at 3026 Airport Avenue inside the airport.  The show, curated by Los Angeles-based art critic, writer and curator Peter Frank, features work by 32 artists with studios in the complex, spanning multiple disciplines.


The expansive exhibition celebrates the almost 25-year legacy of the Airport Arts Center Studios 3026 and the vibrant community of creators who have populated and flourished in its studio spaces and galleries, which are currently overseen and managed by Community Arts Resources.


In an excerpt from the essay for the show and catalog, Peter Frank writes, “The artists currently gathered in the Santa Monica Airport Art Studios – like all the artists who have occupied the rooms in the complex – plough their own fields, work their own magic, exemplify states of mind and matter as diverse as there are modes of art available to them… The Western world brims with such intimate multiple workshops; artists carve themselves workplaces wherever they need to, and usually do it as a cooperative production. Less usually, the studio cluster is made official and permanent, in contrast to the inherently experimental nature of such clusters but welcome anyway in the relative stability provided.”  


Read more - "Art Criticism from Afar: Under One Roof" at Santa Monica Studios 3026, Airport Arts Center" by Liam Otero in Whitehot Magazine. 

Link at https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/studios-3026-airport-arts-center/7545


Genie Davis writes in Diversions LA - "Gregg Chadwick’s “Arrivals and Departures” is a softly impressionistic blur of motion with an army helicopter hovering over the White House, an image that speaks to our time while also being quite lovely and mysterious in a wash of golden light. Is someone fleeing the scene? Is someone being protected?"
https://www.diversionsla.com/we-are-all-under-one-roof/



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