Bachrun LoMele

NEW EXHIBITION SEASON OPENS AT THE LANCASTER MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY

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LANCASTER, CA. 2026 — The Lancaster Museum of Art & History (MOAH) is pleased to announce its Winter/Spring 2026 exhibition season, titled Metaphor, inclusive of seven solo exhibitions and projects that will be on view from Saturday, January 31 through Sunday, April 19, 2026. An opening celebration for the season will be held at MOAH on Saturday, January 31, 2026, from 12–4pm in conjunction with the opening of An Impossibly Normal Life by Matthew Finley at MOAH:CEDAR. The public is invited to this free opening event, which includes live music by the Sunday Night Singers and the Antelope Valley Guitar Society, art activities, face painting, games, and a free hot chocolate bar provided by RefiSnacks, in addition to a first look at the new exhibitions. Food will also be available for purchase from on-site food trucks.

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The Metaphor exhibition season invites dialogue among artists who invoke visual metaphor to create layers of meaning in their work. Solo exhibitions by artists Diane Briones Williams, Nathan Huff, Sharon Kagan, Vojislav Radovanović, Francis C. Robateau Jr., and Brian Singer, as well as an installation by Bachrun LoMele, each

present diverse symbolism and allegorical transformations through their individual practices.

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In MOAH’s Main Gallery, Nathan Huff: Heavy Hope engages metaphor directly through drawings and installations that weave the artist’s personal memory and emotions into unexpected narratives. In the exhibition, Huff brings together domestic and natural objects in drawings, sculptures, and mixed-media assemblages that spark conversations about meaning and interpretation.

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Sharon Kagan: Bearing Witness investigates the artist’s use of knitting as the foundation for her expansive practice, and its function as allegory for human interconnectedness and intergenerational trauma. Presented in MOAH’s Ralph and Virginia Bozigian Family Gallery, the exhibition tracks Kagan’s use of knitting techniques and imagery across drawing, painting, performance, and installation works from the past 25 years.

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Vojislav Radovanović: Fables from the Valley in Between highlights the artist’s metaphorical storytelling through paintings of whimsical dreamscapes where personal history intertwines with fantastical imagery to create mythologies of identity and resilience. On view in MOAH’s South Gallery, the exhibition includes a selection of paintings from his Bird Circuit series, as well as recent sculpture and installation work.

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In MOAH’s Moore Family Trust Gallery is a solo presentation of artist Francis C. Robateau Jr.’s mixed-media work titled Halftone Histories: Memory, Erasure, and Belonging. Robateau Jr. creates multilayered compositions that reflect the vibrant colors andarchitectural aesthetics of Belize, revealing the foundational ways his geographic connections to both Belize and Los Angeles inform his analysis of how cultural identity is formed, hidden, and rediscovered over time.

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In his Book Banning series, on view in MOAH’s North Gallery, Brian Singer cuts shapes from banned books, commenting on information suppression by highlighting the diversity of voices that censorship tries to silence.

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In Diane Briones Williams: The Precarious Life of the Parol, the artist employs metaphor to explore the complexities of diasporic culture. The textile sculptures and installations on view celebrate Filipinx history and heritage through the use of traditional dyeing methods and the incorporation of native materials from the Philippines. Presented across MOAH’s Joseph Stello Family and Jewel Box Galleries, Briones Williams’ work investigates the obfuscated colonial history of the parol, a star-shaped lantern used traditionally as a Christmas decoration, throughout Filipinx traditions and imagery.

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Bachrun LoMele’s sculptural installation Burn Pile / All Kinds of Murmuring Here and There is displayed in MOAH’s entryway atrium. The work speaks to the instability of truth by taking anonymous statements collected from residents of his community and putting them through a randomization algorithm. These “truths” are inscribed on precarious faux- wooden structures and papier-mâché objects, reinforcing the tension between fact and illusion.

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The Lancaster Museum of Art and History is dedicated to strengthening awareness, enhancing accessibility, and igniting the appreciation of art, history, and culture in the Antelope Valley through dynamic exhibitions, innovative educational programs, creative community engagement, and a vibrant collection that celebrates the richness of the region. MOAH is open Tuesday through Sunday, from 11 AM to 4 PM. MOAH is located at 665 W. Lancaster BLVD on the corner of Lancaster BLVD and Ehrlich Avenue. For more information, please call the museum at (661) 723-6250 or visit: www.lancastermoah.org.