2025-26 Platform Gallery Exhibition: On Fire
The 2025–26 Platform exhibition engages with the IHC’s public events series On Fire, which will examine flashpoints of our volatile present and envisioning new social formations and collective practices that can usher in a future of regeneration, possibility, and hope.
Artists
Pamela Benham
UC Santa Barbara AD&A Museum Council
Humberto Flores
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Barbara, Sociology
Mary Freericks
Michael Handley
Jon Jablonski
Librarian, UCSB Library DREAM Lab
Zimele (Tara Jones, Ph.D.)
UC Santa Barbara
Fabio Rambelli
Distinguished Professor, UC Santa Barbara, Religious Studies
Jazer Sibley-Schwartz
Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Barbara, Media Arts and Technology
Tama Takahashi
Los Angeles Art Association, Southern California Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art,
the International Association of Art, LELA International and the Asian Art Contemporary
Jennette Wolfe
UC Santa Barbara, Art
Pamela Benham
Artist as the Witness
Oil on gessoed watercolor paper
2019
Pamela Benham
Clockwise from top left: On Fire: SBE 32, SBE 30, SBE 21, SBA 5
Acrylic on canvas
2019–2022
Humberto Flores
Dead Man’s Town on Fire #1 (top)
Photograph
Dead Man’s Town on Fire #2 (bottom)
Photograph
Humberto Flores
ICE out of 805, Goleta (top)
Photograph
This Ain’t No Fiesta (bottom)
Photograph
Mary Freericks
In the Woods
Mary Freericks
Desert
Michael Handley
Untitled (3)
Wildfire retardant
2022
Michael Handley
Heavy Acid King
Wildfire retardant, Kolor Kut
2024
Jon Jablonski
Gifford Fire, August, 2025
Satellite imagery
2025
Tama Takahashi
Stoicism of the Asian Male
Watercolor, washi paper, marker, and Mylar
2022
Jennette Wolfe
Holding the Future in the Flames
Acrylic on canvas
2025