Patchwork Gold by Adia Millett is on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, as part of the group exhibition Remixed: Entwined Histories & New Forms.
Dates: 22 February - 30 August 2026
Venue: Von Romberg, Emmons Galleries, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Remixing transforms the familiar into something new. In the recording studio, music producers layer tracks, shift tempos, and sample old melodies, creating fresh soundscapes with the echoes of the past. Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms explores this sonic alchemy as a conceptual, visual strategy in art that “remixes” both physical objects and immaterial legacies.
Like jazz virtuosos improvising upon a classical standard, the artists of Remixed inhabit tradition to radically reimagine it. Through memory-laden materials, they reveal that tradition is neither static nor fixed. It is a living current—pulsing with the insistent collective energy of a bassline; its drift shifted by the remix.
Text and images courtesy of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Learn more --
https://www.sbma.net/exhibitions/remixed-entwined-histories-new-forms
