Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation

Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation supports the arts and sciences. We're the home of the Ojai Institute. They ran Montgomery Glasoe for 6 years.

Visit Ojai Institute Online at www.theojaiinstitute.org! Carolyn Glasoe was nineteen years old when she started her first fine art gallery in her hometown of Minneapolis with business partner Kim Montgomery. Kim and Carolyn had met a local gallery where they were co-workers. They began their joint gallery with the belief that there was a better way to educate art collectors about su

pporting emerging artists, paying for artist’s work (first rather than last as a majority of the art world practiced at the time) and selling fine art with a strong secondary market value. The Minneapolis art scene thrived at this time due to the concentrated art scene that had begun in the city’s Warehouse District. Carolyn believed that Minnesota artists needed to be recognized outside of the State before collectors, mainly other Minnesota collectors, would pay attention to their careers. In 2000, she co-founded the Dee Glasoe Gallery in the Chelsea Art District of NYC, taking many of the talents she had discovered in Minnesota on as her resident artists. Some of the artists included David Rathman, Rob Fischer, and Chris Larson. In 2002, Post 9/11, Carolyn returned to her home base of Ojai, CA concentrating on curating private art collections for her collectors around the world. She continued to support and encourage the artists she represented in Minneapolis and New York and countless others she had met along the way like Ry Rocklen, whose work she had discovered in Los Angeles and Charlotta Westergren whose work she discover at Art Omi. Carolyn served as Board President of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara for many years and hosted many of their Art Openings. Carolyn’s life ended tragically at the young age of 46 after a year and a half battle with Glioblastoma brain cancer. She was mother to a beautiful nine year old boy Matson West Bailey and wife to entrepreneur Chris Bailey. Her Foundation The Carolyn GlasoeBailey Foundation was started by her sister Lila Glasoe Francese who serves as President of the Foundation.

Please Join Us! Our CGBF Artist “in Residence” brings back to Ojai so many cool discoveries of her time as a CGBF resi...
06/09/2026

Please Join Us! Our CGBF Artist “in Residence” brings back to Ojai so many cool discoveries of her time as a CGBF resident artist in Minnesota!

The Spine of CGBF is our Board! We were so thrilled to host our Board Members - Larka Sparks, for instance, this weeken...
06/02/2026

The Spine of CGBF is our Board! We were so thrilled to host our Board Members - Larka Sparks, for instance, this weekend in Ojai! And her sister Jen! More fun times to come - Kansas City/ Chrystal Bridges trip being planned now!

Closing out our CGBF Weekend with CGBF Supporters (& house guests)! Soooo much planning went into creating this CGBF 10t...
06/02/2026

Closing out our CGBF Weekend with CGBF Supporters (& house guests)! Soooo much planning went into creating this CGBF 10th Anniversary Weekend- We are kinda sad that it’s coming to an end! Thank you Board Members , , , , , who attended this weekend -we celebrated a perfect art centric Ojai trip with our visitors & we are so grateful for the creatives who generously shared their time.✨

What a wonderful night we had at Hotel El Roblar celebrating 10 years of CGBF! Thank you all who came & supported! ❤️Mor...
06/01/2026

What a wonderful night we had at Hotel El Roblar celebrating 10 years of CGBF! Thank you all who came & supported! ❤️More pics in stories.

All set to welcome our 10th Anniversary Gala Guests! We are so grateful and so excited for the past decade we have share...
05/31/2026

All set to welcome our 10th Anniversary Gala Guests! We are so grateful and so excited for the past decade we have shared with our CGBF Community!

ART TALK happening now at CGBF! Artist Joel Fox in conversation with Artist Christopher Noxon. CGBF 10th Gala Weekend be...
05/30/2026

ART TALK happening now at CGBF! Artist Joel Fox in conversation with Artist Christopher Noxon. CGBF 10th Gala Weekend begins with a fantastic event!

Join us!
05/29/2026

Join us!

CGBF Tour of Artist Ruth Pastine’s new exhibition at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art - a wonderful experience - t...
05/28/2026

CGBF Tour of Artist Ruth Pastine’s new exhibition at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art - a wonderful experience - the truly special treat, was having Ruth lead our group through the her three year process preparing for the show. Add this show to your cultural calendar this summer - open now through August 2nd.





Join us this Friday, May 29th for Current Exhibition Artist Christopher Noxon in conversation with Artist Joel Fox - 5pm...
05/25/2026

Join us this Friday, May 29th for Current Exhibition Artist Christopher Noxon in conversation with Artist Joel Fox - 5pm. Free and Open to the Public at CGBF!

Drive to Malibu to see this show!Ruth Pastine is internationally recognized for her minimalist color field paintings and...
05/24/2026

Drive to Malibu to see this show!

Ruth Pastine is internationally recognized for her minimalist color field paintings and multi-panel installations through which she explores the phenomenological experience of color, light, and space. Ruth Pastine: Technicolor Sublime is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.

Pastine’s work is based in geometric abstraction and minimalism. She extends the sensibilities of the 1960s Southern California Light and Space movement with key differences, such as her focus on metaphysical aspects of consciousness and her reliance on traditional means of probing the chromatic and tonal nuances of oil paint applied with brushes. She evolves her artworks through series, invoking a contemplative connection between the works and the architectural spaces they occupy. Creating an immersive viewing experience, Pastine heightens perception through resonant color relationships. Her luminous canvases engage her philosophical interests in the sublime, furthering the tensions that drive her practice: materiality and immateriality, the known and the unknown, the finite and the limitless.

The exhibition debuts Lightscapes, a series of large-scale paintings on canvas and a suite of powder chalk pastels on paper, alongside additional new works such as the six-panel Presence Absence spectrum, the Light as Air triptych, and a selection of Depths Series oil paintings on paper. Also featured are selected works from the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art’s permanent collection by John McLaughlin and Josef Albers, two of Pastine’s noted early influences, whose hard-edge abstract paintings provide a counterpoint to her soft-edge investigations into color, luminosity, depth, and perception.

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