We might deem the Todd Madigan Gallery a gift from CSUB to its community. The Gallery provides anyone so interested a quiet, modest place for direct and intimate encounters with some of the strange, wonderful, challenging things we call works of art.

We can only bring small slices of the world of art to our premises but smallness has its advantages. If the Getty is like a freight train, the Museum of Contemporary Art like a semi, and the commercial gallery like a delivery van, then the TMG is like a bicycle messenger. We go against traffic, park anywhere, and otherwise disobey the rules. We operate locally but still deliver a few of the things brought from out of town by the big guys. We cultivate an idiosyncratic and protean identity.

Such a stance allows us to bring visually transformative, intellectually stimulating, provocative, poetic, and serendipitous art exhibitions to the community. We wish the TMG to be a source of delight as much as enlightenment.

Thanks to Todd Madigan and ten other donors who founded the gallery; CSUB art faculty and staff; and former directors Annabelle Simon Cahn, Margaret Nowling, Rebecca Weller, and Sarah Vanderlip.

The 60+ group of volunteers have made possible our opening receptions, gallery hours on Saturday afternoons, and the wonderful rose garden outside the north doors of the gallery.


Updated 9.10.2006