CCS Art Faculty Hank Pitcher’s New Exhibit Explores Love and Dreams on Montecito’s Coastline

The Miramar Affair on display through April 21, 2025

CCS Art Faculty Hank Pitcher will debut The Miramar Affair, a solo exhibition at Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, on display from March 6 to April 21, 2025. An opening reception will be held Thursday, March 6, from 5 to 8 p.m. 

Created over the past year and a half, the works in The Miramar Affair include small paintings made on Miramar Beach from direct observation, as well as larger studio pieces. 

“Fundamentally, HANK PITCHER: The Miramar Affair is a love story,” the gallery said in a press release. “It’s a story about how, long ago, a fierce and untamed Isla Vista painter and surfer, Hank Pitcher, talked a polished and manicured blonde girl from Manhattan’s Upper East Side into making a life with him. She was more Montecito than he was, so she asked him to find a way to live on Miramar Beach. To make his dream come true, he did.”

A new commission recently brought Pitcher back to Miramar Beach, where he witnessed a new generation carrying the story forward—a carefully planned proposal, influencers chasing the dream, and the glow of the Coral Casino lighthouse, the same beacon that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The Miramar Affair bridges past and present, illustrating how love continues to unfold in this place of dreams.

Read the official Sullivan Goss press release.

Learn more about CCS Art Faculty Hank Pitcher:

CCS Art Faculty Hank Pitcher Opens New Art Exhibit, May 18, 2021

New Book Published about CCS Art Faculty Hank Pitcher (Art '71), July 9, 2020