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Pasadena Museum of California Art

Main Gallery: Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting. The PMCA presents a survey of more than one hundred twenty works drawn from the oeuvre of the celebrated painter Wayne Thiebaud. With his penchant for dazzling sunlight and high-keyed color, and a gift for painterly, sensuous handling of oils and other media, Thiebaud's paintings link high art with popular culture while conveying a sunny optimism that is quintessentially Californian. Although he is best known for his vibrantly colored paintings of bakeries and delicatessens, the artist has also specialized in Northern California landscapes, San Francisco cityscapes, and colorful beach scenes. A variety of these paintings will be on display along with prominent drawings and rarely seen figurative works spanning his career. Through January 31, 2010.

Pacific Asia Museum

Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art addresses issues of power, culture, and universality. The process of writing in art is a central theme, permitting the exploration of correlations between the elevated form, calligraphy, and its historically devalued twin, graffiti. Suggesting that these visual practices mirror each other, the exhibition presents works that critique or parody social and artistic frames of reference. On exhibit through January 17, 2010

Armory Center for the Arts

A retrospective of Robert Rauschenberg's three decades of creative achievement at Gemini G.E.L. is being organized by the Armory Center for the Arts, where it will be on view in the Caldwell Gallery January 17 through March 21, 2010. For nearly 35 years, Robert Rauschenberg produced more than 250 different prints at Gemini G.E.L., the world-famous multiples workshop in Los Angeles, which was organized in 1966 and is still run by two of the founders, Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein.  At Gemini, Rauschenberg transformed what a “print” multiple was, not only in scale, but in how variable one print in a single edition could be from another; in how many physical dimensions it could have; in how many media a single multiple could involve; and in how the viewer could interact with the multiple and make it different. No other artist has ever pushed the boundaries of what “printmaking” could be as much as Rauschenberg. As Stanley Grinstein has said, “Rauschenberg taught us what Gemini could be.”

Art Galleries

Offramp Gallery

Joey Santarromana: Stare on exhibit January 10 - February 7, 2010 and Erika Suderburg: Some Small Groups 1974-2009 on exhibit January 10 - February 7, 2010

Fremont Gallery

Celebrando! L.A. Latino Heritage Artists. On exhibit through January 20, 2010.

The artists showcased at Fremont Gallery during this exhibition were chosen by Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa and the Department of Cultural Affairs to represent the rich diversity of current Latin American art in Los Angeles.

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