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Pasadena Museum of California Art

Published on Thursday, June 4, 2009 | 1:40 pm
 

The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is dedicated to the exhibition of California art, architecture, and design from 1850 to the present. Informed by the state’s rich mixture of cultures and inspired by its impressive geography, California art has long been defined by a spirit of freedom and experimentation. PMCA exhibitions and educational programs explore the cultural dynamics and influences unique to California that have shaped and defined art in all media.

Exhibitions currently on display include the following:

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.

Back Gallery: Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart. A leader in the American Printmaking movement, Frances Gearhart’s work was embedded in the time and place of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Personifying a handcrafted aesthetic and conveying a sense of directness, Gearhart’s prints celebrated the California landscape – its mountains, trees, lakes and coastline. Featuring over sixty of her block prints and ten watercolors, the exhibition is the first Gearhart retrospective and will provide a comprehensive look at the artist’s legacy and influence, including her never before seen prints. Also on view will be the prints from the previously unfinished and unpublished children’s book that Gearhart co-authored with her two sisters, entitled, Let’s Play. Through January 31, 2010.

Founder’s Gallery: Population: Potraits by Ray Turner. A former painting instructor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, artist Ray Turner fashions a uniquely seductive and engaging fusion of lyrical realism and abstraction in portraiture. A prescient interpreter, Turner’s most recent series, Population, features intimate portraits of Pasadena residents. The artist’s intuitive approach captures his sitters during “privileged instants” with sensitivity and subtlety. Approximately one hundred fifty of these paintings will be installed in the Founders’ Gallery; viewed en masse they reveal the vast range of dynamic possibilities inherent to portraiture. Through January 31, 2010.

Pasadena Museum of California Art.
490 East Union Street, Pasadena. (626) 569-3665. Website: www.pmcaonline.org
Open: Wednesdays through Sundays, 12:00 noon until 5:00 p.m. Cost: Adults, $6.00.  Seniors and Students, $4.00. Free to Members.  Free the first Friday of the month.

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