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PASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART
The mission of the Pasadena Museum of California Art is to present the evolution of California art and design through exhibitions, and to explore the cultural dynamics and influences that are unique to California and all media.Informed by the state’s rich fabric of cultures and inspired by its impressive geography, California art has long been defined by a spirit of freedom and experimentation. Construction of the museum began in December 2000 and the completed facility opened its doors to the public of June 2002. The PMCA is the only museum in Southern California devoted entirely to California art.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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EXHIBITIONS
Project Room
Screen Deaths: Vistations
January 20 - April 13, 2008A new installation for the PMCA Project Room by Los Angeles-based artist Dane Picard, this exhibition fuses aural sensation with the cinematic themes that arise from Picard's other career as a filmmaker. Focusing on the blurry lines between fiction and the personal narrative, the work questions the narcotic emotional escapism of movies, as well as the unreal notions about living and dying as adopted by popular culture. By consolidating a multitude of "screen deaths" within the installation, the artist creates a consciously constructed database of responses to the natural condition of death.
MAIN GALLERY
A Seed of Modernism: The Art Students League of Los Angeles
January 20 - April 13, 2008
Founded in 1906 as a school for modern painting in defiance of the academic tradition, the Art Students League of Los Angeles was a crucial institution in the development of Southern California art. Its early instructors taught in the Realist style of the Ashcan School until Stanton Macdonald-Wright assumed the directorship in 1923 and gave the school a new vitality. During his nine-year tenure, the League became a diverse center, stressing the art of as the Middle and Far East as well as Western Europe. When Macdonald-Wright stepped down in 1932, artists such as Lorser Feitelson and Benji Okubo directed the school, and a unique style developed at the League-the blending of Japanese art techniques and themes along with Macdonald-Wright's color theories. After Pearl Harbor and during the incarceration of Japanese Americans, the school languished and eventually dispersed, but not before former Macdonald-Wright students Okubo and Hideo Date established a branch of the Art Students League at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp in Wyoming. The PMCA is proud to present the first comprehensive museum exhibition and catalog detailing the fascinating history of this group of gifted artists.Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Tournament of Roses Foundation, Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Arts Foundation, Gerald Buck, Anthony and Mary Podell, George and Irene Stern, Lynn and Tim Mason, Jerry Solomon Custom Picture Frames, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Kelley Gallery, Whitney Ganz, Maurine St. Gaudens, National Mustang Association and Harris Art Works, and Simon Chiu.
BACK GALLERY
Timothy J. Clark: A Retrospective
January 20 - April 13, 2008Born and raised in Santa Ana and educated at Art Center, Chouinard ('72), CalArts ('74), and Otis, Timothy J. Clark is a contemporary painter working primarily in watercolor. This mid-career retrospective looks at his unique style that combines California Regionalism with a more New York sensibility of Abstract Expressionism, merging two radically different American painting traditions. Guest curated by Mr. Jean Stern, Director of the Irvine Museum, the exhibition includes 35 drawings, watercolors and oil paintings created over a 40-year period by the award-winning artist."Timothy J. Clark sees things ordinary people can't... Clark, one of the finest artists of this time, is among my favorite painters. With a fidelity to his own artistic vision, he paints in the rich traditions of Sargent and the American Impressionists. His masterful drawing, heightened sense of color and light, and comprehensive composition testify to decades of dedication as an artist. His sensibilities range from quiet and poetic to vigorous and emotional."
- Jean Stern, Guest Curator"Clark's ostensibly forthright watercolors...not only are glittering in their execution -- bathed in sunlight, swathed in shadow, shimmering with sure-handed yet expansive and textured brushwork -- but also embody the postmodern concept of art-as-idea. Clark has an almost uncanny ability to infuse rudimentary and inert objects...with something akin to a human soul."
- Dr. Lisa Farrington, from the forthcoming book, "Timothy J. Clark"Support for this exhibition has been provided by the Board of Directors of the PMCA.

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General Information
Pasadena Museum of California Art
490 East Union Street
Pasadena, CA 91101
626-568-3665

Location and Parking
The museum is located one block north of Colorado Blvd. between Los Robles Ave. and Oakland Ave.
Free parking is available on the ground level of the museum and additional public parking is available across the street on Union.

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Museum Hours
Wednesday - Sunday
12:00 - 5:00 p.m.
The Museum is closed July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New Year's Day.

Admission
$6 for Adults
$4 for Seniors and Students
Free to Members
Free the first Friday of the month
*Special offer with the Pacific Asia Museum on Colorado and Los Robles: Attend both museums in the same day and receive 50% off admission at the second museum when you present proof of entrance.

Public Transportation
To take the Metro Gold Line to the museum, exit at the Memorial Park station and head south on Arroyo Parkway one block to Union Street. Turn left and head east on Union for about six blocks. The museum is on the south side of Union, just before Oakland Ave.

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CADESIGN07 Applications still being accepted!!
Entries must be postmarked by February 1st, 2007

The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA) is pleased to present the 3rd California Design Biennial, an exhibition that will open in August of 2007. This juried competition is conceived as a survey of the most innovative and creative design in California in 5 categories: Fashion, Transportation, Consumer Products, Furniture, and Graphic Design. The exhibition builds upon the unique history of California design and celebrates the creative energy of this region by featuring designers whose visionary work impacts the way we live our lives.

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CONSIGNMENT ITEMS WANTED FOR PMCA GIFTSHOPThe Pasadena Museum of California Art is looking for unique, one-of-a-kind items to sell on consignment in our giftshop. Consignment terms are 50/50. We are looking for ceramics, glass, textiles, wood, home products, etc. No jewelry. No paintings, drawings, or photography. Please e-mail jpeg's of your work to [email protected]. Make sure files are not too big! We will contact you if we are interested. Thank You!

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

UPCOMING EVENTS


MAIN GALLERY
Advancing the Moment: Recent Work by California Photographers
October 15,2006 - January 7, 2007 Organized by the PMCA in conjunction with The Collectible Moment, the Norton Simon's exhibition, Advancing the Moment reveals the eventual trajectory of the groundbreaking Californian photographers of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition includes works produced between 2000 and 2005 by Donald Blumberg, Darryl Curran, Judy Dater, Robbert Flick, Ingeborg Gerdes, Anthony Hernandez, Ellen Land-Weber, Jerry McMilan, Gregory Allen MacGregor, John Spence Weir, and Henry Wessel, Jr. Together with the exhibition at the Norton Simon, Advancing the Moment documents the development of contemporary photography in the context of California, presenting a pivotal moment when California pioneered the institutional acceptance of photography.





SIDE GALLERY California Colors: Hanson Puthuff
October 15, 2006 - January 7, 2006 This is the first museum exhibition focusing exclusively on the work of Hanson Puthuff (1875-1972), an American Impressionist who painted primarily in California. Organized by the PMCA, the exhibition will feature 25 of the artist's most omportant paintings, as well as his personal effects, on loan from his estate. The PMCA will also republish his autobiography in honor of this important exhibition, with an introduction by the Irvine Museum Executive Director, Jean Stern.




BACK GALLERY
California Watercolors: Collector's Choice
October 15, 2006 - April 15, 2007 The last in the series of four exhibitions of California Style watercolors, this exhibition offers a special glimpse into the private collections of serious connoisseurs in the field of historic California watercolors. The thirty works have been selected by thirty different collectors and represent their unique tastes and interests. The exhibition was conceived as a counterpoint to our previous watercolor exhibitions which were organized by a single curator.






PROJECT ROOM Ian Treasure: When the Rain Comes, when the Sun Shines
October 15, 2006 - January 7, 2007 The PMCA is pleased to present an installation by Ian Treasure, an artist from the Bay Area whose works are primarily kinetic installations that are influenced by modern mechanics and devices, incorporating household items, children's toys, montors and various sensory elements. When the Rain Comes, when the Sun Shines continues his investigation into the function of everyday objects;





UPCOMING EXHIBITIONSDark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism
January 20 - April 15, 2007 Irving Norman (1908-1989) was a passionate artist who worked, in his own words, to tell the truth in our time. Norman's ambitious, large canvases were painted to unmask the realities of human nature and critique the contemporary society in which we live. The atrocities Norman witnessed in volunteer service during the Spanish Civil War jolted his consciousness, and he began to express his experiences through drawing and then painting from the 1940s to the 1980s. With the belief that his paintings could act as agents of social reform, Norman felt that pointing out the inequities, horrors and foibles of human behavior might somehow cause people to reconsider their actions.