October 29, 2011–February 26, 2012
MMA La Mirada
This is an impressive exhibition of iconic masterpieces by Pop Art legends Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Large-scale works on paper from the 1960s-70s have been amassed from the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and private collectors.
Sponsored by The Marketing Department, Inc.
Exhibition support provided by the Fund for Special Exhibitions: Peggy and Bob Alspaugh, Pam and John Wilkinson, Melissa and Jason Burnett, Craig and Christine Johnson, Sandor and Josie Nagy.
Image Credit: Andy Warhol, Liz, 1964, color offset lithograph, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum Purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund. © 2011 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
October 29, 2011–February 26, 2012
MMA La Mirada
Enrique Chagoya is an acclaimed San Francisco Bay area artist and Stanford University professor whose topical works address political themes in biting and satirically humorous tones. Chagoya’s work plays off historical forms and processes that demonstrate his brilliant command of the medium.
Image credit: Illegal Alien’s Guide to Critical Theory, ed. 13/30, 2007. Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer.
October 29, 2011–February 26, 2012
MMA La Mirada
A rare selection of abstract paintings by John Haley (1905 – 1991) from the collection of a private lender will be on view. A student of Hans Hofmann in Germany in the 1920s, Haley became an important and influential art instructor at UC Berkeley who promoted Hofmann’s modernist methods.
Sponsored by Lois and Donald Mayol, Janelle Gistelli and Johnny Apodaca.
Exhibition support provided by the Fund for Special Exhibitions: Peggy and Bob Alspaugh, Pam and John Wilkinson, Melissa and Jason.
Image: John Haley,Phylum, 1951, oil on canvas, collection B. R. Ott
April 27, 2011 - December 2012
MMA La Mirada
Gottardo Piazzoni (1872-1945) moved from Switzerland to his family’s ranch in Carmel Valley in 1887. Subsequent study in Paris and San Francisco exposed the young Piazzoni to the revolutionary artistic developments of modernism and the muted symbolic pallet of tonalism which infuses his paintings of the California landscape. Piazzoni’s most ambitious project was a series of fourteen monumental murals commissioned for the San Francisco public library—now the Asian Art Museum. The murals were removed and conserved when the building was renovated in 1999. Ten murals are on permanent display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The final four—entitled Dawn, The Forest, The Mountain and Night—were completed the year of the artist’s death in 1945. These magnificent murals have been generously lent from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to the Monterey Museum of Art.
Behind the Scenes
Sponsored by Peppy Garner and Darnell Whitt, Carver + Schicketanz Architects, The S. D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Eric J. Del Piero, Mr. and Mrs. Mark Osterkamp, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkinson, Janelle and Johnny Apodaca, Sherrie and Tom McCullough, Alyce Nunes, Tom and Margo Nunes and Dee Sala.
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Image: Gottardo Piazzoni, The Forest from the Mural Suite, 1945, oil on canvas mounted to aluminum honeycomb panel, collection of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Transfer from the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Asian Art Museum through the joint Committee to Site the Piazzoni Murals