This Week at the Monterey Museum of Art

Week of January 17–23, 2012

EXTRAORDINARY EVENT THIS SATURDAY!

Fierce Fashion, Artful Circumstances hosted by Oya Salon

Saturday, January 21, 6 pm

Homescapes Carmel, Carmel Plaza

$50 per person

Encounter the styling of New York City fashion week blended with the contemporary art scene and fine wine all set to a top DJ beat. Oya Salon presents one of the hottest cultural events of the year and promises an evening of fierce fashion and artful circumstance. This final event in the Monterey Museum of Art's Appetite for Art series. features the hair and fashion styling of Oya Salon, interior design concepts of Homescapes and fine photography of the Weston Gallery. Wine by Scheid Vineyards and other Fashion Week themed beverages. Click here to purchase tickets.

IN CONVERSATION: PAUL ROEHL

Acclaimed Santa Cruz artist discusses his work

Saturday, January 21, 3 pm

MMA Pacific Street

Free

Come hear this prolific painter, printmaker and longtime teacher of art talk about his most recent body of work in which he explores the aesthetic experience of the beauty and mystery inherent in the natural world. The interview format will include time for Q&A.

Image: Paul Roehl, Antonelli’s Pond, Clearing Storm, 2010, oil on canvas, collection of the Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, gift of the estate of Betty Heil

Current Exhibitions

POP ICONS: ANDY WARHOL AND ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Through February 26, 2012

MMA La Mirada

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

CULTURAL COLLISIONS: PRINTS BY ENRIQUE CHAGOYA FROM THE COLLECTION OF JORDAN D. SCHNITZER

Through February 12, 2012

MMA La Mirada

Enrique Chagoya, Illegal Alien’s Guide to Critical Theory, ed. 13/30, 2007. Collection of Jordan D.

JOHN HALEY: BERKELEY SCHOOL ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST

Through February 26, 2012

MMA La Mirada

John Haley, Phylum, 1951, oil on canvas, collection B. R. Ott

FROM DAWN TO DUSK:

GOTTARDO PIAZZONI'S

FINAL MURALS

April 27, 2011-December 2012

MMA La Mirada

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

VISITOR INFORMATION

The Monterey Museum of Art has two locations: 559 Pacific Street and 720 Via Mirada, Monterey, CA, 93940. MMA is open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 am-5 pm and Sunday 1-4 pm. Admission: Adults $10; Students and Military $5; Children twelve and under are free. Members are always free. See Visit.

MMA Pacific Street is closed through March. See Exhibitions at MMA La Mirada and check Events for programs at both locations.

GROUP TOURS

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SITE RENTAL

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