The Convergence Project – Mayfield Senior School Visual Arts Conservatory
January 10 – February 14
Organized by Nancy J. Wall, Chair, Fine Arts, Mayfield Senior School The Convergence Project is akin to the probability theory, which is concerned with random variables, processes and events. The students created self-portraits amidst random and well-known works of art; a student’s portrait may replace one of Degas’ ballerinas who finds herself lost in a Hopper setting with a Van Gogh sky. Thirty-one students ages 15 to 18 participate in the exhibit .
At the Armory, Community Room

Conscientious Projector
Thursday, January 14, 7 p.m.
Free screenings of progressive documentary films on the second Thursday of every month. Meet filmmakers and join in discussions.
At the Armory, Studio

Rauschenberg at Gemini
January 17 – March 21
Opening: Saturday, January 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Jay Belloli, curator
Over nearly 35 years, Robert Rauschenberg produced over 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.”
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Quinton Bemiller: Hahamongna
January 17 – March 21
Opening: Saturday January 16, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
The site-specific mural Hahamongna interprets the natural environment of Pasadena's Watershed Park through colors, texture and space, and is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
At the Armory, Main Stairwell

Jeff Reese - A Memorial Exhibition
January 17 – February 21
Opening: January 16, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Los Angeles-based photographer Jeff Reese was receiving increased recognition before his untimely death in 2008. His work in the early 1990s - with the traditional photographic subjects of the female nude, still life, and portrait - was slowly transformed by his fascination with the role of the artist in society and his deep passion for and knowledge of philosophy and Greek mythology. An homage to his talent and growth as an artist, the exhibition will include his earlier figurative work through his final Mythos Series.
At the Armory, Mezzanine

Southwest Chamber Music Concerts
Saturday, January 23, 8 p.m.
Pre-concert Talk Europane,: 7:30 p.m.
John Cage Child of Tree for Amplified Cactus
Four for String Quartet
27'10.554" For a Percussionist & String Player with 45’ for a Speaker— “The Ten Thousand Things”
4’33”
The music of Cage will be performed in the well-suited environment of the multiples created by Cage’s friend Robert Rauschenberg. The first concert will include a performance of Cage’s landmark silent piece, 4’33”, a perfect finale to the Zen intent of his music.
Tickets for each performance $10–$38. For information call 800.726.7147, www.swmusic.org
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Southwest Chamber Music Concerts
Saturday, February 6, 8 p.m.
Pre-concert Talk: 7:30 p.m.
John Cage: In a Landscape; Litany for a Whale; Postcard from Heaven
Possibly the most beautiful and peaceful concert one can experience, Litany for a Whale and Postcard from Heaven will provide a moving portrait of this iconic American composer.
Tickets for each performance $10–$38. For information call 800.726.7147, www.swmusic.org
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Conscientious Projector
Thursday, February 11, 7 p.m. Free screenings of progressive documentary films on the second Thursday of every month. Meet filmmakers and join in discussions.
At the Armory, Studio

Eyes of Deafness: Photography by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adults
February 20 – March 14
Organized by Blair Wells, Greater Los Angeles Agency for Deafness
This exhibition focuses on the artwork of senior citizens who have rarely, if ever, used a camera. Employing disposable cameras (donated by CVS) they set out to capture their personal experiences and expressions, giving them the opportunity to communicate with the world in a manner they had not yet explored.
At the Armory, Community Room

Southwest Chamber Music Concerts
Saturday, February 27, 8 p.m.
The Ascending Dragon Festival presents concerts and programs resulting from the largest cultural exchange between the United States and Vietnam, commencing with a three-week artist-in-residency program in Vietnam followed by a three-week U.S. artist-in-residency program for Vietnamese musicians and composers.
Pre-concert Talk at 7:30 p.m.
Alexandra du Bois, An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind
Vu Nhat Tan, Trang-Moon/Meditation (U.S. Premiere)
Kurt Rohde, Under the Influence, composer
Nguyen Thien Dao, A Mi K Giao Tranh (U.S. Premiere)
Tôn Thât Tiêt, Mémoire de la rivière (U.S. Premiere)
Tickets for each performance $10–$38. For information call 800.726.7147, www.swmusic.org
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Regional Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition
February 28 – March 14
Opening: Saturday, February 27, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
The Armory recognizes the students who earned regional Gold Key awards in the Scholastic Art Awards in this exhibition. These works, selected by jury, will go on to New York to be judged in the national Awards.
At the Armory, Mezzanine Gallery

Music Center Spotlight on the Arts Awards
March 21 – April 17
Opening: Saturday, March 20, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.
This program provides a supportive environment in which high school students can develop skills needed to pursue their artistic dreams. The exhibit at the Armory features the artwork of the students advancing to the semifinal level of the Spotlight Awards, and is organized by Richard Espinoza, Visual Art Coordinator, Music Center Spotlight Awards.
At the Armory, Community Room

Live Discussion with Gemini G.E.L. Co-Founders
Sidney Felsen and Stanley Grinstein
Moderated by Jay Belloli
Saturday, March 6, 8 p.m.
Sorry, this event is sold out.
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Conscientious Projector
Thursday, March 11, 7 p.m.
Free screenings of progressive documentary films on the second Thursday of every month. Meet filmmakers and join in discussions.
At the Armory, Studio

20th Birthday Bash & Annual Benefit
Saturday, March 13
Join the Armory in celebrating 20 years of exceptional education and exhibition programs from its home on Raymond Avenue. Festivities include a silent auction with artwork from some of the over 400 artists that have shown with the Armory over the past two decades. Party hats provided.

Laura Parker
March 7 – April 18
Opening: Saturday, March 6, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Parker’s show features three photographic wall-installations that are individually printed in a color darkroom yet reference the kinetics of experimental film. Three short animations, also contending with photography’s link to spatial and temporal aspects of film, accompany the installations. This exhibition is made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
At the Armory, Art Alliance Gallery

Stitches
April 11 – June 6, 2010
Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, Curator
Opening Saturday, April 10, 7 to 9 p.m., the Armory Center for the Arts will present “Stitches”, a group exhibition exploring contemporary art approaches to the techniques of sewing, knitting and weaving. The exhibition will be on view through June 6, 2010 and is curated by Sinéad Finnerty-Pyne, Curator at the Armory. Participating artists include Jane Brucker, Lauren DiCioccio, Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor, Ruby Osorio, Titus Kaphar, Nuttaphol Ma, Ulrike Palmbach, Maria E. Pineres, Dinh Q. Le, Jim Richards, Elias Sime, and Nicola Vruwink. The exhibition will include two dimensional and freestanding sculptural works as well as large scale site-specific installations.

Previously exploring art deconstructed through cutting in her 2009 exhibition “Under the Knife”, Finnerty-Pyne now explores construction through various forms of stitching. From sewing to knitting, crocheting and weaving, “Stitches” highlights the visions and practices of twelve culturally diverse artists working with principles and applications inspired by craft, textile, and fiber art. The exhibiting artists share an unconventional approach to these versatile and often obsessive art forms by creating process and material-based works utilizing substances ranging from yarn and thread, to found objects and recycled clothing.

At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Contemporary Vietnamese Artists
April 17– June 13
Opening: April 16, 2010, 6-10 p.m.
An exhibition of Vietnamese-born or –based artists, and artists of Vietnamese decent living and working in the United States, held in conjunction with the Southwest Chamber Music and Department of State’s Ascending Dragon Music Festival and Cultural Exchange that brings 19 Americans to Vietnam (March 2010) and 19 Vietnamese to the U.S. in (April-May 2010), each for three weeks. The Ascending Dragon Music Festival will present public concerts in Vietnam in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the city of Hanoi, followed by a festival in Southern California. The Armory will host a Southwest Chamber concert the night of the exhibition opening.
At the Armory, Mezzanine Gallery

International Mail Art Exhibit- In Memory of Judith Hoffberg
June 27 – August 22, 2010
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Steve Roden: In Between; a mid-career survey
September 12 – November 14, 2010
Howard Fox, Curator
This is the first exhibition to bring together Roden's art in all its divergent forms and reveals his work as a homogenous, conceptually coherent practice. The survey includes early pieces and a new group of works conceived and executed specially for the exhibition. The overall presentation is rooted in a five-year series of paintings, sculptures, sound works, musical compositions, text works, and video installations from 2004 through 2009 that, while formally divergent, are generated by Roden's systemic operations on the same musical score.
At the Armory, Caldwell Gallery

Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken
September 25 – December 31, 2011
Sam Mellon and Claudia Bohn-Spector, Curators
Speaking in Tongues brings, for the first time, two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation. The exhibition examines how Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.

Spring 2012 City Site: Street Photography and Southern California Neo Urbanism 1945 – 1980
Tim Wride, Curator
City Site will explore the post World War II period shift in Southern California-based photography from imagery that was picturesque, image-oriented, and existential in nature, to a more conceptually motivated style of representation that was decisively suburban, process-oriented, and experiential. Additionally, the exhibition will look at how the city-based, neo-urban photography of the time on the West Coast differed from concurrent activity on the East Coast.

Artists include John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Lori Brown, Jerry Burchfield, Jack Butler, Darryl Curran, Joe Deal, John Divola, Robert Fichter, Judy Fiskin, Robbert Flick, Tony Friedkin, Harry Gamboa, Robert Heinecken, Tony Hernandez, Dennis Hopper, Graham Howe, Barbara Kasten, Joe Lewis, Gary Leonard, Grant Mudford, Virgil Murano, Arthur Olman, Ed Ruscha, and Hank Wessel.