Boca Raton Museum of Art Announces Upcoming Exhibitions September 6, 2006 ? April 1, 2007

Boca Raton (PRWEB) August 1, 2007 -- For its upcoming 2006-2007 season, the Boca Raton Museum of Art is offering a wide range of artistic expression, from 268 works of art celebrating the legendary Marilyn Monroe to mind-blowing images of Florida commissioned by the Gigapxl? Project to extraordinary works of art by 20th century artists including Fernando Botero, Andy Warhol, Diego Rivera, Francisco Zúñiga, Yozo Hamaguchi, and Miami?s own Purvis Young.

September 6 ? November 26, 2006

MASTERS OF LATIN AMERICA:

Selections from the Joan & Milton Bagley Collection

Over the past three decades Joan and Milton Bagley have been passionately collecting Latin American art. More than 60 paintings and sculptures, never before exhibited, by many of the most important Latin American artists of the last century. Included are works by significant artists from more than ten countries including Carlos Alfonzo, Fernando Botero, Heriberto Calzada, Herman Camargo, Augustin Cardenas, Felipe Casteneda, Elena Climent, Heriberto Cogollo, Antonio Guzmán, Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Ignacio Iturria, Heriberto Juárez, Wilfredo Lam, Julio Larraz, Alfredo Ramos Martínez, Matta, Guillermo Meza, Chávez Morado, Armando Moralez, José Sylvia Ordóñez, Amelia Pelaez, Diego Rivera, Fernando de Szyszlo and Francisco Zúñiga.

PURVIS YOUNG:

Paintings from the Street

A 30-year retrospective of the work of self-taught Miami artist Purvis Young (born in Liberty City, Miami, FL 1943 - ), an internationally recognized American visionary ?outsider? artist. A prolific ?street? artist and visual poet, Young paints on everything ? from construction site trash and found wood to broken furniture and discarded books. Graffiti-like repetitive images of soaring interstate highway overpasses, cavalcades of trucks, street gangs and crowds, funeral processions, wild horses, glowing skies, and hovering angels reflect the street wisdom, folk beliefs, and harsh realities of life on urban ghetto streets. This exhibition presents over 100 works including significant Purvis Young paintings and constructions that recently entered the Museum permanent collection.

LATIN AMERICAN ART FROM THE MUSEUM?S COLLECTION

In recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Museum will exhibit 35 works by many of the most important 20th century Latin American artists, from the traditional figurative sculpture of Armando Amayo and Francisco Zúñiga, to the 1930s revolutionary masters David Alfaro Siqueiros and José Clemente Orozco, the modernism of Armando Morales, Rufino Tamayo, and Matta, and the contemporary abstraction of Enrique Castro-Cid, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús-Rafael Soto. English and Spanish language text panels, labels and signage.

Special Exhibitions

December 6, 2006 ? April 1, 2007:

LIFE AS A LEGEND:

Marilyn Monroe

From the fashion photography of Richard Avedon and Henri Cartier-Bresson to the pop art of Andy Warhol, 268 works by more than 80 artists capture the spark, sex appeal and sensation that was Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), one of the world?s most famous and intriguing women.

(Organized by Artoma in Hamburg, Germany, and circulated by International Art and Artists of Washington, D.C.)

GRAHAM FLINT:

Portrait of America: Florida Images from the Gigapxl? Project

Physicist-turned-photographer Graham Flint, inventor of the Hubble Space Telescope and Gigapxl? camera, is defining the upper limits of large-format photographs ? commissioned for the Google Earth Project ? transcend science as ultra-high-resolution, awe-inspiring landscape images.

YAZO HAMAGUCHI:

Father of the Modern Mezzotint

(On exhibition through February 18, 2007)

Among the most physically demanding mediums in art, mezzotint reached perfection in the jewel-like works of Yozo Hamaguchi (Japan/France 1909-2000), the greatest mezzotint artist of the 20th century.

About the Boca Raton Museum of Art:

The Boca Raton Museum of Art is open Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 10 a.m. ? 5 p.m.; Wednesday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; and Saturday and Sunday noon- 5 p.m.

For regular exhibitions, admission is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $4 for students and groups. Admission is free for Museum members and children under 12, and open to the public free on Wednesday evenings from 5-9 p.m.

For special exhibitions, admission is $17 for adults, $15 for seniors, $12 for groups and $6 for students (full-time, with ID). There are no admission-free Wednesday evenings during special exhibitions. For more information call 561.392.2500 or visit www.bocamuseum.org.

The Boca Raton Museum of Art was founded in 1950 as the Art Guild of Boca Raton, and has evolved into one of the leading cultural institutions in South Florida. Celebrating its fifth year in its 44,000 square foot home in Mizner Park, the Museum has achieved international recognition as a world-class visual arts institution, presenting dynamic traveling exhibitions from acclaimed and emerging artists, and an outstanding permanent collection. Some of the Museum?s programs include the Art Films Series, artist lectures, family programs, Music at the Museum, the International Film Series, and more than 85 classes a week at its studio Art School. Call 561.392.2500 or visit www.bocamuseum.org for more information.