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OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA PRESENTS CAREER RETROSPECTIVE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTIST MICHAEL C. McMILLEN

The Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) presents Michael C. McMillen: Train of Thought, on view April 16 through August 14, 2011, in the Museum’s Gallery of California Art. Spanning the 40-year career of the internationally renowned Southern California-based mixed-media artist, the exhibition features large-scale multisensory installations, assemblages, sculptures, paintings, drawings, and films that invite viewers into a made-up world-a skill for which McMillen is best known. Opening in stages, with large-scale installations Lighthouse and Pavilion of Rain (a constructed habitat featuring rain pouring down on a shack of corrugated metal surrounded by a 30-foot pool of water) currently on view, the exhibition features work from OMCA’s holdings as well as select loans from private collections.

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