DeGrazia Paintings from Diego Rivera Studio

January 21 – April 30, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 4 p.m.

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun

Following the artist's 2009 centennial retrospective, this exhibition of oil paintings by Ted DeGrazia were created while he was studying and working in the Diego Rivera Studio in Mexico City in 1942. DeGrazia worked for two months as a student assistant to famed Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, who jointly sponsored a critically acclaimed one-man show for DeGrazia at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. These paintings all date from the period DeGrazia spent working in Rivera's studio and were part of the 1942 exhibit.

The Way of the Cross

January 21 – April 30, 2010
10:00 a.m. – 4 p.m.

DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun

The annual showing of DeGrazia's "The Way of the Cross" is paired this year with companion watercolors the artist created in preparation for his work on the oil paintings. An audiotape made by the late artist accompanies the exhibit, providing his insightful comments about the significance of the paintings that depict the suffering and crucifixion of Christ. The oils were completed in 1964 after the Rev. Robert L Graff asked the Tucson artist to paint the Stations of the Cross for the chapel of the newly built Newman Catholic Student Center near the University of Arizona. The originals remained in the chapel for about a year before insurance and environmental concerns prompted DeGrazia to replace them with reproductions.