SAN DIEGO, CA.- The groundbreaking exhibition Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood on view at The San Diego Museum of Art February 20 through May 20, 2010 explores the work of one of the most influential artists to have emerged from Latin America. A charismatic figure in the international art world, Joaquín Torres-García is celebrated globally as a modernist painter, teacher and author. He has exhibited with the most famous artists of his time including Antonio Gaudí, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg and Marcel Duchamp. The San Diego Museum of Art is the exclusive West Coast venue—and only one of two U.S. museums—for this exhibition, which was organized by The Menil Collection, Houston in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Joaquín Torres-García: Constructing Abstraction with Wood will include more than 80 wooden constructions, or maderas, largely dating from the 1920