The surprising depth and coherence of MOCA's permanent collection is due in great measure to it being a 'collection of collections,' of which key acquisitions and gifts from several important collectors form the armature. This exhibition surveys the major works acquired by MOCA since the museum's 1979 founding that have defined and continue to define one of the country's great groupings of contemporary art. Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is organized chronologically into a cohesive presentation that reflects a span of important movements'abstract expressionism, minimalism, conceptualism, pop art, postminimalism, postmodernism, figurative sculpture, new figuration, appropriation, and postconceptualism. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper that range in date from one of the earliest works in the collection, Piet Mondrian's Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: Nom III (1939), to recent works such as Maurizio Cattelan's Charlie (2003).
Watch Collecting Collections , a video featuring interviews with key collectors and artists who have played an important role in developing MOCA and its permanent collection.
Download the Collecting Collections Gallery Guide.
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is presented by The Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Foundation.
This exhibition is supported by The Broad Art Foundation. Major support for the exhibition and publication is provided by The MOCA Projects Council, L&M Arts, the Hillcrest Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. MOCA gratefully acknowledges the friends and family of Evy Rappaport for their thoughtful support of this project in her memory.
Additional support is provided by Marcia and Henry Baron, Gelson's Markets, Dr. Nancy Moss and Mr. George Moss, Sharon and Thurston Twigg-Smith, and Sylvia Weisz.
In-kind support is provided by Yellow Book USA.
89.9 KCRW is the Official Media Sponsor of MOCA. Ovation TV is the Official Network Partner of MOCA.
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