This show continues a run of thematic MOCA exhibitions highlighting works from the permanent collection. A Changing Ratio: Painting and Sculpture from The Collection explores the trajectory linking non-representational painting of the early 1950s to the sculptural innovations of the late 1960s, especially the blurring of medium boundaries that paved the way for installation art today. Featured works include Robert Rauschenberg’s Inlet (1959); John Chamberlin’s Lo An (1966); Lynda Benglis’s night Sherbert (1969); Donald Judd’s Untitled (1966); and Carl Andre’s 8 Blocks and Stones (1973), alongside representative paintings by Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, as well as additional works by Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, and others.
A Changing Ratio derives its title from Lucy Lippard’s 1967 essay As Painting Is to Sculpture: A Changing Ratio, a cogent analysis of the changing interplay between these two mediums in 1960s American art. The exhibition revealed the strength of MOCA’s holdings in the art of this critical, transformative time.
A Changing Ratio: Painting and Sculpture from The Collection is organized by Rebecca Morse, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.