Focusing on the later periods of pop art and continuing through minimalism and The second part of the two-part exhibition A Room of Their Own, this installment features the later years of Pop Art, Minimalism, and contemporary art of the 1990s. The exhibition as a whole highlighted works from MOCA’s permanent collection, with the earlier section presented at MOCA Grand Avenue and A Room of Their Own: From Arbus to Gober installed at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Both installments trace a broad history of postwar Western art through sustained, single-artist presentations supplemented by adjacent, contextual galleries showing a range of contemporaneous artists’ work.
A Room of Their Own: From Arbus to Gober began with one gallery showing photographs by Diane Arbus and another presenting Claes Oldenburg’s The Store (1961–62). An adjacent room included works by Roy Lichtenstein, Edward Ruscha, George Segal, and Andy Warhol. The next section features presentations of Sol LeWitt and Robert Irwin’s work, as well as a display of Minimalist paintings by Agnes Martin, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, and Frank Stella. Bruce Nauman’s Four Corner Piece (1971) comprised a following room, while an untitled 1997 installation by Robert Gober filled another, with adjacent galleries displaying works by Felix-Gonzalez Torres, Kiki Smith, Pipilotti Rist, Andreas Gursky, and John Currin.
A Room of Their Own: From Arbus to Gober is organized by by Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator, and Colette Dartnall, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.