This half of the two-part exhibition series A Room of Their Own assembles in-depth, monographic installations of works by American and European artists from the early postwar period to the beginning of Pop Art. The exhibition almost exclusively features works from MOCA’s permanent collection and was installed at MOCA Grand Avenue for over a year.
A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to Rauschenberg begins with a room centered on Jackson Pollock’s No. I (1949), accompanied by other early postwar works by Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Fautrier, and Mark Tobey. Single-artist presentations of paintings by Mark Rothko and Franz Kline followed. Monographic installations of art by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg charted the transition from Abstract Expressionism into Pop and features pieces like Rauschenberg’s Factum I and Factum II (both 1957), the latter on long-term loan from The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Adjacent galleries include work by Lee Bontecuo, Jay DeFeo, Louise Nevelson, and others. Photographs by Robert Frank and Helen Levitt were also included.
A Room of Their Own is organized by Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator, and Colette Dartnall, Curatorial Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.