MOCA Pacific Design Center
The first solo museum exhibition of work by LA-based artist Florian Maier-Aichen. Employing tropes of documentary photography in unconventional ways, Maier-Aichen creates sublime images of natural, industrial, and cultural landscapes dense with reference and allusion.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue.
Begun in 1992, the original Focus Series (1992–1998) was dedicated to presentations of distinct bodies of work by artists working in all media and featured a roster of distinguished local and international artists.
The Focus Series quickly became core to the museum's mission and identity as the artist's museum. Over a subsequent three-year period in the mid-2000s, the series was revived briefly but powerfully, featuring primarily Los Angeles-based artists and representing the first Los Angeles museum exhibition for artists including Eric Wesley (2006), Lecia Dole-Recio (2006), Alexandra Grant (2007), and Sterling Ruby (2008).