This MOCA Focus exhibition presents recent work by the LA-based artist Lecia Dole-Recio, including six pieces from a new body of work and two older works examining the overlapping margins between painting, drawing, collage, and architecture. Created through a labor-intensive process of building up, extracting, and layering shapes with gouache, graphite, glue, tape, paper, vellum, and cardboard. 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 LA-based artists and representing the first LA museum exhibition for artists including Eric Wesley (2006), Lecia Dole-Recio (2006), Alexandra Grant (2007), and Sterling Ruby (2008).
MOCA Focus: Lecia Dole-Recio is organized by Brooke Hodge, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.