A follow-up to MOCA's expansive thirtieth anniversary exhibition in 2009, Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, this installation at MOCA Grand Avenue includes more than one hundred seminal works of abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism, light and space art, and conceptual art from MOCA's permanent collection. MOCA’s Permanent Collection Masterworks 1945-1975 features five iconic photographs by Diane Arbus; two works by John Baldessari; Larry Bell’s 36-85-1 (1985); Vija Celmins’s Night Sky #4 (1992); two sculptures by Alberto Giacometti; Map (1962) and Target on Orange Field (1957) by Jasper Johns; Lee Krasner’s painting Primeval Resurgence (1961); Adrian Piper’s Concrete Infinity Documentation Piece (1970); Jackson Pollock’s Number 1, 1949 (1949); two paintings by James Rosenquist; Robert Smithson’s Mirage No. 1 (1967); Andy Warhol’s Telephone (1961); groupings of work by Franz Kline, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Mark Rothko; and additional pieces by Lynda Benglis, Arshile Gorky, On Kawara, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian, George Segal, Cy Twombly, Hannah Wilke, and much more.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue titled This is Not to Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
MOCA’s Permanent Collection Masterworks 1945-1975 is organized by Paul Schimmel, Chief Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.