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Curator-led walkthrough of Reverberations

Installation view of Don't Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, March 12–July 11, 2016 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). Photo by Brian Forrest

Curator-led walkthrough of Reverberations

Join MOCA Senior Curator Bennett Simpson for a walkthrough of MOCA collection exhibition Reverberations.

MOCA’s collection, now numbering close to 8,000 works of art spanning the mid-twentieth century to the present, is internationally renowned for its depth and excellence across media, style, and art history. Highlighting areas of unique strength, these collection galleries orient around single-artist presentations of work by Robert Rauschenberg and Mark Rothko and gather key acquisitions made by the museum throughout its 44-year history, including many selections from the foundational Panza, Schreiber, Weisman and Parsons collections.

Galleries devoted to abstraction, Pop, and conceptual work from the 1950s and 1960s are joined by recent acquisitions from Nairy Baghramian, Isa Genzken, and Rachel Harrison while figurative paintings by Michael Armitage, Jennifer Packer, and Henry Taylor join canonical works by Alice Neel, George Segal and others. Also on view are presentations of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” in its entirety and Renee Green’s installation Import-Export Funk Office (1993).

Bennett Simpson is Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. He is the organizer of Reverberations, with curatorial assistant Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, as well as numerous other exhibitions at the museum, including Henry Taylor: B Side, William Pope.L: Trinket, and Blues for Smoke.

This program is organized by Justen Leroy, Director of Public Programs and Community Outreach, and Alitzah Oros, Public Programming Associate, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Reverberations is organized by Bennett Simpson, Senior Curator, with Emilia Nicholson-Fajardo, Curatorial Assistant, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Exhibitions at MOCA are supported by the MOCA Fund for Exhibitions with generous funding provided by Jordan S. Goodman + The Goodman Family Foundation, The Earl and Shirley Greif Foundation, and Pamela West.

Together Thursdays courtesy of Cliff and Mandy Einstein.