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Craig Lucas, Surge, 2007, Multi-panel oil on canvas, Approximately 3 x 45 feet; Courtesy of the artist
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Craig Lucas : Surge
On view January 25th, 2008 through
May 11th, 2008
A PULSE EXHIBITION
Craig Lucas has led a distinguished career asa painter for over forty years, exploring formal and conceptual issues in the tradition of abstraction. Lucas’s abstract paintings are characterized by grid compositions, bold primary colors, gestural marks, and geometric and organic shapes. Over the years, the artist has explored the relationship between color and form, mark-making and structure, and patterns, systems, and networks. As translations of the world around him, Lucas’s abstract studies are as much about perception as they are about reality.
For this exhibition, Lucas redirected his abstract work to create semi-figurative paintings and prints in res ... Read More
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Sam Taylor-Wood, Bram Stoker's Chair II, 2005, C-print
Image size: 48 x 38 in. (121.9 x 96.5 cm)
© The artist
Courtesy Jay Jopling/White Cube (London)
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Sam Taylor-Wood
On view January 25th, 2008 through
May 11th, 2008
A leading artist of her generation, Sam Taylor-Wood came to prominence in the mid-1990s as one of the YBA’s (Young British Artists), the British art movement that propelled such artists as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin to celebrity status for their provocative and sensational works. Taylor-Wood has since become renowned for deftly manipulating the signature media of our age—photography, film, and video—into compelling psychological portraits that tap into the ethos of our times. Organized by MOCA Cleveland, this first major museum exhibition of the artist’s work in the U.S. brings together a selection of 29 works from the mid-1990s to the present. After its MOCA Cleveland debut, the exhibitio ... Read More
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Masumi Hayashi, Minidoka Relocation Camp, Root Cellar, Minidoka, Idaho,, 1992, 30 x 33 inches; Courtesy of Dean Keesey
and M Gentile Studio
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Masumi Hayashi, Meditations: : Remembering Injustice
On view November 2nd, 2007 through
December 30th, 2007
In collaboration with the Akron Art Museum, SPACES Gallery, and the Cleveland State University Art Gallery, MOCA Cleveland presents one of four exhibitions celebrating the artistic accomplishments of Cleveland photographer, Masumi Hayashi, who was tragically killed in the fall of 2006. Spanning the late fall and early winter of 2007-08, each exhibition focuses on key aspects of Hayashi’s oeuvre and development as an artist.
MOCA Cleveland’s exhibition, Remembering Injustice, features five of Hayashi’s signature large-scale photo collages from her series on Japanese-American internment camps, along with an audio presentation of her interviews with former Japanese-American i ... Read More
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Diana Cooper, Orange Alert UK, 2007, Acetate, acrylic, felt, ethylene vinyl acetate, paper, foamcore, corrugated plastic, and map pins; At MOCA Cleveland: 14 feet 8 inches x 21 feet 3 inches x 27 feet 9 inches or 588 sq. feet
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Beyond the Line: The Art of Diana Cooper
On view September 28th, 2007 through
December 30th, 2007
I am interested in how you can start with a logical system and through sheer repetition and excess create something that unravels and stops making sense. – DIANA COOPER
Intense mark making. Extreme doodling. Excessive formations. Profusions of squares, cubes, and curvilinear forms that acumulate, multiply and seem to grow out of each other. Abstraction gone haywire. Bold, vibrant color. Lines that stream across the picture plane, surging up to the ceiling or out across the floor and into the gallery space. Clusters of pom-pons. Sheer masses of materials. Expanses of yellow pipe-cleaners—more than 2000 stapled to the wall in one work. Elaborate, visually rich compositions—cut, glue ... Read More
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Julie Moos, Loyalty (Mario and Nicole), 2007, C-print, 30 x 40 inches ; Courtesy of The Progressive Corporation
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Julie Moos: Loyalty (The Cleveland Project)
On view September 28th, 2007 through
December 30th, 2007
Since the 1990s, artist Julie Moos has created photographs that examine and challenge our perception of identity and relationships. Moos portrays single or paired individuals in straightforward compositions that typically lack background elements. These uncluttered images emphasize each subject’s physical characteristics with vibrant clarity, as well as imply interpersonal connection between pairs of sitters. In most cases, the titles allude to the nature of these relationships. Friends and Enemies (1999-2000) and Domestic (2001) explore socio-cultural identity and interaction in American high schools and households respectively. Monsanto (2002) and Hat Ladies (20 ... Read More
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Olga Ziemska, Chiromancy Point (For Giuseppe) [detail], 2007, Glass, mirror, ink, transparency film, glue
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Olga Ziemska: Mirror Matter : Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series
On view June 1st, 2007 through
August 19th, 2007
Sculptor and installation artist, Olga Ziemska, mines nature, philosophy, and science in search of connection points among the physical forces, biological structures, and mystical underpinnings of existence. She often attempts to make visible those concepts or properties that are indiscernible to the naked eye, such as cellular formations or gravity. For this exhibition, Ziemska focuses on the concept of “mirror matter,” a form of invisible matter that exists theoretically to correct certain imbalanced subatomic particle interactions in nature. Using mirrors, magnets, crystals, plaster casts, and prints of body parts, Ziemska literally and metaphorically mirrors matter, illustrating certain ... Read More
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Expanding the Circle : MOCA and the New Uptown District
On view June 1st, 2007 through
August 19th, 2007
Expanding the Circle: MOCA and the New Uptown District will trace MOCA Cleveland’s remarkable trajectory from its founding in 1968 by Marjorie Talalay to its exciting future in Cleveland’s emerging University Arts and Retail District (UARD). Informational, anecdotal, and irresistibly pictorial this exhibition will celebrate MOCA’s vitality, courage, and relevance as the leading voice for contemporary art and culture in northeastern Ohio. Expanding the Circle will also track MOCA’s physical history while introducing audiences to its transformational new building initiative and its acclaimed architect, Foreign Office Architects (FOA). A stimulating immersive environment will combine stationary ... Read More
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Anthony Caro, Wending, 1969, Painted steel
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Anthony Caro : CMA @ MOCA Exhibition
On view June 1st, 2007 through
August 19th, 2007
This, the third installation in the continuing CMA@MOCA Series featuring modern and contemporary sculpture exhibitions from the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art on view in the Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Rotunda Gallery at MOCA Cleveland, features an early, outstanding sculpture—Wending Back (1969–70)—by the pioneering British sculptor Anthony Caro. He played an essential role in the development of sculpture during the second half of the 20th century. After his initial visit to America in 1959, when he met fellow sculptor David Smith and painter Kenneth Noland, among other innovative artists, Caro dramatically shifted his style from figurative work, executed in clay and pl ... Read More
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Foreign Office Architects, Spanish Pavilion Expo 2005, 2005, Spanish Society of International Exhibitions (SEEI), Photo Credit: Satoru Mishima
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OPEN: new designs for public space
On view June 1st, 2007 through
August 19th, 2007
After presentations at New York’s Van Alen Institute, Washington, DC’s National Building Museum and the Chicago Architecture Foundation, OPEN: new designs for public space comes to MOCA Cleveland as a primer on contemporary public space design and a showcase of inspiration for University Circle’s new Uptown District, future home of MOCA’s new museum. OPEN will provide a global context for the district’s emerging plans as well as the dialogues associated with them.
OPEN: new designs for public space explores 30 art, architectural and planning projects in Australia, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Mexico, South America, South Africa, and the United States. From floating a t ... Read More
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Erik Neff, Caverns, 2006, Oil on plywood panel, 6.375 x 7.5 inches, Courtesy of the artist
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Side by Side
On view January 26th, 2007 through
May 13th, 2007
Exploring recent creative developments from our region, Side by Side presents a group of ten artists from Northeast Ohio, who address topical issues. Identified through a cluster of themes, these artists are paired around concepts of abstraction, physical and conceptual barriers, malfunction, contemporary culture, and the fantastic and extraordinary. The exhibition includes the work of Laurie Addis, Rian Brown-Orso, Gianna Commito, Michelle Droll, Thomas Frontini, Neil MacDonald, Mark Moskovitz, Erik Neff, Susan Umbenhour, and Barry Underwood.
Painters Erik Neff and Gianna Commito both explore abstraction but with differing sensibilities. Rooted in the tradition of organic ... Read More
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Seydou Keïta, Untitled #430, 1950, Silver gelatin print, Edition of 10, 63 x 45 inches, Courtesy: Association Seydou Keïta, Bamako, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York and JM Patras, Paris
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Seydou Keïta : Portraits from Mali
On view January 26th, 2007 through
May 13th, 2007
From 1948 to 1962, in a studio near the bustling marketplace of Bamako, Seydou Keïta (1923-2001) created stunning black-and-white portraits of Malian citizens that pioneered new styles of cultural representation in West Africa. Keïta’s signature style integrated modern props, patterned backdrops, and varied poses to signify the cosmopolitanism of his clients. His photographs deftly captured the spirit of his times, juxtaposing concurrent notions of tradition and novelty, convention and innovation. This exhibition features a selection of 17 of Keïta’s masterful works.
In Untitled #110, Keïta balances the dazzling pattern of the woman’s dress—which splashes across the composi ... Read More
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Dana Schutz, Men's Retreat, 2005, Oil on canvas, 96 1/8 x 120 1/8 inches, Ovitz Family Collection, Santa Monica, California
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Dana Schutz : Paintings 2002-2006
On view September 29th, 2006 through
December 30th, 2006
Dana Schutz's ecstatically imaginative paintings have established her as one of the rising stars of the contemporary art world and one of the most sought-after young artists in the United States today. With lush surfaces and a flamboyant palette ranging from gaudy yellows and reds to deep greens and purples, Schutz's figurative paintings portray hypothetical scenarios that are gruesome and funny, unsettling and absurd. In many of her works, Schutz paints things that one almost cannot imagine: figures devouring themselves in the Self-Eaters series (2003), another recreating itself from dismembered parts in the painting Twin Parts (2004). Preposterous and bordering on the grotesq ... Read More
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Catherine Opie, Talking to the Bush, 2005, Chromogenic print, Edition of 5, 16 x 20 inches, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles
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Catherine Opie : 1999 & In and Around Home
On view September 29th, 2006 through
December 30th, 2006
The documentation of America has long intrigued photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Berenice Abbott, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus. Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie redefines this genre with vibrant photographs that capture subjects, animate or not, that reflect an essence, identity, or character of America. Opie presents to us a conceptual portrait of our ethos in all its diversity and complexity.
Renowned for her photographic series of communities and urban landscapes, Opie is concerned with expanding notions of identity and community. From her studies of lesbian families, surfers, empty freeways, and the neighborhood developments of Valencia, CA, Opie ... Read More
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Sarah Kabot, Tablet (detail), 2005, Notebook binder, 8.5 x 11.5 x 2 inches
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Sarah Kabot : On the Flip Side
On view June 9th, 2006 through
August 20th, 2006
Sarah Kabot employs a variety of materials to explore the ordinary or unnoticed details of common objects, overlooked communities and familiar spaces. First, with acute observation, she looks for distinctions in the mundane elements of a variety of objects and environments. She then accentuates these parts using mirroring, replication, repetition and amplification to illustrate how they influence and inform our perception of reality. For this exhibition, Kabot has meticulously cut out the white space of every piece of notebook paper in a spiral binder, replicated the William D. Ginn Gallery’s architecture using only paper, and taken photographs of every blue sky that she observes in Clevelan ... Read More
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Linda Butler, Detail of French Marble Sculpture, 2005, Chromogenic process color print, printed 2006, 14” x 11”, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and Gift of the Artist 2006.89
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Transitions : Linda Butler and Philip Brutz Photographs
On view June 9th, 2006 through
August 20th, 2006
Transitions: Linda Butler and Philip Brutz Photographs features the work of two photographers who recorded the relocation of nearly two-thirds of The Cleveland Museum of Art's permanent and education collections into storage. Color prints by Butler and color stereoscopic transparencies by Brutz provide rare behind-the-scenes glimpses of this enormous, complex operation.
In 2005, The CMA faced the looming reality of moving some 40,000 objects following the trustees' vote to proceed with the construction and renovation project by New York architect Rafael Viñoly. The staff began the Herculean task of removing objects from galleries and existing art storage areas to relocate ... Read More
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Designed by Ettore Sottsass, made at Memphis Firm, Fruit Bowl, 1982, Gift of Trideca Society 1998.149
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The Persistence of Geometry : Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
On view June 9th, 2006 through
August 20th, 2006
Using the opportunity of the closing of The Cleveland Museum of Art for their expansion, MOCA Cleveland and the CMA invited Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, President of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to curate an exhibition of the CMA's comprehensive collection in MOCA's galleries.
The resulting exhibition, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, presents paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, ceramics, textiles, utensils and furniture from historic and contemporary cultures worldwide that show how geometric structures and abstract visual vocabularies have communicated meaning throughout history. In the ... Read More
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Leo Villareal, Instances, 2005, LEDs, microcontroller, custom software, aluminum, 3 panels, each 24 x 24 x 3 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
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All Digital
On view January 20th, 2006 through
May 7th, 2006
All Digital brings together some of the most compelling examples of artistic achievement by a group of international artists working in the proliferating field of computer generated art, known as "new media" or "digital art." By using digital technology, these artists exponentially broaden the expressive and aesthetic possibilities of art, radically extending the "palette" and materials available to them and the forms that works of art can take. This art is kinetic and can be interactive. Its imagery evolves over time—in some cases, ad infinitum—perpetually reproducing and mutating. These works are dynamic, innovative art forms that exist as objects in the "physical" world or as manif ... Read More
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Jon Pylypchuk, i will stop fighting you when death stops fucking with me, 2005, Mixed media, 64 x 72 x 72 inches
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Jon Pylypchuk : Curve
On view January 20th, 2006 through
May 7th, 2006
Curated by Associate Curator Ana Vejzovic
Jonathan Pylypchuk's paintings, sculptures and installations tackle issues of emotional terrain, fears, loss and rejection through a humorous and sincere sensibility. His preferred media are non-traditional and consist of crude materials such as scrap wood and pieces of fabric (velvet, t-shirts, socks and fake fur) along with glitter and ample amounts of wood glue. Abject in appearance, Pylypchuk's subjects and narratives materialize to address tragic and disarming aspects of life, all the while maintaining an edge of wit and sharpness. His recent sculptural characters that resemble felines appear on a heroic scale as they tower almost uns ... Read More
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Christine Hill, Pilot (Cleveland), 2003, Performance
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Christine Hill : Pilot (Cleveland)
On view February 21st, 2003 through
May 11th, 2003
In her exhibition, Pilot (Cleveland), artist Christine Hill transforms the gallery at MOCA into the set and studio for her fictional late-night TV talk show and, in effect, makes "art making" her art form.
Hill’s artistic output, framed within the context of "cottage-industry," places her art making squarely within the world of exchange and activity. Like her artistic soul mates—Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Madonna—Hill divorces art from its ivory tower status, positioning human interaction and dialogue at the core of her projects as she moves beyond the traditional context of an art exhibition to create a sculptural environment that is created first and foremost for public consumption ... Read More
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Angela White, Architecture Dress, 2002, N/A
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Angela White : Garbology - Fiber, Fluff and Fuzz
On view February 21st, 2003 through
May 11th, 2003
n her first solo museum exhibition—the fifth artist in the Wendy L. Moore Emerging Artist Series recognizing women artists under the age of thirty from the Northeast Ohio region–Angela White creates glamorous wearable garments and awesome architectural sculptures from the detritus of our consumer culture.
Using blue plastic grocery bags, twisty ties, orange peel, cassette tape and umbrellas, she creates sculptural garments that evoke the haute couture of the Parisian runways. In Garbology—Fiber, Fluff and Fuzz, White also features her architectural sculpture of a life-sized house comprised of nearly one thousand recycled telephone books she selected and collected.
Angela White has had ... Read More
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James Casebere, Picture Show, 2003
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James Casebere : Picture Show
On view December 6th, 2002 through
February 2nd, 2003
Since the mid-1970s, James Casebere has photographed tabletop-sized models that he constructs with Styrofoam, paper and plaster. The precise and complex models are based on real and imagined landscapes and architecture ranging from the Eastern Pennsylvania State Penitentiary to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello or any metropolitan area’s subterranean world of waste water tunnel systems. In the artist’s studio, the models are dramatically lit, photographed from various points of view, and then abandoned. The photographs are Casebere’s representation of his construction, a re-construction and re-presentation of the artist’s own rendering. Consequently, we are farther removed from any reference to ... Read More
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Brígida Baltar, TBD, TBD
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Brígida Baltar : Coleta da Neblina (Collecting Humidity)
On view December 31st, 1969 through
December 31st, 1969
Art does not imitate life in the elaborate and lush video projects of Brazilian artist Brígida Baltar. Instead, art dominates life in Baltar’s body of work, reflecting her way of living where everyday experience and the artist’s work are combined in a process of permanent experimentation. Part performance artist, Baltar’s unique relationship with the natural world is captured, along with the mountain air and sea breezes, in the mesmerizing photographs and videos in the exhibition, Coleta da Neblina (Collecting Humidity), curated by MOCA Cleveland’s Associate Curator, Amy Gilman.
Baltar has been collecting mist since 1996. On her frequent sojourns into the mountains and journeys to empty b ... Read More
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