The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles

The last museum we visited during our Los Angeles Trip in July was the main site, one of the three sites, of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), located at 250 South Grand Avenue.

Previously, I have discussed an special exhibit we saw there - A Retrospective of Urs Fischer, whose surreal and macabre sculptures, installations and paintings were fun but less than truly satisfying.  Now, I'm turning my focus to MOCA's core permanent collections.

The hallway, painted with mysterious and disturbing images of wheels and gears, and characters, created a dangerous industrial look, boldly declared the location as like no other museum or gallery.  









The galleries were less in your face and rather conventional, allowing visitors to pay attention to the displays. This museum focused on the contemporary works, those created in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including works by de Kooning, Rothko, Kline, Twombly, Krasner, Miró, Pollock, Giacometti, Johns, etc. and some other names I was less familiar with.  Below the the works I liked most:


Untitled (flag), 2006-08, Rodney McMillian (b. 1969)


Untitled, 1973, 1989, Charles Ray (b, 1953)


Untitled & detail, 1990, Caviar, acrylic, and lacquer on canvas, Georg Herold (b. 1947)


Gone, 1987-92, Wood, rubber, plaster, copper, flowers and lead, Liz Larner (b. 1960) & Untitled, 1991, Aluminum, wire, paper-mache, and gauze, Franz West (b. 1947-2012)




Untitled #2, 1977, Agnes Martin (1912-2004)


Black (PL100155), 1988, John McCracken (1934-2011) & 36-85-1, 1985, Larry Bell (b. 1939)


Untitled, 1967, Cy Twombly (1928-2011)


Map, 1962, Jasper Johns (b. 1930)

 

Untitled, c. 1954, Oil, pencil, crayon, paper, canvas, fabric, wood, glass, mirror, etc., Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)


Two Women with Still Life, 1952, Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)






Number 1, 1949, 1949, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)


Primeval Resurgence, 1961, Lee Krasner (1908-1984)


Untitled (The Cry), 1946, Barnett Newman (1905-1970)


Black Iris, 1961 (middle), Minotor, 1956 (right), Franz Kline (1910-1962)


Personnages Dans la Nuit, 1950, Joan Miró (1893-1983)


Yellow and Orange, 1949, Mark Rothko (1903-1970)


Red and Brown, 1957 & Black on Dark Sienna on Purple, 1960, Mark Rothko (1903-1970)


No. 301 (Reds and Violet over Red_Red and Blue over Red) [Red and Blue over Red], 1959 & Purple Brown, 1957


No. 9 (Dark over Light Earth_Violet and Yellow in Rose), 1954, No. 61 (Rust and Blue) [Brown Blue, Brown on Blue], 1953 & No. 46 [Black, Ochre, Red Over Red], 1957, Mark Rothko (1903-1970)


Tall Figure, II, 1960, ALberto Giacometti (1901-1966)


Related posts on Art · 文化 · Kunst: 
- LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Revisiting Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena
- Getty Villa in Los Angeles (Malibu)
- Urs Fischer Exhibit at MOCA, Los Angeles
- "Prague", St. Stephen's Day, Richard Diebenkorn and James Turrell
- "Renoir in the 20th Century" - Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Label: Los Angeles, Los Angeles Trip 2013