Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the MOCA

published Feb 2, 2008
ends May 19, 2008
Collecting Collections Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the MOCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), for the first time in its 29-year history, dedicates the entire MOCA Grand Avenue galleries to the most comprehensive exhibition to date of its permanent collection.

The surprising depth and coherence of MOCA's permanent collection is due in great measure to its being a "collection of collections," of which key acquisitions and gifts from several important collectors and artists form the armature.

Comprising approximately 250 works by over 120 artists, Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, on view at MOCA Grand Avenue February 9-May 19, 2008, is curated by MOCA Curator Alma Ruiz.

MOCA Director Jeremy Strick notes, "This exhibition surveys the major works acquired by MOCA since the museum's 1979 founding.

In a remarkably short period of time, and as a result of the generosity of a core group of collectors who believed in MOCA's founding mission, the permanent collection now comprises nearly 6,000 objects that have defined and continue to define one of the world's great groupings of contemporary art."