MCASD

During the closure and expansion of MCASD’s La Jolla galleries, the Museum presents an exhibition in partnership with the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum. Installed in the CCAE’s Museum galleries, this focused exhibition draws from MCASD’s permanent collection and showcases new acquisitions, featuring works by beloved California artists.

MCASD and CCAE share a commitment to exhibiting works by artists of California, reflected in the Museum’s mission and collection strengths. MCASD has long been dedicated to the history of California art, with works highlighting the wide range of practices and perspectives that have shaped it from the 1960s to today.

Connections Across Time

Many artists working today continue to expand on the traditions of abstraction. As these artists push the boundaries of form, color, and representation, they enter into dialogue with the practices that came before them. These relationships between artists across time highlight the importance of historical consciousness and the ongoing transformation of how a work of art can be seen and interpreted when placed in the constantly changing landscape of Contemporary Art.

In Heather Gwen Martin’s Recreational, 2009, energetic forms and frenetic lines seem to move about a saturated field of color. Ruth Pastine explores the boundaries of perception, combining and juxtaposing colors in her atmospheric composition, Inevitability of Truth 16-S6060 (Red Green/Blue Green), 2015, and Kara Joslyn’s Toucan, 2016, renders a large bird, taken from a vintage book of paper sculptures, in metallic airbrush. Balancing abstraction and representation, Joslyn references traditions of art history, as well as domestic craft, to transform the object in her painting into something familiar yet uncanny.

The collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego includes more than 4,700 works created after 1950, representing a variety of media and genres: painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation. MCASD is known for collecting works by promising emerging artists and under-recognized, mid-career artists, as well as by major figures in international contemporary art.

Among the greatest strengths of the MCASD collection are minimalism and Pop Art of the 1960s and 1970s, conceptual art from the 1960s to the present, installation art, art from Latin America, and art from California and the San Diego/Tijuana region.

California Center for the Arts
Escondido Museum
340 N. Escondido Blvd.
Escondido, CA 92025

July 8 – August 27, 2017

Inevitability of Truth 16-S6060 (Red Green/Blue Green)
Inevitability of Truth Series
2015
Oil on canvas on beveled stretcher

Acquired into MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego permanent collection August 2016