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Michael Scoggins: Sic Semper Tyrannis

October 16-December 30, 2008
Michael Scoggins meticulously creates giant sheets of notebook and graph paper, complete with binder holes and ragged edges, to emulate the larger-than-life world that children experience. Onto these surfaces he scrawls musings that vacillate between childhood innocence and adult worldliness, with a baffling sincerity. Ironic, humorous, meaningful and socially critical, these large scale works on paper utilize the perspective of a child to address fears, politics, crushes, and mass-media messages that face us all. Read more in MOCA's intro panel, gallery guide or news articles: Virginian-Pilot and Portfolio Weekly. Purchase the Michael Scoggins’ cataglogue at the MOCA Museum Shop.   …

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Michael Scoggins: Sic Semper Tyrannis
Michael Scoggins at MOCA.

Johnston Foster

October 16-December 30, 2008
Foster’s sculptural installations are created from scavenged, recycled and redefined materials to form Pop Art-inspired animals and people. The artist humorously examines American popular culture, appropriating refuse and shaping it into sculptures that relate to urban myths. Read more in the exhibition didatic, galllery guide or news clippings from Daily Press and The Virginian-Pilot. Purchase the Johnston Foster’s catalogue at MOCA’s Museum Shop. …

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Johnston Foster
Johnston Foster at MOCA.

Richard Nickel: Magic Dirt

October 16-December 30, 2008
Richard Nickel is a local ceramic artist who addresses themes of love, power and absurdity through folk-art inspired pieces. Bright, fun and colorful slab constructions mimic traditional ceramic vessels and sculptural wall platters use figuration and pattern to draw narratives dealing with family dynamics and power structures. Nickel’s clay works have been featured in several group and solo exhibitions including Cup: The Intimate Object IV, Fort Wayne, ID; HALIZO Art Festival, Norfolk, VA and The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi. His work has been seen in multiple publications including Clay Times, 500 Animals in Clay and Ceramics Monthly. Currently he is Assistant Professo…

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Richard Nickel: Magic Dirt
Richard Nickel at MOCA.

TRANSFORMED

July 11-September 28, 2008
Toilet paper rolls and gummy bears. Those were just two of the unique materials employed by thirteen artists in “Transformed,” a group exhibition of two-dimensional, sculptural, installation and video art. Commonplace objects including fishing line, chairs, toothpicks and light bulbs were manipulated, re-appropriated and elevated to the status of fine art. Transformed features works by: Matt Calderwood YaYa Chou Tim DeVoe Tara Donovan Felix Gonzalez-Torres Tom Friedman Robert Lazzarini Steven Siegel Yuken Teruya Shirley Tse Fischli & Weiss Rachel Perry Welty Read more in the exhibition didactic, gallery guide or news articles from The Virginian-Pilot and Portfolio Weekly. Purchase …

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TRANSFORMED
Matt Calderwood at MOCA.

Liz Miller: Self-Sustaining Debacle

June 26-September 28, 2008
Liz Miller attaches thousands of pieces of vividly colorful felt, nylon, paper and plastic to gallery walls, floors and ceilings using adhesive and pins. These elegantly simplified shapes are compressed in intricate patterns referencing technological, scientific and natural structures. Read more in the exhibition gallery guide.   …

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Liz Miller: Self-Sustaining Debacle
Liz Miller at MOCA.