Previous Exhibitions
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New Waves 2008
April 11-June 15, 2008
MOCA’s 13th annual, juried exhibition, highlighted Virginia artists while providing an opportunity to purchase art from the museum and build a collection. THe 2008 exhibition featured paintings, drawings, photographs and installation works by contemporary artists from across the Commonwealth.
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Juror
Anne Surak, director of Project 4 in Washington, D.C., chose 50 works from 17 artists.
New Waves 2008 artists
Mickael Elliot Broth (Third Place)
Christine Carr
Travis Childers
RJ Clark (Honorable Mention)
Derek Coté (Second Place)
Amanda Dalla Villa
Susan Y. Elder (Honorable Mention)
Suzanna Fields
Jenn Figg (First Place)
Jingjing Gong
Philip Hol…
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New Waves 2008 at MOCA.
MICHAEL REA: Wood I, Could I?
April 3-June 15, 2008
Michael Rea’s works are evocative and rational responses to history. Constructed from untreated wood and memory, they invoke one simple axiomatic truth: fictions or established hearsay allow for flawed interpretations that lead to flawed results. Michael Rea creates something short of that outcome, the idea of an object that remains a dream. His temporal works are humane in scale acquiring their patinas naturally, through interaction, by touch. Offering simultaneity, they are a service to what could be and what never will.
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Michael Rea at MOCA.
Nathan Vincent: Knot Unraveled
April 3-June 8, 2008
Nathan Vincent explores gender permissions and challenges that arise from straying from prescribed norms. Utilizing the stereotypical notions of “women’s work” through the act of crocheting, sewing and appliqué, Vincent’s work questions prescribed “masculine” and “feminine” gender roles. By crocheting saws, Superman emblems and other seemingly male-specific iconography, Vincent’s work contradicts the symbolism traditionally associated with these objects.
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Nathan Vincent at MOCA.
Edgar Arceneaux: The Agitation of Expansion
January 17-March 23, 2008
This exhibition of silk-screens, film and video installation explored the interplay of fiction, illusion and reality. Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux investigates the many variations of how truth is presented and perceived through deliberate and accidental loss and disintegration of information. The rising question for the truth and that which appears true is rendered through his subjective use of documentary strategies, confusing the difference between reality, fiction and perception. The artist pays particular attention to the concepts of time, space, location and association. The works have been recontextualized from their first showing at Galerie Kamm, Berlin.
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Edgar Arceneaux at MOCA.
Mikhail Magaril: Russian Roulette
January 10-March 23, 2008
MOCA, in conjunction with Virginia Celebrates Russia, was proud to present a solo-exhibition featuring works by renowned illustrator Mikhail Magaril. Magaril is a professional book artist and illustrator with a degree from the Moscow Printing Institute. His books are in important collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the British Museum, the French National Library, Harvard and Yale. He was an apprentice at The Center for Book Arts for seven years and the winner of two Carl Hertzog Awards for Excellence in Book Design.
In MOCA’s exhibition, Mikhail Magaril: Russian Roulette, the artist displays paintings, prints and sculptural works from his p…
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Mikhail Magaril at MOCA.
