The Very Large Array
San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection
29 November 2012 - 1 June 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego | Downtown

Linea-Escaparates de Tijuana - See large image >

Featuring more than 100 artists and representing five decades of collecting, this expansive group show of Museum acquisitions highlights many of the region’s most beloved and accomplished artists.

Works presented in the exhibition range from Russell Baldwin’s A Study (1959)—the exhibition’s earliest work, which entered the collection the year it was made—to Glenna Jennings’s photograph She forgot what was important and fastened on the little things (2008), which was purchased after it appeared in 2010’s Here Not There: San Diego Art Now. Taken together, works such as these bookend fifty years of collection building, demonstrating the Museum’s ongoing commitment to artists living and working in San Diego and Tijuana, as well as those hailing from the region.

Presented in the capacious Farrell Gallery of the Jacobs Building, many of the two-dimensional works will be displayed in a dense, salon-style hanging covering the walls. A separate white cube space designed for the exhibition occupies the center of the room, presenting focused selections of works inside the cube, which will change seasonally.

The exhibition will be on view through June 1, 2014 and thematic installations will rotate inside the cube every three to four months.
Linea - Escaparates de Tijuana
detail of Linea - Escaparates de Tijuana (2003) by Hugo Crosthwaite
featured in The Very Large Array at MCASD - Downtown

Complete work measures 24 x 192 inches.

See large image of Linea by Hugo Crosthwaite >