Contemporary Collectors celebrate 25th anniversary
Mar 9, 2010

Three new exhibits at the La Jolla branch of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) showcase collection highlights to mark the silver anniversary of the museum's Contemporary Collectors donors. With collectors' support, MCASD has added 85 works to its group - works that were collectively bought for approximately $2.7 million and that are valued at more than $12.4 million today.

Many of these acquisitions are on view through May 16 in the exhibition "Pleasure Point: Celebrating 25 Years of Contemporary Collectors." The exhibition's title takes its name from Nancy Rubins' site-specific installation "Pleasure Point" (2006).

The show features more than 36 works in all media by emerging and prominent artists. Photographs by Cindy Sherman, Ana Mendieta and Yasumasa Morimura push the traditional boundaries of portraiture; videos by Bill Viola, Alan Rath and Gary Hill explore limits of the body and imagination; paintings by Fred Tomaselli, John Currin and Robert Colescott are by turns lyrical, provocative and pointedly political; and installations by Sol LeWitt and Petah Coyne directly engage the museum's architecture.

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