Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD)
1001 Kettner BlvdSan Diego CA, USA
(619) 234-1001
www.mcasd.org
About Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (MCASD)
MCASD serves its audiences through the collection, preservation, exhibition, and interpretation of works of art created from 1950 to the present. Focusing on a binational and diverse constituency in the San Diego/Tijuana region as well as a national and international audience, we devote ourselves to four essential purposes:> To collect, preserve, study, and exhibit works of art of the highest quality created since 1950; and, through these works, to increase understanding, appreciation, enjoyment, and interest in art and its ability to enhance and enrich our lives.> To foster the work of living artists and to promote an awareness and appreciation of the value and nature of emerging artistic creativity.> To function as a lively forum for diverse dialogue on the artistic, cultural, philosophical and sociopolitical ideas of our times.> To present and interpret significant developments in contemporary art through an innovative and interactive education program for adults and children, and to offer the public broad, balanced perspectives on contemporary art.
Upcoming Openings
Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, September 26, 2009 - Sunday, January 31, 2010
The exhibition sets work by prominent, architecturally engaged artists such as Julie Mehretu, Matthew Ritchie, and Rachel Whiteread in dialogue with that of emerging practitioners including Catharina van Eetvelde, Jakob Kolding, and Sarah Oppenheimer. ...more info
Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell
Museums in Miniature
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, September 26, 2009 - Sunday, January 31, 2010
The exhibition explores the use of collage, assemblage, and staged tableaux by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell as plays on the notion of an exhibition space. ...more info
Tara Donovan
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, October 25, 2009 - Sunday, February 28, 2010
An exhibition of sculptural installations....more info
Past Openings
Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection
Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 19, 2008 - Sunday, January 11, 2009
The first exhibition of a two-part series, and will feature smaller-scale sculpture, paintings, prints, drawings, and photography....more info
Susan Silton
She Had a Laugh Like a Beefsteak
Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 7, 2008 - Friday, November 7, 2008
Reception: November 7, 2008, 7pmFor this performance, the artist draws from diverse artistic, theoretical, and anatomical sources to contextualize her multi-disciplinary practice....more info
Drawing the Line
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Sunday, April 12, 2009
This show presents works on paper, sculpture, and fabric pieces from the Museum's collection that reveal new approaches to the integration of drafting techniques and line-making into media that have not been traditionally associated with drawing genres....more info
Jasper Johns
Light Blub
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, January 18, 2009 - Sunday, May 10, 2009
The exhibition will bring together for the first time Johns’ light bulb sculptures and related drawings and prints, including several drawings and modified prints from the artist’s collection that have never been exhibited before....more info
Javier Ramírez Limón
Cerca Series
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, January 18, 2009 - Sunday, May 10, 2009
The exhibition will present two straight-photographic series that document different moments in the process of migration and adaptation of Mexican communities in the Southern United States....more info
Rising Tide: Film and Video Works from the MCA Collection, Sydney
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, February 22, 2009 - Sunday, June 21, 2009
The exhibition--drawn from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney--will feature film and video installations by 13 internationally recognized contemporary Australian video artists and collectives. ...more info
Modern Masters
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, February 22, 2009 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
The works in Modern Masters demonstrate the originality, innovation, and quality of modernist painting from the mid-1940s to the early 1970s....more info
Enrique Norten
Exhibition Dates: Friday, April 3, 2009 - Friday, April 3, 2009
Reception: April 3, 2009, 7pmThe Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies continue to present their lecture series celebrating the great achievements of Louis Kahn. Enrique Norten will speak about his work and how Kahn's legacy has influenced his practice....more info
Jane Hammond
Fallen
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, April 26, 2009 - Sunday, June 28, 2009
Jane Hammond’s installation Fallen is about both accumulation and loss. It features a field of leaf forms, each of which bears the name of a U.S. soldier who died in Iraq. When the piece was first shown in New York in 2005 it comprised 1,511 leaves; for its San Diego presentation, the number will exceed 4,000....more info
Sandow Birk
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, April 26, 2009 - Sunday, June 28, 2009
Through painting, drawing, and printmaking, Sandow Birk explores contemporary social issues using styles often appropriated from iconic art-historical works....more info
Thom Mayne
Exhibition Dates: Friday, May 8, 2009 - Friday, May 8, 2009
Reception: May 8, 2009, 7pmThom Mayne is the final speaker in the series and will give a lecture on his work....more info
MIX: Nine San Diego Architects
Exhibition Dates: Friday, May 22, 2009 - Sunday, September 6, 2009
Reception: May 21, 2009, 7-10pmThe Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego will present the work of nine architects who lead San Diego-based architectural design firms that are redefining housing design, development, and urbanization in the San Diego region and beyond....more info
Shirin Neshat
Women Without Men
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, June 18, 2009 - Thursday, June 18, 2009
Reception: June 18, 2009, 7pmThe one-night-only San Diego premiere of celebrated Iranian-American visual artist/filmmaker Shirin Neshat's first feature-length film, Women Without Men. ...more info
Attempt to Raise Hell
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, July 12, 2009 - Sunday, September 27, 2009
The second in a two-part collection exhibition series, Attempt to Raise Hell follows the presentation of Weighing and Wanting in MCASD's La Jolla galleries in the fall of 2008....more info
Kevin Lynch
Octagon
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, July 12, 2009 - Sunday, September 27, 2009
Photographs by Kevin Lynch, who was given unprecedented access to document the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial artists, both ringside and behind the scenes....more info
Dr. Hugh Davies Lecture
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, July 16, 2009 - Thursday, July 16, 2009
Reception: July 16, 2009, 7pmDr. Hugh Davies, Francis Bacon Expert, will lecture on Bacon at the Museum's La Jolla Location. ...more info
alt.pictureshows
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, August 27, 2009 - Thursday, August 27, 2009
Reception: August 27, 2009, 7-10pmViewers can experience a wide range of different short films as they screen on a loop in the Museum's various gallery spaces throughout the evening....more info
Club Monte Carlo
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, September 12, 2009 - Saturday, September 12, 2009
Reception: September 12, 2009, 7pmThe Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego's 33rd annual Monte Carlo gala will be a night of high style-revelry on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at MCASD's oceanfront La Jolla location. ...more info
Reviews June 2009
Review of Light Bulb
An exhibition exclusively engaged with one subject, Jasper Johns: Light Bulb provides an ideal opportunity to enter into the intimate, deeply personal world of the artist. An everyday household object becomes the stand-in for Johns ...more info