Opening on Fri 6/4 @ 7PM
Summer is here, finally. It’s time to revel in sunshine, warmth and the artistic adventures of MOCA’s two new summer exhibitions: Marilyn Minter: Orange Crush, and a video installation, Aïda Ruilova: The Singles 1999-Now. Opening night kicks off at 7PM w/ Caviar Dreams with Marilyn Minter, an interview with the artist and MOCA Senior Curator, Margo Ann Crutchfield. Mingle. Unwind. Enjoy.
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One of the most adventurous and accomplished artists working today, Minter [whose work is pictured] uses bold, luscious colors and glossy surfaces to depict extreme close-ups of women – often fashion models – to examine beauty and decadence while exposing the pleasures and dangers of glamour. Minter’s world, though steeped in fashion and glitz, is one in which beauty has gone awry. She says that her art is invested “in the moment when everything goes wrong. . . when the model sweats.”
The MOCA exhibition presents a focused selection of Minter’s work centered on one of her most recent major paintings, Orange Crush (2009), a 9 x 15 foot triptych. Accompanying the painting are five related large scale photographs and an acclaimed video, Green Pink Caviar (2009), originally featured on Creative Time’s giant MTV billboard in Times Square, and subsequently presented in the opening sequence for the European leg of Madonna’s “Sticky and Sweet” tour.
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New York-based artist Aïda Ruilova combines classical cinematic devices with a distinctively low-tech sensibility, quick cuts, and rhythmic, jarring soundtracks in her video art. This exhibition—the artist’s first solo museum show—features a comprehensive survey of her single-channel video work in a choreographed installation.
One of a young generation of artists who employ media in innovative ways with a do-it-yourself aesthetic, Ruilova’s videos are largely characterized by dark, confined interiors and lone protagonists suspended in chronic states of psychic distress. This complex installation emphasizes her contemporary Gothic aesthetic through a symphony of quickly-moving, often disjointed images and sound.
Exhibitions run through Sun 8/15.
8501 Carnegie Ave.