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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Annual Report FY13 INSTALLATION VIEW OF BEHOLD, AMERICA! ART OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THREE SAN DIEGO MUSEUMS. PHOTO BY PABLO MASON. < MCASD > LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR AND CEO LETTER FROM THE DAVID C. COPLEY DIRECTOR AND CEO 4 < MCASD > LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR AND CEO LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR AND CEO < MCASD > The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego closer to the artistic process in meaningful requires constant calibration. As in the past, we contemporary art, artists, and the creative (MCASD) has long been a visionary center for ways. Curatorial and education departments were served well by our commitment to prudent process. We thank our Members, generous art of our day, and during the fiscal year ending fostered this in innovative ways—from financial planning and discipline. Due to careful Board of Trustees, and the diverse group of June 30, 2013, we focused our creative ener- creating videos of exhibition installations in management including some difficult decisions, individual and institutional funders who make it gies on offering ways to see the world anew. progress, to offering artist talks and lectures, MCASD remains organizationally vibrant and all possible. More than 150,000 visitors were treated to a to taking groups to visit artists in their fiscally sound, boasting a strong balance sheet panorama of 14 exceptional exhibitions in our studios. Quarterly Family ArtLAB and ongoing and a steady endowment fund. We look forward to seeing you soon and dual locations. thoughtLAB programming offered students promise that you will always see something and families the opportunity to discover Supportive institutional partners continue fresh, intriguing, and delightful at MCASD! And Behold, America! Art of the United States “insider” knowledge about the exhibitions. to recognize MCASD’s high level of perfor- remember, admission is valid for seven days to from Three San Diego Museums, the culmina- Bilingual tours and expanded outreach mance and vision. MCASD was proud to be both locations and is always FREE for military tion of several years of collaboration with through the Extended School Partnership named a non-profit sponsor for the San Diego personnel and their families, and for everyone The San Diego Museum of Art and the Timken (ESP) program with Spanish-language high Foundation’s 2013 Creative Catalyst Fellow, age 25 and under—more ways we enable visitors Museum of Art, was a milestone project which school classes bolstered our mandate of Margaret Noble. Major advance awards were to see the world anew. reimagined the region’s American art hold- serving a diverse, bi-national audience. received from the National Endowment for the ings in novel ways. Lifelike invited the public to Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Hugh M. Davies, Ph.D. re-examine their impressions of works which All marketing efforts reinforced the “insider” Visual Arts. Qualcomm Foundation continued The David C. Copley Director and CEO were startlingly realistic, often playful, and concept by sharing installation photos and to be a major investor in our capacity to bring sometimes surreal. videos on our multimedia website, expand- exemplary art experiences—underwriting the 25 ing social networking and traditional press and Under Free Admission policy and providing Focused exhibitions allowed MCASD to highlight platforms, and the re-design of the Museum’s a phenomenal $250,000 award in support of new talent. Scoli Acosta: ELEMENTALISTHMUS quarterly VIEW Magazine. The more portable the Behold, America! exhibition and catalogue. offered this young Los Angeles artist his first format not only aimed to make the Member one-person exhibition on the West Coast. In magazine more image driven, but it also With so many highlights throughout the year, Margaret Noble: 44th and Landis, a San Diego added “artist spotlight” and “inside scoop” it was with a heavy heart that the Museum native crafted an experiential sound installation content to further reveal the inner workings family lost a significant and longtime supporter, which evoked San Diego’s City Heights neigh- of the institution. VIEW Magazine was recog- Board President David C. Copley, on November borhood, where she grew up. nized with a prestigious American Alliance of 20, 2012. David’s legacy will live on in so many Museum’s 2013 Museum Publications Design ways, notably through his endowing of the At our La Jolla location Approximately Infinite Competition award for 1st Prize. directorship, the gift of the Copley Building Universe brought together seventeen artists Downtown, his incredible bequest of 39 works who employed a range of mediums as a means In its fifth year, the Teen Advisory Group (TAG) by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude—making to move backward and forward through time. continued to thrive. Twenty talented students MCASD the largest repository of Christo’s work came together over the course of a school year outside of the National Gallery in Washington At our downtown location The Very Large Array, to envision and realize public projects designed D.C. His absence will be felt by all of us. We were an expansive exhibition of permanent collection for and open to all high school students. In one fortunate to have the generous and longtime works, highlighted many of the region’s most unique project, Purposeful Acts of Kindness, the Trustee Colette Carson Royston finish his term. beloved and accomplished artists. Similarly, teens worked with artist Brian Dick to brighten In May 2013, Matthew Strauss was appointed Photography in Mexico provided the opportu- the days and outlooks of busy commuters President, and his passion as a collector and nity to broadly examine photography in Mexico during the afternoon rush hour at the Santa Fe expertise as a longtime Board Member cannot using the Museum’s holdings. Depot with activities, gifts of small tokens, and be understated in charting the future. live music performed by the teens. MCASD expanded the concept of the Museum In the coming years, you will see more evi- acting as a laboratory through an array of Even as the nation’s financial outlook improves, dence of our farsighted undertakings—as we public programs intended to bring audiences navigating this altered fundraising-terrain work passionately to expand public access to 6 7 < MCASD MCASD > “THIS IS ONE OF OUR FAVORITE PLACES TO GO WHEN STAYCATIONING OR STROLLING DOWNTOWN. THE VERY LARGE ARRAY: THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO HAVE CUTTING-EDGE ART . PHOTO BY PABLO MASON. ON EXHIBIT.” —PATTY M. INSTALLATION VIEW OF SAN DIEGO/TIJUANA ARTISTS IN THE MCA COLLECTION 8 9 < MCASD > EXHIBITIONS MCASD > EXHIBITIONS LA JOLLA: Behold, America! Art of the United States from Three San Diego Museums Sept 16, 2012 through Feb 10, 2013 Photography in Mexico: Selections from the Collection Dec 14, 2012 through Apr 14, 2013 Lifelike Mar 1, 2013 through May 27, 2013 Prospect 2013 Mar 1, 2013 through May 27, 2013 Approximately Infinite Universe Jun 8, 2013 through Sept 1, 2013 ALSO ON VIEW: Drawings from the Collection , “ART WITH A VIEW: THE MUSEUM ITSELF IS A WORK OF ART, VERY CONTEMPORARY AND OPEN. BESIDES CUTTING EDGE APPROXIMATELY INFINITE UNIVERSE WORKS OF ART, THE VIEW OF THE LA JOLLA COASTLINE AND , 1966 BY YOKO ONO. PHOTO BY PABLO MASON. THE PACIFIC OCEAN IS SPECTACULAR. GREAT LITTLE GIFT SKY TV SHOP WITH REALLY UNIQUE ITEMS.” —TORIA INSTALLATION VIEW OF FEATURING 10 11 < MCASD EXHIBITIONS < MCASD > SCOLI BY DAVID BY EXHIBITIONS DOWNTOWN: Margaret Noble: 44th and Landis Aug 9, 2012 through Jan 20, 2013 ARTE REEMBLOSO/ART REBATE REEMBLOSO/ART ARTE THE VERY LARGE SAN ARRAY: DIEGO/TIJUANA The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection Nov 29, 2012 through Oct 13, 2013 , FEATURING . PHOTOS PABLO BY MASON. Scoli Acosta: ELEMENTALISTHMUS Feb 3, 2013 through Jun 23, 2013 OPPOSITE PAGE: INSTALLATION VIEW OF ARTIST IN THE MCA COLLECTION LOUISAVALOS, HOCK, AND ELIZABETH SISCO. / ABOVE: INSTALLATION VIEW OF ELEMENTALISTHMUS ACOSTA: 12 13 < MCASD EXHIBITIONS: ALSO ON VIEW < MCASD > ALSO ON VIEW: JACOBS BUILDING Sol Lewitt, Six-Part Modular Cube From the Collection: Work of the 1970s , 1976, POLYURETHANE ON SIX-PART MODULAR CUBE SOL LEWITT, ALUMINUM. COLLECTION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, MUSEUM PURCHASE, MUSEUM ART COUNCIL FUND, 1982.6. © 2012 THE LEWITT / ARTISTS ESTATE RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK. 14 15 < MCASD > EXHIBITIONS: ALSO ON VIEW MCASD > ALSO ON VIEW: 1001 KETTNER GALLERIES Steve Fagin: Virtual Play: Double Direct Monkey Wrench in Black’s Machinery Juan Downey: The Laughing Alligator Allison Schulnik: Forest , 1989 Richard Long, Baja California Circle and other works from the Permanent Collection Antony Gormley, Mother’s Pride and other works from the Permanent Collection BAJA CALIFORNIA CIRCLE Nathan Mabry, Process Art (Dead Men Don’t Make Sculpture)* INSTALLATION VIEW OF WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION FEATURING RICHARD LONG’S 17 < MCASD > ACQUISITIONS ACQUISITIONS < MCASD > YIGAL OZERI GRACIELA ITURBIDE GRACIELA ITURBIDE ACQUISITIONS Untitled (Lizzie in the Snow), 2010 Nina con Visija, Tonala, Oaxaca, 1974 Juego de Manos [Handplay], Juchitan, Oaxaca, 1988 mixed media on paper silver gelatin print silver gelatin print KIM DORLAND 10 x 14 1/2 in. 17 3/4 x 12 in. 11 1/8 x 16 1/2 in. Missy and Mark, 2009 Gift of Catlin Moore, 2012.27 Gift of Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg, 2012.33 Gift of Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg, 2012.41 oil, acrylic, and spraypaint on wood 48 x 48 in. OLAFUR ELIASSON GRACIELA ITURBIDE TONY CRAGG Museum purchase with funds from the Hilarie and Mark Homage to P. Schatz, 2012 Marcha Politica, Juchitan, Oaxaca, 1985 Collector, 1983 Moore Family Trust, 2012.20 optical lighting film, aluminum rings, and LED strips silver gelatin print mixed media 11 7/8 x 11 7/8 x 27 3/4 in. 18 1/8 x 12 3/8 in. Variable dimensions KIM DORLAND Museum purchase, 2012.28 Gift of Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg, 2012.34 Gift of Joyce and Ted Strauss, 2012.42 Taylor Drive, 2010 oil, acrylic, and silver leaf on wood DE WAIN VALENTINE GRACIELA ITURBIDE LADDIE JOHN DILL 36 x 48 in.
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