Art museum in Jacksonville, FL
TheMuseum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville , also known asMOCA Jacksonville , is acontemporary art museum inJacksonville, Florida , funded and operated as a "cultural institute" of theUniversity of North Florida . One of the largest contemporary art institutions in the Southeastern United States, it presents exhibitions by international, national and regional artists.
MOCA Jacksonville was founded in 1924 as the Jacksonville Fine Arts Society,[ 2] American Alliance of Museums .
In late 1999, the museum acquired its permanent home, the historic Western Union Telegraph Building on Hemming Plaza (nowJames Weldon Johnson Park ), built byThe Auchter Company , adjacent to the newly renovated City Hall, and became the Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art (JMOMA). In 2000, a series of preview exhibitions opened in a temporary exhibition space while the building facade was restored to its original Art Deco style. The interior was completely refurbished to house the museum's galleries, educational facilities, a theater/auditorium, Museum Shop and Café Nola. Total renovation of the 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m2 ), six-floor facility was completed in 2003, culminating in a grand re-opening in May of that year.[ 3]
After moving to its downtown location the museum experienced rapid growth in both membership and the size of the permanent collection. The many substantial additions to the collection increased not only its quality, but also its size to almost 800 pieces. In November 2006, JMOMA became the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville.[ 4]
The museum continues to be a cornerstone of Jacksonville's multibillion-dollar downtown revitalization plan.[ 5]
MOCA Jacksonville's changing exhibitions feature the works of contemporary artists working in a wide assortment of media from painting, sculpture, and video. The third floor hosts exhibitions, which rotate approximately every four months.
TheUniversity of North Florida acquired the museum in 2009 to act as a cultural resource of the university.[ 6]
State of the Art: Locate January 21 – May 1, 2022Anderson Goncalves : Cultural PolarityProject Atrium:Chiharu Shiota : Letters of Love February 4 – June 26, 2022Creeks Rising: A City Reflected in Hogans & McCoys Creeks May 6 – June 30, 2022Jessica Hische : CoveredExpress Your UNF Pride May 13 – August 28, 2022Kara Walker : Cut To The Quick: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family FoundationProject Atrium:Maud Cotter : What Was Never Ours To Keep July 9 – November 20, 2022Urban Spaces: UNF Photography Student Exhibition December 2, 2022 – January 8, 2023Art With a Heart in Healthcare: What Lifts You Up September 11, 2022 – January 8, 2023Art + Politics: Grounding Dialogue December 14, 2022 – February 5, 2023Fifty: An Alumni Exhibition March 25, 2022 – February 12, 2023Shervone Neckles : Bless This HouseProject Atrium: Milagros December 9, 2022 – April 9, 2023Ally Brody: Public Domain January 16 – April 18, 2021The American Dream November 21, 2020 – March 7, 2021Jeremy Dean: Neither I, Nor Time, Nor History February 19 – May 30, 2021The Circle and the Square October 2, 2020 – June 6, 2021Romancing the Mirror December 4, 2020 – June 20, 2021Heirloom: Weaving Memory With the Now March 26 – August 1, 2021Imagination Squared10 March 26 – August 1, 2021Art With a Heart: Behind The Mask September 11, 2021 – January 2, 2022Doug Eng: Structure of Nature | Nature of Structure July 9, 2021 – January 2, 2022Damián Ortega August 27, 2021 – January 16, 2022Techno-Intimacy August 13, 2021 – February 13, 2022Left Side Right Side June 25, 2021 – March 6, 2022Virginia Derryberry: Private Domain January 16 – March 22, 2020Jenn Peek: (I)dentify as Phoenix December 2019 – April 12, 2020Project Atrium:Rina Banerjee March 20 – June 28, 2020Recent Acquisitions: History in the Making January 10 – September 20, 2020Project Atrium:Rina Banerjee July 1 – October 25, 2020Breaking Boundaries: The Vision of Jacqueline B. Holmes February 20 – November 15, 2020A Decade of Art With a Heart: Celebrating 10 Years of Partnership September 12 – December 13, 2020Urban Spaces December 17, 2020 – January 10, 2021The American Dream November 21, 2020 – March 7, 2021Project Atrium:Carl Joe Williams November 20, 2020 – March 21, 2021Multiple Ones: Contemporary Perspectives in Printmedia July 1, 2020 – March 21, 2021Project Atrium:Evan Roth : Since You Were Born March 16 – June 23, 2019Urban Spaces April 20 – July 7, 2019Invisible Cities: Paintings by Nathan Lewis March 2 – July 21, 2019Micro-Macro: Andrew Sendor andAli Banisadr February 2 – July 28, 2019Creative Campers: Art Camp Anthology Vol. 3 April 13 – August 4, 2019Project Atrium:Khalid Albaih : Camp/Wall/Flock July 20 – October 27, 2019Project Atrium: Kedgar Volta: The Fragility of Promise November 15, 2019 – March 1, 2020Art + Politics March 14 – April 4, 2018Pledges of Allegiance March 14 – April 4, 2018Project Atrium:Anila Quayyum Agha March 10 – June 24, 2018Art Camp Anthology Vol. 2 April 28 – July 29, 2018A Patterned Response March 31 – August 19, 2018Attentive Arrangements April 1 – August 19, 2018A Dark Place of Dreams:Louise Nevelson withChakaia Booker ,Lauren Fensterstock andKate Gilmore April 28 – September 9, 2018A World of Their Own: Art With a Heart in Healthcare August 4 – December 2, 2018Gideon Mendel : Drowning WorldFrank Stella Unbound: Literature and PrintmakingIn the Water September 1, 2018 – February 24, 2019Project Atrium:Amanda Coogan : The Ladder is Always There November 26, 2018 – February 24, 2019Spotlight:Marc Chagall 's Dress November 26, 2018 – February 24, 2019Interior Geography: Mark Lester December 8, 2018 – April 7, 2019Painting the Picture: Works From the Permanent Collection December 22, 2018 – May 12, 2019Project Atrium: Juan Fontanive, Movement 4 Call & Response Project Atrium: Gabriel Dawe, Plexus No. 38 Synthesize: Art + Music Project Atrium: Lauren Fensterstock Bands of Color: the Use of Line in Contemporary Art Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper The Evolution of Mark-Making UNF Gallery Iterations: Lorrie Fredette UNF Gallery Frank Rampolla: the DNA of the Mark Another Side Revealed: Art with a Heart in Healthcare Art Camp Anthology Retro-spective: Analog Photography in a Digital World Breaking Ground: the Donald and Maria Cox Collection Project Atrium: Shinique Smith: Quickening Project Atrium: Nicola Lopez Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction Project Atrium: Ethan Murrow Time Zones: James Rosenquist and Printmaking at the Millennium In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary Printmaking (from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family) UNF Gallery Leaves: Recent Prints and Sculpture by Donald Martin UNF Gallery Sustain: Clay to Table UNF GalleryAmer Kobaslija : A Sense of Place UNF Gallery The Other: Nurturing a New Ecology in Printmaking Mary Ratcliff, Interwoven: Hear, Home, and Community Inside the Outline: Art with a Heart in Healthcare Rock Paper Scissors: the Printmaking Process Project Atrium: Ian Johnston: Fish Tales Smoke and Mirrors: Sculpture and the Imaginary Project Atrium: Joelle Dietrick: Cargomobilities Southern Exposure: Portraits of a Changing Landscape In Time We Shall Know Ourselves: Photographs by Raymond Smith Project Atrium; Angela Glajcar: Terforation WHITE UNF Gallery Avery Lawrence: Live in Jacksonville UNF Gallery Assemblage/Collage: Works by Phil Parker UNF Gallery John Hee Taek Chae: Barbara Ritzman Devereux Visiting Artist Exhibition UNF Gallery 2015 Art Ventures Grant Awards Artists, The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Amanda Rosenblatt: Allegory of Fortune Unmasked: Art with a Heart in Healthcare Art Aviators Exhibition Project Atrium: Angela Strassheim Get Real: New American Painting Project Atrium: Caroline Lathan-Steifel: Wider Than the Sky The New York Times Magazine Photographs Project Atrium: Sean Thurston Observing Objects: Works by Leigh Murphy Material Transformations Erica Mendoza: Visual Love Letters A Thousand Words: A Photo Response Project Express Your #Selfie: Art with a Heart in Healthcare Scholastic Art Exhibition: Gold Key Portfolio Winners Rainbow Artists Exhibition UNF Gallery Art + Design Faculty Exhibition UNF Gallery Juxtaposition: Works by Larry Wilson & Laurie Hitzig UNF Gallery Backdoor Formalism UNF Gallery Bede Clarke: Barbara Ritzman Devereux Visiting Artist Exhibition Art with a Heart in Healthcare Project Atrium: Heather Cox Kept Time: Photographs by Joseph D. Jachna Inside/Out: MOCA's Permanent Collection Project Atrium: Sarah Emerson Michael Aurbach SLOW: Marking Time in Photography and Film UNF Student Juried Exhibition First Coast Portfolio Project Atrium: Ian Bogost ReFocus: Art of the 1980s Project Atrium: Tristin Lowe Annual UNF Art & Design Faculty Exhibition In This Moment: Art with a Heart in Healthcare Exhibition Rendering Italy: UNF Art and Design Faculty Abroad ReFocus: Art of the 1970s Project Atrium: Mark Licari The Joys of Collecting: Selections from the Eisen Collection Rainbow Artists: Art and Autism Across the Spectrum Exhibition Carrie Ann Baade: Solar Midnight Joe Forkan: The Lebowski Cycle North East Florida Scholastic Art Award ReFocus: Art of the 1960s Tamara Culbert: 2011 Memphis Wood Excellence in Teaching Award Project Atrium: Gustavo Godoy UNF Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Larry Clark: The Tulsa Series Shared Vision: TheSondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape Project Atrium: Melanie Pullen What a Doll: The Human Object as Toy Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Reverend Howard Finster What A Doll: The Human Object As Toy Rainbow Artists: Art and Autism Across the Spectrum Exhibition FUSION: Ceramic Exhibition by the FIRM: Shane Christensen, Brian Jensen, Stephen Heywood, and Michael Schmidt Wind Weaver and the Whirling Wheel: A Tale of Wolfbat Romance The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design Chair Installation by Dolf JamesEdge of Your Seat: Design Challenge , a juried student show in conjunction withThe Art of Seating East/West: Visually Speaking UNF Art and Design Faculty Exhibition Imagination Squared: A Community Response Project Hyperbolic Nature: Plein Air Paintings by Lilian Garcia-Roig Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art Marilyn Monroe: Life as a Legend Looking Forward, Looking Back: Celebrating the Contributions and Careers of Artist/Educators Larry Davis, Mark Howard & Paul Ladnier Dan Estabrook: Forever and Never Separate Strategies & Common Goals Hamish MacEwan: 90 in 09 Robert Motherwell: Lost in Form, Found in Line The Art of Teaching: UNF Faculty Exhibition Emergence: Works by UNF Sculpture Students Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art Jazz Giants: The Photography of Herman Leonard Why Look at Animals? Photography from the George Eastman Collection Ultra-Realistic Sculpture by Marc SijanMaking Marks: Jacksonville Creates The Shape Of Things: Selections From The Permanent Collection And Further the Dew Drop Falls: Installations by Chris Natrop Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Recent Drawings by John Bailly Carly, So Far: Photographs by Francie Bishop Good Memphis Wood: Jacksonville's First Lady of the Arts Contemporary Visions: A Focus on Jacksonville Collections Ramen Noodles 2008: Installation by Sang-Wook Lee Continental Shifts: The Art ofEdouard Duval-Carrié Essence and Materials: Works byMinoru Ohira Sculptures by Duncan Johnson Raddle Cross & Dowsing: Installations by Martha Whittington Coherent Structures: Recent Silverpoint Paintings byCarol Prusa Valuistics: The Making Of: An Installation by James Greene Contemporary Currents: Selections from the Bank of America Collection Impermanence: Recent Works by Andrés Michelena Keyhole: Constructed Paintings by Todd Murphy Second Skins: Sculptural Soundsuits and Tondos byNick Cave Anderson and Low: Athlete/Warrior Green Grass/Black Wings: Paintings by Ian Chase Time Capsules: Illuminated Works by Jon Davis Bloom: Paintings and Constructions by Luis Cruz Azaceta Pilgrimages: Large-Scale Drawings by Clive King Nature of Elegy: Works by Timothy McDowell Flow: Paintings & Installations by Radcliffe Bailey Illuminating Space: New Works by Zac Freeman Artifacts: Photographs by David Halliday Cheerleaders, Bodybuilders and Disco Queens: Photographs by Brian Finke & Morten Nilsson Sheltering Eye: Selections from the Prentice and Paul Sack Photography Collection That's Another Story: Works by Ke Francis 30th Parallel: A Convergence of Contemporary Painting featuring Radcliffe Bailey, John Bailly, Jim Barsness,Luisa Basnuevo , Mark Messersmith, Rocio Rodriguez, Lynne Ridings, Barry SparkmanTransitions: Sculptures and Prints by Joe Segal Activating Space: Sculpture as Environment featuring Tim Curtis,David Geiser , George Long, Jeffery Loy & Joe Martin, Michael Murrell, Jimmy O'NealTonya Lee: New Works Shared Vision: Photographs of Baracoa, Cuba – A Collaborative Documentary Mark Sain Wilson: Photographs Image & Energy: Selections from the Haskell Collection Pam Longobardi: World within Worlds Push Play: Redefining Pop featuring Ray Azcuy, Didi Dunphy, David Isenhour, J. Ivcevich, Federico Uribe andIrene Clouthier Arnold Mesches : A Painting History 1940-2003Fruition: New Works by Sarah Crooks Flaire David Crown: Mezzotints Subject/Object: Photographs by Jay Shoots Intuition & Response: Masterworks from the Edward R. Broida Collection Jonathan Lux: New Paintings High Tide: Works by Joe Walters Woody Cornwell: New Paintings Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body featuringMagdalena Abakanowicz ,Sebastian Blanck ,Connie Imboden ,Pam Longobardi ,Rona Pondick ,Terry Rodgers The Consuming Image: New Painterly Pop featuring Alisa Henriquez, Ales Bask Hostomsky, James Mahoney, Chris Peldo, Michael Thrush, David WilliamsAlt.Photo: Redefining Process featuring Linda Broadfoot, Thomas Hager, Paul Karabinis, Dominick MartorelliContemporary Regional Sculptors featuring Nofa Dixon, Bob Kirk, Jan Tomlinson Master, David Royal OlsonNeobotanica: Flora by Four Contemporary Artists featuring David Collins,David Geiser , Timothy McDowell, Barbara RogersAmerican Beauty: Sculptures by Jack Dowd Towards the Organic: Material and Metaphor featuring Karen Rich Beall, Tim Curtis, Celeste RobergeImage Electric: The Work of Richard Heipp ^ "Mission and History" . MOCA Jacksonville. RetrievedNovember 27, 2020 .^ Karen B. King McCallum."Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art" .Florida Design . Archived fromthe original on July 3, 2018. RetrievedJuly 3, 2018 . ^ "The Auchter Company - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on The Auchter Company" .referenceforbusiness.com . RetrievedNovember 27, 2020 .^ Judy Wells (November 9, 2006)."Museum changes to contemporary name" .The Florida Times-Union the original on November 16, 2007. RetrievedFebruary 10, 2009 . ^ Erin Long (Summer 2004)."The Art & Soul of Jacksonville" .Florida History & the Arts . Archived fromthe original on October 24, 2007. RetrievedFebruary 10, 2009 . ^ "University of North Florida to Acquire Jacksonville MoCA" .ArtInfo . October 3, 2008. Archived fromthe original on April 26, 2009.
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