MOCA adds over 90 works in 2002

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has announced its 2002 art acquisitions -- a bonanza of more than 90 gifts and purchases.

“A Quadrilateral Oriented Vision, Per I-Per VI,” a monumental abstract painting by Alfred Jensen, donated by the estate of artist Sam Francis, is among the most highly prized items. Currently on loan to a Jensen exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the intricately patterned, 7-by-25-foot painting was described as “insanely ambitious” and deemed a “show-stopping masterpiece” by Times reviewer David Pagel.

MOCA has gained an untitled plywood and metal sculpture made in 1984 by Donald Judd, as a gift of artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. The museum also has acquired several pieces from its recent exhibitions: “Pergamon Museum II, Berlin,” a photograph by Thomas Struth; “Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake),” a video installation by Douglas Gordon; and three works on paper by Liz Larner.

Works by many L.A. artists, including Roy Dowell, Llyn Foulkes, Pae White and Lisa Lapinski, have joined the collection.

Four other new additions -- paintings by Michael Borremans, Marlene Dumas, Neo Rauch and Luc Tuymans, purchased with funds from the Buddy Taub Foundation -- are on view at MOCA in “New European Painting in the Collection,” through March 30.