PROJECT ATRIUM: Frank Stella
FEBRUARY 29 – August 18, 2024
Frank Stella (b. 1936; Malden, MA) returns to MOCA Jacksonville following his successful print exhibition in 2018, Frank Stella Unbound, this time for an installation in the Atrium to celebrate the museum’s 100th anniversary.
Frank Stella has produced an extraordinary body of work over the past six decades. Since his first solo gallery exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960, when he presented his famous “Black Paintings”, Stella has continuously explored the possibilities of the expression of visual space. Initial paintings based on the rejection of the conventionally rectangular canvas, and of painting-as-representation, gave way to complex wall reliefs made from paint, cardboard, and felt. He further blurred the distinction between painting and sculpture in baroque works that seemed to leap off the wall. Today, Stella uses digital modeling to explore how subtle changes in scale, color and material can affect our perception and experience of the free-standing object.
The Project Atrium installation is accompanied by an exhibition of prints from the MOCA collection, with loans from local collectors. Frank Stella began his extended engagement with printmaking in the mid-1960s, working first with master printer Kenneth Tyler at the famed workshop Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles, CA. This pioneering studio brought together artists, such as Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns who, like Stella, were interested in investigating the creative opportunities offered by prints and multiples.
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MOCA AT 100
MOCA Jacksonville celebrates its centennial in 2024, as the oldest art museum in the region and one of the first contemporary art museums to be established in the United States. This celebration year is an opportunity for MOCA to give back to the community that has been its home for a century by presenting groundbreaking exhibitions and programs that will engage the community and elevate Jacksonville as a regional destination for arts and culture. Your support is vital to making these plans a reality. We hope that you will join us in celebrating this momentous occasion for MOCA and for Jacksonville. Learn More >>
In MOCA's Permanent Collection
MOCA Jacksonville has several Frank Stella works in its permanent collection, and is excited to be featuring a new and monumental work as part of its Project Atrium series.
