One of the most significant exhibitions of Arshile Gorky’s work began Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which is presenting Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective through September 20 at MOCA Grand Avenue.
This major traveling retrospective celebrates the extraordinary life and work of Gorky, a seminal figure in the movement toward abstraction that transformed American art in the middle of the 20th century.
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective positions Gorky as a crucial forerunner of abstract expressionism, and as a passionate and dedicated artist whose tragic life often informed his groundbreaking and deeply personal paintings. The first full-scale survey of Gorky’s art since 1981, this exhibition includes more than 120 works spanning the artist’s 25-year career.
