As an institution committed to displaying a wide variety of cutting-edge art, MOCA exhibitions are rotated out every 3-5 months. MOCA (formally the Contemporary Art Cener of Virginia) publications serve as academic record for our institution which, unlike many other Museums, does not have a permanent collection to document its institutional growth. Artist and group exhibition catalogues are a way of recording MOCA’s academic achievement and aid the museum in reaching its strategic goal of “becoming an intellectual centerpiece of the region and engage in national discourse.”
Authored by MOCA staff, these publications further illuminate the theories and practices of artists highlighted within the Museum’s exhibition set. The dissemination and purchase of MOCA catalogues provides lenders, collectors, artists and the public an archival document that in turn supports art and art education.
MOCA has an archive of full-color catalogues from select exhibitions. Catalogues are available to be shipped to other institutions. Call for more information 757.425.0000 x10.
Catalogues from exhibits curated by MOCA (formerly the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia):
- Working on the Water: The Commerce in the Hampton Roads Region, New Works by Janos Enyedi (2005)
- Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences (2007)
- Stephen Vitello: Slow Planes, Fast Trees (sound works and documents) (2007)
- Jonston Foster: Altered Beast (2008)
- Michael Scoggins: Sic Semper Tyrannis (2008)
- Mikhail Magaril: Russian Roulette (2008)
- Transformed (2008)
- Hank Murta Adams (2009)
Catalogues from exhibits loaned to and displayed at MOCA (formerly Contemporary Art Center of Virginia):
- Dante Marioni: Form | Color | Pattern by Museum of Glass, Tacoma. (2008)
- Mary Magsamen and Stephan Hillerbrand: Exhale (2006-2007)
- Carrie Mae Weems: To Be Continued (2006)
- Water, Water, Everywhere by the Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2006)
- Tim Rollins: The Creation (2005)
- Point of View: American Folk Art from the William and Ann Oppenhimer Collection (2003)
