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MOCRA at Fifteen: Good Friday
February 15, 2009 to May 17, 2009
On February 14, 1993, the world’s first interfaith museum of contemporary art opened its doors. Fifteen years later, Â鶹´«Ă˝â€™s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) continues to serve as a forum for the ongoing dialogue between today’s artists and the major faith traditions. MOCRA celebrates this milestone with two fifteenth-anniversary exhibitions drawing on artists and artworks selected from the museum’s 35 exhibitions. In Fall 2008 the first exhibition, Pursuit of the Spirit, set works by over 40 artists in dialogue with each other, exploring themes such as Sacred Spaces, The Sublime, Mother and Child, and Image and Text.
The second exhibition, Good Friday, presents works by over 30 artists of diverse backgrounds who have used the events of the day of Jesus’ death as inspiration for their own reflections on such themes as faith, suffering, loss, compassion, and unconditional love. The selected works are drawn from the MOCRA collection and works on long-term loan, and employ a wide range of media from painting and sculpture to fiber arts.
Some works employ familiar images such as Hans Holbein’s The Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521), or Heinrich Hoffmann’s Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane (1890), while others make use of traditional devotions such as the Stations of the Cross. Many of the artists translate the events of Jesus’ Passion to contemporary situations and draw forth a variety of insights, from the personal to the political.
Artists in the exhibition include:
Peter Ambrose | Craig Antrim | Gryphon Blackswan | Edward Boccia | Nick Boskovich | Sr. Helen David Brancato | Frederick J. Brown | Bill Christman | Salvador Dalà | Michael David | Douglas DePice | Eleanor Dickinson | James Ensor | Nancy Fried | Ian Friend | Daniel Goldstein | Juan González | Luis González Palma | Patrick Graham | Steven Heilmer | Tobi Kahn | Adrian Kellard | Gerhard Knell | Horatio Hung-Yan Law | Stephen Luecking | Jim Morphesis | James Rosen | Georges Rouault | Thomas Skomski | Michael Tracy
Reflecting on Good Friday is a booklet of self-guided reflections on the art included in the exhibition, particularly appropriate for the Christian season of Lent. Partially inspired by the Stations of the Cross, it is structured around six episodes which are reflected in the works in the Good Friday exhibition. For each of these episodes, in addition to a brief summary of the episode and its significance, we provide a a reflection and reflection questions on a related artworks, along with relevant passages from the Christian Bible and space for notes or journaling.
Download a copy of Reflecting on Good Friday.
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Installation view of MOCRA at Fifteen: Good Friday at MOCRA, 2010. Photo by Jeffrey Vaughn.
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