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MOCRA at Fifteen: Pursuit of the Spirit
September 21, 2008 to December 14, 2008
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. The first, Pursuit of the Spirit, sets works by over 40 artists in dialogue with each other, exploring a number of overarching themes, including The Spirit in Found Objects, Image and Text, In Memoriam, Mother and Child, Revelation and Concealment, Sacred Circles, Sacred Spaces, Sources, The Sublime, and Suffering and Healing.
Artists in the exhibition include:
Alvin Ailey | Seyed Alavi | Romare Bearden | Lore Bert | Frederick J. Brown | MarĂa Magdalena Campos-Pons | Junko Chodos | Jon Cournoyer | Michael David | Lewis deSoto | Sue Eisler | Robert Farber | Oskar Fischinger | Arshile Gorky | Steven Heilmer | Steven Holl | Tony Hooker | DoDo Jin Ming | Carolyn Jones | Tobi Kahn | Alan Karchmer | Dean Kessmann | Paul Kos | Robert Kostka | Frank LaPena | Belinda Lee | Tim Liddy | Whitfield Lovell | Stephen Luecking | J. W. Mahoney | Bernard Maisner | Richard Meier | Jeff Miller | Anne Minich | Jim Morphesis | Gary Passanise | Daniel Ramirez | James Rosen | Georges Rouault | Susan Schwalb | Shahzia Sikander | Thomas Skomski | Kazuaki Tanahashi | Kanya Tjapangarti | Michael Tracy | Brian Tripp | Paul Warchol | Andy Warhol
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Installation view of MOCRA at Fifteen: Pursuit of the Spirit at MOCRA, 2008. Photo by Jeffrey Vaughn.
Exhibition |
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![]() Bernard Maisner: The Hourglass and the Spiral |
![]() Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre |
![]() Erika Diettes: Sudarios |
![]() Regina DeLuise: Vast Bhutan – Images from the Phenomenal World |
![]() Calligraphic Art of Salma Arastu |
![]() Thresholds: MOCRA at 20 - Part Two, The Second Decade |
![]() Rebecca Niederlander: Axis Mundi |
![]() Jordan Eagles: BLOOD / SPIRIT |
![]() Thresholds: MOCRA at 20 - Part One, The First Decade |
![]() Archie Granot: The Papercut Haggadah |
![]() A Tribute to Frederick J. Brown |
![]() Patrick Graham: Thirty Years – The Silence Becomes the Painting |
![]() Adrian Kellard: The Learned Art of Compassion |
![]() Good Friday: The Suffering Christ in Contemporary Art |
![]() James Rosen: The Artist and the Capable Observer |
![]() MOCRA at Fifteen: Good Friday |
![]() Michael Byron: Cosmic Tears |
![]() Miao Xiaochun: The Last Judgment in Cyberspace |
![]() MOCRA at Fifteen: Pursuit of the Spirit |
![]() Oskar Fischinger: Movement and Spirit |
![]() The Celluloid Bible: Marketing Films Inspired by Scripture |
![]() Arshile Gorky: The Early Years – Drawings and Paintings, 1927–1937 |
![]() Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds |
![]() Junko Chodos: The Breath of Consciousness |
![]() DoDo Jin Ming: Land and Sea |
![]() Rito, Espejo y Ojo / Ritual, Mirror and Eye: Photography by Luis González-Palma, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Pablo Soria |
![]() Radiant Forms in Contemporary Sacred Architecture: Richard Meier and Steven Holl |
![]() Daniel Ramirez: Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus, an Homage to Oliver Messiaen |
![]() Avoda: Objects of the Spirit – Ceremonial Art by Tobi Kahn |
![]() Tony Hooker: The Greater Good – An Artist's Contemporary View of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study |
![]() Andy Warhol: Silver Clouds, an encore presentation |
![]() Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds: A Fortieth Anniversary Celebration |
![]() Lewis deSoto: Paranirvana |
![]() Robert Farber: A Retrospective, 1985–1995 |
![]() Bernard Maisner: Entrance to the Scriptorium |
![]() Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses |
![]() MOCRA: The First Five Years |
![]() Steven Heilmer: Pietre Sante | Holy Stones |
![]() Utopia Body Paint Collection and Australian Aboriginal Art from St. Louis Collections |
![]() Manfred Stumpf: Enter Jerusalem |
![]() Frederick J. Brown: The Life of Christ Altarpiece |
![]() Edward Boccia: Eye of the Painter |
![]() Consecrations Revisited |
![]() Keith Haring: Altarpiece – The Life of Christ |
![]() Ian Friend: The Edge of Belief – paintings, sculpture, and works on paper, 1980–1994 |
![]() Eleanor Dickinson: A Retrospective |
![]() Post-Minimalism and the Spiritual: Four Chicago Artists |
![]() Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS |
![]() Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art, Part One |
![]() Body and Soul: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
![]() Transformations: Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre |
![]() Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre |
![]() Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre |
![]() Georges Rouault: Miserere et Guerre |
![]() Visible Conservation |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection: The Romero Cross |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Highlights from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art, Part Two – Three Major Installations |
![]() Beyond Words: Three Contemporary Artists and the Manuscript Tradition |
![]() MOCRA: 25 |
![]() Gary Logan: Elements |
![]() Gratitude |
![]() Surface to Source |
![]() Quiet Isn't Always Peace |
![]() Tom Kiefer: Pertenencias / Belongings |
![]() Double Vision: Art from Jesuit University Collections |
![]() Lesley Dill: Dream World of the Forest |
![]() Jordan Eagles: VIRAL\VALUE |
![]() This Road Is the Heart Opening: Selections from the MOCRA Collection |
![]() Vicente Telles and Brandon Maldonado: Cuentos Nuevomexicanos |
![]() Open Hands: Crafting the Spiritual |
![]() Selections from the MOCRA Collection |