The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)Downtown

In These Times: Recent Acquisitions at MOCA

Now showing20 September 2026 – 3 January 2027Free

Five years of major purchases and gifts, from Julie Mehretu and Henry Taylor to Suzanne Jackson and Charles Gaines, grouped by theme across the galleries.

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Hilary Pecis painted the freeway exit she passed on her weekday commute for five years: a stoplight, dense planting, retaining walls, billboards and a blue sky reflected in windows. Silverlake Hillside (2025) is one of the recent MOCA acquisitions on view.

The show surveys five years of major purchases and gifts, grouped by theme: representations of Los Angeles, group portraiture, recent abstract painting and works of obsessive detail. Julie Mehretu and Nairy Baghramian's TRANSpaintings (green ecstatic) is ink and acrylic on polyester mesh, and Magdalena Suarez Frimkess's Chariot is glazed stoneware.

General admission to MOCA Grand Avenue is free, with advance reservations recommended. Pecis gave one freeway off-ramp a whole canvas, which is more than you've given the 101 at 6pm.

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Five years of purchases and gifts hung by theme: Julie Mehretu, Henry Taylor, Suzanne Jackson, Charles Gaines. MOCA Grand Avenue is free, which in Downtown LA makes it cheaper than parking.

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Hilary Pecis, Silverlake Hillside (2025)
An acrylic-on-linen view of a freeway exit at a stoplight, with dense landscaping, fences, billboards and a bluebird sky reflected in windows.
Mehretu and Baghramian, TRANSpaintings (green ecstatic)
A 2023-2024 collaboration in ink and acrylic on polyester mesh rather than canvas.
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Chariot
A glazed stoneware work made in 2021-2022, among the paintings and prints.