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| Jill Mulleady, Swan Lake on the Radio, 2023. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
MOCA has acquired L.A. artist
Jill Mulleady's Swan Lake on the Radio, a 14-foot-wide oil-on-linen painting. It's one of a group of works duplicating the sizes and formats of Goya's
Black Paintings.
Swan Lake corresponds to Goya's
Witches' Sabbath (1820-23).
Mulleady was featured in the Hammer's "Made in L.A. 2020" and was shown at the Marciano Foundation's Wllshire exhibition space. Maurice Marciano supplied funds for the MOCA purchase, along with Erik Feig & Susanna Felleman.
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| Goya, Witches' Sabbath, or the Great He-Goat, 1820-1823. Museo del Prado |
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| Mulleady's Swan Lake on the Radio as shown at Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2022 |
Comments
Although I guess any style of art can be described as same 'ol, same 'ol, the trend of non-figurative/blobs/splotches/avant-garde is generally unbroken and dates back quite awhile.
Too bad that MOCA, for both technical and budgetary reasons, probably will never be able to expand their building on Grand Ave. Moreover, the way the economy is going, the next several years may be even tougher for non-profits and philanthropy.
"The Threatened Swan," of 1650, by Jan Asselijn, comes to mind like a bolt of joy.
It became the very first acquisition to enter the Netherlands Nationale Kunstgalerij (the forerunner of the Rijksmuseum) in 1800.
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/SK-A-4