MOCA Jacksonville has announced “A Walk on the Wild Side: ‘70s New York in the Norman E. Fisher Collection at MOCA Jacksonville,” an exhibition exploring the dynamic culture of New York in the 1970s that spurred a decade of collaboration and innovation between artists working in a variety of genres. The exhibition features a special collection within the museum’s permanent collection paired with loans from around the country, including artists like Joseph Kosuth, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Nonas, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol, as well as writers, dancers, musicians and singers, including William Burroughs, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.
This exhibition is significant, not only for the visual story it tells, but for the academic research that has been produced as a result of the installation, highlighting an under-researched time in 20th century art history and focusing on the vast influences of a Jacksonville native on the broader art world. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog and an array of public programs to further contextualize the works on view.
Visitors to MOCA Jacksonville can view the exhibition through June 30 and are invited to celebrate the exhibition at the community portion of the exhibition’s opening celebration event that will kick off MOCA’s 100th anniversary year from 8 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18.
