ARLINGTON, Va., February 15, 2023 – Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington is proud to announce new exhibitions opening in February. These first new exhibitions of 2023 showcase the strength and diversity of the Museum’s program, highlighting the work of local, national, and international artists.

On the main floor, MoCA Arlington presents Crisis of Image, an exhibition curated by Jacob Rhodes, Kris Racaniello, and Lisa Schilling from Field Projects, a collectively run, artist-centric gallery established in 2011 and based in Chelsea, New York City.

Crisis of Image features nine artists who use new methods, strategies, and modes of access to produce and manipulate visual images. Working in photography and digital technology, as well as with more traditional materials like stone carving, woodblock printing, and fibers, the artists seek equity in our saturated visual world. They resist calls for image suppression, focusing instead on developing new methods of image transformation and production, creating new strategies for breaking through the visual overabundance of the current moment.

Crisis of Image includes work by artists Ayanna Dozier, Amy Elkins, Melissa Joseph, Lydia McCarthy, Triton Mobley, Steve Pauley, and Rob Swainston and Zorawar Sidhu. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with an essay by Kirsten Gill, a scholar and theorist of moving image media and a doctoral candidate in the art history department at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. 

In the Wyatt Resident Artists Gallery, MoCA Arlington presents Grey View, the first solo exhibition by resident artist Rebecca Rivas Rogers. Grey View is an exuberant love letter to the color gray, a record of the abstractions, colors, and textures found in America’s constructed spaces and a snapshot of the artist’s creative process. Consisting of photographs, collage, and a sprawling site-specific installation, Grey View is an outgrowth of Rivas Rogers’ ongoing aesthetic investigations into places that you see on your way to somewhere else.

In the Truland and Experimental Galleries, MoCA Arlington presents Global Spotlight: Video Art from Ukraine, a selection of video work by leading Ukrainian contemporary artists Nikolay Karabinovych, Mykola Ridnyi, and Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy. The works included in the exhibition explore questions of history and memory, while also addressing the experience of daily life amid or adjacent to armed conflict.

Crisis of Image and Rebecca Rivas Rogers: Grey View open February 11 and run through May 14, 2023.

Global Spotlight: Video Art from Ukraine opens February 25 and runs through May 14, 2023.

On February 25, from 5pm to 8pm, MoCA Arlington will host a reception to celebrate the exhibitions. Exhibiting artists will be in attendance and MoCA Arlington Resident Artists will also open their studios to the public.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington offers free admission and is currently open Wednesday through Sunday, 12-5pm. Visit mocaarlington.org for a full schedule of activities.