Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - Amy Millett

While looking around at museum sites, I found it was somewhat difficult to find a website that actually showed the exhibition space and not just the pieces being featured in it. However, I did find an exhibition space that I thought was well designed in the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. The MCASD features contemporary work from the 1950s to today and presents a variety of work from all media so it could be useful to a number of people looking for exhibition spaces for their projects.

 The exhibition is called The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection. As the title indicates, the exhibit features the work of over 100 different artists in the area. The work varies in media, scale, and date created—the only uniting factor is where the artists came from.

What's interesting about the exhibition space is that most of the work is featured in "a dense, salon-style" on the walls. There's very little space between each piece of artwork and not everything is provided it's own little caption or explanation. The artwork on the walls is meant to be experienced as a collective whole instead of individually, which I find to be a unique approach. Instead, there is a large cube-like room in the center of the space that has the exhibition title and text on it. It's hard to ignore the presence of a giant cube, so it still works to inform the viewer about what they're looking at. It also houses more artwork inside of it.