Lari Pittman among 4 new MOCA board members
Art department painting professor Lari Pittman has recently joined the board of trustees for the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. He joins fellow Art department faculty members Barbara kruger and Catherine Opie.
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has elected four new trustees to its board, including L.A. painter Lari Pittman and entrepreneur and philanthropist Mary Klaus Martin, who served as a charter founder of the museum in the late 1970s.
Also named to the board was Adam Sender, a noted art collector and hedge fund manager, and Gabriel Brener, a financier with a specialty in Latino media ventures who has collected art for two decades. They bring the total number of active board members to 49, including six artist trustees. Pittman joins fellow artists Mark Bradford, Barbara Kruger, John Baldessari, Mark Grotjahn and Catherine Opie on the board.
"We are adding to the board because the more people at the table, the better the dinner party, the larger the conversation,"MOCA Director Philippe Vergne said Tuesday. "We need to continue to grow our board and we want to go about it strategically, to bring people from different walks of life."— Carolina A. Miranda, Dec. 17
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