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MoMA, 2017, is a depiction of the 30 most iconic paintings in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, as collected and sourced by Daignault from catalogues, magazines, top-ten lists, websites, and social media. Installed in a grid, the work is a portrait of an institution, not only distilling its permanent collection to color and content, but revealing an overwhelmingly historical bias toward male painters – there are no women represented here. Beyond the objective, the short and poetic texts on each of the individual paintings relay the subjective interiority of one artist's experience of these works. MoMA, 2017, highlights the tension between Daignault’s experience as a female painter and the history and present of the medium. [1] 

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Images: Top: Edward Ruscha. OOF 1962 (reworked 1963). Oil on canvas.  71 1/2 x 67 inches. Collection Museum of Modern Art. Bottom: One [of thirty] canvases that comprise Cynthia Daignault’s MoMA, 2017.

Text: [1] Excerpt from The FLAG Art Foundation press materials for Cynthia Daignault There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before.

Cynthia Daignault. MOMA, 2017 is included in There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before on view at FLAG January 19 - May 13, 2017. For more information, click here.