The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Des Moines Art Center

Location
Des Moines, IA
Grant Cycle
Fall 2018
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Multi-year Program Support
Website
desmoinesartcenter.org ↗

The Des Moines Art Center is an important regional museum in Iowa whose strong collection of modern and contemporary work from the 20th and 21st centuries is housed across three wings designed by renowned architects Eliel Saarinen, I.M. Pei and Richard Meier. Despite its art and architectural pedigrees, it is also very much, as its name suggests, an art center, a place where artists and audiences come together to discuss the issues and urgencies of our time, and where art is taught to adults and children in an attached school.


Karla Black (Scottish, born 1972)
Unlike, 2018
Glass, wood, clay, paint, Vaseline, lipstick, foundation,
moisturizing gel / 54 3/4 × 37 13/16 × 12 5/8 inches
Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections;
Purchased with funds from the Kyle and Sharon Krause
Family Art Acquisition Fund, 2019.15
Photo Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photographer: ©Jens Ziehe / ©Karla Black
Karla Black (Scottish, born 1972)
Diamond Hard, 2013
cardboard, paint, petroleum jelly, cellophane
Overall: 44 1/8 × 57 7/8 × 33 7/16 in. (112 × 147 × 85 cm.)
Copyright the artist, Courtesy Modern Art, London. 
Photographer: Todd-White Art Photography
Karla Black (Scottish, born 1972)
What To Ask Of Others, 2011
Polythene, chalk dust, thread
Overall: 55 1/8 × 118 1/8 × 11 13/16 inches (140 × 300 × 30 cm.)
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Photo Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
Photographer: ©Dario Lasagni

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Catherine Opie, Artist