Local Angelenos Art Works Added to The Broad Museum Permanent Collection

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Broad has added 29 new works to its permanent collection of contemporary art, with a third of the new works from local artists, further deepening the museum’s connection to Los Angeles, a museum official said Friday.

"The Board is a hallmark collection for artists who emerged in the 1980s, whose preoccupations and innovations are still so resonant and influential in today's ever-expanding, image-saturated world, and many of our acquisitions deepen those holdings," museum founding director Joanne Heyler said. "The addition of more L.A.-based artists also extends our long history of collecting art within L.A.'s dynamic art scene."

The new acquisitions come from artists both familiar and new to the Broad.

The museum owns the largest collection of photographer Cindy Sherman works worldwide — the artist’s latest photographs are on view in the Broad’s "Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life.” The museum now boasts 129 Sherman works.

The Broad deepened its holdings of works by other 1980s-era Pictures Generation artists in its collection as well.

It purchased Sherrie Levine’s cast bronze "Beach Ball After Lichtenstein,” created last year; it now owns 11 pieces by the artist. It also acquired a new work from 2015 by John Baldessari, the painted print "That’s Not Bad…., 2015,” bringing its holdings by the Los Angeles artist to 41.

The museum introduced media artist Ericka Beckman into its collection as well, with the acquisition of the artist’s 32-minute, 16-millimeter film, "You the Better.” The piece, shot in 1983, will be displayed in an installation alongside related set pieces immersed in synchronized lighting, according to the newspaper.

Beckman is one of six artists whose work is new to the Broad’s collection of postwar and contemporary art. The others are England and Colombia- based Oscar Murillo, Tauba Auerbach, Alex Israel, Jonas Wood and Piotr Uklanski.

— City News Service, photo credit: Ben Gibbs/The Broad Museum