CAAM has maintained a commitment to building a collection focused on art and history with an emphasis on California and the western United States. Within the scope of its collecting, CAAM seeks to narrate a history of the region's artistic legacies and the relationships these have to the broader field of art through a range of media. CAAM continues to build its collection primarily through generous gifts from donors and artists. This approach provides the museum with a diverse range of holdings and opportunities to display histories of recent artistic practice that are disparate, divergent, and reflective of the broader range of identities, disciplines, and forms that give shape to an idea of modern life.
Recent accessions include:
Sadie Barnette
Untitled (Dog Bone), 2015
Spray paint, collage, and sticker on paper
15 1/3 x 12 1/2 in.
Lisa Diane Wedgeworth
No Amount of Scrubbing Can Make Me Forget The Time I’ve Wasted on You (Shower Vignette), 2012
Single-channel video, color, sound
5:52 min.
Songs and Spirituals by Marian Anderson, record, 1942
Genevieve Gaignard
Extra Value (After Venus), 2016
Chromogenic print
20 x 30 in.
Gary Simmons
Minds Playing Tricks on Me, 1998
Chalk, paint, wood, metal, rubber, and fixative
84 x 79 x 26 3/4 in.
Kianga Ford
Charcot's Vertigo - Urban Study #3, Piazza Navona, Rome, 2006
Digital video installation with ambient soundtrack
Dimensions variable
Edition of 7