Explore Los Angeles Museum The Broad Online

You can now digitally explore one of the best museums of Los Angeles, The Broad. The organization has launched The Hub accompanied by the hashtag #TheBroadFromHome to virtually open the museum up to the public—including its most popular exhibition, Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away.

Yayoi Kusama

This week, The Broad is highlighting a new artist in the museum’s collection, New York-based artist Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Quinn is known for his composite portraits which appear to be made of collaged materials, but are actually painted and drawn. The artist uses materials such as oil paint, charcoal, gouache, oil stick, and pastels to render fragments of images that he sources from a wide variety of materials including fashion magazines, family photographs, newspapers, ads, comics, and the Internet. As Quinn works, he covers portions of the composition so that no one part of the work influences the next, and meticulously recreates details and facial features from his found images. The artist’s personal experiences strongly inform his work, which probes complex issues of identity, memory, and perception. The museum recently acquired two works by the artist—C’mo’ And Walk With Me (2019) and Pure Insecurity (2019)—which will be featured in an upcoming exhibition celebrating The Broad’s fifth anniversary.

Nathaniel Mary Quinn