THE M.A.R.S. ARTSPACE LEGACY: Prints by M.A.R.S. & SelfHelp Graphics In 1978 a group of artists and community leaders formed an artists' cooperative, Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado (M.A.R.S.) to promote visual and performing arts by contemporary Arizona, Mexican-American and Chicano artists. Nomadically exhibiting in a variety of spaces, their permanent gallery, M.A.R.S. Artspace, opened […]
Exhibition and related programs supported by the Polish Cultural Institute OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, February 7, 2004 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Personal Doping: Video Installations by Agnieszka Kalinowska All my projects essentially consist of observing human behavior in extreme situations. I try to freeze very short moments of extreme physical and mental tension. Decisions made […]
BLUE MEMORY: Paintings by Tran Trong Vu Tran's striking paintings of schematic figures on suspended sheets of plastic explore what it means to be Asian and Vietnamese within the context of an increasingly westernized global culture. His paintings are peopled by androgynous Asian figures against a backdrop of the signs of a modernized Hanoi (like […]
LANDSCAPE IN THE FIREPLACE: Paintings by Pedro Alvarez Pedro Alvarez conflates old and new painting styles and ideological positions. He quotes 19th century costumbrista painting by Europeans who came to Cuba and created the vocabulary of Romantic clichés that characterized the island as exotic and sensuous. He overlays these images with American advertising illustration from […]
HUMOR, IRONY AND WIT: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond Drawn from the Ceramics Research Center's permanent collection as well as other private and public collections, this exhibition unfolds the compelling and often humorous story of the development of Funk ceramics that emerged from the San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s. Robert Arneson […]
THE LONG DAY: Sculpture by Claudette Schreuders The ASU Art Museum presents the first solo exhibition of sculpture and prints by South African artist Claudette Schreuders in an American museum. The Long Day features eleven new sculptures, lithographs and drawings by South African artist Claudette Schreuders. Schreuders is best known for her autobiographical figurative sculpture […]
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, May 22, 2004 7-9 p.m. The battle lines have been drawn. It always seems to be between "them" and "us" -- those darn snowbirds, those seniors on the highway driving so slowly, bluehairs in the supermarket line with all those time-consuming coupons. But who's kidding whom? In reality, we are "them" and […]
British Ceramic Masterworks: Highlights from the Anne and Sam Davis Collection This summer, the Ceramics Research Center at the ASU Art Museum will celebrate the donation that launched its collection to new heights six years ago, when it presents British Ceramic Masterworks: Highlights from the Anne and Sam Davis Collection. The exhibition will present a […]
OUT OF THE WOODS Drawn from the ASU Art Museum's permanent collection and local collections, this exhibition presents artworks made of wood or derived from natural resources. It will examine ecological issues connected to those materials and the environmental challenges of such practices as deforestation and debates over proper conservation. Family Day at Camp ASUAM […]
Welcome Back Students Party: Tuesday, August 31, 5-8 p.m. Public Reception: Friday, October 22, 7-9 p.m. DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: Political Satire Then and Now The exhibition presents works that depict political figures and events, some reverential but most satirical. Contemporary works are placed in historical context to demonstrate the persistence of the satiric spirit in […]
WIT AND WINE: A New Look at Ancient Iranian Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation Wit and Wine is the first major exhibition of ancient Iranian ceramics in more than a decade. Curated by Trudy S. Kawami, Ph.D., Director of Research for the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, the exhibition features forty-five sophisticated, beautiful and […]
DENNIS OPPENHEIM: Alternate Current Oppenheim's career from 1967 to the present is reflected in this exhibition of 37 works of sculpture, models, drawings and photo documents. An early pioneer of conceptual art as an alternative to object-based art, Oppenheim was crucial to the development of land art, body art, performance and video. One of the […]
