"Censorship is to art what lynching is to justice." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 1990 Two of the most prominent African-American painters of their respective generations, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Michael Ray Charles make works that draw from complex cultural sources. Some of these sources are shared--- the heritage of Africa, and the American black experience of […]
Club Extra “Beauty” is spandex on a perfectly toned thigh, perspiration on an upper lip, sweaty underarms of live artists in action. A fitness club, a performance venue, and an art museum are all spaces of objects and subjects of beauty. All share the promise that their institution might help us transcend the physical to […]
ARTISTS INCLUDE: Lew Alquist, Mary P. Bates, Daniel R. Britton, Robert D. Cocke, Daniel L. Collins, Nick de Matties, Tom Eckert, Mary Erickson, Ron Gasowski, Denis Gillingwater, James Hajicek, Tamarra Kaida, Mark Klett, Muriel Magenta, Stephen Marc, Kathryn Maxwell, Beverly McIver, Ellen Murray Meissinger, Jeanne Otis, Anthony Pessler, James Pile, Janice M. Pittsley, John Risseuw, […]
Jim Campbell has pioneered the use of electronic media for installations and sculptures that react to the visitor. Campbell's works utilize the appeal and capacities of electronic media to enhance the contemplation of human experience-memory, recollection, hallucination and the passage of time. The exhibition features two new installations made on campus, as well as works […]
Helme Prinzen: Sky Maps This exhibition presents work by an artist influenced by a broad range of traditions that span from minimalism to the spiritual devices for meditation used in Buddhism and Native American practices. Helme Prinzen explores and expands her notion of the mandala, sometimes drawing it toward the sky map, at other times […]
PHACAEANS Phoenix has rapidly developed from a desert landscape of saguaro, buttes and roaming wildlife to its current cityscape of over three million people. Desktop video artist Sloane McFarland superimposes an Homeric tale on this melding of desert land and optic-linked people: Odysseus' encounter with the Phaeacian people. PHACAEANS , a desktop video/laptop installation, assumes […]
Spectrum: An Idea of History This exhibition, using contemporary and archival photographs from Cuba, considers ways in which images can be manipulated and then can manipulate the idea of history: what is remembered and what is forgotten; the visual paradigms that come to stand for entire complexes of events and ideas. ASU Art Museum Presentation […]
Frogs and Dogs: David Gilhooly and Roy De Forest Frogs and Dogs combines the constructed, whimsical world of David Gilhooly's comical ceramic sculptures of food and frogs and Roy De Forest's fanciful story-like environments, inhabited by imaginary people, animals and dogs on canvas and paper. Humor is blended with the bold colors and cartoon-like forms, […]
Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Complete Multiples Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Complete Multiples is a comprehensive survey of Fahlstrom's graphic work, including twenty-seven prints as well as four multiple editions in three-dimensional object and book format. About the Artist A multi-media artist, Oyvind Fahlstrom (1928-1976) produced works in film, performance, installation, sculpture, print, and painting. His influences were […]
Screenshots : A Project by Jon Haddock for the exhibition No Absolutes A series of drawings from an isometric perspective, in the style of a computer game, are the new body of work by Tempe-based artist Jon Haddock. The subject of each drawing is the image, or images, that created a popular cultural event. Historical […]
Fragile Monuments: Paper Sculpute by Jyung Mee Park Jyung Mee Park creates sculpture with thousands of pieces of rice paper. Each sheet of paper is folded by hand with the assistance of students and community groups. The artist then creates the installations on site by layering the sheets of paper, one by one, into a […]
No Absolutes: Contemporary Art from the Region No Absolutes is part of an ongoing series of regional exhibitions initiated by community meetings in 1996 to determine how the museum could meet its goal to serve and present contemporary regional art. For No Absolutes, three curators at the Museum - Marilyn Zeitlin, Heather Lineberry and John […]
