Andy Warhol and the Pop Aesthetic: Permanent Collection and Loans Five early drawings and a classic screenprint of Mao Tse-tung by Andy Warhol anchor this exhibition of artists who were associated with the American pop art movement of the early 1960s. Drawn from the ASU Art Museum's permanent collection with loans from private collections, the […]
The Painters' Craft: Renaissance and Baroque Paintings in the Permanent Collection will open Aug. 23 and run through Dec. 6. The exhibition in the museum's multi-purpose room features 12 paintings and was designed for a Herberger College art history class. The exhibition also provides an opportunity for other museum visitors to view these works and […]
OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, September 13, 2003 7- 9 p.m. LECTURES Artist/Educator Kurt Weiser Friday, September 5 Time and Location TBA Mexican Folk Art In Context: Selections from the Vanesian Collection Selected from more than 300 works collected over more than 25 years, the exhibition demonstrates ways in which folk artists reflect and comment on both […]
BEYOND BOUNDRIES: The Yixing Influence on Contemporary American Ceramics Beyond Boundaries: The Yixing Influence on Contemporary American Ceramics will present the work of six American ceramic artists influenced by the pottery traditions of Yixing, China. Yixing is a county in Southeast China and been a center of ceramic production for over one thousand years. The […]
LUO XIAOPING: Time Square Series Luo Xiaoping is an internationally renowned Chinese artist living in Yixing, Jiangsu Province as well as spending time in Arizona working in ceramics. Time Square Series will showcase twenty-four figures of world political leaders. Given the current turmoil in the world political arena, this timely show will help audiences put […]
CUBAN ART FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION In 1999, five-year old Elian Gonzalez became the focus of international conflict. His mother had drowned in the effort to leave Cuba, and little Elian was rescued only to become the center of a tug-of-war over whether he should be given permanent status in the United States or returned […]
PUBLIC LECTURE Tuesday, October 28, 2003 7:30 p.m. location TBA ARTIST RECEPTION Saturday, November 1, 2003 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. HIGH SCHOOL OUTREACH VIDEO PROGRAM January 20, 2004 7:30 p.m. GARY HILL: Language Willing Gary Hill: Language Willing presents four new works by one of the founders of video installation art. For more than […]
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 […]
