Mascarón de Proa is the Spanish phrase for a ship's figurehead, literally the "mask of the prow." A mask of the prow exists at the intersection of air, water and earth, if one considers a ship as of the earth or of earthbound creatures. A mask is something that covers the skin of a face, […]
Art on the Edge of Fashion at the Arizona State University Art Museum focused on contemporary art that uses the highly readable visual language of clothing and fashion. This exhibition, organized by Heather S. Lineberry, premiered on February 1, 1997, and closed on April 27, 1997. Eight artists from across the U.S. and Canada were […]
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Devotion and Ritual in Mexican Folk Art During the fiestas which punctuate the Mexican festival cycle, the tangible and the mystical converge. Fireworks explode into the dark morning sky, creating an artificial dawn which illuminates a town adorned with tissue paper streamers, garlands of flowers and bright cut-paper banners. Groups of masked and costumed dancers […]
A Multimedia Installation Muriel Magenta, Visual Artist Michael Udow, Composer The New York subway is the subject for a multimedia installation - a vision that transforms the everyday commute into an experience of images and sounds that simulates reality. The viewer is immersed in a situation where emotions and thoughts associated with the subway are […]
Dis/Functional, an exhibition of installation art, casts the artist, rather than the scientist, in the role of expert authority and aesthetic interpreter. Just as anthropologists, archaeologists, sociologists and historians grapple with persistent issues of religion, social and sexual relationships, education, politics and technology, the artists in this exhibition attempt to create a dialogue with the […]
Turned Wood Now: Redefining the Lathe-Turned Object IV features work by ten contemporary American Artists who are making significant contributions to the field of lathe turning. The selected artists use the lathe to create traditional vessel forms and sculptural objects that are sometimes defined by the process and materials, and sometimes freed from these origins […]
One of the most important abstract painters of his generation in Spain, Jordi Teixidor identifies with the intentions, strategies and content of the work of Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt and Barnett Newman; with Cy Twombly and Agnes Martin; and with American painters of his own generation, particularly with Brice Marden and Robert Ryman. El Lugar […]
Sara Roberts is an artist who for the last eight years has been working with interactive video installations, making portraits of common relationships; mother and child; watcher and watched; person and thing; husband, wife and friends. Video and physical space work together in the installations to establish tensions which involve the visitor in a kind […]
