Resonating: Denise Green presents eighteen paintings and a selection of works on paper by an artist who explores various aspects of abstraction. The artist has experimented during the past two decades with the relationship between expressionism and object-derived imagery. Gallery Talk by Denise Green Tuesday, September 21, 7:30pm, Nelson Fine Arts Center Workshop with Denise […]
Often using himself as the subject, photographer Bob Carey takes the viewer from pain to pleasure. He evokes a self-examination and confrontation with issues that each of us faces, bringing forward the realms of identity and gender. Panel Discussion - Photographic Prosperity: Creating for Commercial and Fine Art Venues Friday, September 24, 12noon, Matthews Center […]
Howard and Jean Lipman lived with their collection which embraced both classics of modernism and folk art. The works in this exhibition were for their eyes only, the work that they lived with in their apartment and home. The spirit of their untrammeled collection is apparent in their choices and in the dynamic confluence of […]
"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, […]
