What I Did on My Summer Vacation Have you ever put together a photo album of what you did on your summer vacation? What I Did on My Summer Vacation presents works of art from the ASU Art Museum's permanent collection, hung in the gallery like snapshots on a photo-album page illustrating various summer vacation […]
Shirin Neshat: Rapture -- Film Installation and Photographs This exhibition by internationally renowned artist, Shirin Neshat, features the film installation and photographs from her work Rapture. The social and psychological experience of gender in contemporary Islamic society is explored in this powerful, poetic media installation. Two opposing projections present men and women kept apart but […]
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Ties That Bind: Ed Rossbach and Katherine Westphal Featuring husband and wife artists, Ed Rossbach and Katherine Westphal, Ties that Bindbrings together several decades of their work from baskets to garments. Rossbach's and Westphal's unpredictable, vibrant and diverse creations have had a major impact on contemporary basket making and fiber art in general. Rossbach, a […]
Andreas Gursky: Photographs An exhibition of seven works by German artist Andreas Gursky, world-renowned for his striking, large-scale images. Gursky's photographs use the large-scale format to show vast images of a world transformed by high-tech industry, global markets and slick commerce -- a world in which the individual is pictured as tiny and insignificant. Some […]
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Cops and Robbers: Drawings by Lucio Muniain Muniain draws images taken from the newspaper of the violence of everyday life in his home town of Mexico City. He embellishes them with phrases from the street language, cynical observations that reveal his sense that we have become inured to the unspeakable because the forces of economics […]
Joel-Peter Witkin: Photographs - Works from a Valley Collection This exhibition of photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin explores the strands of aesthetic tradition mirrored in his work. Known best for the grotesque use of the figure, Witkin also draws upon traditions as varied as the still life or memento mori, the set-up studio shot of the […]
Collectors' Choice II Selected works from Local Collectors Sidney and Elaine Cohen Joan and David Lincoln Craig Pearson Cyndi Coon and Jeremy Briddell MEMBERS PREVIEW Saturday, October 20, 2001 6-7 P.M. PUBLIC RECEPTION Saturday, October 20, 2001 7-9 P.M. In conjunction with the public reception, a gallery talk by the collectors will take place at […]
Eugene Grigsby: Works on Paper Eugene Grigsby has been an influential educator and artist in the valley art community for over fifty years. In the early years Grigsby started an art department at the segregated George Washington Carver high school and later taught at ASU in the School of Art from 1966-1988. Active in many […]
The Edward Jacobson Collection of Turned-Wood Bowls Edward Jacobson assembled the first comprehensive collection of turned-wood bowls by contemporary American artists and generously gave that collection to the ASU Art Museum in 1989. The collection has since traveled internationally and continues to be recognized as the benchmark of quality in the field. In conjunction with […]
ARTISTS RECEPTION December 15, 2001 7-9 P.M. Nelson Fine Arts Center While the artists included in Not Quite Myself Today most definitely have a personal presence in their videos, their work is not synonymous with their true selves or with their chosen role as artists. Rather, their work reflects an interest in how perceptions about […]
