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 […]
The 1997-98 School of Art Faculty exhibition opened Friday December 12th at the Nelson Fine Arts Center. It runs through February 8, 1998. For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
Millennial Myths: Paintings by Lynn Randolph organized by the Arizona State University Art Museum examines "metaphoric realism" paintings by Lynn Randolph. The exhibition, curated by Marilyn A. Zeitlin, opens on February 21, 1998 and closes on May 24, 1998. Randolph's works bring together ideas of art, science and technology executed since 1989, reflecting her interest […]
A STATE-WIDE JURIED EXHIBITIONFEBRUARY 28 - MAY 10, 1998 ARTISTS' RECEPTION WITH PERFORMANCES FEBRUARY 28, 1998 7-9 P.M. PARTY ON THE PLAZA 8:30 - 10 P.M. Arizona State University Art Museum announces an exhibition of state-wide contemporary art juried by the Museum's curators and two curators from outside the state. The goal of the exhibition […]
Renie Breskin Adams takes an unconventional, colorful and whimsical approach to the historic and domestic art of needlepoint. Her "samplers" depict herself, her family, friends and pets mingling with creatures from her imagination. Beneath the humor lies thoughtful commentary about art, her chosen medium and her role as an artist. Lecture by the artist, Friday, […]
