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, […]
Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Complete Multiples Oyvind Fahlstrom: The Complete Multiples is a comprehensive survey of Fahlstrom's graphic work, including twenty-seven prints as well as four multiple editions in three-dimensional object and book format. About the Artist A multi-media artist, Oyvind Fahlstrom (1928-1976) produced works in film, performance, installation, sculpture, print, and painting. His influences were […]
Screenshots : A Project by Jon Haddock for the exhibition No Absolutes A series of drawings from an isometric perspective, in the style of a computer game, are the new body of work by Tempe-based artist Jon Haddock. The subject of each drawing is the image, or images, that created a popular cultural event. Historical […]
Fragile Monuments: Paper Sculpute by Jyung Mee Park Jyung Mee Park creates sculpture with thousands of pieces of rice paper. Each sheet of paper is folded by hand with the assistance of students and community groups. The artist then creates the installations on site by layering the sheets of paper, one by one, into a […]
No Absolutes: Contemporary Art from the Region No Absolutes is part of an ongoing series of regional exhibitions initiated by community meetings in 1996 to determine how the museum could meet its goal to serve and present contemporary regional art. For No Absolutes, three curators at the Museum - Marilyn Zeitlin, Heather Lineberry and John […]
An annual exhibition of work by Arizona State University School of Art Faculty. A reception for this exhibition will take place Friday, November 17, 2000 7-9 P.M. ASU Art Museum Presentation Arizona State University School of Art Faculty Exhibition will be installed in the 2,500-square-foot Lower Lobby South Gallery of the Arizona State University Art […]
Dwelling A Video Installation by Corina Gamma While driving through a city, one can often make visual assumptions and connections just by looking at the transitions that exist between urban spaces. By examining the architectural boundaries in which people seek refuge, the human need for privacy and personal space - as well as the illusory […]
In conjunction with the reception and gallery talk for Dwelling , a video installation by Corina Gamma at the ASU Art Museum's Matthews Center, Experimental Gallery location. Collectors' Choice Why do people decide to collect art? How do they make their choices? These are questions that will be addressed by collectors from the Valley who […]
William Kentridge: Works from Valley Collections Drawn from local collections, this exhibition of work by internationally renowned South Africa artist, William Kentridge, features drawings, prints, film and preparatory drawings for films. Kentridge's moody, powerful and expressive work tells the story of a post-industrial society that is in disrepair - similar to the current state of […]
LECTURE BY EMMA AMOS Friday, April 20, 2001 at 7:30pm Architecture Building, AED 60 Rhapsody: Selections from Valley Collections This exhibition will highlight the exceptional work, found here in the Valley, by some of the more renowned African-American artists. Most are contemporary artists such as Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker and Radcliffe Bailey. But there is […]
