UNLV GALLERIES: September 2016 EVENTS
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OPENING RECEPTION
Nancy J. Uscher, Dean of the UNLV College of Fine Arts and the Marjorie Barrick Museum invite you to attend the opening reception for Edward Burtynsky: Oil.
The exhibition features more than 50 large-scale color landscape photographs by Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky. Over 15 years, Burtynsky traveled internationally to chronicle the production, distribution, and use of oil. In addition to revealing the rarely seen mechanics of its manufacture, he photographs the effects of oil on our lives, depicting landscapes altered by its extraction from the Earth and the sprawl generated around its use. These images tell an epic story of mankind expressed through our discovery, exploitation, and celebration of this vital natural resource. This exhibition is organized by the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. All the photographs in Edward Burtynsky: Oil are drawn from the Nevada Museum of Art, Carol Franc Buck Landscape Photography Collection.
OPENING RECEPTION
KUSO PROJECT
August 22 - September 30, 2016
Opening Reception September 1st, 5-7pm
KUSO Project presents the artwork of 12 young Taiwanese artists. Kuso is the term used in East Asia for the Internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody. This exhibition explores the cultural phenomenon of today's online world through the creative vitality of a young generation. The 19 pieces in the show include painting, photography, sculpture, digital work, video, installation, and an interactive installation.
UNLV VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
The UNLV Visiting Artist Lecture Series features a diverse array of some of the most compelling artists and thinkers working in the art world today. This important program brings both established and emerging artists to campus to discuss their work in public lectures and to offer individual critiques to our BFA and MFA students. This program has established itself as an invaluable resource for UNLV students and the public alike. The primary mission of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series is to educate, inspire and foster a greater understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through visual presentations and discourse.
Lectures take place every Thursday evening starting at 7 p.m. in the Barrick Museum Auditorium.
SEPTEMBER LECTURES
HERNAN BAS
SEPTEMBER 1ST, 7PM, BARRICK MUSEUM AUDITORIUM
Detroit-based artist Hernan Bas paints figures in states of disquieting threat, bringing the overheated atmosphere of the nineteenth-century Decadents into contact with the mores of contemporary painting. Bas has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, the MODEM Center for Contemporary Art in Hungary, the Whitney Biennial, and the Busan Biennale in Korea. In 2007 and 2008 a major survey of his work appeared at the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
MARGARET HONDA
SEPTEMBER 8TH, 7PM, BARRICK MUSEUM AUDITORIUM
Los Angeles artist Margaret Honda interrogates the tangible presence of film with the same concentration she gives to more traditional art materials such as paper, cloth, and bronze. Honda’s work has appeared at MOCA, Los Angeles, the Künstlerhaus Bremen in Germany, the Drawing Center, New York, JavaArts in Cambodia, and LACMA. Her films have been screened at film festivals in Germany, Canada, the U.K., and the United States.
JENNY ODELL
SEPTEMBER 15TH, 7PM, BARRICK MUSEUM AUDITORIUM
With scientific attention to detail, San Francisco artist Jenny Odell sorts the minutiae of Google maps and real-life junk piles into catalogues of historic inquiry, recontextualizing the detritus of our everyday world. Her work has appeared at the East Wing in Dubai, the Made in NY Center, NY, Les Rencontres D’Arles in France, Belgium’s Fotomuseum Antwerpen, and as a specially commissioned mural on the outer walls of a Google data center in Oklahoma.
EMILY MAST
SEPTEMBER 22ND, 7PM, BARRICK MUSEUM AUDITORIUM
Los Angeles artist Emily Mast integrates theater, installation, sculpture, writing, and video into collaborative acts of impermanence. Her work has appeared at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space in New York, MUKHA in Antwerp, the Harbourfront Center in Toronto, and the Mona Bismarck American Center in Paris. In Los Angeles she has shown at LACMA, REDCAT, and the Hammer Museum.
JIM SHAW
SEPTEMBER 29TH, 7PM, BARRICK MUSEUM AUDITORIUM
Active since the 1970s, Los Angeles artist Jim Shaw has become a key figure in the ambiguous contemporary balancing act between fine art and lowbrow aesthetics — a provocateur who engages comic books and thrift store amateurism in museum-level critique. He shows regularly in Europe, the U.K, and the United States, with forays into Australia and Japan. Earlier this year he was the subject of a career survey at The New Museum in New York.
SATURDAY SCREENINGS
FIVE
Every Saturday at 1PM & 3PM, Barrick Auditorium (Last screening September 10th)
- Erin Cosgrove, The March of History, 2012 (15-min. video)
- Erin Cosgrove, In Defense of Ghosts, 2012, Live action and animated video (13:20-min. video)
- Lucky DeBellevue, Sahara/March 2016 (81-min. video)
SATURDAY SCREENINGS
CHINA TOWN
China Town is a video made by artist Lucy Raven as she followed the path of copper ore from an open pit mine in Eastern Nevada to China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be smelted and refined. Considering what it actually means to “be wired” and in turn, to be connected, in today’s global economic system, the video follows the detailed production process that transforms raw ore into copper wire—in this case, the literal digging of a hole to China—and the generation of waste and of power that grows in both countries as byproduct. The animation is permanently housed in the archive collections of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.
This film is in conjunction with our Edward Burtynsky: Oil exhibition, and will be screened from 1-3 p.m. and 3-5 p.m. every Saturday from September 24 to January 14.
Lucy Raven is an artist and art writer whose practice has focused primarily on the moving image. Born in Tucson, AZ, she is currently based in New York. A 2008 MFA honors graduate of Bard College, her work has been shown in numerous venues across the United States, including the Hammer Museum, MOMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Internationally she has appeared at the Tate Modern in London and the National Gallery of Prague. Raven has a long association with BOMB magazine, both as writer and editor. In 2004 she co-founded an audio magazine named The Relay Project. China Town is her first feature-length stop-motion animation.
VISITOR-MADE: IN TRANSITION SEPTEMBER 15, 4-7PM, BARRICK
Figurines have always been a powerful way to portray the emotional truth of life’s milestones. The clay figures featured in “In Transition: Female Figurines from the Michael C. and Mannetta Braunstein Collection” represent important stages in the life-cycles of the Pre-Columbian peoples. Their clothing and gestures may seem mysterious to us now, but the experiences that we see in them—youth, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood and family, and old age—are still relevant and deeply resonant. The Barrick Museum invites visitors to be inspired by the skill of these long-ago artists. Come and create your own figurines to express the “in transition” moments of your life. Clay will be provided by the museum.
ABOUT VISITOR-MADE: Visitor-Made occurs the third Thursday of every month, starting at 4 p.m. Look around the galleries, then participate in either a group or individual art-making project. Projects vary monthly and are free and open to the public.
This event is free and open to the public. All ages welcome.
UNIVERSITY FORUM LECTURE SERIES
University Forum is a public lecture series sponsored and funded by the UNLV College of Liberal Arts, the Dean’s Associates, and the Marjorie Barrick Museum. All events are free, and no reservation is necessary; simply attend at the time and place shown. For details and descriptions for each lecture, visit the University Forum website. A downloadable version of the brochure can be found here.
Conserving America’s National Parks During An Era of Global Change
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 — 7:30 PM — Barrick Museum Auditorium
The College of Liberal Arts' University Forum Lecture Series presents "Conserving America’s National Parks During An Era of Global Change" a talk by Scott Abella, assistant professor, School of Life Sciences, UNLV.
With the year 2016 marking the Centennial of the National Park Service, the challenge of conserving national parks threatened by non-native species, climate change and increasing numbers of fires has never been greater. This lecture will highlight a number of inspiring conservation success stories that provide hope for the future of our parks under changing environmental conditions.
IMAGES: 1) Edward Burtynsky, Shipbreaking #23, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2000. Chromogenic color print. Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection. Photograph © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Metivier Gallery Toronto / Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles. 2) KUSO Project, Hsin-Chien Huang's interactive piece, "Shall We Dance, Shanghai? Courtesy Donna Beam Fine Art 3) Hernan Bas, Champagne Corks Bobbed in the Pool That Morning, 2016 4) Margaret Honda, Film (Künstlerhaus Bremen), 2016, 323 Rosco E-Colour+ lighting gels, exhibition space, 14 weeks L 5) Jenny Odell, The Bureau of Suspended Objects, 2015, ongoing 6) Jim Shaw "The End is Here" 2015 Exhibition View, New Museum, Photo: Maris Hutchinson 7) Still from Erin Cosgrove, In Defense of Ghosts, live action and animated video, 2012. Screening on Saturdays at the Marjorie Barrick Museum. (Image courtesy the artist) 8) Lucy Raven, China Town, 2009, photographic animation, 51:30min. 9) In Transition on view in the Michael C and Mannetta Braunstein Gallery