UNLV GALLERIES: AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2015 (FALL PREVIEW)
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ON VIEW NOW

MARJORIE BARRICK MUSEUM
 
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Recent Acquisitions 
thru October 10, 2015 

ARTISTS: Rita Abbey, Jason Adkins, Phil Argent, Robert Beckmann, Erik Beehn, Mark Brandvik, Thomas Burke, Patricia Burns, Carole Caroompas, Kevin Chupik, Sam Davis, Jack Endewelt, Justin Favela, Sush Machida Gaikotsu, Daniel Habegger, Shawn Hummel, Angela Kallus, Danielle Kelly, Wendy Kveck, Brian Porray, Michael Reafsnyder, David Sanchez-Burr, Javier Sanchez, Marshall Scheuttle, Nicolas Shake, Brent Sommerhauser, Erin Stellmon, Rachel Stiff, John Stoelting, Marty Walsh, Yek, and Brian Zimmerman

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Selections from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
thru October 5, 2015

ARTISTS: Stephen Antonakos, Charles Clough, Neil Jenney, Steve Keister, Mark Kostabi, Joseph Nechvatal, Lucio Pozzi, Edda Renouf, Richard Tuttle, and Bettina Werner

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BRAUNSTEIN GALLERY

Style Moderne: Art Glass from the Ruth and Mel Wolzinger Collection
thru January 23, 2016

This exhibition presents a rich selection of glass objects from the Museum’s Art Glass Collection, including objects by Tiffany, Quezal, Steuben, Loetz, and Daum Nancy.
 
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DONNA BEAM FINE ART GALLERY
 
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Basin & Range
thru September, 2015 

Basin & Range features a Southern Nevada artists who have responded to an area identified as Basin and Range. The exhibition includes a variety of 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional and electronic media pieces that highlight the natural beauty of the area as well as Michael Heizer’s Double Negative.

CLOSING RECEPTION: Saturday, September 5, 5 - 7pm.

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UPCOMING

MARJORIE BARRICK MUSEUM
 
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Kveck, Russ & Stellmon: Break Ups & Tear Downs 
October 23 - January 23, 2016

Reception: October 23, 6 - 8pm. 

Wendy Kveck, JK Russ and Erin Stellmon will fill the Marjorie Barrick Museum with an exhibition of their art. These three Las Vegas artists offer unique bodies of work that spring from a common practice of breaking down their subject, then reorganizing and reordering the pieces. The results, whether paintings, collages, photographs or constructions, are stunning and thoughtful revisualizations of contemporary themes.

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TEACHING GALLERY: FACULTY PICKS
Susanna Newbury

Little Sculptures, in the Round
September 18 - December 31

In a city of enormity, false fronts, and splashy luster UNLV Art professor Susanna Newbury asks the viewer to focus attention on the small, and the singular. 

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DONNA BEAM FINE ART GALLERY
 
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Faculty Exhibition 2015 

September 11 - October 10, 2015 

The UNLV Department of Art studio faculty, Catherine Angel, Tim Bavington, José Bellver, Jeff Burden, Pasha Rafat, Dave Rowe, Sang Seo, Jessica Starkey and Helga Watkins are featured in this exhibition with examples of recent work.  These talented and award-winning artists work in a range of media in painting, photography, drawing and sculpture to video, graphic design and neon.
 
 

Through Windows, Through Curtains, Call on Us: Contemporary Cuban Art 

October 16 - November 14, 2015 

Reception: October 16, 6 - 8pm.

Talk: October 16, 5 - 6pm. Barrick Auditorium  

This exhibition brings to Las Vegas the work of four contemporary Cuban artists, Angel Delgado, Sandra Ceballos-Obaya, Ariel Orozco and Sandra Ramos. Curated by Dr. Robert Tracy, it opens the window to the light and air of aesthetic resistance and endurance by artists in Cuba. Gazing through this window enables gallery visitors to assess first hand Cuban artists peeling away the “invisible” government control. 

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FALL EVENTS

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES 

The UNLV Visiting Artists 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. 

Lectures take place every Thursday evening starting at 7 pm and are open to the public. They are held in the Barrick Museum Auditorium.
 
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EMERGING SCHOLARS LECTURE  

Dr. Anna Arabindan- Kesson, Princeton University

The Currency of Cotton: Art, Materiality, and Memory
October 1, 1 - 2:25 pm. HFA 257 

This talk will explore the visual and material implications of the nineteenth century cotton trade, and its global networks, for our understanding of race and representation in the United States. Focusing in particular on cotton’s intimate connection to slavery this paper juxtaposes historical material alongside contemporary art works to show how artists and writers used cotton, like a connective tissue, to materialize, problematize and re-imagine histories of empire, and definitions of a global imaginary. 
 
 
 

TALK: A Conversation with Brent Sommerhauser 

Sommerhauser and Barrick Staff will discuss drawing, physics, and the methods and tools that are used in Sommerhauser's studio. These methods and tools can be related across disciplines, from art, to math, and to language itself. Experience a redefinition of how the pencil has been used historically and how a drawing is made. A video of the process used to create his drawing "Arch" will be on view in the Barrick's lobby. Audience members are encouraged to participate. 

September 16 at 6 - 7 pm in the Barrick's Main Gallery

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VISITOR MADE 

Look around the galleries. Think about materials, line, color, and shape – then participate in either a group or individual art-making project. Held the third Thursday of every month, from 4 – 7 pm. 
 
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ANNOUNCEMENT

The Barrick Museum was named Best of Las Vegas, Best Space to See Art by the Las Vegas Weekly!
 
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ART ON CAMPUS

A downloadable version of the map can be found here. 

Directions and parking instructions and be found here. 
 
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IMAGES: (1) Charles Clough, Agrynia, 1981 - 91, Enamel on Masonite, photo by Checko Salgado of Focalchrome; (4) L-R Wendy Kveck, Lake Cosman (detail), 2014, Oil on canvas, photo by Checko Salgado, JK Russ, The Source Shell (detail), 2015, Collage, Erin Stellmon, Repeater (detail), 2010, Collage and acrylic on paper on shrink plastic; (5) David Rowe,Target, 2014-15, Wood, paint, glue, nails, stain, photo by Checko Salgado; (6) Allison Miller, Fogsmokesteam, 2014, Acrylic, Flashe, modeling paste, archival marker, and pencil on canvas; (7) photo courtesy Brent Sommerhauser. 
 
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