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Mar. 8, 2019 - Mar. 16, 2019
Human Contact | curated by Samantha Castle
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art presents Human Contact, a pop-up research exhibition curated by Samantha Castle. Human Contact addresses the current conditions of environmental concern through selected artworks from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection utilizing works by Audrey Barcio, Elizabeth Blau, and Rachel Stiff. Human Contact is on view in the West Gallery of the Marjorie... -
Mar. 8, 2019 to Mar. 16, 2019
Tiger and The Eternal Struggle
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art presents Tiger and The Eternal Struggle, a pop-up research exhibition curated by Catherine Swift. What happens when elements of traditional Japanese art meet contemporary Western iconography? Tiger (2007), by Las Vegas-based artist Sush Machida Gaikotsu, and The Eternal Struggle (4ever21) (2017) by Brooklyn-based artist Eri King, investigate this interesting... -
Jan. 11, 2019 to Mar. 16, 2019
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.
Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. An exhibition of work by a collaborative network of over 50 LA-based queer Chicanx artists produced through the 1960s to 1990s Curated By C. Ondine Chavoya, David Evans Frantz Tour Organized By Independent Curators International (ICI) Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. is a traveling exhibition that explores the intersections among a network... -
Oct. 12, 2018 to Dec. 15, 2018
Jubilation Inflation
Tamar Ettun: Jubilation Inflation Exhibition Dates: October 12 - December 15, 2018 Opening Reception: Performance and ArtWalk on October 12, 2018 (5 -9 pm), UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is pleased to present the culmination of a multiyear international art tetralogy by Tamar Ettun. Jubilation Inflation unifies different areas of the artist's practice in... -
Oct. 12, 2018 to Dec. 15, 2018
Soundscapes
Sound builds and shapes our environment, influencing everything from the organisms we recognize to the non-biological objects we handle, and the artifacts we create. Soundscapes explores the sounds we use — both deliberately and unconsciously — to connect ourselves to the people around us. How did ancient cultures communicate? How have new forms of noise changed the way we interact? How does... -
Aug. 27, 2018 to Sep. 14, 2018
Art in Context
This pop-up exhibition gives Barrick visitors a chance to see some of the work being studied by Wendy Kveck’s UNLV Art in Context class. Choosing her examples from both the Barrick Collection and the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection held at the museum, Kveck asks her students to consider the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of artists’ practices, and the impact of personal and global... -
Jun. 2, 2018 to Sep. 15, 2018
Andrew Schoultz: In Process: Every Movement Counts
Fusing museum space with the dynamic energy of streets and skate parks, Andrew Schoultz makes art that asks questions about the reality of contemporary life and global power. His installations and murals juxtapose ideas from illuminated manuscripts, ancient cartography, and the flattened space of Persian miniatures. Images of beasts, bricks, trees, and eyes surge across the walls, bringing... -
Feb. 2, 2018 to May. 12, 2018
Exhibition: Identity Tapestry
Identity Tapestry is both a portrait of a community and each individual participant. Inviting visitors to weave aspects of themselves into a participatory artwork, artist Mary Corey March gives us new insights into both ourselves and the people we see around us every day, opening our minds to reflection and healing. The 20-foot long installation, made of hand-dyed yarn, and statements of... -
Feb. 2, 2018 to May. 12, 2018
Exhibition: Plural
Plural features recently donated artworks from the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection that explore complex aspects of human identity through a range of traditional and unconventional media. Memory, passion, voice, excess, race, gender, and intersectionality are all brought into question as we search for ways in which a museum collection can reflect our own... -
Sep. 29, 2017 to Jan. 20, 2018
liminal
To be "liminal" means to be at the threshold or border of something-- a physical space, an ideology or concept, or even between categories of identity. The works in this exhibition invite viewers to ponder the ways in which they are "in between" and what this liminal state truly means. Curated by Shelly Volsche, Visiting Lecturer COLA 100E; Doctoral Student, Dept. of Anthropology. -
Sep. 29, 2017 to Nov. 11, 2017
Peripheral Flood Control Structures of Las Vegas
The nation’s supreme desert city, Las Vegas lies in a riverless valley, baking in the sun. When it rains, storms can be sudden and strong, generating flash floods that threaten the city. Defense against this attack has grown with the expanding urban land itself, and there are now more than 100 detention basins in and around Las Vegas to absorb the shock of flood, and ... -
Sep. 29, 2017 to Jan. 20, 2018
Preservation
The UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, will present "Preservation," a group exhibition that explores aspects of preservation–of land, legacies, histories, and the biological. The project will be on view at the Barrick Museum and Grant Hall Gallery from September 29, 2017 through January 20, 2018, in conjunction with the Museum’s 50th Anniversary and the ... -
Aug. 29, 2017 to Sep. 16, 2017
Tested Ground
The UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art presents Tested Ground, a major artistic exploration of the ways in which our civilization uses the land around us for work, recreation, and waste disposal. Paying special attention to the region surrounding Las Vegas, five American and international artists use a variety of media to probe a relationship we sometimes take for granted. From the firing range... -
May. 26, 2017 to Aug. 16, 2017
Casey Roberts
The Barrick is screening three of Robert's short films: I Think I Know What the Problem Is (2012), Sometimes I Dream of Myself as Two People (2015), and The Bird Sessions (2016). Screening times: Tuesdays (11 a.m.-12 p.m.), Fridays and Saturdays (1-4 p.m.) and also by appointment About the filmmaker: Working in video, painting, and cyanotype, Indianapolis artist Casey Roberts creates... -
May. 26, 2017 to Jan. 20, 2018
Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic
New York artist Katarina Jerinic responds to and intervenes in the built landscape with maps, photographs, and other imaginative ephemera that encourage unfamiliar explorations of everyday surroundings. Located in the Baepler Xeric Garden and the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art lobby, her Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic charts constellations of visible and invisible phenomena in the surrounding...
