Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Exhibition
Dates March 27–July 25, 2020 Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Opening Reception March 27, 2020
5–9PM Collections are the backbone of a museum. Objects of both
inquiry and enjoyment, they measure our ongoing search for new ways
to understand ourselves and our world. Opening on March 27, 2020,
brings together artworks from all the different collections held at
the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, including the internationally
renowned Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and works originally
collected by the Las Vegas Art Museum. This is the first time a
single major exhibition will feature works from every area of the
Barrick in dialogue with one another. Visitors to will see more than
thirty-five works by artists who have mapped out new insights around
an extraordinary range of ideas. Some of them are thinking regionally
as they look for fresh ways to envision the city of Las Vegas or the
crisis of our local water supply. Others are considering personal and
social questions of memory, identity, American patriotism, and
self-awareness. The process of art itself becomes a focus of
examination, with different artists probing the limits of minimalist
mark-making, the uncanny possibilities of edges and corners, and the
strange task of depicting ephemeral phenomena with the textured
physicality of paint. is a glimpse into the profound potential of
public art collections, a curation that aims to provide the city with
a context for the art we are making today and the art we will make in
the future. The exhibition will feature paintings, drawings,
photography, prints, artists’ books, and sculpture in a variety of
media created by artists from Nevada and elsewhere, including: China
Adams, Deborah Aschheim, Robert Beckmann, Diane Bush & Steve Baskin,
Eugenia Butler, Matthew Couper, Claudia DeMonte, Andreana Donahue,
Marisol Escobar, Peter Fend, Llyn Foulkes, Julieta Gil, Ramiro Gomez,
Daniel Habegger, Kyla Hansen, Brent Holmes, James Hough, Neil Jenney,
Katarina Jerinic, Branden Koch, Wendy Kveck, Candice Lin, Kathleen
Nathan, Krystal Ramirez, Victoria Reynolds, Harry Roseman, Daniel
Samaniego, Javier Sanchez, Fritz Scholder, Andrew Schoultz, Lance L.
Smith, Gary Stephan, Lew Thomas, John Torreano, Richard Tuttle, and
William Wareham. About the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art The Marjorie
Barrick Museum of Art believes everyone deserves access to the arts.
Located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the
Barrick promotes a powerful awareness of the arts through programs of
exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and community activities. Admission
is free. About the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection Dorothy and
Herbert Vogel began collecting art in the 1960s on a modest budget.
Rigorous and discerning, they admired artists who were working in
then-unfamiliar disciplines such as minimalism and conceptualism.
Their collection eventually encompassed works by more than 170
artists, including luminaries such as Sol LeWitt, Lynda Benglis, and
Richard Tuttle. When their small New York apartment was finally
overwhelmed, they donated the collection to the National Gallery of
Art in Washington, D.C. and created Fifty Works for Fifty States, a
project that bestowed a selection of the works on every state in the
country. The pieces at the Barrick constitute Nevada’s portion of
their bequest. About the Las Vegas Art Museum Collection Originally
founded in 1950 as the Las Vegas Art League, the Las Vegas Art Museum
(LVAM) presented exhibitions of American and international artists
until recession-led budget cuts led to its closure in 2009. The
exhibitions included an important survey of Southern California
Minimalists as well as a groundbreaking curation of local artists, .
The LVAM collection is currently in the Barrick Museum’s care.
Containing paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs from the
1930s through to the 2000s, it features a significant representation
of artists from Nevada and California, with smaller numbers of artists
from Europe, New Mexico, and other parts of the United States.
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