OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, May 22, 2004
7-9 p.m.
The battle lines have been drawn. It always seems to be between “them” and “us” — those darn snowbirds, those seniors on the highway driving so slowly, bluehairs in the supermarket line with all those time-consuming coupons.
But who’s kidding whom? In reality, we are “them” and they are “us.” Both factions harbor concerns about rent or mortgage, health care, fitness, entertainment and perceptions of self by people outside of immediate family. So why is it that the two camps hardly ever communicate about these issues? Most multi-generational conversations, when they actually happen with someone other than our own relatives, focus on the past and much less on contemporary issues of daily life.
Taking brief glimpses at the current lives of seniors existing in a variety of communities and living situations, When I Grow up… examines issues every human deals with, in one way or another, during his or her lifetime. The work by the five artists appearing in this exhibition addresses such universal subjects as independence, the creative thinking process, dependency, displacement, physical fitness, racism, and attempts to impose order on one’s own surroundings.
Exhibition Artist
This exhibition includes work by:
Danielle Abrams
Troy Aossey
Vincent Goudreau
David Greenberger (The Duplex Planet)
Jessica Ingram
Presentation
Organized by John Spiak, WHEN I GROW UP… will be installed in the ASU Art Museum’s Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
Installation Images
Warm-up and Opening Reception Images
Duration
WHEN I GROW UP… (May 22 – September 11, 2004) is open at the Nelson Fine Arts Center: Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Support
In-kind support for this exhibition provided by LA-Z-BOY Furniture Galleries.
The exhibition and related programs are supported in part by Friends of the ASU Art Museum.
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