In the last several years, contemporary artists from Guadalajara have been gaining global attention from the city's new arts and crafts movement. " SABER ACOMODAR" is a landmark exhibition that, for the first time, tells the story of art from the state of Jalisco in Mexico. Focusing on the last hundred years of production, the […]
During its nearly 40 years in print, Craft Horizons documented the craft movement as it happened. This exhibition pairs works from ASU Art Museum's collection that were made by artists featured in the magazine with articles, reviews and letters from readers to illustrate the essential role Craft Horizons played in the development of craft in […]
"Beyond Beyond" is a solo exhibition of Ai Kijima, a contemporary artist whose riotous collages of figures, patterns and colors are made from meticulously pieced and fused textiles. In her work from the early 2000s, she used scraps of bed sheets, curtains, clothing and dish towels collected from thrift stores to create artworks that depict […]
"Indwelling" is a solo exhibition of Yuri Kobayashi, a contemporary artist who combines traditional woodworking practices and refined Japanese aesthetics to create sculptures that reflect her identity, experiences and thoughts. In the five artworks in "Indwelling," Kobayashi strives to embody the surprise and wonder found in the impalpable and often illogical world in which we […]
"Funk: Viola Frey" is on view until March 23, 2019. This exhibition features work by Viola Frey, an artist who worked on the fringe of the Funk Art movement, which she called a “boys club.” Frey's brash, figurative sculptures are larger than life. Drawing inspiration from art history, her collection of flea market treasures, and […]
"A Bigger Plan" is a two-part solo exhibition of Euan MacDonald, a Los Angeles-based artist whose works span a wide range of artistic disciplines, from video to painting. The first part of the exhibition, "Side B," is on view July 28 through Sept. 1, and the second part, "Side A," is on view Sept. 15 […]
Drawn from ASU Art Museum's permanentcollections, this exhibition highlights the work of 31 internationally andnationally known artists who represent the human form in order to convey avast range of emotions. A breadth of emotions are explored in the works ondisplay ranging from lightheartedness and humor to anguish and despair."From Darkness to Light" features both ceramic […]
"Decomiso" is an installation-based exhibition by the Argentinian contemporary artist duo Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolas Goldberg. Since 2006, Faivovich and Goldberg have been engaged in an intensive and wide-ranging research project — "A Guide to Campo del Cielo" — that forms the basis of their practice. Campo del Cielo is located in northern Argentina and […]
“Talking to Action: Art, Pedagogy, and Activism in the Americas” investigates contemporary, community-based social art practices from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and the U.S. Featuring drawings, archival documents, sculptures, installations, films and videos, the artists' practices blur the lines between object-making, activism and community organizing to address critical social-political issues. Artists: Liliana Angulo […]
“Rogue Objects” highlights more than one hundred ceramic works that have never been publicly shown, along with new artwork by Japanese-based artists Koki Tanaka and Kumie Tsuda. Tanaka and Tsuda are the first visual artists to work with the ASU Art Museum's Ceramic Research Center archives, specifically focusing on the archive of artist and historian […]
“Metzilocan” is an installation-based solo exhibition by artist Claudia Peña Salinas, who lives and works in New York City. The exhibition expands the artist's research on the Aztec deities of water, Tláloc and Chalchiuhtlicue, relating this ancestral symbolism and knowledge to modernist and contemporary structures. Through travel, documentation and collection, Salinas generates a poetic narrative […]
With more than 100 artworks, “Clayblazers” celebrates women in the ceramic field during the mid-20th century. Legendary artists like Maija Grotell, Susan Peterson and Marguerite Wildenhain were educators, mentors and masters of their craft and inspired future generations. All of the works in the exhibition are drawn from the ASU Art Museum's ceramics collection of […]
