For the past year, Bay Area artist Tom Franco has been collaborating with his brother, actor James Franco, on a series of enormous ceramic sculptures at Mission Clay Products, a Phoenix-based factory that produces vitrified clay pipes used mainly for sewage. Through their Arts and Industry program, Mission Clay has provided materials and working space […]
xJumpcuts is an ongoing preview series at ASU Art Museum Project Space that features artworks by artists developing future projects for the museum. Euan Macdonald's work captures quotidian life through a unique lens, reflecting unseen nuances of mundane activities. He uses video, drawing and installation to develop evocative content out of ordinary subjects. "Euan Macdonald […]
This event features sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias form the New York City-based artist duo Las Hermanas Iglesias. As a team, they create artworks that disrupt borders, engage absurdity and promote the benefits of working together. This season, they are mounting a site-specific installation at ASU Art Museum as the first family-in-residence. Join us for […]
See the museum's collection through the lens of a scientist. In "Material Beauty," guest curator Nathan Newman, a professor in Solid State Science at Arizona State University's School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, has selected artworks that engage with the chemistry of color, the neurology of facial recognition and the mathematics of perspective. […]
Actual Source, the collaborative art and design practice of Davis Ngarupe and JP Haynie, designs publications, identities, websites and spaces for local and international clients. "Actual Source: Call Now" uses existing formats in commercial advertising and promotion and appropriates them to fit within the context of contemporary graphic design. The project addresses topics of self-promotion, […]
Nova Scotia-based artist Neil Forrest investigates ceramics, architectonics and the relationship between micro and macro structures in "Porøs" (Norwegian for "porous"). Made up of a series of ceramic cisterns and vessels, this grotto-like installation contains proliferating crystals, percolating rock and moving liquids. This project is part of the Windgate Contemporary Craft Initiative at ASU Art […]
Resident artist Sofía Córdova creates new media interventions that explore sci-fi, futurity, extinction and mutation, especially as they relate to human acceleration of climate change. Córdova is interested in the mythic and mystic mechanisms our species employs to make sense of the unimaginable. "Where Thieves Go After Death" is the first in a series of […]
In 2014, the Neue Porzellanfabrik Triptis GmbH invited five artists, including Helmut Frank, Patrick Loughran, Lyn Riccardo, Arnie Zimmerman and Lida Tarakhosky, to work in their porcelain factory in Triptis, Germany. These artists, with their diverse skillsets and backgrounds, began an ongoing collaboration that has probed porcelain's cultural meanings and material possibilities. This project is […]
From iconic 1970s land art to contemporary interpretations of the landscape, this exhibition from the permanent collection features artists who have built new relationships with their environments. "Terrestrial" looks at how artists perceive urban and rural spaces, especially in relation to human intervention and the passing of time. Supported by the Evelyn Smith Exhibition Fund. […]
Early and mid-20th-century Mexican art is characterized by a powerful blend of politics and revolutionary spirit, pre-Columbian and indigenous art influences, and modernism in both art and life. Drawn from ASU Art Museum's collection, "Bajo Presión/Under Pressure" features paintings and prints by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Leopoldo Méndez and Rufino Tamayo among others. Supported […]
What does the American dream mean today? Texas-based artist Claudio Dicochea grapples with this question in an exhibition of work from ASU Art Museum's diverse collection of Cuban, Pop Art, Native American and African-American work. The title of the exhibition comes from Robert Colescott's 1990 painting and also references the current DACA/Dreamers crisis. This exhibition […]
Music producer Felicita of PC Music and artist Matt Copson embark on an interdisciplinary project to restore an ancient animatronic doll, originally discovered in 1925 within the grounds of the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. As part of their residency at ASU Art Museum, the artists will present archival material, screen unreleased PC Music footage, […]
