Art & Art History News - April 12, 2021
Faculty News
New York Times Style Magazine features O'Grady's most recent essay:
A SHARED DEVOTION
How Friendship Helps Us Transcend Ourselves
With good friends, as with great art, our sense of the world is challenged and transformed.
For the essays in this issue, we commissioned and chose works about friendship; the images are not meant as literal reflections of the text. Above is “The Ascendants XI (Homage to Ecclesiastes Three, One Through Eight)” (2021), made exclusively for T by the Chicago-based artist Wangari Mathenge, who said: “As part of the diaspora, I’m interested in what can ease the sense of displacement. The figures here might long to step out into a different kind of world, but for now they sit in comfortable silence in a shared space they’ve created for themselves. Who are the people you feel safe with? Maybe you take them for granted, but they are actually really important.”
Credit...Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects. Photo by Brian Griffin
Exhibition: The Barrick Museum, College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV)
The exhibition runs from April 19 - July 9, 2021
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art present Spin (After Sol LeWitt), an exhibition of sculpture, video, photography, and performance by Colorado-based artist Yumi Janairo Roth. Collaborating with professional sign spinners, Roth creates insightful juxtapositions between the physical presence of street-corner advertising and the work of one of America’s founding conceptual artists, Sol LeWitt (1928-2007). The project has special resonance in Las Vegas, the longtime host of the annual World Sign Spinning Championship.
Drawing on a background in anthropological and archaeological research, Roth uses her art practice to join together disparate communities in situations that bring attention to the value we place on different aspects of everyday material culture.
Link to More Information About Roth's Exhibition
Image: Spin (after Sol LeWitt), Spinners spinning excerpts from “Sentences on Conceptual Art” during practice at the 2019 World Sign Spinning Championship, Las Vegas, NV (image courtesy the artist)