Past Exhibitions
William Christenberry: Photographs 1961-2005
October 13 through December 6, 2008
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery
Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has plumbed the regional identity of the American South, photographing real things in the real world-ramshackle buildings, weathered commercial signs, lonely back roads, rusted-out cars, whitewashed churches, and decorated graves. Although the focus of his work is regional, it touches on universal themes relating to family, culture, nature, spirituality, memory, and aging. Aperture, a not-for-profit organization devoted to photography and the visual arts, has organized this traveling exhibition and produced the accompanying publication.
Juan Angel Chavez's Speaker Project
September 22 through November 22, 2008
Stephen D. Paine Gallery
Chicago-based artist Juan Angel Chavez will created a multi-directional, multi-layered sound experience at MassArt. Comprised of found material we see everyday-such as old billboard signs, wood panel siding and traffic cones-part sculpture, part speaker, the Speaker Project turned the gallery into an interactive sound studio.
Business As Usual: New video from China
Cao Fei and Yang Fudong
August 18 through September 27, 2008
Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery
Business As Usual presents works by two of the most prominent video artists working in contemporary China. Cao Fei and Yang Fudong each portray the emergent new Chinese middle class, Yang Fudong in the urban centers and Cao Fei in the overnight cities that were built as industry production centers that churn out a large portion of the clothing, lighters, light bulbs, and spark plugs sold on the international markets.
These two artists present a changing China and reveal mixed feelings. With a personal visual vocabulary, they each examine a different segment of the new young society that is the engine of the New China.
Business As Usual was organized by the Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, and curated by Marilyn A Zeitlin and Heather S. Linberry. All works in the exhibition are courtesy of Eloisa and Chris Haudenschild, San Diego.