Discovery

Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections

August 17, 2020 - December 18, 2020

On Site Exhibition

Installation view of works by Richard Tuttle in "Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections" (Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/UNLV Creative Services)

Installation view of "Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections" (Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/UNLV Creative Services)

Installation view of works by artist Candice Lin in "Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections" (Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/UNLV Creative Services)

Installation view of works by James Hough in "Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections" (Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/UNLV Creative Services)

Installation view of "Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections" (Photo by Lonnie Timmons III/UNLV Creative Services)

Exhibition Poster for "Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections" (Designed by Chloe Bernardo)

TV Card for "Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections" (Designed by Chloe Bernardo)

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Jay Lynn Gomez (formerly Ramiro Gomez), entitled Los Jinetes (East Bonanza Rd & North Nellis Blvd). Each week we will post a new work featured in the exhibition.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Krystal Ramirez called I Want To See. Each week we will post a new work featured in the exhibition.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Diane Bush and Steven Baskin called Make a Merkin Great Again (Merkin #4).

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Branden Koch called Companions of Fear.

In this video we will discuss a work by Victoria Reynolds called Ruban Rouge.

In this video we will discuss a group of individual works by Candice Lin.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Daniel Samaniego called Hydra III: Mimesis Nemesis.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Marisol Escobar called Woman's Equality.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Brent Holmes called Superbia Civilis.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Andrew Schoultz called Made in China (Gold Flag).

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Fritz Scholder called Bicentennial Indian.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Kyla Hansen called Maternal Instincts (for BRee).

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Lance L. Smith called, When I'm With You (Dayton).

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Katarina Jerinic called, Astronomy of the Asphalt Ecliptic.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Matthew Couper called, The Chief Mourner and the Last Drops.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Robert Beckmann called, The Hundred Year Flood.

In this video we will discuss an artwork by Julieta Gil called, Fragments from Las Vegas (diptych) and the Mesoamerican ceramics within our collection the artist scanned to create the piece.

In this video we will discuss Llyn Foulkes', Five Postcards.

In this video we will discuss Neil Jenney's The Collector.

In this video we will discuss Harry Roseman's Three Doors (1978-1982).

In this video we will discuss Kathleen Nathan's Inside Brooklyn "Evening" (2012).

In this video we will discuss John Torreano's "T.V. Bulge" and Claudia DeMonte's "Claudia Watching TV".

Collections are the backbone of a museum. Objects of both inquiry and enjoyment, they measure our ongoing search for new ways to understand ourselves and our world. Opening on August 17, 2020, Excerpts brings together artworks from all the different collections held at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, including the internationally renowned Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and works originally collected by the Las Vegas Art Museum. This is the first time a single major exhibition will feature works from every area of the Barrick in dialogue with one another.

Visitors to Excerpts will see more than thirty-five works by artists who have mapped out new insights around an extraordinary range of ideas. Some of them are thinking regionally as they look for fresh ways to envision the city of Las Vegas or the crisis of our local water supply. Others are considering personal and social questions of memory, identity, American patriotism, and self-awareness. The process of art itself becomes a focus of examination, with different artists probing the limits of minimalist mark-making, the uncanny possibilities of edges and corners, and the strange task of depicting ephemeral phenomena with the textured physicality of paint.

Excerpts is a glimpse into the profound potential of public art collections, a curation that aims to provide the city with a context for the art we are making today and the art we will make in the future.

The exhibition will feature paintings, drawings, photography, prints, artists’ books, and sculpture in a variety of media created by artists from Nevada and elsewhere, including: China Adams, Deborah Aschheim, Robert Beckmann, Diane Bush & Steve Baskin, Eugenia Butler, Matthew Couper, Claudia DeMonte, Andreana Donahue, Marisol Escobar, Peter Fend, Llyn Foulkes, Noelle Garcia, Julieta Gil, Ramiro Gomez, Daniel Habegger, Kyla Hansen, Brent Holmes, James Hough, Neil Jenney, Katarina Jerinic, Branden Koch, Wendy Kveck, Candice Lin, Kathleen Nathan, Krystal Ramirez, Victoria Reynolds, Harry Roseman, Daniel Samaniego, Javier Sanchez, Fritz Scholder, Andrew Schoultz, Lance L. Smith, Gary Stephan, Lew Thomas, John Torreano, Richard Tuttle, and William Wareham.

-DK Sole, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (August 3, 2020)

Digital catalog for "Excerpts"

Press Release for "Excerpts"

"The Barrick Museum returns with two new shows that reveal the previously hidden" by Leslie Ventura for Las Vegas Weekly