A close-up of an irregular hand drawn pattern of red and pink blobs surrounded by contrasting areas of green and blue. The drawing fills the image.

Eri King, showbiz roses (detail), 2023, Crayon on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist.

Aug. 2, 2023

Lined and Torn: Paper Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection

West Gallery
August 28, 2023 - March 16, 2024
Opening reception September 1, 2023, 5 - 8 p.m.
 
 

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is pleased to present Lined and Torn: Paper Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection. 

Lining and tearing represent two contrasting ways of looking at paper: as a flat space where deliberate marks can be created, or as a physical material that can be sliced, ripped, and shaped into sculptural pulp or crumpled waves. The artworks in this exhibition exemplify and combine those two ways of thinking, while also using the treatment of paper as a reflection of the emotional themes that can be seen throughout the adjacent East Gallery in The Emotional Show. 

Edda Renouf uses the surface of a white sheet as the material that generates her lines as well as the surface that foregrounds them. Larry Zox’s forms respond to the commercially-printed grid on a sheet of graph paper. Daniel Samaniego divides his paper into the shapes of broken shards to emphasize the “shattered” emotions in the faces of his realistic horror mask drawings. Kara Walker’s black cut-paper silhouettes mimic the domestic portrait craft of the Civil War era to draw attention to the roots of the present-day biases that move her and power her work. In the hands of these artists paper becomes a purposeful collaborator, a substance that shapes the way their art looks, feels, and creates meaning.

Lined and Torn features a number of new additions to the collection, including a suite of Eri King drawings inspired by Las Vegas casino carpets and Walker’s satirical 1997 artist book, Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times. Other works are drawn from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s portion of The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, and a group of collection pieces that were once held by the Las Vegas Art Museum.

This exhibition includes artworks by Stephen Antonakos, Lynda Benglis, Lee Cannarozzo, Salvador Dalí, Natalie Delgado, Claudia DeMonte, Andreana Donahue, Ashley Hairston Doughty, Gerald Gooch, Eri King, Branden Koch, Mark Kostabi, Candice Lin, Ayanah Moor, Joseph Nechvatal, Michael Ogilvie, Pablo Picasso, Michael Reafsnyder, Edda Renouf, Daniel Samaniego, Lance L. Smith, Brent Sommerhauser, John Torreano, Kara Walker, and Larry Zox.

Lined and Torn: Paper Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection will be on view in the West Gallery of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at UNLV from August 28, 2023, with an opening reception on the evening of September 1. Entry to the Museum is free. Masks are recommended.

 

 

About the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art believes everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that holds space for us all. Located on the campus of one of the most racially diverse university in the United States, we strive to create a nourishing environment for those who continue to be neglected by contemporary art museums, including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ groups. As the only art museum in the city of Las Vegas, we commit ourselves to leveling barriers that limit access to the arts, especially for first-time visitors. To facilitate access for low-income guests we provide free entry to all our exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and community activities. Our collection of artworks offers an opportunity for researchers and scholars to develop a more extensive knowledge of contemporary art in Southern Nevada. The Barrick Museum is part of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).
 
All of the museum’s galleries are accessible to wheelchair users and other visitors who cannot use stairs. Services such as sign language interpretation can be arranged. Please contact the museum to discuss your needs: barrick.museum@unlv.edu, 702-895-3381.

 

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The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is located in the heart of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. The museum is easily accessed from the west side of campus at the intersection of Harmon Avenue and University Center Drive. Drive east on East Harmon Ave until the road enters the campus and terminates in a parking lot. The Museum will be on your right, next to a desert landscape garden. Directions here.

 

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