You’re invited to join us on October 6th in the city of neon as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, celebrates its 60th anniversary with a night of art and performance. After a champagne toast in honor of the Las Vegas arts community, the UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art opens two new exhibitions, Preservation, curated by L.A.’s own Aurora Tang, and liminal, by anthropologist/curator Shelly Volsche. Featuring work by artists from California and elsewhere (Adam Bateman, Laurie Brown, Moritz Fehr, Cayetano Ferrer, Ian James, Candice Lin, Brigid McCaffrey with Elizabeth Knafo, Ocean Earth, Marina Pinsky, Gala Porras-Kim, and Max Hooper Schneider), Tang’s show uses a range of approaches to explore different aspects of preservation – of land, legacies, histories, and the biological.
Two complementary exhibitions, the meditative Center For Land Use Interpretation: Peripheral Flood Control Structures of Las Vegas, at the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, and There Is No Right Time by Mikayla Whitmore at the Jessie & Brian Metcalf Gallery will form part of an art walk that also includes pop-up entertainment by UNLV’s schools of Architecture and Music, the departments of Dance, Film, Art, Theatre, and the university’s unique Entertainment Engineering and Design program, where students learn to devise the special effects that drive large-scale live spectaculars such as Cirque du Soleil’s O and Mystère.
https://www.unlv.edu/barrickmuseum
KEY DATES
Preservation: Sep 29, 2017 – Jan 20, 2018
liminal: Sep 29, 2017 – Jan 20, 2018
The Center for Land Use Interpretation: Peripheral Flood Control Structures of Las Vegas: Sep 29 – Nov 11, 2017
There Is No Right Time: Oct 02 – Nov 24, 2017
LOCATION
For directions to the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art on the UNLV campus, see https://www.unlv.edu/barrickmuseum/contact
For inquiries, please phone 702-895-3381 or email barrickstaff@unlv.edu
Image credit: Marina Pinsky, Department of Conservation (still), 2015
