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OCTOBER 2012 NEWSLETTER

Programs & Events The Closest Thing / Matteo Rubbi at Combine Visiting artist Matteo Rubbi, winner of Italy's prestigious Furla Foundation Prize, is opening a new exhibition in the Project Space at the ASU Art Museum International Artist Residency facility at Combine, in downtown Phoenix. The opening reception is Third Friday, Oct. 19 from 6-9 p.m., and the show will be up through Nov. 10. Check our blog for related events. Learn more... Photo by Bruno Sousa. Political Advertisement VIII: 1952-2012 / Oct. 29 ASU Art Museum and the Society for Video Art present a screening of Political Advertisement VIII: 1952-2012 (85 min., b & w and color, sound), an ongoing project by Muntadas and Marshall Reese.   With each presidential election since 1984, the year the artists began the film, they have revised, expanded and updated it. The project highlights a stream of political advertisements, presented without commentary, including many rare spots and some never before seen.   The screening is Oct. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Neeb Hall, on ASU's Tempe Campus. Marshall Reese will introduce the screening and lead a Q&A afterward.   Political Advertisement VIII: 1952-2012 will also be on display from Oct. 30 – Nov. 6 in the gallery at the ASU Art Museum. Learn more... Still from Political Advertisement VIII: 1952-2012, courtesy of the artists. Lorna Meaden / Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture / Oct. 25 The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center presents Lorna Meaden as featured speaker for the Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture Series.   Lorna Meaden grew up in La Grange, a western suburb of Chicago. After receiving a B.A. from Fort Lewis College in 1994, she established a studio in Durango, Colorado, where she worked as a studio potter for the next eight years. She received an M.F.A. in ceramics from Ohio University in 2005. She has recently been a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana, and at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. She was featured as a demonstrator and lecturer at the National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts, as well as at "Utilitarian Clay V: Celebrate the Object." Her work is represented by several national galleries. She is currently a studio potter in Durango, as well as adjunct professor of art at Fort Lewis College.   Lecture at 7 p.m. at Coor Hall, Room 174. A reception at the Ceramics Research Center will follow the lecture. Learn more... Lorna Meaden, "Pitcher," soda fired porcelain, 2012. Image courtesy of the artist. First Saturdays for Families / Nov. 3 Join us for First Saturdays for Families! This free program takes place on the first Saturday of every month and invites children 4-12 and their families to make a creative project in conjunction with exhibitions. No registration required. All materials provided, and families get to bring home their artwork. Photo by Tim Trumble. Exhibitions Trajectory / Miguel Palma Visiting artist Miguel Palma (Portugal) has developed a “Desert Initiative Remote Shuttle” that investigates ways in which meaning of place, particularly in remote desert environments, is created and communicated. Palma's work in this exhibition engages issues through the lens of exploration: military history in Arizona and the Southwest, the military’s role in desert preservation, the history of Manifest Destiny and colonialism in populated places, strategies of adaptation and the role of technology in desert survival. Learn more... Photo courtesy of the Desert Initiative. Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule]  at the CRC If you haven't already, come and contribute to the Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule], by Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb. (Lord and Schreier were partners in the legendary art and technology cooperative Ant Farm, active from 1968-1978.)   The Media Van is a repurposed 1972 Chevy with interior modifications including vintage Ant Farm videos, a conversation pit and a media HUQQUH. The HUQQUH creates a digital time capsule of images and music randomly donated by the public (that means YOU) through the process of plugging in a personal digital device such as a camera, MP3 player or Smartphone.   Also on view are remnants from the original Truckstop Tour, 1970, and a previous digital Time Capsule, the SFMOMA Time Capsule Triptych. For some rich background on Ant Farm and the era from which they emerged, we recommend the show West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, on view now at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Learn more... Ant Farm Media Van v.08 [Time Capsule], a project by Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb, 2008 (conceptual rendering courtesy of the artists). The Desert: Bohl, Borein & Burr / Oct. 13, 2012-Jan. 12, 2013 Beautiful and expansive landscapes, immense clouded skies, strange cacti and fowl, and the inhabitants and workers of the land inspired Walter E. Bohl, Edwin Borein and George Elbert Burr. Each of the artists worked in different professions before they began to make prints. They lived in different states until health and their art brought them to the desert. And here, in the desert, their work bloomed. Walter E. Bohl, Quick Flight, Gambel Quail, etching. Gift of Walter and Ann Bohl Estate. On Our Blog Notes From Underground: The Fall Season Opening The Fall Season Opening was a resounding success. Artists MIguel Palma, Chip Lord and Bruce Tomb were all on hand, as was composer Wayne Horvitz for the premiere of his stunning piece 55: Music and Dance in Concrete. In case you missed it, you can still experience the video and audio components of 55: Music and Dance in Concrete through Nov. 3 in our Nymphaeum (pictured at right) during Museum hours. And you can see images and read a recap of the events on our blog. ASU Art Museum during performance of 55: Music and Dance in Concrete, Sept. 28. Photo by Sean Deckert.

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