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Opener 13
Joseph Grigely : St. Cecilia
February 9 - June 15, 2008
This new exhibition brings together a number of recent works by Joseph Grigely, an artist who creates works that explore the failures, idiosyncrasies, and ruptures of language and communication. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
February 9 - April 20, 2008
Whether jarring or soothing, dissonant or melodic, sound results from action. The artists in Smack use distinct actions, like scratching, stomping, or dragging, to explore specific sounds. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions, Student Curated
September 8, 2007 - April 13, 2008
Molecules That Matter showcases ten organic molecules that profoundly altered our world in the twentieth century. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions
August 4 - December 30, 2007
Bold yet shifty, stripes are a powerful pattern. The striped works on view here are by a select group of contemporary artists investigating the tensions, both visual and psychological, that the pattern can provoke. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
July 14 - December 29, 2007
Large-scale color photographs created by Phyllis Galembo from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
Elevator Music 10: Atmospherics/Weather Works
July 14 - December 30, 2007
Andrea Polli weaves information from a highly detailed meteorological model of Hurricane Bob, the storm that ravaged coastal areas of the Northeastern United States in August 1991, into a sound composition that illuminates the underlying rhythms of seemingly chaotic events. See More
Filed Under: Solo Exhibitions, Elevator Music
May 17 - August 12, 2007
The second Alumni Invitational organized by the Tang Museum includes the work of four artists that represent multiple generations and a variety of media. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions, Alumni Exhibitions
Contexts: Writing in the Museum
March 9 - April 22, 2007
Can the writing we encounter in museums radically shift our understanding of the objects on view? Students in English 205D, "Writing for Museums" explore this question in this exhibition and the accompanying web feature. See More
Filed Under: Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
Opener 12
Martin Kersels: Heavyweight Champion
February 3 - June 17, 2007
Kersel’s sculptures, photographs, and performances, though frequently funny and light-hearted at first reading, often reveal the awkwardness and embarrassment of quite literally not fitting in. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
Elevator Music 9: Elevator's Music
February 3 - April 29, 2007
Four robots within the Tang elevator's ceiling, each with the capacity to open its own door in the ceiling, "look around" and respond depending upon the behavior of the humans it carries, creating an illusion of sentient beings. See More
Filed Under: Elevator Music
Joachim Schmid Photoworks 1982 - 2007
February 3 - April 29, 2007
Schmid assembles related groups of found photos to reveal patterns of use and meaning that point to the social rituals, human desires, domestic events, and economic conditions that people employ photography to commemorate and display. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
October 7 - December 30, 2006
"Twice Drawn" returns in a new iteration, revisiting the spring 2006 eccentric survey of modern and contemporary drawing to explore how context affects our understanding of art. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
Opener 11
Nina Katchadourian: All Forms of Attraction
June 24 - December 30, 2006
Incorporating sculpture, photography, video, and sound, “All Forms of Attraction” collects more than a decade of engaging and irreverent artworks by Nina Katchadourian that combine investigative practices with a more elusive, poetic logic. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
June 24 - October 15, 2006
In our dreams, the familiar becomes strange and the bizarre is made believable. "Somnambulist/Fabulist" is a selection of works from the Tang's collections that explores the creative links between dreaming and storytelling. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
March 11 - June 4, 2006
Two drawings by over forty artists comprise this eccentric survey of the last half-century of modern and contemporary drawing. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
March 11 - June 4, 2006
"Billboard" is a digital analysis of every number one single from Billboard magazine's Hot 100 chart from 1958 through 2000. Using time-lapse phonography, "Billboard" enables the listener to experience 857 songs in about thirty-seven minutes. See More
Filed Under: Elevator Music
February 11 - September 10, 2006
Encompassing painting, video, sculpture, audio-video installation, and conceptual art, “And Therefore I Am” presents contemporary art about the experience of human consciousness, including thought, perception, and the workings of the mind and brain. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective
November 19, 2005 - February 12, 2006
The first retrospective exhibition of Richard Pettibone’s artwork in over twenty years, this exhibition presents the full range of the artist’s career, from his early shadow-box assemblages to his more recent sculptures and paintings. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
October 29, 2005 - January 30, 2006
San Francisco-based composer and performer Pamela Z creates a commissioned multi-channel audio installation for the Elevator Music series and combines segments of her new piece with previous works in a live performance kicking off the Tang's Fifth Anniversary Fall Reception. See More
Filed Under: Solo Exhibitions, Elevator Music
America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
October 1 - December 30, 2005
"America Starts Here," the first retrospective exhibition of Ericson and Ziegler’s career, provides a critical analysis of the artists’ still under-appreciated position in the history of twentieth-century art. The exhibition includes sculptures and installations, as well as models and video document... See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions
