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Four Rooms and a View: USC's Collection Hightlights
USC Fisher Museum of Art celebrates the 2010 centennial anniversary of the Mexican Revolution with the unveiling of a new Mexican art acquisition and prints from USC's Special Collections Library.
October 28, 2009 Download Press Release
USC Fisher Museum to showcase work by Victor Raphael
Victor Raphael: Travels and wanderings: 1979-2009 presents 30 years of work by Los Angeles born artist Victor Raphael. From September 9-December 19, 2009.July 10, 2009 Download Press Release
USC Fisher to exhibit Andy Warhol polaroids
The USC Fisher Museum of Art proudly unveils The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program gift of 100 polaroids and 50 gelatin silver prints taken by Andy Warhol.
February 01, 2009 Download Press Release
USC Fisher Museum to exhibit rarely seen artworks and new acquisitions
USC celebrates the renaming of its AAM-accredited art museum, formerly known as the USC Fisher Gallery. This exhibition showcases the institution's most recent acquisitions and most prized—and rarely exhibited—possessions.
December 01, 2008 Download Press Release
Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence to open at USC Fisher Museum of Art
Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence is not just smoke and mirrors. The show offers insight into how death, loss and historical trauma can be made visible to us.
September 01, 2008 Download Press Release
USC Fisher Gallery announces name change
After almost 70 years as USC Fisher Gallery, the art museum of the University of Southern California has been rededicated as the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Long a collecting institution, USC Fisher Museum of Art is also a center of intellectual inquiry and aesthetic enjoyment for not only the University of Southern California and the greater Los Angeles community. A formal public renaming celebration will take place in the fall of 2008 coinciding with the opening of the exhibition Phantasmagoria.
March 13, 2008 Download Press Release
New USC Fisher Gallery's photographic acquisition to be unveiled in spring 2008
This collection of photographs by artist Donald Bandler includes portraits, impressions of the life of Cyprus, detail of the architecture, and an exploration of human identity. A prominent feature of the exhibition will include a series of images of the "green line," areas powerfully charged of the buffer zone in the divided capital of Nicosia.
January 10, 2008 Download Press Release
Artist Marta Palau to present her new book at USC Fisher Gallery
Alongside colleagues like Francisco Toledo and Cecilia Vicuna, Mexican artist Marta Palau has broken ground in late 20th century and early 21st century work. She will present her new book Marta Palau. Naualli at USC Fisher Gallery on November 15, 6:30 - 8:00 PM.
October 22, 2007 Download Press Release
MALALECHE: Crosses and Crossroads
Queretaro-based artists to exhibit and perform at USC Fisher Gallery in Los Angeles one-day only: October 24, 2007, 6:30-8:00 pm.
October 05, 2007 Download Press Release
Robert Graham: Body of Work
This exhibition reveals a new phase in Robert Graham's exploration of the female figure in drawings, photographs, videos, and, especially, sculpture. From November 14, 2007 to February 9, 2008.
August 24, 2007 Download Press Release
Tony Berlant, Frank O. Gehry, Robert Graham, and Ed Moses discuss the late style
This event features a panel of artists in a moderated discussion exploring the implications of what "late style" means for the artist and the architect.
On December 6, 2007 in the Andrus Gerontology Center—Leonard Davis Auditorium at the University of Southern California, University Park Campus, begins at 6:00 PM with a reception, with the discussion commencing at 6:30 PM and continuing until 8:00 PM.
August 24, 2007 Download Press Release
Material Affinities: To Clay and Back
Works by Lynda Benglis, Richard Deacon, Roger Herman, Ann Page and Michael Todd. September 5 to October 20, 2007.
July 09, 2007 Download Press Release
Artist, art critic and physicians to disciss the convergence of art and medicine
Artist Joyce Cutler-Shaw; Pamela Schaff, M.D.; and Robert Tager, M.D. will address the convergence of medicine and art in a discussion moderated by KCRW's art critic Edward Goldman.
January 24, 2007 Download Press Release
The Bone-and-Bird Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw and Sarah Perry
This exhibition on view at USC Fisher Gallery from February 14, 2007 through April 14, 2007 features two Southern California artists using bones as the subject matter or the medium of their art.
December 05, 2006 Download Press Release
Then and Now: Highlights from the USC Fisher Gallery Permanent Collection
USC Fisher Gallery presents the exhibition Then and Now, a selection from the USC Fisher Gallery permanent collection. Organized by USC Fisher Gallery curator Ariadni A. Liokatis, the exhibition will be on view from November 15, 2006 â€" January 20, 2007. Then and Now will feature holdings from Fisher Gallery’s permanent collection that range from 17th century Dutch masterpieces to a selection of 21st century American and European artworks. November 15, 2006 - January 20, 2007.
November 15, 2006 Download Press Release
The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur and Michael Mazur and Dante: A Different Paradise
This fall, USC Fisher Gallery presents the work of Boston artist Michael Mazur in two exhibitions: The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur and Michael Mazur and Dante: A Different Paradise. Mazur's eerily haunting etchings of the Inferno of Dante and drawings, prints and paintings have established him as one of the most prominent artists in the country. September 6 - October 28, 2006.
September 06, 2006 Download Press Release