September 7-December 3, 2011 Deborah Willis, Curator Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores the contested ways in which African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the…
Year: 2015
Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art
From December 3, 2008 to February 7, 2009 USC celebrates the renaming of its AAM-accredited art museum, formerly known as the USC Fisher Gallery, by showcasing some of the museum’s most prized possessions as well as recent acquisitions ranging from 16th century European paintings to 21st century Spanish and Latin American art.. Organized by USC…
re:View, A Curatorial Intervention
From March 27 to April 17, 2010 Armed with original research and innovative ideas, five undergraduates will re-curate the Fisher Museum’s current show, Four Rooms and a View: USC’s Collection Highlights. Their resulting exhibition, re:View, is a thought-provoking reinterpretation of selected works in USC’s permanent collection which presents new perspectives on traditional curatorial practice. re:View…
Four Rooms and a View: USC’s Collection Highlights
From January 27 to April 17, 2010;CLOSED March 12-March 26, 2010 Four Rooms and a View: USC’s Collection Highlights showcases several exceptional areas of the museum’s collection. On view will be our well-known old master and contemporary landscape paintings and lesser-known works by contemporary Mexican masters, Marta Palau and Demián Flores. This showcase illustrates the…
Variations on a Theme
A major exhibition of works from the private collections of Mary Margaret and Harry W. Anderson, comprising some of the finest prints from the second half of the 20th century, will be on view at the USC Fisher Gallery from February 15, 2006 through April 15, 2006. Variations on a Theme: American Prints from Pop…
MATCH Dual Presence
From February 15, 2006 to April 15, 2006 USC Fisher Gallery debuts Match dual presence, on February 15, 2006. The exhibition is on view through April 15, 2006. Organized by curator Olga Margarita Dvila from Artte.com, this is the first major United States solo exhibition of Mexican artist Demian Flores Cortes, who is regarded by…
The One and the Many
From April 24-May 11, 2012 This year, the Dean of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Rochelle Steiner, with USC Roski School faculty members Jennifer West and Chris Barnard, will co-curate the exhibition. The works in the student exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art represent the full range of courses at the…
The Inferno of Dante by Michael Mazur
From September 6, 2006 to October 28, 2006 Indulging the intellect and the eye, this exhibition juxtaposes the images of Mazur’s work with former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s brilliant award-winning translation of Dante’s epic poem, The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994), transfixing audiences in a darkly poetic…
Then and Now: Highlights from the USC Fisher Gallery Collections
From November 15, 2006 to January 20, 2007 Then and Now showcases the collections highlights in a wide-ranging survey of the museum’s treasures. The exhibition will provide the visitor with the opportunity to view works of art that are not normally on display at USC Fisher Gallery. USC Fisher Gallery “established in 1939” was the…
Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes
From August 19-November 23, 2010 David Travis, Curator This exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest portraitists in the history of photography. It may be said that, through his portraits, Karsh helped to create our collective visual memory of Winston Churchill, Marian Anderson, Albert Schweitzer, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, and…