Year: 2015

From February 14, 2007 to April 14, 2007 Joyce Cutler-Shaw has been exploring both clinically and imaginatively the moving, yet natural, phenomenon of deaths transubstantiation of a vital human organism into an articulated skeletal phantom of ones essential self. Sarah Perry combs the California deserts to harvest the bones of animals, rodents, reptiles, and owl…

August 19-November 23, 2010 The exhibition presented in the museum’s main galleries, Yousuf Karsh: Regarding Heroes, is a compilation of portraits of “heroes”– by the standards set by society. Some visitors to the exhibition might resonate to framing Karsh’s subjects as heroes while others might actually strongly disagree with the inclusion of portraits of some…

From May 21, 2007 to May 25, 2007 For its Art in the Village program, USC Fisher Gallery plans, curates and professionally installs four temporary student art exhibitions per academic year at the University Village Shopping Center food court. Youngsters at schools belonging to the USC Family of Schools (32nd Street/USC Magnet, Foshay Learning Center,…

From September 5, 2007 to October 20, 2007 What is special about clay that attracts artists to work with it at pivotal times in their careers? “Material Affinities: To Clay and Back” examines this question by looking at the work of Lynda Benglis, Richard Deacon, Roger Herman, Ann Page and Michael Todd. These well established…

January 11-April 9, 2011 Cindy M. Robinson, Curator See how artist John Nava created this major work of art for the new Ronald Tutor Campus Center. Commissioned in 2008 by Ronald Tutor Campus Center Art and Trojan Traditions, under the advisement of Fisher Museum Director Selma Holo, the Trojan Family Tapestry was created by world…

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 11-March 5, 2011 Ariadni A. Liokatis, Curator The USC Fisher Museum of Art is proud to introduce JS Carson in his first museum presentation. Fisher’s exhibition will feature a range of large mixed media works spanning the past decade revealing Carson’s talent. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1971, JS Carson moved to Los Angeles…

From September 3, 2008 to November 8, 2008 Long before large art exhibitions and blockbuster shows, crowds were awed by traveling shows called “phantasmagoria” in which familiar scenes and stories were performed with the use of magic lanterns and rear projections to create dancing shadows and frightening theatrical effects. These lively, interactive events incorporated storytelling,…

January 11-April 9, 2011 Ariadni A. Liokatis, Curator A portrait painter, Sylvia Shap has been engaged in the practice of realistic contemporary portraiture for the past 40 years. The exhibition “The Portraits of Sylvia Shap: Explorations and Revelations” will feature 50 portraits exposing the artist’s stylistic evolution in the context of the past four decades,…

From November 14, 2007 to February 9, 2008 Internationally renowned, Los Angeles-based artist Robert Graham (b. 1938, Mexico City) has explored the female figure in drawings, photographs, videos, and, especially, sculpture since the beginning of his career. The exhibition Body of Work reveals, for the first time in a museum context, a new phase in…