Category: Exhibitions

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…

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…

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…

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…