Category: Exhibitions

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…

The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS) was first introduced in 1974 as a means to spark creativity and growth in the community through photo based representation. For Southern California photographers, this organization was crucial to the fostering and well-being of a community followed by the creative dialogues that took place with respect to…

From October 7 to December 1, 2012 The Sota Project is an immersive, multilayered video installation that reenacts a controversial text from the Talmud. A tale of two sisters, bound together in symbiotic loyalty that unfolds in both time and three-dimensional space. The piece invites viewers to step into room-sized moving panoramas, and walk through…

From January 15-April 21, 2013 “The Collecting Continues” showcases several major gifts that have shaped and further enhanced the museum’s permanent collection over the decades. It begins with the Elizabeth Holmes Fisher Collection, founder of the museum and the first female member of USC’s Board of Trustees and goes on to feature more recent gifts…

April 8-21, 2013 Political movements are strongly remembered through the iconic visuals created amidst the controversy. Collecting these artistic interpretations is the mission of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG), a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that gathers, preserves and showcases international poster art that responds to the cry for social change. Eighteen of…

June 2-23, 2013 The California Art Club presents its hallmark exhibition at the USC Fisher Museum of Art for the very first time. This much-anticipated display of contemporary-traditional fine art spotlights nearly 200 never-before-seen works of art of genres ranging from quintessential California landscapes and seascapes to figures and still life. While the featured paintings…

From September 5 to December 1, 2012 In the twenty-first century, issues of identity seem increasingly complex and problematic, but also of fundamental and growing importance. In this way, the contemporary art world is a microcosm reflecting significant aspects of the larger world in which we live. As women have become more a part of…

May 7-17, 2013 Regular hours: Mon-Fri, 12-5pmOpening reception/award ceremony Tues May 7, 5:30-7:30pmCommencement Friday May 17: 10am-2pmUSC Fisher Museum of Art, Harris Hall [HAR] The Annual Undergraduate Exhibition showcases outstanding artwork made by USC undergraduate students over the course of the 2012-13 academic year. The faculty committee welcomes work from all USC students, regardless of…