Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts
The Rubin Center is hosting three new exhibitions as part of its Fall 2009 activities. Celebrity, A Photographic Legacy from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Snagged by the Tom Leader Studio, and Love Without Contact by Ruben Verdu will stay until December 12th.
In addition to offer a direct experience with contemporary art of international recognition and importance, and to inspire active dialogue about contemporary art's social, political and cultural implications, The Rubin Center serves as a learning site for students from UTEP and the surrounding community by creating opportunities for student involvement in the planning and execution of exhibitions, by engaging in interdisciplinary education about the exhibitions on display, and by providing a framework for critical thinking about contemporary art and its place in our world.
With each exhibition visiting artists create site-specific installations, give public lectures, and conduct workshops for area high school and university students. Educational programming at the Rubin Center reaches a wide group of students at the high school and university level, and employs a diverse range of techniques to encourage critical thinking and broaden cultural, social and political dialogue. Please visit The Rubin Center website section on educational and outreach programs to learn more about this opportunities.
All events free and open to the public
Regular Gallery Hours: Tues., Wed., Fri. 10-5
Thurs. 10-7, Sat. 12 noon-5.
Closed Sunday and Monday
Closed during UTEP Home Football Games
Celebrity, A Photographic Legacy from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts at Project Space.
In 2008 the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts honored the 20th anniversary of the Warhol Foundation by making substantial gifs of Warhol’s photographic works to select universities and colleges. The Rubin Center was the recipient of one of these gifts and now owns 154 of Warhol’s photographs created between 1975 and 1986. Several of them are on view. Research about the photographs conducted by UTEP art students provides informative wall text about many of the exhibited works.
IMAGE CREDIT: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Christopher Markos, silver print on paper, 8” H X 10” W, 1982.
Snagged by the Tom Leader Studio at Rubin Gallery.
Snagged examines accumulation as a method of recording memory and experience. It is the latest in a series of large-scale site installations by Tom Leader Studio, a landscape architecture firm based in Berkeley, California, that creates sustainable landscapes and explores the human impact on the environment.
IMAGE CREDIT: Tom Leader, Osmotic Border 1, digital photo collage.
Love Without Contact by Ruben Verdu at L Gallery.
Ruben Verdu’s Continuum series records uninterrupted movement. The artist stands perfectly still spraying a focused jet of liquid pigment as the canvas progresses past him. Verdu’s immobility negates the emotive, full-body strokes of the action painters of the 1950s and opens up the possibilities for the painting process. Self-Inflicted is a photographic self-portrait of Verdu with a bloody nose. He is expressionless, unresponsive to the pain. A red, plastic clown’s nose hovers miraculously in front of a mirror on the other side of the room. Verdu has peeled away his mask, revealed the charade. The artist as machine and the stoicism of stereotypical masculinity are the two ideas that link the works in this exhibition.
IMAGE CREDIT: Ruben Verdu, Self-Inflicted, detail, dimensions variable, 2009.