Arizona State University Art Museum
Nelson Fine Arts Center
January through May, 2004
image credit: Carmen Lomas Garza, Las Peleoneras,
1988, lithograph, 22” x 30.” Collection of the ASU Art Museum,
gift of M.A.R.S. Artspace.
RECEPTION
Saturday, February 7, 20047:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Opening receptions that evening for the exhibitions:
Landscape in the Fireplace: Paintings
by Pedro Alvarez
Blue Memory: Paintings by Tran Trong Vu
Personal Doping: Video Installations
by Agnieszka Kalinowska
THE M.A.R.S. ARTSPACE LEGACY: Prints by M.A.R.S. & SelfHelp
Graphics
In 1978 a group of artists and community leaders formed an artists' cooperative,
Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado (M.A.R.S.) to promote visual and performing
arts by contemporary Arizona, Mexican-American and Chicano artists. Nomadically
exhibiting in a variety of spaces, their permanent gallery, M.A.R.S. Artspace,
opened in central Phoenix in 1981. M.A.R.S. Artspace exhibited members'
artwork and served as a showcase for poets, writers, performance and video
artists. To help provide operational support, M.A.R.S. members created
limited editioned prints that sold through the gallery. Although their
doors have recently closed, M.A.R.S. left an impressive legacy by donating
forty-three prints to the ASU Art Museum. Though this gift is a mixture
of work produced by both M.A.R.S. and Self-Help Graphics (a silkscreen
print collective in Los Angeles), these screenprints, lithographs and
monoprints convey the cultural identity, pride and artistic achievement
by some of the best Mexican-American and Chicano artists.
List of Artists
Work by the following artists will be included in the exhibition: José
Antonio Aguirre, David (Rivas) Botello, Paul Botello, Rudy M. Fernández,
Jr., Carmen Lomas Garza, Pat Gómez, Luis A. Jiménez, Jr.,
Leo Limón, Gilbert "Magú" Luján, César
Augusto Martínez, Tony Ortega, Arturo Urista, John M. Valdez, Larry
Yáñez, Frank Ybarra,
Presentation
Organized by Jean Makin, THE M.A.R.S. ARTSPACE LEGACY will be
installed in the ASU Art Museum's Nelson Fine Arts Center location.
Duration
THE M.A.R.S. ARTSPACE LEGACY (January – May, 2004) is open
at the Nelson Fine Arts Center: Tuesday from 10am to 9pm; Wednesday through
Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
Support
The exhibition and related programs are supported in part by Friends of
the ASU Art Museum.
ASU Art Museum exhibitions
Selected past exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum include:
Mexican Folk Art in Context:
Selections from the Vanesian Collection
Codex Mendez: Prints by Leopoldo Mendez
(1902-1969)
Cops and Robbers: Drawings by Lucio Muniain
Fiestas de la Vida
Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival
on the Utopian Island
For more information contact John Spiak at spiak@asu.edu.
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