Ash Ferlito and Matt Taber, Breakfast in America, 2012, Video.
Beck+Col, Red Night, 2023, Installation. Installation photo by Esteban Schimpf.
Oct. 28, 2024
Color Made
January 17 - May 17, 2025
Opening Reception: January 24, 2025
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, West Gallery
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present Color Made, an exhibition of nineteen artists who use color to define and reshape the world. Manipulating bright shades of blue, red, pink, yellow, and green across different mediums such as painting, fabric sculpture, and cast glass, these artists establish spaces where they can create narratives and build community connections. By choosing to cover a surface with color—or by making the color and the surface indivisible—they experiment with the idea of painting, turning the traditional painters’ canvas into an independent, manipulable form and asking if other materials can play the same role.
This exhibition includes a special screening of Beck+Col’s Red Night, an independent feature film set in a colorful world where five monsters come together to defend their queer chosen family against a violent intruder.
Color Made includes art from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection (Jason Adkins, Michael Batty, Tim Bavington, Chris Duncan, Jacqueline Ehlis, Ash Ferlito and Matt Taber, Harold Paris, Lyssa Park, Heidi Schwegler, Bettina Werner, and Thomas Ray Willis), as well as guest artworks by Yoko Kondo Konopik, Naes Pierrot, and Beck+Col with Ching Ching Cheng, Sapira Cheuk, and Ofelia Marquez. The film Red Night features art by Tanya Brodsky, Ching Ching Cheng, Sapira Cheuk, Jenny Eom, Vanessa Holyoak, Hea-Mi Kim, Ofelia Marquez, Minga Opazo, Alicia Piller, and Amia Yokoyama.
Color Made will be on view in the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s West Gallery from January 17–May 17, 2025, with an opening reception from 5–8 p.m. on the evening of January 24. All are welcome.
All of the museum’s galleries are accessible to wheelchair users and other visitors who cannot use stairs. Services such as sign language interpretation can be arranged. Please contact the museum to discuss your needs: barrick.museum@unlv.edu, 702-895-3381.
About the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art believes everyone deserves access to art that challenges our understanding of the present and inspires us to create a future that holds space for us all. Located on the campus of one of the most racially diverse universities in the U.S., we strive to create a nourishing environment for those who continue to be neglected by contemporary art museums. As the only art museum in the city of Las Vegas, we commit ourselves to leveling barriers that limit access to the arts. Our collection of artworks offers an opportunity for everyone to develop a deeper knowledge of contemporary art in Southern Nevada. The Barrick Museum is part of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Find Us
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is located in the heart of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus. The museum is easily accessed from the west side of campus at the intersection of Harmon Avenue and University Center Drive. Drive east on East Harmon Ave until the road enters the campus and terminates in a parking lot. The Museum will be on your right, next to a desert landscape garden. Directions here.
Parking
Visitors may park in metered, staff, and student spots free of charge after 7 pm on weekdays, 1 pm on Fridays, and all day Saturday.
Daily, weekly, or monthly permits can be purchased from Parking and Transportation Services.
Metered parking spaces for visitors can be found in the parking lot outside the Barrick’s entrance, along East Harmon Ave, and in the lot behind the Lied Library. Other metered green zones are available in the and parking areas throughout campus. Download the “PayByPhone Parking” app from Google Play or the iTunes app store.
Contact
702-895-3381