Current Exhibitions

Contemporary Gallery
Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions
through February 19, 2012
Landscape Futures explores how planetary landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. Specifically, it will investigate the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where the construction of new spatial devices on a variety of scales, from the inhabitable to the portable, can uncover previously inaccessible aspects of the built... more »
This is Not a Trojan Horse: A Project by Amy Franceschini and Michael Taussig
through March 11, 2012 A multi-faceted and socially engaged project, This is Not a Trojan Horse is a large, human-powered, wooden horse built in Abruzzo, Italy by Amy Franceschini, founder of the artists’ collective Future Farmers. Set in the Abruzzo region of Italy, the project encourages working Italian farmers to explain why they still embrace their chosen vocations. The large-scale, mobile architecture... more »
Cassaza Gallery
Jean-Luc Mylayne: The Heavens are Blue
through March 11, 2012 A self-taught photographer and thoughtful scholar of philosophy, French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne explores temporality and the relationship of humankind to both nature and the environments in which we live. Since 1976 he has produced, along with his wife and collaborator, Mylène, over 400 unique photographs of birds. The titles of the works reveal the length of time invested by... more »
CA+E Library
Richard Black: Australia’s Murray River
through March 31, 2012 Australian architect Richard Black has long been engaged with research related to the Murray River—Australia's longest and most agriculture-intensive watercourse that has been continually impacted by floods. In this exhibition, Black proposes a series of sustainable design solutions to improve both the health of the river system and those living along it. A teacher at the Royal Melbourne... more »
Media Gallery
Peter Liashkov: Paper Cowboy
through April 15, 2012 Although artist Peter Liashkov has lived in the American West for over fifty years, he admits that he had never given significant thought to its popular cowboy culture. While in Wyoming, Liashkov constructed a series of cowboy shirts made from historical paper land deeds that were given to him by a friend. He further adorned the shirts with marks resembling traditional cattle brands, which also... more »
Feature Gallery North
August Sander: Face of Our Time
through April 22, 2012 This exhibition features sixty black-and-white portraits taken by German photographer August Sander in the early part of the twentieth century that document a cross section of German society. This unique set of prints from Sander's series Antlitz der Zeit (Face of Our Time) has never been exhibited before, although the photographer did publish a volume of images by the same name.... more »
A+E Gallery
The Canary Project: Landscapes of Climate Change
through April 29, 2012 The Canary Project, founded in 2006 by the artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) initially consisted of Sayler photographing landscapes throughout the world where scientists are studying the impacts of climate change. Titled A History of the Future, the sites included melting glaciers in Peru, rising waters in the Netherlands and Venice, and post-Katrina New... more »
Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall
Jacob Hashimoto : Here in Sleep, a World, Muted to a Whisper
through July 1, 2012 In anticipation of the Museum’s 80th Anniversary in 2011, contemporary artist Jacob Hashimoto was commissioned to create a large-scale, site-specific artwork to hang in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall. Hashimoto’s sculpture—fabricated from thousands of small “kites”—is made from bamboo-stiffened rice papers not unlike those used for centuries to make traditional Japanese kites.... more »
Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater Lobby
Art, Science, and the Arc of Inquiry: The Evolution of the Nevada Museum of Art
through July 1, 2012 Organized on the occasion of the Nevada Museum of Art’s 80th anniversary in 2011, this special exhibition will celebrate the institution’s early founders, Dr. James Church, Charles Cutts, and volunteer members of the Latimer Art Club, revealing how their vision for a regional art gallery evolved into the robust and vigorous institution that the Museum is today. Dr. James Church, who... more »
On View
Tim Hawkinson: Totem
through October 7, 2012 Internationally-acclaimed artist Tim Hawkinson is known for his complex sculptures. Made from bronze, this single sculpture Totem evokes the forms of discarded plastic bottles or jugs, inviting conversations about water, land, and the challenges Native American cultures have faced related to these natural resources. more »