Ongoing Exhibitions


The Rose Art Museum

The Rose is among the premier university museums of modern and contemporary art in the country.

Through its distinguished collection of mid-20th through 21st-century art, cutting-edge exhibitions and dynamic programs, visitors can experience the art, artists and ideas of our time.

Museum hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon – 5:00 p.m.

During the festival, the following exhibitions are on view:


ON THE MATTER OF ABSTRACTION (FIGS. A&B) AND WALEAD BESHTY: UNTITLED 

Location Fineberg Galleries

Description 

Walead Beshty exhibition at Rose MuseumImagine yourself as both spectator and creator. Walead Beshty collaborated with Rose director Christopher Bedford for this exhibition of the Rose’s collection of stunning post-war abstract paintings including works by Robert Motherwell, Judy Chicago and Ellsworth Kelly. Walk across Beshty’s mirrored glass floor and observe art and the museum in an entirely new way.

ED RUSCHA: STANDARD

Location Foster Gallery
Description 
 Imagine the intersection of Pop Art and the Beat movement. Mr. Ruscha's iconic art depicts everyday objects -- gas stations, street signs, billboards – in an exploration of the relationship between words, things and ideas. His vast influence can be seen in 20th century American graphic design, cinema, architectural theory and urban history.

SAM JURY: COERCED NATURE

Location Lee Gallery
Description Imagine a mysteriously disturbing dream. Ms. Jury's etheral, painterly video gives visual form to the relationship between human beings and our environment. She captures staged, fragmented performances in eerily familiar yet unrecognizable natural places.

 

Faculty Center Dining Room

Exhibition

FRAN FORMAN '67: REIMAGININGS

Description 

Fran Forman created the artwork on this year's Festival posters and guidebook. She has been recognized with numerous awards and prizes, most recently three awards from PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris. In 2011, she exhibited work at the Biennial International Photographic Cultural Festival and Exhibition in China.

Her work (including "Airborne," left) is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is represented by Panopticon Gallery (Boston), Afterimage Gallery (Dallas), Susan Spiritus Gallery (Newport Beach, CA), and High Noon Art and Culture (Beijing).

 


Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose Room


Exhibition

ULAFA'A RECONCILIATION ART PROJECT
Description Ulafa'a Reconciliation Art Project is an initiative supported by the US Embassy in Bahrain in partnership with Bahraini artists and the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University. Since the fall of 2012, project coordinators Tamadher Alfahal and Nada Alaradi have been recruiting a group of artists working in a variety of genres to participate in the project in Bahrain. Through a series of events that include film screenings, panel discussions, live performances, and trainings, Ulafa'a artists will engage in conversation with community members and learn how to develop community-based art initiatives that strengthen relationships across differences.

 

Volen Center

Exhibition

DEB TODD WHEELER: THE SEA OF KNOWLEDGE AND NONSENSE

Description 

As ambient light shifts through the space, a translucent cyanotype built into a functional modular tabletop reveals a previously unseen landscape.

Created by Boston-based sculptor, inventor and media artist, Deb Todd Wheeler, who teaches three-dimensional design at Brandeis and is represented by Ellen Miller Gallery (Boston). Supported by a gift from Eric and Debbie Green, P '05, P '07.  
Opening reception Friday, April 26, 5 p.m.