Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne

August 25 - November 7, 2015

4:00AM - 6:00AM

Urban Arts Space, Hopkins Hall Gallery, and the facade of the former Long's bookstore on 15th Ave. and High St.

Add to Calendar 2015-08-25 04:00:00 2015-11-07 06:00:00 Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne Time: All day Event Host: Urban Arts Space Short Description: The Open This End Exhibition is a curated selection from the collection of Blake Byrne featuring works by some of the most compelling visual artists of the last 50 years. Reception: Friday, Sept. 25, 6-8 p.m.Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne features a collection of work from renowned artists spanning the past 50 years, including works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Mike Kelley, David Hammons, Tony Smith and many others. The exhibition incorporates numerous themes important to contemporary art, including Pop Art and Conceptualism, the Pictures Generation, performance art and the Abject Body, California Conceptualism, Minimalism, German Pop and European art since the 1980s, identity politics, and portraiture and self-portraiture. The collection is intertwined with social issues of the contemporary world, including race, gender, technology, education, philanthropy, communication and ethics. This major exhibition features selections from the art collection of the Los Angeles-based Byrne. Several universities with connections to Byrne and his family, including Duke University, Ohio State, Columbia University and Lewis and Clark College, are featuring Open This End as it travels across the country, marking Blake Byrne’s 80th birthday.This exhibition is free and open to the public. Visit the Urban Arts Space for more.Related Events:Barnett Speaker Series: Philanthropy, Ethics and Art Panel Discussion with Blake ByrneWhere Are We Now: 30 Years of HIV/AIDS Research Photo: Wangechi Mutu, Pretty Double-Head, 2010, mixed-media, ink, collage, spray paint on Mylar, 34" H x 41.75" W (86.36 cm H x 106.05 cm W), Collection of Blake Byrne. Image courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; photo by: Robert Wedemeyer.Cover photo by Ada Matusiewicz: pictured from left to right: Ed Ruscha, Parking Lots, 1967/99, Thirty gelatin prints, 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm) each, Edition 26/35, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, promised gift of Blake Byrne, T’57. Rita McBride, Chair (smoked), 2003, Murano glass and plastic 35 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 21 inches (90.2 x 41.9 x 53.3 cm), Collection of Blake Byrne. Urban Arts Space, Hopkins Hall Gallery, and the facade of the former Long's bookstore on 15th Ave. and High St. OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2015-08-25 04:00:00 2015-11-07 06:00:00 Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne Time: All day Event Host: Urban Arts Space Short Description: The Open This End Exhibition is a curated selection from the collection of Blake Byrne featuring works by some of the most compelling visual artists of the last 50 years. Reception: Friday, Sept. 25, 6-8 p.m.Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne features a collection of work from renowned artists spanning the past 50 years, including works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Mike Kelley, David Hammons, Tony Smith and many others. The exhibition incorporates numerous themes important to contemporary art, including Pop Art and Conceptualism, the Pictures Generation, performance art and the Abject Body, California Conceptualism, Minimalism, German Pop and European art since the 1980s, identity politics, and portraiture and self-portraiture. The collection is intertwined with social issues of the contemporary world, including race, gender, technology, education, philanthropy, communication and ethics. This major exhibition features selections from the art collection of the Los Angeles-based Byrne. Several universities with connections to Byrne and his family, including Duke University, Ohio State, Columbia University and Lewis and Clark College, are featuring Open This End as it travels across the country, marking Blake Byrne’s 80th birthday.This exhibition is free and open to the public. Visit the Urban Arts Space for more.Related Events:Barnett Speaker Series: Philanthropy, Ethics and Art Panel Discussion with Blake ByrneWhere Are We Now: 30 Years of HIV/AIDS Research Photo: Wangechi Mutu, Pretty Double-Head, 2010, mixed-media, ink, collage, spray paint on Mylar, 34" H x 41.75" W (86.36 cm H x 106.05 cm W), Collection of Blake Byrne. Image courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; photo by: Robert Wedemeyer.Cover photo by Ada Matusiewicz: pictured from left to right: Ed Ruscha, Parking Lots, 1967/99, Thirty gelatin prints, 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm) each, Edition 26/35, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, promised gift of Blake Byrne, T’57. Rita McBride, Chair (smoked), 2003, Murano glass and plastic 35 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 21 inches (90.2 x 41.9 x 53.3 cm), Collection of Blake Byrne. Urban Arts Space, Hopkins Hall Gallery, and the facade of the former Long's bookstore on 15th Ave. and High St. College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public

Time: All day
Event Host: Urban Arts Space
Short Description: The Open This End Exhibition is a curated selection from the collection of Blake Byrne featuring works by some of the most compelling visual artists of the last 50 years.

Reception: Friday, Sept. 25, 6-8 p.m.

Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne features a collection of work from renowned artists spanning the past 50 years, including works by Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Mike Kelley, David Hammons, Tony Smith and many others. The exhibition incorporates numerous themes important to contemporary art, including Pop Art and Conceptualism, the Pictures Generation, performance art and the Abject Body, California Conceptualism, Minimalism, German Pop and European art since the 1980s, identity politics, and portraiture and self-portraiture. The collection is intertwined with social issues of the contemporary world, including race, gender, technology, education, philanthropy, communication and ethics.

This major exhibition features selections from the art collection of the Los Angeles-based Byrne. Several universities with connections to Byrne and his family, including Duke University, Ohio State, Columbia University and Lewis and Clark College, are featuring Open This End as it travels across the country, marking Blake Byrne’s 80th birthday.

This exhibition is free and open to the public. Visit the Urban Arts Space for more.

Photo: Wangechi Mutu, Pretty Double-Head, 2010, mixed-media, ink, collage, spray paint on Mylar, 34" H x 41.75" W (86.36 cm H x 106.05 cm W), Collection of Blake Byrne. Image courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; photo by: Robert Wedemeyer.

Cover photo by Ada Matusiewicz: pictured from left to right: Ed Ruscha, Parking Lots, 1967/99, Thirty gelatin prints, 15 x 15 inches (38.1 x 38.1 cm) each, Edition 26/35, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, promised gift of Blake Byrne, T’57. Rita McBride, Chair (smoked), 2003, Murano glass and plastic 35 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 21 inches (90.2 x 41.9 x 53.3 cm), Collection of Blake Byrne.

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