TEMPE, ARIZONA.- The ASU Art Museum presents 90-DAY LOANS: From The Broad Art Foundation and the Ovitz Family Collection, on view through September 3, 2005. If you want to see what is happening in the contemporary art world, this is a good place to start. For over ten years, major private collectors have lent the ASU Art Museum works that they have just acquired from international galleries and auction houses. The loans are brief, usually three months, but allow our students and visitors the chance to see new work by important contemporary artists. Some of these pieces are so new that they travel directly to the Museum from the artist’s studio or gallery.

In the past, loans have ranged from the photographs of Cindy Sherman to the paintings of Eric Fischl to the multi-media sculptures of Tony Oursler. Artists from all over the world are represented. Recent loans have included a work by the German sculptor Thomas Kiesewetter and the Australian artist Ron Mueck. Many of these works are creating a buzz in the international art world and are appearing in arts and culture sections of major newspapers. For example, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York just closed an exhibition of Ellen Gallagher’s multi-media work, DeLuxe, an edition of which is on display in this gallery. Works by icons of twentieth century art like Andy Warhol are also loaned to the Museum. At this time, an untitled lithograph by American pop artist Jasper Johns may be seen in the director’s office from the Museum’s lobby. Artists in the Exhibition -
Works by Cecily Brown, Ellen Gallagher and Paul Pfeiffer.