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Perception

June 20, 2025 - December 20, 2025

West Gallery

Perception is essential to the visual arts—we know art because we can perceive it. But can we trust that perception? Presided over by a giant brain and a pair of weeping eyes, this exhibition confronts us with static paintings that seem to move, diagrams that teach us nothing, and impossibly flattened models of perspectival space.

All of the artworks in Perception have been chosen from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Several of the pieces are new acquisitions, including a painting on aluminum by Thomas Burke, a fabric sculpture by Denise R. Duarte, a ceramic work by Dirk Staschke, and a neon sculpture by Thomas Ray Willis.

The exhibition also features work by Deborah Aschheim, Chad Brown, Diane Bush, Tomoko Daido, Jack Endewelt, Ripper Jordan, Kara Joslyn, Julie Oppermann, Brian Porray, Harry Roseman, James Stanford, Laurens Tan, John Torreano, Mikayla Whitmore, and Cindy Wright.

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Perception

  1. Find the Vowels by Jack Endewelt, Image 3.

    Jack Endewelt

    Find the Vowels, 1990

    Oil on linen

    50 x 60 x 1 in

  2. Gateway / Free Parking by James Stanford, Image 1.

    James Stanford

    Gateway / Free Parking, 2017

    Digital print on Fujichrome Pearl archival paper

    48 x 48 in

  3. Hoover by Tomoko Daido, Image 1.

    Tomoko Daido

    Hoover, 2013

    Black and white photograph

    7 x 7 in

  4. Its Teeth Are Soft by Mikayla Whitmore, Image 1.

    Mikayla Whitmore

    Its Teeth Are Soft, 2017

    Archival metallic inkjet print

    28.5 x 20.25 x 1 in

  5. Lucky Star by Thomas Burke, Image 1.

    Thomas Burke

    Lucky Star, 2005

    Acrylic on metal

    36 x 96 in

  6. November 21, 1963 (San Antonio) by Deborah Aschheim, Image 1.

    Deborah Aschheim

    November 21, 1963 (San Antonio), 2013

    Ink on Duralar

    39 x 35 in

  7. Nude Female by Denise Duarte, Image 2.

    Denise Duarte

    Nude Female, 2015

    Pantyhose, Poly-fil, hardshell EPS foam

    26 x 32 x 46 in

  8. Skin Deep by Diane Bush, Image 3.

    Diane Bush

    Skin Deep, 2011

    C-print photograph, bleach

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About the artist

Jack Endewelt

American

1935–2006

Born and raised in New York City, Endewelt began to attend Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts in 1967 and quickly became part of the faculty. He retired to Las Vegas in 2000 after a long career that combined teaching with freelance commercial illustration. "We're conditioned to expect the things around us to behave, smell, taste a certain way, depending upon their appearance,” he said during a CAC group show in 2004. “I wanted to comment on the presumptive aspect of this expectation." Casey Weldon, who designed a catalogue for the memorial exhibition that was held in Trifecta Gallery after Endewelt’s death from lung cancer in 2006, described his work like this: “Everything is rendered so perfectly. But then there is the juxtaposition of the weird subject matter. The work, at first glance, seems so conservative, straightforward, but looking closer you see that it's off-kilter, eerie.” (Interview published in the Las Vegas Sun, July 21, 2006).