Without Borders

Brian Maguire offers a behind-the-scenes look at his studio and works in progress.

Without Borders - Digital Catalog

Online Gallery Talk: Brian Maguire

This live event took place on June 25 • 12:30-1:30PM ET

Artist Brian Maguire and curator Lilly Wei discussed Maguire’s online Summer exhibition "Without Borders." Featuring Jack Rasmussen, AU Museum Director & Curator, and Kate Meenan-Waugh of Solas Nua.

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STREAMING EDITION:

BRIAN MAGUIRE - WITHOUT BORDERS

Janis Goodman and Peter Winant join Robert Aubry Davis to discuss Without Borders.

Aired: 06/26/20

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VISIT THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

Brian Maguire, Aleppo 4, 2017, acrylic on linen, 200 x 400 cm / 78.7 x 157.5 in

Solas Nua in collaboration with American University Museum is delighted to re-present, in virtual form, this exhibitions which was canceled in an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 in 2020.

Without Borders

The virtual exhibition at the AU Museum includes early paintings by Brian Maguire, beginning with a self-portrait from 1986 and concludes with a painting completed last year, a commission from the TIA collection. In between are architecturally sized works from the artists decades long chapters, paintings of ravaged buildings in Aleppo, memorials to lost immigrants traversing in despair from their journeys either on foot from South America, or by sea in the Mediterranean, shown alongside portraits of Juarez Femicide victims, and charcoal from life sketches captured on site at a Sudanese refugee camp. The selections were made with the artist by curator Lilly Wei, in consultation with the AU Museum’s Director & Curator Jack Rasmussen.

The virtual exhibition will be accompanied by a documentary on the Maguire’s Cuidad Juarez project, a live conversation between the artist and Wei, and a studio visit with Brian who is currently observing stay at home orders in his hometown, Dublin.

About Brian:

Brian Maguire is an artist of singular yet expansive vision: an activist, a correspondent, and a voice for dispossessed and marginalized individuals often considered dispensable by the rest of society. Since the onset of his professional career four decades ago, Maguire has been an instigator of numerous interactive projects with prisoners, refugees, and survivors; the artist’s practice is inseparable from his commitment to the community with whom he feels in service, navigating an often precarious exchange subject to the scrutiny of the public opinion under which it must operate.

The recipient of a prestigious Culture Ireland grant, Brian Maguire’s recent US tour included the Rubin Art Center at University of Texas at El Paso and an exhibition in tandem across the border at Museo Ciudad Juárez in December 2019; the United Nations headquarters at the invitation of Geraldine Byrne Nason, Ireland’s Permanent Representative to the UN in February 2020; and American University Museum which will now open as a virtual exhibition in June 2020, to be accompanied by a published catalogue with essays by the show’s curator Lilly Wei, as well as Harvard PhD candidate and art writer Valerie Lynn Werder, and artist Julian Cardona.

The virtual exhibition at the AU Museum includes early paintings by Brian Maguire, beginning with a self-portrait from 1986 and concludes with a painting completed last year, a commission from the TIA collection. In between are architecturally sized works from the artists decades long chapters, paintings of ravaged buildings in Aleppo, memorials to lost immigrants traversing in despair from their journeys either on foot from South America, or by sea in the Mediterranean, shown alongside portraits of Juarez Femicide victims, and charcoal from life sketches captured on site at a Sudanese refugee camp. The selections were made with the artist by curator Lilly Wei, in consultation with the AU Museum’s Director & Curator Jack Rasmussen. The virtual exhibition will be accompanied by a documentary on the Maguire’s Cuidad Juarez project, a live conversation between the artist and Wei, and a studio visit with Brian who is currently observing stay at home orders in his hometown, Dublin.