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

"Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne" features a selection 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.

The majority of "Open This End" is on display at Urban Arts Space, downtown, while Hopkins Hall Gallery features the work "Jimmy Carter" by Jennifer Steinkamp. Just off campus on the façade of the former Long's Bookstore at the corner of 15th Ave and High St, is "Untitled (For Parkett)" (1994), a work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres.