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POWER STRIP Eric Shiner, director of the Andy Warhol Museum, with Tiberti at the "Warhol Out West" VIP opening at the Bellagio Gallery in February 2013. 38 VIEW FROM THE GALLERY Tarissa Tiberti's Vegas. *on the landscape "I really like the desert. I love the juxtaposition of the desert and the Vegas skyline at night." *the art of the table "We love Cafe Chloe. It is by far the best Italian food in town. Chef Piero Broglia is from Rome, and he knows what he's doing." *favorite artists "It changes from day to day. Mainly it's work by contemporary artists, but I'm the person who has to look at earlier periods to see their influences. I like Anish Kapoor. I like architectural pieces. I like Roxy Paine, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Whiteread, Tara Donovan." *this evolving city "The history of this place is fun, and fun to think about. I miss old Vegas, but I also like the new projects." *on creating art "I'm not putting it out of my mind, because I still think like an artist. I still have projects I want to work on." PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF BELLAGIO GALLERY OF FINE ART (SHINER); MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON (PAINTING) continued from page 37 Paper Ball, the organization that had been operating the Bellagio Gallery, was leaving and someone was needed to direct the day-to-day operations. "I told my roommate in New York that I'd be back. She said, 'You're not coming back.'" The roommate was correct. With her hometown upping its art-world ante, "I knew I could help make a difference in a city I grew up in," Tiberti says. "I could get further by being here than being there and doing the same thing." Fast-forward to today, and Tiberti is presenting the most important art coming into the Valley, including the pieces in the recent exhibit "Warhol Out West," a collection from the Andy Warhol Museum that connects the renowned New York Pop artist with the American West, and the upcoming "Painting Women: Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston," a show that Tiberti pared down to accommodate the Strip's unique audience. "You get every type of person," she says of the broad range of visitors hitting Las Vegas Boulevard daily. "We have 2,500 square feet and need to catch people in 2.5 days," the average length of a stay in Vegas. Reaching a wide variety of people is something Tiberti has become quite skilled at. For 2011's "Figuratively Speaking: A Survey of the Human Form," she combined works from MGM Resorts' fine-art collection with pieces from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and San Diego's Museum of Contemporary Art—which allowed for some once-in-a-lifetime juxtapositions, such as an André Derain portrait next to one by Yoshitomo Nara, two artists who had created those Mrs. Duffee Seated works at the same age but in different time periods, cultures, and countries. With the on a Striped Sofa, following exhibit, "A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney," Tiberti took Reading (1876) by Mary Cassatt, from a similar approach. Both shows fulfilled the public's desire to see masterworks, while the Bellagio also suggesting how artists of different eras and movements approached similar subGallery's upcoming jects. Mixed in were gems by lesser-known artists working in new media, so visitors "Painting Women: Works from the who attended to see a Picasso were also pleasantly surprised by a video installation. Museum of Fine Tiberti knows that names like Picasso, Monet, and Warhol are key to reaching a Arts, Boston." general audience, which makes "Painting Women" a more unusual endeavor for the Bellagio Gallery. While Georgia O'Keeffe and Mary Cassatt might be familiar to art-world neophytes, artists such as Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun (the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette) are not. The exhibition, spanning the years 1860 –1950, features women both as professional artists and as subjects, some of whom, Tiberti says, "went from one side of the canvas to the other." As the only space on the Strip presenting exhibits of this caliber, Bellagio remains committed to fine art, as does Tiberti, who is busy working on the two shows that will follow "Painting Women." That means tracking down pieces not already headed elsewhere and available for loan. "There are challenges in trying to get what you want," she says. "And you also have everybody else's opinion." With a smile, she adds, "It's tough, but it's a good tough." "Painting Women: Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston" will open February 14 and run until October 27. Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, 702-6937871; bellagio.com V VEGASMAGAZINE.COM 037-038_V_SP_PowerStrip_Winter14.indd 38 1/10/14 10:40 AM