What is it that makes us different from one another? How do we define ourselves in relation to others? These expansive questions are probed by the 22 artists participating in “Equal Parts,” currently on view at Frontal Lobe Community Space and Gallery. Co-curated by Amanda Adkins and Ashley Macias, the…
What happens in the studio, shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit Q+A is a new weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: Tempe artist Kristin Bauer. Tempe-based artist…
Indigenous art collective Postcommodity’s two installations currently on display at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art as part of its “southwestNET” series until April 26, 2015 transform idyllic imagery into a subversive spectacle, utilizing Western culture to critique itself. The Southwest-based interdisciplinary collective currently consists of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade…
What happens in the studio, shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit Q+A is a new weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: Phoenix artist Daniel Funkhouser. Arizona local…
What happens in the studio shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit Q+A is a new weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: Tempe artist and educator Peter Bugg…
What happens in the studio shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit is a weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: Mimi Jardine, current president of Eye Lounge and…
Eye Lounge has been kicking off 2015 with exhibitions that highlight where they’ve been, where they are, and where they may be going. The most expansive of these is “Self Made: 15 Years of Eye Lounge,” currently on view at Vision Gallery in Chandler until March 8, 2015. Bringing together…
What happens in the studio shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit is a weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: Samantha Lyn Aasen, current MFA candidate in the…
Angela Ellsworth is nothing short of an art celebrity here in Phoenix. She’s represented by Lisa Sette Gallery and is associate professor of Intermedia at Arizona State University, where The Museum of Walking (MoW), one of her current projects with Steve Yazzie, is based. Along with the launching of MoW…
What happens in the studio shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit is a weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: Erika Lynne Hanson, assistant professor of Fibers and…
What happens in the studio, shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit is a weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. Up today: Recent graduate from ASU’s MFA Drawing program, Joseph Shetler. Joseph Shetler, a 30-year old artist currently based in Phoenix, comes from a fairly diverse background…
What happens in the studio, shouldn’t always stay in the studio. Studio Visit is a weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. This week: Phoenix artist and writer, Paul Elliott. If there’s anyone in Phoenix that dabbles in just about everything, it’s Paul Elliott. He’s an artist and writer…
The first round of Third Friday exhibitions in 2015 is setting the bar high for the rest of the year. It was a pretty quiet evening on the streets, but most of the galleries were filled with work and people to view it. Most of these exhibitions will be around…
Mark your calendars and make sure you have Thursday nights off, because ASU School of Art recently announced its Visiting Artist/Scholar programming for Spring 2015. Just like last year, the lectures will take place at ASU’s Grant Street Studios near downtown Phoenix. Each lecture will take place on Thursday evening…
Throughout the past year, The Paper Knife has never ceased to bring something special to the creative scene in Tempe. Up until September of 2014, there were one or two Paper Knife events each month, if not more. This multimedia collective, encompassing visual art, music, and publishing, accomplished a lot…
Upon entering Richard T. Walker’s exhibition “the predicament of always (as we are)” at ASU Art Museum, the viewer is immersed in sound. Sound sculptures utilizing neon, keyboards, guitars, and rocks surround the space, and a two-channel video, from which the exhibition gets its name, is projected on the back…
If there’s one crucial thing that’s missing from the art scene in Phoenix, it’s dialogue. That’s precisely why Dana Buhl, photographic artist and curatorial coordinator at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, opened her own space, The Table. Existing in between an exhibition and a critique, The Table functions through fostering…
