Art Block
Exhibiting days:
Oct. 31 - Nov. 4
Opening night:
November 1st
6-9 p.m.
Artists:
Donell Schmacht
Joshua Castaneda
Shasta Callaway
Stephanie Kaufmann
Viviana Lucia Ferreyra
Five BFA drawing students invite you to celebrate graduation with an exhibition themed around the dreaded artist’s block. The show focuses on the struggle of hitting, and then climbing out of, a block in creativity, ultimately allowing the artist’s true vision to manifest itself. At Art Block, the group of artists will showcase their visions primarily through a range of drawing mediums and styles. From bold and bright to subtle and nuanced, the exhibiting work exemplify the light at the end of the artist’s block tunnel.
Take / Aim
Opening October 21st, 6-9pm.
Show runs: Oct 21st-Dec 2nd.
Curated by William LeGoullon
Artists in the Show:
Andrea Tese
Brian Lesteberg
Brooks Dierdorff
Dave Imms
Erika Larsen
Jason Vaughn
Jesse Burke
Joe Mannino
Jordan Baumgarten
Michael Tummings
For the first time in human history, more people live in urban environments than rural, yet we continue to insist that we are the guardians and stewards of the land. Contemporary society relies on photography now more than ever to experience the wild and the natural. A confrontational topic, such as hunting, immediately becomes approachable and obtainable. This exhibition focuses on the complex and bizarre narratives encompassed within hunting culture. The opposition and objectification of nature simultaneously mirrors our fragile and romantic communion with environments and the various species of animals they contain. The photographers selected for this exhibition, illustrate raw opinions as diverse in range as the attitudes and beliefs shared between hunters. Whether the artists themselves are active participants or captivated observers, their images depict a correlation between destruction, survival, tradition, and sport.
Once a common subject within art, hunting has changed over time much like its creative portrayal. Whether it is a prehistoric drawing on cave wall, a 16th or 17th century painting, or a contemporary photograph, the “hunt” has historically embodied the idea of predator versus prey. The continual changes however reference its social interpretation and acceptance. The most basic perception concerns the continuity of life through the generation of food, a traditional view of hunting to survive. Be that as it may, it has at certain points in time, been culturally accepted as a sign of dominance, displaying man’s compulsive desire to control nature. Yet today, though commonly argued, it pertains instead to some people’s sense of identity, family recreation, and a desire for a physical and psychological connection to land. Our assimilation into the intimate and unforgiving wild, allows for a curious and beautiful affiliation, and while our relationship to nature is not always understood, we admire its honesty. It’s delicate and frightening, peaceful yet violent. Hunting expresses both an opposition to and an integration with nature all at the same time. A true line in the sand, where one can stand on either side, but also a line so easily blurred with a swift kick.
Norhtlight Gallery is located at 605 East Grant Street, Phoenix Az. 85004.
This exhibition is put by ASU in collaboration with The Phoenix Institute of Contempoary Art (phICA).
Mní Kin Wóglake: Shiloh Ashley
Exhibition runs Oct. 27 to Nov. 5; opening night is 6-9 p.m. Nov. 4.
Step Gallery is located at 605 E. Grant Street, Phoenix.
Mní Kin Wóglake (The Water Speaks) is an exhibition of neon and mixed media works that address ideas of language and identity and how they evolve over time in both use and representation. Here they are employed to examine the foundational element of water as family, place and spirit. The artist chose to address the importance of language revitalization and decolonization through the process of developing a new sacred language from traditional Lakota and colonial English. For example, the neon sculptures of the words Mother and Father begin in English, then are written in Lakota, and finally in the artist’s language. The letters developed by the artist are the result of an exploration into writing, text and how these words are visualized whether in script, print, glyph, or gestural mark making. The English words Water, Plant, Play, Heal and Together were chosen based on their relationship to the values embodied by the artist and are represented as neon sculptures. Water and Healing are represented by a 24’ x12’ neon sculpture of Mníšoše (the Missouri River) rendered in the same stylistic technique applied to the sacred words. Interactive elements within the exhibition include wooden laser-cut puzzles of the words Iná (Mother) and Até (Father) that encourage the viewers to experience the sense of “play, plant, together.” Printed key cards that work in tandem with the labels in the space to help the viewer unlock the language of each work. In addition to the phonetic representations, there are also musical scores created with the same process using two sets of glyphs and selected words.
It Took A While
Sponsored by Fiber Arts Network, juried by Molly Koehn and Erika Lynne Hanson
Artists in the Show:
Selected artists:
Scott Andresen
Hunter Atha
Greg Climer
Carrie Coe
Madison Creech
J. Casey Doyle
Jorie Emory
Hannah Epstein
Adam Farcus
Tom Hollenback
Susan Iverson
Takashi Iwasaki
Saskia Jorda
Lena Klett
J Myszka Lewis
Shannon Ludington
Kristen Miologos
Carey Netherton
Özlem Ayse Özgür
Cristine Posner
Trish Ramsay
Kim Rice
Amy Schmierbach
Clare Verstegen
Angie Zielinski
A catalog of the show is availible here: http://www.blurb.com/b/7449889-it-took-a-while
All proceeds go to the Fibers Art Network
https://azfiberartsnetwork.com/
Date and time of opening reception: November 8, 2016 6-9 p.m.
Opening date of exhibition: November 7, 2016
Closing date: November 18, 2016
Fiber is traditionally seen as a laborintensive practice. A common question for artists is, “How long did that take?” It Took A While will highlight time through practice, multiples, and mediums, considering both the counting of time through motions and the loss of felt time to meditative practice. Sponsored by Fiber Arts Network and juried by Molly Koehn and Erika Lynne Hanson, It Took A While will exhibit contemporary artworks created using various fiber processes.
Polychromatic Upswing
Gallery 100
Kara Caggiano, Carli Giese, Stacey Kampe, Lauren Kelly, Ashley Marigliano, and Emily Rowe will be graduating at the end of this fall 2016 semester, and we would like to invite you to our senior thesis exhibition!
Polychromatic Upswing is a mixed media BFA show that explores themes of growth, biology, and the creation or examination of various life forms. Ceramics, fibers, printmaking, and installation are the primary mediums used to work through these concepts. This exhibition itself is a representation of our personal and collective growth as artists throughout the past four years of our undergraduate careers.
We are thrilled to share our work with you and hope you’ll be able to join us for our opening reception on Tuesday, October 18th, 6-9 pm!
Join us for visiting artist faculty Clare Benson’s lecture at Northlight Gallery in downtown Phoenix at Grant Street Studios. Benson will talk about her artistic practice and her project “The Shepherd’s Daughter.” Her work is part of the group exhibition “Scope of Practice: ASU Photo Faculty.” The gallery will be open First Friday, Oct. 7 from 6-9 p.m. and Benson’s presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Benson writes about her work: “Deeply rooted in my family history, it is a poetic investigation of memory, tradition, and mythology.
My mother died when she was young. I was a child. It was something my mind could only liken to the death of an animal—those the only other deaths I had known. And so I grew up with my father: an avid hunter, archery champion, and former hunting guide in the Alaskan wilderness. Before my father, my grandmother was a hunter and before that my great-grandmother and long before that the stars made up constellations that told stories of the greatest hunts. In my work, nuances of the northern Michigan landscape of my upbringing are woven with narratives that speak to the fragility and strength of time and nature.”
Across the broader scope of my practice, my creative language is one of metaphors, and my studio work suggests connections between things that may not, on a surface level, seem to be related—microcosms of family histories, ancestral traditions, collections, and rituals; macrocosms of seeable night skies, measurable light, immeasurable darkness, and the ability of time to turn science into myth. Through photography, video, writing and installation, my work explores the complexities of the human condition—what it means for the earth to be the perfect distance from the sun; what it means to be alive and endlessly searching for meaning.“
C@tharsis: A digitally situated emotional release
Solo Exhibition of Regan Henley
Exhibition runs Oct. 13 to Oct. 22. Opening Night is from 6 to 9 p.m., Oct. 21.
Is there Wifi in heaven? What happens to our Facebook after we die? How do we deal with death, grief and mourning in the computer era? Regan Henley’s solo exhibition explores how social media, satellite technology, and digitized mourning aides have affected the way we perform rituals of grieving, preserve and store memories, and negotiate our own mortality through the lens of digital media.
Scope of Practice: ASU Photo Faculty Exhibition
Exhibition runs Sept. 16-Oct. 8; Gallery hours: noon-5 p.m., Thursday-Saturday; 6-9 p.m., First and Third Fridays; Opening reception at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 16
Join ASU faculty and students for the GRAND OPENING of Northlight Gallery’s newly renovated storefront location at Grant Street Studios. The first exhibition in our new space will feature the work of ASU photo faculty whose use of diverse creative interests encourage students to cultivate ideas and technical expertise in ways that parallel the critical, cultural and historical analysis of the medium.
“Scope of Practice” combines the work of ASU faculty who utilize various photographic processes from daguerreotype to digital to explore experience. They investigate reality as only a photograph can render it. They train their cameras on the world and challenge us to look, to see, to be affected and to change. They explore our relationship to place and to ourselves through metaphor and document our times.
Julie Anand, Clare Benson, Binh Danh, Mark Klett, Bill Jenkins and Stephen Marc will give brief artist talks during the opening reception on Third Friday, Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m.
Join us again on First Friday, Oct. 7 for Clare Benson’s artist lecture at 6:30 p.m. She will talk about her series “The Shepard’s Daughter” and answer questions about her work.
Home/Making: Domesticity in Contemporary Life
Opening Night: October 25th from 6-8pm.
The show will be open October 24th–November 4th, 2016.
Harry Wood Gallery is located on the first floor of the Art Building on Arizona State University’s main campus at 900 S. Forest Mall, Tempe, AZ 85281.
Gallery Hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Mon.–Thurs. & 9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Friday
Home/Making is a juried show that focuses on the changing issues of domesticity in contemporary life. This exhibition explores issues of gender, labour, and culture as we think about the place of the home and domesticity in modern life. Included works also address the process of making objects through the use of craft and how these art-making practices relate to domesticity.
JUNCTURE: Explorations in Photography and New Media
Opening Reception: October 4th at 6:00 PM
Show dates: October 3rd-14th
Where do photography, video art, and participatory art cross paths? At Juncture: Explorations In Photography And New Media, seven new artists from the Herberger School for Design and the Arts interrogate these lines and play with the space in between.
While Alma Albarran celebrates the human bond with her warm portraits of personal connections, Nathan Heeney’s conceptual portraits evoke the potential and absence of the body. Genevieve Gloria and Kaela Hall focus their lenses on the landscape; for Genevieve, this manifests as the craggy Southwestern desert; for Kaela, as stark presentations of line and shape. Samantha Cook, an intermedia artist, plays with hue and perception, and Regan Henley’s video work explores emerging digital technologies. Dressler Parsons creates spaces that spotlight and facilitate human interaction and dialogue.
The Thinning of the Veil: Jace Becker and Lily Reeves
ABBA: A Buncha Book Artists
Opening Night: October 4th from 6-9pm.
Show Runs: Oct 3rd - Oct 21st.
Gallery Hours: Mon-Thurs 9-5pm and Fri 9-3pm.
A Buncha Book Artists Annual Fall Show:
Press Release:
We live in an evolving digital world. With the increasing amount of online news, ebooks, and virtual reality technology, it would seem that printing and bookmaking are simply becoming obsolete, that people are transitioning to digital lifestyles, that humans no longer need these archaic art forms. ABBA’s annual fall show titled, “Press Release” for 2016, showcases a collection of our members’ most exceptional books and prints. These vastly diverse pieces from interdisciplinary artists and members of the community serve as a testament to the twenty-first century resurgence of the printed book, reminding the audience that bookmaking and printmaking can never be fully replaced by the digital medium.
Threshold: A BFA Exhibition
Opening Reception
September 20th at 6:00 PM
Show dates: September 19th - 23rd
“Threshold” is an exhibition of 5 undergraduate sculptors from the ASU School of Art who are on the verge of finishing their undergraduate degree. Orianna Bradley, Patrick Brandt, Jim Jordan, Connor McNerney and Lindsay Moore are excited to present an exhibition that is representative of their time spent studying at the Herberger School of Design and the Arts and Arizona State University at large. While the artists of “Threshold” come from a variety of backgrounds and life experiences they have become a close knit group of artists intent on furthering their careers in the arts.
Prime Ceramics
Thirteen contemporary ceramic artists working in progressive ways in the field today have been selected for an exhibition at ASU’s Harry Wood Gallery. Coming to Phoenix from across the nation and overseas, these daring artists have sent work that will highlight the depth of their explorations with material, design, and space. They have been chosen for their unique aesthetic sensibility and a creative energy that cannot be divided.
Jason Briggs
Adam Shiverdecker
David Katz
Inkyo Back
Jesse Armstrong
Jessica Kreutter
Eric Botbyl
Matthew Dercole
Bobby Tso
Natasha Hovey
Aaron Benson
Shasta Krueger
Yoonjee Kwak
Keven Chamberlain
Curated by Heather Couch