"A big rig bicycle pulled in front of Deck Park by the Hearsight office late one early November afternoon. Crammed with gear on an over-laden trailer of the sort used by the pedal cab taxis in downtown Phoenix, it was the biggest street freighter I had ever seen..."
“I first experienced Onye Ozuzu’s performance of the “Minstrel Mask,” at the Boulder Fringe Festival in 2005. This earlier rendition of the dance started slowly, and as its speed and intensity increased, it seemed as though she was trying to break free from the exterior identity that held her trapped beneath its blackness..."
The art of Virginia Sardi focuses on the subject of food. By means of textiles, chemical and organic substances, Sardi represents food items in three dimensions to make meats, cakes, candy, cold dishes, melons, lacquered ducks, chocolate sweets, bunches of intestines, bloody animal entrails, delicatessen, and even provolone cheese. These pieces are exhibited in spaces that at times simulate everyday premises where food abounds. For example,..
Phoenix photographer Steve Weiss has taken his obsession with a lens-eye view of the world to an unusual business-scouting locations for films and advertising shots. When he is engaged in driving around Arizona searching out the right background for a commercial or a movie scene, he usually uses a digital camera to record and send location views quickly to his clients. On his own time, he prefers to take a different route.
Over the last year museum goers have been treated to rare showings of works by some of China’s foremost contemporary artists. “Branded,” a group show at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, featured an antique pot grafittied with a Coca Cola logo by Chinese superstar Ai Wei Wei...
A bop bag is an inflatable about four feet tall, shaped like a bowling pin, and weighted at the bottom. Made popular in the 1950’s with clown faces topping the balloon, the bop bag has been a kid’s punching bag character that offered interactive home sports opportunities ages before Nintendo. Bill Berry has used a bop bag emblazoned with his own shape, often in the dozens, as a silent witness to catastrophy around the world. His new series remembers...
Starting Saturday. October 4, Mesa Arts Center will host MACfest, a weekly open-air market with food, music, and artwork for sale by local artists from Mesa and beyond...
Gregory Sale's new work continues his habits of intervention and participatory art, and is a curious link to SMoCA's Branded exhibit. Love Buttons is an ongoing project by Sale that meddles with marketing, not, like the works in Branded and On Display, by comment, but by active participation in the world of advertising...
Local artist Hector Ruiz isn’t so local anymore. Just back from a high profile art show at a San Antonio, Texas gallery this summer and with his work in the Heard Museum curated exhibition “Remix: New Modernities in a Post Indian World” scheduled to show in Canada next year...
A new photography exhibit opened recently at Modified Arts on Roosevelt Street. Of the three photographers: Bill Timmerman, John Wagner, and Tim Lanterman exhibiting, it was Timmerman's name that caught my eye, and for good reason
Branding: logos, slogans, trademark colors and patterns, and all the happy little ditties used in advertising, clamor for our attention but exist only to be remembered...
Step closer, and the mood abruptly changes. Seen individually, the graphic works are joyful, even if the room is oppressive. The uneasy shape of this half of the exhibit seems to urge the viewer to ignore context, forget function, to see the objects for themselves.
Chris Santa Maria's current paintings appear from a distance to be perhaps photographs of painstakingly made and colored mannequins or figurines. The gaze of the subject comes flatly at the viewer without expression, only the lines made on the face from a lifetime of laughing or scowling giving a hint of expression.
Matthew Moore has been making land art that depicts the transference of farmland to suburban development, specifically, his own family farm of four generations. Using growing crops as his media, he has made large models in the remaining family grain fields of the houses and subdivisions that are taking the place of the farm,
Etherton Gallery in Tucson is going into its 28th year, but from the recent press attention they have received, you might think the gallery is a new, shiny thing...
Phoenix-born painter Mario Martinez has been working in a crowd that he surely has the credentials to belong to, but it has made him an outsider in a way that few would ask for.
The title of this show may prompt one to think of the works of Sir John Tenniel, the original Victorian era illustrator of Lewis Carrol's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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