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This Week-
Friday, 9/3
Brent Green: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then Opening Party Friday, 4-6pm This fall, the ASU Art Museum will host a new exhibition by well-known artist and filmmaker Brent Green titled, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then. The project is inspired by the true story of an idiosyncratic house in Louisville, owned by hardware store clerk Leonard Wood. When his wife Mary was diagnosed with cancer, Leonard started building the house room by room, with the tragic hope that his labor would save his wife. Even after Mary’s death, Wood continued to build the house. Over the next 20 years, he strove to bring something as tangible and powerful as his love for Mary into the world. Curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry Brent Green will be performing live this Friday at the End-of-Residency PARTY to celebrate the opening of his installation “Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” - Friday, September 3, 4-6pm @ ASU Art Museum. Free for all to attend, the event will feature food, beverage and more… Arizona State University Art Museum
A-1 Country The Icehouse, 7-11pm Friday
"A-1 Country" is a photography exhibition and beer tasting event hosted by Phoenix-based artist William LeGoullon and The Nimbus Brewing Company of Tucson . This collaborative event will focus on the re-release of the historic Arizona beer, A-1. Originally presented by the Arizona Brewing Company in 1943, A-1 continued being produced by various brewing companies till 1985 when the beer's symbolic narrative soon became forgotten. Through the works of William LeGoullon, “A-1 Country” observes the history and story of the iconic beer that was once the symbol of Arizona ’s beer-drinking culture. During the event, Nimbus Brewing Company, the largest brewery in Arizona , will be hosting a free beer tasting of the newly-released and long-awaited classic brew. Also, check out these links: The Icehouse
Matt Dickson: Solo Exhibition Matt has long had an interest in drawing, but his deep appreciation and love of art developed in his late teens with his introduction and participation in street art. He was initially attracted to the feral and destructive capacity of the media but the more important impact was that it evoked creativity, a consciousness of the importance of craft and camaraderie among like artists. While he spent many years involved graffiti, Matt felt the importance of having awareness of the other Perihelion Arts
First Friday Night Live at The Firehouse Gallery Beginning at 11 pm
Taking gumption from watching the original season of Saturday Night Live, Michael Twenty-three wanted to create a live comedy sketch show. After two years of planning, plotting, and slipping on banana peels, the result is First Friday Night Live (FFNL). The first show will be September 3rd, 2010, at 11:00pm, featuring a cast of fifteen funnymen and women, a musical guest, and hosted by the infamous Pete Petrisko. After two... months of pitch meetings, casting calls, web research, set-building, and coffee breaks, fifteen of Phoenix’s best performers, ranging from musicians to drag queen karaoke stars, were selected. These performers will be pumping life into sketches created by a team of bloggers, slam poets, comedians and performance artists. Pete Petrisko, the longtime downtown Phoenix creative type, former gallery owner, puppeteer, performance artist, who was reported dead by azcentral.com, agreed to leave his new home in Tucson and return to the Valley as FFNL’s first guest host. For the next seven months, FFNL will be showcasing cage free Phoenix talent every first Friday of themonth at the The Firehouse Gallery. Unlike loose-running open-mic events, this locally-produced performance-art shindig will be a choreographed event, complete with scripts, cues, and all of that good stuff. Through humor, FFNL will soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. Intentionally, FFNL begins where First Friday Artwalk leaves off, offering a late night experience that will rival other metropolitan cities. In addition to the live show, people from all over the world will have an opportunity to see the show in its entirety on the web. The Firehouse Gallery
Saturday, 9/4
What Keeps Me Radicalized": Once5 (Jeffrey Pena) Opening Reception September 4, 2010 6-9PM Show runs through September 30 Two limited editions prints will be available
My Addiction Gallery
Structures
Conrad Wilde Gallery
On view now
August 20th – October 9th, 2010 Modified Arts
eyelounge LOGAN BELLEW: A theory can be both a question and an answer. However a theory really only purports to give us answers, often leaving us in a state of uncertainty. Growing out of John Keats' idea of "Negative Capability," Theories by Logan Bellew explores our capability of accepting this uncertainty and even thriving in its beauty.
DAIN GORE: Dain Q Gore presents new paintings in acrylic, oil and encaustic, alongside a live puppet show. The images and performance emulate the mental and spiritual wanderings of Jesus, Saints and Holy Fools. The puppet performance, "The Temptations (Not the Musical Act)," is co-written and co-performed with puppeteer Tommy Cannon, with a story lifted directly from the Gospel of St. Matthew with a wacky twist. INGRID WELLS: Likeness is a series of 20 new paintings in oil on panel by Ingrid V. Wells. These works are 4x4" which provides a certain type closeness between viewer and painting. All works are portraits of artists, reflecting on themes of modern identity and relationships of the creative. Bold, direct marks and playful color choices hint at the personalities behind the faces, while text and pattern play a role in defining space and the history between Wells and the other artists. Set in the Project Room of Eye Lounge, the space adds to the level of intimacy, placing the viewer in the center of the artist community. eye lounge
La Phoeniquera
Arizona Latino Arts & Cultural Center (ALAC)
From the Ground Up Exhibit Opening Reception during Thursday, July 8, 2010 From the Ground Up - a summer group exhibition dealing with themes of the environment and the natural world. Featuring the work of Binh Danh, Valerie Hammond, Rick Hards, Alan Bur Johnson, Jessica Joslin, Mark Klett, Mayme Kratz, David Kroll, Chema Madoz, Carrie Marill, Matthew Moore, Marie Navarre, Beverly Penn, Mike & Doug Starn and Jo Whaley.
Lisa
Sette Gallery
above, Lesch, Developing Thunderstorms Over the Tucson Valley, Triptych, August 2006 A Grand View: Vintage, classic and contemporary photography by many well-known photographers including Ansel Adams, William Bell, Michael Berman, Anne W. Brigman, Jay Dusard, Forman Hanna, John Hillers, Mark Klett, Karl Moon, Timothy O’Sullivan, Ken Rosenthal, Jeff Smith, and A.T. Willett among many others
Etherton Gallery
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THANKS FOR BEING WITH US July 17, 2010 - September 26, 2010 This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see a large body of works by some of the most recognizedAmerican artists of the twentieth century including Annie Leibovitz, Herb Ritts, Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenberg, and Kiki Smith. Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Herb Ritts, Elizabeth Taylor, Bel Air, 1997, (c) Herb Ritts Foundation
July 17, 2010 - September 26, 2010 Celebrating the diversity of non-representational art, this exhibition is a visual explosion of color, line, and form that expresses the vitality of artistic imagination in the search for a language of form. Included are lithographs by Bauhaus members Herbert Bayer and Josef Albers, Surrealist artist Alexander Calder; Spanish Art Informel artist Antoni Tapies, and Art Brut artist Jean Dubuffet. Works by second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Paul Jenkins and regional artists Nancy Tokar Miller and Jim Waid as well as Native American artists Fritz Scholder, Mario Martinez, Dean Narcho, and Emmi Whitehorse are also represented. Chuang Che, Early Morning, 1967, gift of Mrs. Randall Hanna Tucson Museum of Art
Made in Tucson/Born in Tucson/Live in Tucson Made in Tucson/Born in Tucson/Live in Tucson Part II Artists featured: Lee Ann Woolery Summer Hours 12-5pm Thursday-Sunday begin 11 July
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA - Tucson)
Architecture+Art: 90 Days Over 100° May 22, 2010 - September 19, 2010 Gallery 4, SMoCA In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in response to the museum space and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona. With Architecture+ Art, SMoCA aims to draw on important local and international architectural legacies. Building upon the success of past SMoCA projects such as the architecture competition and exhibition Flip-A-Strip and in the spirit of ongoing programs such as MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program in New York or London’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Architecture+ Art will offer a platform for architects to explore the boundaries of art and architecture and push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. Athton and Keener, 90 Days Over 100° Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA)
POP! Popular Culture in American Indian Art April 16, 2010 through April 2011 Pop culture and innovation collide with traditional art forms and cultures in artwork that reflects contemporary issues and imagery in an often comedic, tongue-in-cheek way. ORIGINS OF POP comics and iconic celebrities. Pop Art celebrated popular culture and drew inspiration from the film industry, advertising and popular music. American artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Claes Oldenberg were among those artists at the forefront of this art movement. American Indian artists Fritz Scholder and T.C. Cannon also embraced the art form as a means of expression in the ‘60s. Pop Art was firmly rooted in the 1960s, a decade of social change in which questions of identity, civic roles and political authority were paramount. Pop artists reacted to a new social landscape and challenged the accepted canons of the traditional art world through the images chosen, the manner in which they were portrayed and the techniques employed. Warhol championed the use of serigraphy or silkscreen printing to produce art in multiples and make it affordable for a broad clientele. Scholder had lithographs made of a great number of his paintings, allowing many people access to his artwork. POP ART TODAY have fueled and perhaps intensified the public’s fascination with each other and with celebrities. American Indian artists have depicted popular culture throughout the past four decades. Jason Garcia, Santa Clara Heard Museum
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present Structures, our season-opening exhibition.
Into the Void: ABSTRACT ART, 1948 - 2008
