Featured photo: Margaret Bourke-White’s “Russian Orthodox Worshipers” (1941), as seen at Northlight Gallery. Image by Deborah Ross. To save time and energy during my First Friday wanderings, I leapfrogged over Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix last night (September 1, 2017). Yet I had no problem getting my fill of exceptional art by local artists and others. Here are … Continue reading Photo highlights: First Friday, 9/01/17
Featured photo: “The Trinity of the Holy Handymen,” by Linda Ingraham, on view at {9} The Gallery on Grand Avenue in Phoenix. I was so mellowed out from my silent two-hour walk at the Rio Salado Habitat Restoration Area on Saturday, with the Museum of Walking, that I set aside too little time for Art Detour … Continue reading Photo highlights: Art Detour 29
Featured photo: Detail from a David Dauncey portrait, on view at Modified Arts on Roosevelt Row through February 11, as part of a two-person show. Image courtesy of the gallery. My time exploring the galleries on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix was cut short by the rain — yes, I am a weather wimp — but … Continue reading Photo highlights: Third Friday, 1/20/17
Featured image: Brooke Grucella’s “Walking on Glass.” Photo by Deborah Ross When I first saw “Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power” at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, it was during the opening reception. I flitted through the all-female group exhibition — which addresses women’s status from political, social and cultural perspectives — and admired the empowering … Continue reading For your post-election consideration: ‘Push Comes to Shove’ at SMoCA
There is another big-name exhibition besides “Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic” at the Phoenix Art Museum this fall. By all means, see the spectacular Wiley show in the Marley Gallery, then walk up the stairs to the Harnett Gallery to see “Horacio Zabala: Mapping the Monochrome,” featuring one of the most important Conceptual artists to emerge in Argentina … Continue reading Thinking about ( ) + , – = and more, with Horacio Zabala
Featured photo: Detail from “Permeable Facades and Internal Alterations,” as installed at the Tempe Center for the Arts in 2015. Photo courtesy of Christine Cassano. As proof that biology and technology, the organic and the industrial, can dialogue with each other in the name of art, Phoenix need look no further than the mixed-media wall pieces, sculptures and … Continue reading Arizona artist profile: Christine Cassano
Featured photo: “Fire” (2005) by Teresita Fernández. Silk yarn, steel armature, and epoxy, 96″ x 144″. From the SFMOMA Collection, as viewed during “Beyond Belief” (Summer 2013) at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. Photo by Deborah Ross. For those of you who were unable to attend the sold-out lecture by internationally known installation artist … Continue reading Teresita Fernández on creativity
Featured photo: “Land of Blue, Iceland, 4” by Aurora Berger, Prescott College (cyanotype). If there’s one thing I noticed in my enjoyable amble through the approximately 75 photographic works on display for “Emerge: 2016” at Art Intersection in Gilbert, it is the proclivity for taking risks — with composition, models, mood, process, materials and more. … Continue reading Student photographers as risk takers
Featured photo: J. Paul Fennell, “Emei Lattice,” wood, 10 x 12 x 12. Courtesy of Mesa Contemporary Arts. In previous years, when I’ve either reviewed or casually strolled through the annual “Contemporary Crafts” exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts, I’ve always found several objects to ooh and aah over — pieces that defy the material from which … Continue reading MCA: They had me at ‘Contemporary Crafts’
Featured photo: Edward Weston, “Nude” (1936). Edward Weston Archive/ Gift of the Heirs of Edward Weston © 1981 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents. 82.10.21. Press image for the 2011 exhibition, “Creative Continuum: The History of the Center for Creative Photography.” A road trip to Tucson this week gave me an opportunity to visit the Center for Creative Photography … Continue reading Center for Creative Photography in Tucson celebrates 40 years
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