Oct 29
ReviewArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
A retrospective of German-American female photographer Marion Palfi at the Phoenix Art Museum, the first major exhibition since her 1978 death, places her towards the top of social research photographers.
Oct 29
PhotographyArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Jimmy Fike, a Phoenix-based photographer and plant enthusiast, has embarked on a ten-year project to document edible plants of the North American continent.
Nov 17
Cosanti Originals Windbells are handmade by artisans in Arizona. Using time-honored crafting traditions, their embellished surfaces echo Paolo Soleri's architecture.
Oct 27
Cosanti Originals Windbells are handmade by artisans in Arizona. Using time-honored crafting traditions, their embellished surfaces echo Paolo Soleri's architecture.
Oct 21
Malena Barnhart, a Tempe-based artist who uses quirky materials like children’s stickers and party favors, looks for new ways to explore the serial obsessions that drive her creative practice.
Oct 19
Tucson galleries and museums are tackling an array of topics during the fall 2021 exhibition season, bringing together artists working in neon, sculpture, video, installation art, photography, and more.
Oct 18
Mimi O Chun: It’s all cake at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art magnifies societal ills and amplifies women’s issues through soft materials.
Oct 15
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona explores the Visionary Arts movement with exhibitions featuring Alex Grey and Allyson Grey plus several contemporary artists based in and beyond the Southwest.
Oct 05
Eleven young Phoenix artists explore personal trauma, marginalized communities, environmental degradation, and other markers of contemporary society at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sep 14
Arizona artists Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fresquez incorporate unconventional materials including synthetic hair to explore identity and culture at Phoenix’s Lisa Sette Gallery.
Sep 02
Ann Morton tackles divisive politics with The Violet Protest, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that, once deinstalled, will be mailed piecemeal to every member of the United States Congress.
Aug 27
Artist Adriene Jenik puts a human face on the tragedy in Afghanistan with her Data Humanization Project, which examines the impacts of America’s militarized culture.
Aug 18
As voting rights and the DACA immigration program took hits in Texas, Arizona artists Gloria Martinez-Granados and Joan Baron remain committed to John Lewis’s renowned call to make "good trouble."
Aug 02
Pandemic precautions, new arts leadership, and the growing footprint of developers leads to uncertainty for Tempe, Arizona artists, who wonder what’s next for the local arts scene.
Jul 30
ArizonaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kristin Bauer creates text-based artworks that explore the ways words and images influence our perspectives and interpretations of interior and exterior spaces.
Jul 30
ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Voice-Over: Zineb Sedira centers the revolutionary power of culture while amplifying the complexities of history, identity, memory, and resistance.
Jul 30
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists
Artist Sara Hubbs creates blown-glass sculptures that examine concepts of value, temporality, and care.
Jul 30
ArtistsArizonaVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Arizona photographer Wen-Hang Lin's latest series explores the artist’s struggles to assimilate as an immigrant from Taiwan.
Jul 30
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists
Julia C. Martin is a photographic artist whose work deals with the themes of mortality, ephemerality, and time. Many of her prints are made by hand using historical or experimental processes.
Jul 30
ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Si'alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom, a mural by Thomas "Breeze" Marcus and Miles MacGregor, depicts a young girl from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in downtown Phoenix.
Jul 16
Lisa Sette explores contemporary society by curating compelling exhibitions characterized by conceptual and aesthetic rigor at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona.
Jul 07
Arizona Latinx artists M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz collaborate to shift conversations about labor, identity, and gaze in Division of Labor at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Jun 21
Arizona-based Indigenous, Latino, and queer poet Natalie Diaz earns 2021 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem.
Jun 14
Arizona photographers Sama Alshaibi and Stephen Marc, 2021 Guggenheim fellows, discuss how the program will advance their work.
Jun 09
The City of Scottsdale near Phoenix, Arizona is about to launch $27.3 million in Civic Center Mall renovations, with significant implications for local arts and culture.
Apr 30
ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.
Apr 30
ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.
Apr 30
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Sanna Stabell's multi-disciplinary works bring life and introspection to static landscapes, revealing a window into her thoughts and emotional center.
Apr 30
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona
Tucson artist Lex Gjurasic's latest series is an expression of her exuberance for life and a love letter to the natural world, offering an escape into soft, surreal landscapes: a safe place to land.
Apr 06
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight at the Heard Museum focuses on focuses on Smith's early works, hard-edge paintings, shaped canvases, and his deep connection to Native culture.
Feb 08
A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona
Phoenix artist Saskia Jordá’s practice engages in an iterative mapping and remapping to explore concepts of cultural identity, bodies in space, and sense of place.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona
Phoenix artist Safwat Saleem works in illustration, writing, animation, film, and more to study the idea of belonging.
Feb 08
Elemental, Teresita Fernández's mid-career survey at Phoenix Art Museum elevates the intersections of history, culture, and materiality.
Feb 08
Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona
Flagstaff artist Jaewook Lee's work takes inspiration from brain science to examine the human condition and how we're connected to a greater network.
Jan 08
The Arizona-based ArtFarm PHX collective created a series of outdoor installations to connect diverse artists and audiences.
