On view now Peter Liepke: Cityscapes
Tilt Gallery, Phoenix Cecilia Sandoval
5fifteen Arts, Phoenix Kaori Takamura, Craig Radich
eyelounge, Phoenix Geologic Time
Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson Up Against the Wall
Philabaum Glass, Tucson 2/6-13 Tucson Sculpture Festival
Sculpture Resource Center, BICAS,Tucson
Review
Matthew Moore at Sundance Film Festival
By Scott Andrews
Moore’s work differentiates itself from the general discussion on sustainability by presenting material facts rather than jumping to remedies. Details flow after the initial visual impact, but are as flat as the daily farm reports recited on the airways. As a farm manager as well as an artist, Moore seems convinced of the impact of data, asking, “If it takes 160 days to grow a carrot, how does knowing that change your relationship to what you see in the supermarket?”
Matthew Moore, Lifecycles, video monitors and vegetables. New Frontiers on Main, 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah. Photo courtesy of the artist.
A YEAR AGO
This video was recorded one afternoon at The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix, AZ in the first two weeks of collaboration by Phoenix gallery
artist Hector Ruiz and graffiti writer DOSE. Spring, 2009.
Review Gordon Cheung's Altered States By Scott Andrews
"Cheung believes “we live in a converged world between the actual and virtual worlds.” This then, is realism. Always plugged in, our lives exist between the layers of a grand palimpsest, awaiting the scraper."
NEWS New Director appointed to Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture Bailey Doogan and Will Wilson awarded Joan Mitchell grant
Gordon Knox named new ASU Art Museum Director
Call For Nominations: 2010 Governor's Arts Awards
Artist Opportunities Current grant and job opportunities with deadlines
and contact info from Arizona and around the US,
posted by Arizona Commission on the Arts
Preview Two Andys at Eric Firestone By Scott Andrews
“A blowout party in the Warhol tradition will be held in Tucson the last Saturday of this month, with glamorati, drag queens and performance artists swelling the crowd washed over by familiar and outré recordings of the Velvet Underground...
Fiction+ Two parallel life stories By Ann Klefstad
“Are things what they do, or are they what they call themselves? Are names descriptive or wishful? Should critics insist on names being used accurately and descriptively, is that part of our jobs? Maybe that’s why our jobs are largely obsolete—we get in the way of the cover story."