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Scott Andrews
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November 2008
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.
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By
Scott Andrews
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November 2008
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...
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By Scott Andrews
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October 2008
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...
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By Scott Andrews
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October 2008
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...
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By Scott Andrews
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September 2008
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...
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By Scott Andrews
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September 2008
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...
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By Scott Andrews
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August 2008
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
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By Scott Andrews
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July 2008
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...
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By Scott Andrews
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June 2008
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.
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By Scott Andrews
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April 2008
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.
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By Scott Andrews
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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,
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By Scott Andrews
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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...
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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.
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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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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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Downtown painter and musician Mike Little tells a story that will appear on PBS's American Experience two seasons from now. To see it today, courtesy of the artist and the magic of myspacetv.
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By Joe Baker
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Rumors questioned the authenticity of the artists and the squandering of valuable museum resources on “claptrap.” Accusations that the curators supported political propaganda were common. I took to wondering whether I might be accused of espionage."
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Over the last five years the Phoenix Art Museum has been quietly purchasing major works of contemporary art. We asked PAM Director Jim Ballinger to tell us what is happening.
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By Scott Andrews
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"How would you like to spend your entire life introducing yourself and your family? Ok, how would you like to be taken seriously if you only spent your entire life introducing yourself and your family?"
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" What I am excited about is individual artists uping their game. I see more artists shifting from survival mode to looking forward."
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" The uniqueness of these exhibitions does not lie in grouping styles, generations, media, or even themes. Their individuality is rooted in the artists’ experiences of being in displacement and exile, an essential element in the weaving of “Cubanidad."
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ASU Art Museum, Tempe
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"a dozen-plus turntables playing
different records at the same time, layers of sound
that felt more like a big city intersection than a
museum room."
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Latin American
Art Gallery, Phoenix
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"What is
not clearly stated here is the possibility that the
game of life is not free. The rules are set."
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Chris Santa Maria
at eyelounge, Phoenix
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"In
early September of 2005, my brother, a Corporal in
the United States Marine Corp., was sent to Iraq on
a second tour of duty. The day he arrived in Iraq,
his barber in Phoenix shaved my face and cut my hair
in the "jarhead" style..."
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SMoCA, Scottsdale
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Drawing is movement, and
famously, the movement of the body
in the world. Drawing is action. Actions have consequences..
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Mesa Arts Center
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In a duet, the moving space is the tension between the two dancers. The world constructed only looks in...
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Bentley Projects, Phoenix
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Walking through
Bentley Projects’ many rooms towards the cavernous
center is like touring a museum of New Millennium
Phoenix.
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By Effie Bouras
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"While most choose to continually
validate the modernist condition, which has left in
its wake, some might argue, a landscape of mundane,
yet cheaply reproducible banality, others seek to
prove that once thought of arcane principals of art
and engineering can be successfully resurrected."
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By Lara Taubman
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The
mechanic is a pin-up girl. A Phoenician in Paris
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By Kathleen Thomas
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Perihelion
Arts makes a local virtue of presenting
national level shows on Grand Avenue
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...and
ASU Art Museum makes national news with local artists.
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