Email Author Kathleen Vanesian

Awards

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 27, 2008

  "Pop-ah Ooo Mao Mao"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "And They're Grrreat"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published March 20, 2008

  "Blockbusted"

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1994 Stories by Kathleen Vanesian

• DADA'S GOT A BRAND-NEW BAG

  published November 24, 1994

  The term "neo-Dada" was used in a very negative sense by art critics, and only for a short time at that. Hence, it's somewhat surprising that... More >>

• ROOFLESS PEOPLE

  published October 27, 1994

  Putting features on the faceless hordes of homeless that roam the streets and back alleys of urban America is the goal of Galeria Mesa's... More >>

• BLACK LIKE SHE

  published October 20, 1994

  The October 10 cover of Time magazine boldly proclaims the advent of a black renaissance here in America. The cover declares that... More >>

• GLAZED AND CONFUSED

  published September 22, 1994

  Neither rain nor smog nor threat of armed insurrection can keep any really hard-core Mexican folk art aficionado, including me (and, at one... More >>

• CANADA DRY

  published July 28, 1994

  In 1992, the world celebrated--or at least acknowledged--the quincentennial of America's discovery by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.... More >>

• FIN AND YANG

  published June 29, 1994

  "Fish Out Of Water," Mesa Southwest Museum's summer art show, is about the closest I've gotten to baiting a hook in 30 years. That's when my... More >>

• CARRY IT BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY

  published June 15, 1994

  After seeing the works on paper in the latest group show being hosted by MARS Gallery, a snide adage pops to mind: "Those who can, do; those who... More >>

• VENICE,ANYONE?

  published June 1, 1994

  Italy's Venice Biennale is considered the oldest, largest and most important art party in the world--and Phoenix has just received its engraved... More >>

• AMERICAN GRAFFITIAEROSOL ARTISTS ANSWER SCRAWL OF THE WILD

  published May 18, 1994

  Mention the word "graffiti" and most people will go ballistic. What scrolls up on the average man-on-the-street's mental monitor are visions of... More >>

• That's All Folk?

  published May 4, 1994

  If an art collection is the unconscious manifestation of the collector, then two folk-art shows on display in the Valley underscore the enormous... More >>

• HOW THE WEFT WAS WON

  published April 20, 1994

  From the street, the pieces on the walls of Scottsdale's Bentley Gallery look like large, somber, color-field paintings of the mid-1950s to late... More >>

• STRIKE THREE, YOU'RE ART

  published April 6, 1994

  Maybe I'm just getting old. Or maybe Art Detour is just getting too complicated. After spending seven straight hours boarding buses and pounding... More >>

• STRIKE THREE, YOU'RE ART

  published April 6, 1994

  Maybe I'm just getting old. Or maybe Art Detour is just getting too complicated. After spending seven straight hours boarding buses and pounding... More >>

• STRIKE THREE, YOU'RE ART

  published April 6, 1994

  Maybe I'm just getting old. Or maybe Art Detour is just getting too complicated. After spending seven straight hours boarding buses and pounding... More >>

• CASTING ASPERSIONS

  published March 23, 1994

  Since 1979, John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres have lived in the dark heart of the South Bronx, collaborating on the making and painting of plaster... More >>

• CASTING ASPERSIONS

  published March 23, 1994

  Since 1979, John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres have lived in the dark heart of the South Bronx, collaborating on the making and painting of plaster... More >>

• VIRAL NOTEBOOK

  published March 2, 1994

  Sexuality is the theme of two exhibitions, one deadly serious in its approach to the subject, the other, for the most part, lethally... More >>

• VIRAL NOTEBOOK

  published March 2, 1994

  Sexuality is the theme of two exhibitions, one deadly serious in its approach to the subject, the other, for the most part, lethally... More >>

• SOMETHING WICK THIS WAY COMES

  published February 23, 1994

  Sierra Vista sculptor Robert Wick has a heart bigger than his art. And that's pretty big, considering that some of his bronze sculptures are more... More >>

• BEYOND THE BLACK VELVET CANVAS

  published February 9, 1994

  Given the recent increase of ugly--and often violent--anti-Mexican sentiment in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement, it took a lot... More >>

• NADA THIS EARTHGRINGO ART HITS THE CANVAS IN NEW "SOUTH OF THE BORDER" EXHIBITION

  published January 26, 1994

  @body:After seeing the work in "South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination" at Phoenix Art Museum, if I knew nothing about Mexican... More >>

• NADA THIS EARTHGRINGO ART HITS THE CANVAS IN NEW "SOUTH OF THE BORDER" EXHIBITION

  published January 26, 1994

  @body:After seeing the work in "South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination" at Phoenix Art Museum, if I knew nothing about Mexican... More >>

• NADA THIS EARTHGRINGO ART HITS THE CANVAS IN NEW "SOUTH OF THE BORDER" EXHIBITION

  published January 26, 1994

  @body:After seeing the work in "South of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination" at Phoenix Art Museum, if I knew nothing about Mexican... More >>