Visual Arts

We’ve seen this wheatpaste up in a few spots downtown … this latest one up on the corner of Seventh and Pierce streets, where the 7th Street Cafe sign used to be (picture after the jump)…

Joshua Ward’s been busy painting for the past eight years in his residence at the Arizona State Hospital — a state-funded facility, which provides long-term care and recovery for the state’s severely mentally ill population. You can see a small collection of his works at “Art From the Inside” at…

There’s been a bit of talk in the creative community about the Valley’s canal system (read this Arty Girl blog from last year about the Canalscape project) and now the City of Phoenix Office of Cultural Affairs is accepting applications to enhance the design of major street bridges that cross…

Comfortable, casual and … coastal? In Phoenix? Yes, we know it’s an odd combination in the desert, but Blueseeds, an Arcadia home store on Indian School Road, makes it work and then some. Owner Carla Bonner grew up on the East Coast and her aesthetic — with cool tones, easy…

Terry Greene Sterling’s Illegal: Life and Death in Arizona’s Immigration War Zone begins in the Mexican towns near the Arizona border: Nogales, Cananea, Altar, Arivaca, Agua Prieta. These are the places from which migrants press their luck to undertake dangerous crossings through the desert landscape. (Read: Chapter 6 of Illegal…

Communication in today’s teen world is a near attack on the five senses — if the phone’s not vibrating, ringing or lighting up, its keys are being tapped, its camera is being clicked or its speakers are emitting some kind of voice, beat or tune. And we just covered one…

Lisa Albinger’s “Holy Mary Mother of Birds” opens with a First Friday artist’s reception from 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, August 6. New Times rapped with her about her latest series of works, which will hang at Perihelion Arts through month’s end. The following is in Albinger’s words:”Holy Mary Mother…

The only green found around the Rockridge Estate these days are the patches of AstroTurf where Scott Coles and Co. used to putt a few after a day’s work at (the now defunct) Mortgages Ltd.The home (with four patios, 33 bath fixtures and a nine-car garage) rests on 10 acres…

We’re officially over the hump of summer.How do we know this? Well, we’re seeing a bunch of call for art entries to fill upcoming art shows slated for fall. Yep, we’re on the home stretch. And come late September, Bragg’s Pie Factory will host its 2nd Annual Trashy Sculpture Show…

Congratulate Gregg Nourjian if you see him at the Local Motors grand opening in Chandler this weekend — he owns the first official Rally Fighter (pictured above). Well, as soon as he builds it. The Local Motors’ micro-factory landed in Phoenix based solely on the design of its Rally Fighter…

You may have caught Michele Laudig’s post over at Chow Bella about the art up at SideBar.Now that the show’s scheduled to come down within a week (a specific date has yet to be set), we thought we’d snag a Q&A with Daniel Davis who is one-half of the husband-wife…

  Whether you’ve flown out of the airport to visit relatives in Indiana or just popped in to pick up an out-of-town guest, you’ve probably been to Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport at some point. But few locals realize the airport has amassed a collection of over 500 pieces of art since…

Art is art, no matter where you find it. Vietnamese-American artist/photographer Dinh Q. Lê has found it in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (the city formerly known as Saigon), where he’s lived and worked for the past 12 years. Lucky for us, ASU Art Museum has brought his…

Phoenix Design Week is upon us … in two months.This means the prep work and planning for the five day event filled with seminars, national guest speakers, design exhibitions, and ridiculous amounts of networking is well under way.And that means there are some pretty sweet opportunities for local designers to…

Haters of SB 1070 can stand in solidarity on Thursday, July 29, in the presence of some badass art.Bay-area based Jesus Barraza, an artist that specializes in screen printing, designed the poster that organizations such as Alto Arizona are pimping in its literature.Check out some of Barraza’s other designs here…

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It’s about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we’re losing track of the times we’ve said, “Woah, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their…

It’s about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we’re losing track of the times we’ve said, “Woah, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their…

Listen up Phoenix photographers: You’ve got a deadline approaching. Put a big, red circle around August 5 and get to work.Tilt Gallery is hosting the “Photography Re-Imagined: 4th Annual Juried Alternative & Historical Process Show” in October and they need your work.Assuming your work is made using alternative or historical…

One of our pet peeves is when people bemoan the lack of community and cohesion in the Valley without bringing any new ideas to the table. We’ll grant you. It’s a pretty easy topic to rip on. Thankfully there are visionaries like Taz Loomans who shun this cliché in favor…

A pleasurable post office errand in the summer is rare; a long line and the lady who attempts to fill out the shipping form (in the queue) inevitably squash the possibility of a quick in and out. Which is why this morning’s mail run in Tempe was surprising — It…

Haunting, tragic and often traumatic is the artwork of Chris Mars, on display at Mesa Contemporary Arts until August 1. Mars’ work is heavily influenced by his experiences with mental illness. As a young child, he spent a lot of time visiting his older brother, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia,…