ArtLink A. E. England Gallery

Local Artists Cory Weeks and Alison Sweet present The Bird Cage. Inspired from the infamous Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone Arizona and its late 19th Century wallpaper. The collaborators offer this new multi-media art exhibition featuring portraits of modern-day women revealing their provocative and often “wild” west personas in conjunction with their modern day lives. 

Recent graduates from ASU’s Intermedia Art program Weeks and Sweet are alumni Artlink curators and both share a love for history, especially Arizona history and the state’s adventurous early women. They poke some aesthetic fun with the past displaying it in the beautiful and historic AE England building in downtown Phoenix’s new Civic Space. 

NEW Exhibition Dates: March 5th – April 16th

Gallery Open:

First Friday March 5th 6-10pm (Opening Party)

Art Detour Saturday March 6th 10am – 6pm

Art Detour Sunday March 7th 12 – 5 pm

Third Friday March 19th 6 – 10pm

First Friday April 2nd 6 – 10pm

Third Friday April 16th 6 -10pm (Closing Party)

VIEWABLE FROM THE STREET

and By APPOINTMENT by calling 602-538-9912

For more information please contact:  thecurators@aeenglandgallery.com

Artlink A. E. England Gallery
424 N. Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004

The Artlink A. E. England Gallery is proud to present a month long solo exhibition by Jen Urso titled, White Space. The opening reception will commence on third Friday, January 15th, 2010 from 6-9 PM. Jen Urso’s drawings, multimedia and performance work dwell on effects of time, process, and loss.

Between August 28 and September 6, 2009 Jen Urso walked the 82 miles between the two towns she grew up in—Reading and Lansdale, PA. People were invited to “follow”her as she recorded and documented her journey through video, sound, photos, drawings and a blog on the project website: jenniferursoart.com/WhiteSpace. Jen’s exhibit at the A.E. England gallery will include drawings created before, during and after her journey and ephemera from the trip. She will also preview her White Space video that utilizes animation, video and still imagery from her walk.

She has exhibited in locations such as The Icehouse, eye lounge, @Central Gallery (all Phoenix, AZ), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale, AZ), Dinnerware Contemporary Arts (Tucson, AZ) and Durex Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has received grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Contemporary Forum (Phoenix).

Jen Urso is originally from Reading and Lansdale, PA. She received a BFA in Art from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996 with additional studies at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and summer residencies at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Taliesin Artist Residency Program. She has been a resident of Arizona since 1996 and lives in Central Phoenix.

Exhibition Dates: Friday January 15 – Friday February 5, 2010
Opening Reception Third Friday January 15, 2010 6-9 PM
Closing Reception First Friday February 5, 2010 6-10 PM

www.jenniferursoart.com