ArtLink A. E. England Gallery

Exhibition Dates: March 4 – March 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday March 4, 6-10 PM
Closing Reception: Friday March 18, 6-9 PM
Art Detour Weekend: Saturday March 19, 10 AM-6 PM & Sunday March 20, 12-5 PM

Artlink Phoenix is excited to present the 13th Annual Juried Exhibition. This year we are fortunate to have our distinguished jurors: Phoenician artist Randy Slack; Senior Curator and Associate Director Heather Lineberry from ASU Art Museum; and Associate Director Duane Smith from Lisa Sette Gallery.

The 13th Annual Juried Exhibition will be displayed in the Artlink A. E. England Gallery for the month of March. The jurors have chosen 11 accomplished artists working in mediums that include sculpture, painting, photography, video, and installation.

Exhibiting Artists:

Tristyn Bustamante
Julie Comnick
Lee Davis
Mohammad Reza H. Javaheri
William LeGoullon
Jill Martin
Melissa Martinez
Rembrandt Quiballo
Ann Tracy-Lopez
Karla Uribe
Junjie Verzosa.

The Artlink A. E. England Gallery is located in the historical A. E. England Building within the Civic Space Park and is a non-profit exhibition space.

Should Eight Meet Six, 2010, Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 30 inches. © Lee Davis

Exhibition Dates: February 4 – February 25, 2011
Opening Reception: February 4, 6-10 PM
Closing Reception: February 18, 6-9 PM

For the month of February the Artlink A. E. England Gallery presents ‘Bent’ a solo exhibition by artist Vav Vavrek. ‘Bent’ is a collection of various mixed media compositions that include images of the artist. With his work, Vav attempts to address not only his own struggles and concerns, but also the concept of identity and the destructive force of humanity. He feels that dissent is the precursor to change and it is that belief that drives his art and life.

Bio: Vav was born in Wilkes Barre, PA and grew up in the shadows of the rusting smokestacks of Pittsburgh. A slight brain malfunction caused him to ride screaming into the wind on a faded steel horse until he lost his voice in Phoenix, AZ. he is currently creating works from nothing, or at least the remnants of nothing.

Elise 9, Mixed Media on Canvas Panel © Vav Vavrek

The Artlink A. E. England Gallery will be closed for the month of January for annual maintenance of the building. The Gallery will again be open beginning the First Friday February 4th.

Exhibition Dates: December 3 – December 24, 2010

Opening Reception: December 3, 6-10 PM (7 PM Live Performances)
Closing Reception: December 17, 6-9 PM

Women artists living in Arizona come together in a group show this December at the Artlink A. E. Gallery for an exhibition entitled, Sensory Consciousness / Bold Statements: Works by Arizona Women.

The curatorial team has put together a diverse exhibition of 2D, 3D, video, and performance work by reputable and emerging women artists of this region. The exhibition represents the artwork being produced today by women who are living in a place that is politically and historically charged in a particular way; a place where one must navigate, physically and psychologically in a conscious manner. The selected artists demonstrate this acute sensory experience through their artwork, making statements that are bold, controversial, subtle, and relevant to the discourse of our time.

Live performance art will be presented in the gallery on December 3, starting at 7:00 pm during the First Friday Art walk.

Exhibiting Artists: Julie Anand, Stacy Blackmer-Blomquist, Tristyn Bustamante, Brittany Dion, Jessica Dolence, Kelly Flanagan, Adriana Gallego, Julie Ganas, April Grady-Reyna, Hilary Harp, Mary Hood, Adriene Jenik, Angelica Jubran-Bishara, Lauren Lentini, Tara Logsdon, Layla Luna, Muriel Magenta, Jill Martin, M. Gabriela Munoz, Janice Pittsley, Olivia Timmons, Rosalind Shipley, Suzie Silver, Alison Sweet, Lisa Von Koch, Jen Urso, Cory Weeks, and Angela Young.

With Performances by: Michele Ceballos, Megan Cox, Angelica Jubran-Bishara, Natalie Brewster Nguyen, Sarah Smith and Lisa Von Koch.



Untitled (Young G.I.), 2007, Acrylic Mixed Media on Canvas, 40 x 30 inches. © Jill Martin

Exhibition Dates: November 1st – 26th, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: November 5th, 2010, 6-10PM
CLOSING RECEPTION: November 19th, 2010, 6-9PM

The A. E. England Gallery presents a photographic exhibition by artist Marilyn Szabo for the month of November. The exhibition will include large black and white prints of Szabo’s recent work.

About the Artist:
At ten Szabo received a Brownie camera, photographed family and friends on the beach, which began her first series. Deeply influenced by the idea of History, Szabo received a BA/History from Virginia Commonwealth University, also completing all formal photographic studies offered. The first portraits were of herself and family, which were published in 1979, (In/sights: Self-Portraits by Women). Since 1989 she has received numerous grants and awards from state and national art commissions. These include grants from the Phoenix Arts Commission to document the construction of the new airport, the Tempe Arts Commission to photograph the historical Peterson House and The Arizona Commission on the Arts to create portraits of “icons” of Chicano art history. She has been featured in Black and White Magazine, Focus Magazine and Sun Magazine.

Szabo’s successful virtuoso range of themes include images of Maria Callas, unconventional landscapes such as “X’s and O’s: Dreamtime”, “Jessica’s Wedding” and the “Mermaid”. Szabo is represented by the Victoria Boyce Galleries in Scottsdale, AZ and InterFlight Studios in Miami, Fl. Her work was shown in Miami Basel 2009. The city of Scottsdale, AZ‘s has recently purchased 3 images for their public art collection and Alligator Juniper, a national literary magazine awarded Szabo the National Photography Award. The issue will be available summer 2010. Current museum exhibitions include the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, the Tempe Arts Center, and the Palos Verde Art Center, CA.

Ligature I, fuji archival black and white print

Exhibition Dates: October 1 – October 25, 2010
Opening Reception: October 1, 6-10 PM (7 PM Conversation with the artist and curator)
Closing Reception: October 15, 6-9 PM (7 PM Discussion with the artist)

Artist and ASU Assistant Professor of Art Forrest Solis unveils her newest body of paintings in a solo exhibition this October at the Artlink A.E. England Gallery in Phoenix. Curated by Lauren O’Connell, a curatorial staff member at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Solis’ exhibition titled Acting Out: Prescribed Lessons toys with identity and gender roles, while revealing the old-fashioned gender lessons dictated and gleaned in our youth. Her artistic process for the series begins with flat, cartoonish texts and illustrations from antiquated children’s lesson books. Their outdated messages with ‘instructions’ such as, “While girls should train themselves, as soon as they can, to do all sorts of housework, boys can learn to drive in nails, and do all sorts of carpenter work deftly.” From that point, Solis fragments the picture plane with two realities by contrasting the children’s storybook elements against the painted classically rendered self-portraiture, mimicking the pictured stereotypes with modern-day feminine identity. “The graphic images are bright and sweet, but combined with the text and the figure they underlie a darker more complex message,” Solis explains. “Through self-portraiture I strive to understand and make sense of numerous personal and political contradictions. With this I play many roles: the child, the adolescent, the young adult, the woman and the mother. The time and space is psychological; it is formed of broken childhood memories and adult desires where the past, present and future collide.”

Curator Lauren O’Connell elaborated,“While her content might push some to rationalize the traditionally accepted roles they see, Solis is asking the viewer to act out and step into the painting—mentally and visually—to locate their own identity.”

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ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Forrest Solis received her B.F.A. in 2001 from the Kansas City Art Institute and an M.F.A. in 2003 from Indiana University. While studying at Indiana University, she received the prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship. Solis taught as Assistant Professor of Art at DePauw University, Indiana, until 2006 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Arizona State University in Phoenix. Her paintings have been exhibited regionally and nationally, including Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA; Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL; Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA; Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Mesa Art Center, Mesa, AZ. In October 2009, ARC Gallery in Chicago opened Playthings, a solo exhibition of Solis’ paintings. Her work has been published in Direct Art, Studio Visit and Visual Overture Magazine.

For more information visit: www.ForrestSolis.com

Sleeping Alone, 2010, acrylic and oil on canvas, 42 x 30 inches. © Forrest Solis

For the month of September the traveling exhibition 26 Blocks will be showing at the Artlink A. E. England Gallery. 26 Blocks is an art project that celebrates downtown Phoenix.

26 of metropolitan Phoenix’s most talented writers were paired with 26 of the City’s most celebrated photographers. Each pair collaborated to create their interpretation of one of 26 randomly selected city blocks in the downtown Phoenix area.

The writer/photographer partners created their personal perspectives and interpretations of the most intriguing aspects of the culture and/or past, present or imagined future of each block. Then, renowned artist Raphael Navarro added to the collaboration by creating 26 original sculptures for each City block.

The combined photographs, written pieces and sculptures then premiered on May 7th and has traveled through varies venues throughout downtown Phoenix. Since then, 26 Blocks has become one of the most talked about art events in downtown Phoenix.

At a time when Arizona and Phoenix are in the national spotlight and our City is often portrayed as a hostile community facing boycotts from other cities and states, 26 Blocks promotes Phoenix in a highly positive way that encourages everyone to look at our incredible home from very different perspectives.

Exhibition Dates: September 1st – September 25, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION: September 3, 2010, 6-10PM
CLOSING RECEPTION: September 17, 2010, 6-9PM

Exhibition Participants:

1 SCULPTOR :

Rafael Navarro

26 PHOTOGRAPHERS :

Andy Delisle, Bill Timmerman, Brad Armstrong, Brandon Sullivan, Chris Loomis, Christiaan Blok, Dan Vermillion, Dayvid Lemmon, Denny Collins, Ellen Barnes, Jason Grubb, Jeff Newton, Jesse Rieser, John Covington, Jon Balinkie, Mark Peterman, Michael Lundgren, Rick Gayle, Andrew Urban, Rodney Rascona, Scott Baxter, Stephen G. Dreiseszun, Tim Lanterman, Tony Blei, Tyson Crosbie, Werner Segarra

26 WRITERS :

Andrea Avery, Ashlea Deahl, Betty Webb, Dallas Gold, Dan Frey, David Tyda, Ed Sweet, Jeffrey Brooker Fischer, Jennifer Allen Halloran, Joe Bardin, Joey Robert Parks, John H. Lindauer, Jonathan Clark, Karen Werner, Lauren Gilger, Len Gutman, Malia Politzer, Steve Price, Paul Atkinson, Paul Messinger, Sally Ball, Scott Hermanson, Steven Beschloss, Tim Mcdonald, T.M. Mcnally, Walt Lockley

Please visit the project website at: 26 Blocks

Exhibition Dates: July 2 – August 27, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION: JULY 2, 2010, 6-10PM
THIRD FRIDAY: JULY 16, 2010, 6-9 PM
FIRST FRIDAY: AUGUST 6, 2010, 6-10PM
CLOSING RECEPTION: AUGUST 20, 2010, 6-9PM

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
The Phoenix Transect is a research project undertaken by students and faculty of the School of Art, in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. The project is interdisciplinary and participants are visual artists who work alongside natural and social scientist. The group explores growth and change to the larger Phoenix Metropolitan area, its urban and outlaying spaces, its people, natural environments and resources. The goal is to explore the nature of photographic processes with the intent of probing the traditional boundaries of documentary and expressive practices, examine new media for visualization, and promote interdisciplinary collaborations.

Exhibition participants:

Mark Klett
Edgar Cardenas
Elizabeth Cantu
Bryon Darby
Jennifer Kitson
Steve Gittins
Katie Lehman
Jason Roehner
Nadia Sablin
M. Jenea Sanchez

Please visit the project website at: www.phoenixtransect.org

QUESTIONS: FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE FOLLOWING:
*Volunteering
*All other inquiries
*Gallery hours

PLEASE EMAIL thecurators@aeenglandgallery.com

We at Artlink A. E. England Gallery want to wish a fond farewell to Alison Sweet our co-curator and resident photographer for the past year. Ms. Sweet has moved to Idaho City, ID to work on her new endeavor ‘The Grandfather Project’. Information about the project can be found at her blog: The Grandfather Project.
Thanks again Alison and we wish you all the best.

Sculpture, Intermedia, Fibers, Wood, Painting & Drawing: All in the glorious grayscale.

Monochrome in Neutral: Shades of Gray is an interdisciplinary, color-themed exhibition displaying the intersection and convergence of a multitude of methodologies and artistic practices. Conceptual underpinnings of the grayscale exhibition explore a range of issues including archaic and dichotomized symbols of good and evil, light and darkness, purity vs. impurity, and traditionally saturated metaphors for black and white as representations of contrast and opposition.

Contributing artists:

Peter Christenson
Elise Deringer
Andy Hadle
Matthew Mosher
Laurie Papa
Ellie Richards
M. Jenea Sanchez
Lauren Strohacker
Nic Wiesinger
Kelsey Wiskirchen

Exhibition Dates: June 4 – 18th
Opening Reception: First Friday June 4th, 6-10 PM
Closing Reception: Third Friday June 18th, 6-9 PM

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