Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva
Center for Creative Photography 1030 North Olive Road, Tucson, AZ, United StatesBorn in 1947 in Douglas, Arizona, and based in Tucson, Louis Carlos Bernal was a pioneering Chicano photographer, among the very first to envision his work in the medium not as documentation, but as an art form. He began his career in the early 1970s in the wake of the Chicano civil rights movement, articulating […]
Reclaiming Hope
Gallery at Tempe Center for the Arts 700 West Rio Salado Parkway, Tempe, AZ, United StatesImage: © Alanna Airitam Exhibition is guest curated by Granville Carroll. Opening Reception Friday, September 27, 2024 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions explores Black healing, remembrance and future building through visual art. Exhibition themes center around Afrofuturist concepts related to the imagination, dreaming, hope, beauty, technology and science-fiction. Selected artworks from […]
Mark Klett: Saguaros and Michael P. Berman: Looking at the Land
Etherton Gallery 340 South Convent Avenue, Tucson, AZ, United StatesOpening Reception Saturday, September 28, 2024 7:00p.m. - 10:00 p.m. The exhibition is a visual dialogue between two photographers who have spent their careers demonstrating that the Southwestern landscape is an astonishing crossroads for many narratives, including the history of land use, climate and ecological histories, and photo history. Works by photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle […]
Chicano Photographers LA!
Center for Creative Photography 1030 North Olive Road, Tucson, AZ, United StatesChicana Photographers LA! features the work of five Chicana artists from Los Angeles who share common concerns about families, neighborhoods, sacred spaces, and body and identity politics. Featuring 41 photographs produced from the early 1980s to 2024, this exhibition considers domestic and environmental transformations occurring across the artists’ home turf, some cultural, demographic, and diasporic, others […]
Grand Canyon: From Dreams to Memory
Lisa Sette Gallery 210 East Catalina Drive, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesImage Credit: Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1995 This fall’s group show at Lisa Sette Gallery, Grand Canyon: From Dreams to Memory, considers Arizona’s site of deep time and vast transformation as experienced by dreamers, immigrants and spirits passing through. With the fresh perspective of witnessing this wonder of the world for the first time, artworks included in […]
Meryl McMaster: Bloodline
Heard Museum 2301 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, United StatesMeryl McMaster: Bloodline is a survey exhibition featuring the pioneering large-scale photographic works of Canadian artist Meryl McMaster (b. 1988), reflecting her mixed nêhiyaw(Plains Cree)/Siksika, Dutch, and British ancestry. This exhibition spans McMaster’s past accomplishments (2008-2019) and her recent explorations (2022-2023) of family histories, particularly those of her Plains Cree/Métis female forebears from the Red […]