Phoenix Art Museum
Art Talk: Sybil Venegas, Christopher Velasco, and Rebecca Senf on Laura Aguilar
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesPresented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity. TICKETS: Free for Phoenix Art Museum Members | Included with general admission for the general public. Hear from the trustees of the Laura Aguilar Estate, Sybil Venegas and Christopher Velasco, in conversation with Dr. Rebecca Senf, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography, about the life and creative […]
Artist Talk-Alanna Airitam: The Golden Age
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesTucson-based artist Alanna Airitam will discuss her photographic series The Golden Age, currently on view at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Admission to this artist talk is included with voluntary-donation general admission. Open to the public; reservations strongly encouraged.
Farewell Photography: The Hitachi Collection of Postwar Japanese Photographs, 1961-1989
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesIn the decades following World War II, numerous radical Japanese photographers undertook an aggressive reassessment of the medium. These new non-conformist photographers broke from photojournalism’s norms of objective description and instead adopted a radically expressive, subjective, and critical approach in response to a changing modern world.
Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesOscar Muñoz: Invisibilia is the first mid-career survey of Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz’s work in the United States. Although he has had large-scale retrospectives throughout Europe and Latin America, this exhibition will introduce U.S. audiences to a broad scope of his evolving practice. Beginning with his early, stark charcoal drawings from the late 1970s and early […]
Freedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesFreedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America, 1940-1978 will survey the career of Marion Palfi (1907–1978), who produced an important visual document of 20th-century American injustice.
Postponed TBA: Making of a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams Book Talk & Signing with Dr. Rebecca A. Senf
Phoenix Art Museum 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, United StatesOne of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902–1984) is famous for his dramatic photographs of the American West. While many of Adams’s images are now iconic, his early work has remained largely unknown. In this first monograph dedicated to the beginnings of Adams’s career, Rebecca A. Senf contends that these early photographs are both crucial to understanding Adams’s artistic development and offer new insights into many aspects of the artist’s mature oeuvre.