The Phoenix Transect is a research project undertaken by graduate 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 scientists. The group explores growth and changes to the larger Phoenix Metropolitan area, its urban and outlying spaces, its people, natural environments and resources. The project’s work is the product of a field class in photography. 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.

Please join us for the opening reception Friday May 18th, from 6-10pm.Many of the eye lounge & Phoenix Transect members will be present

opening reception May 18th, 6-10pm
closing reception June 1st, 6-10pm

media contact: Sean Deckert | sean.deckertATmeDOTcom

http://www.phoenixtransect.org/

Eye Lounge invites you to experience FRESH: New Work by Eye Lounge Artists, a group show featuring new works by current and former members, March 16 through April 15, at Eye Lounge Gallery (opening March 16).

New paintings, photographs, sculptural work, and video by Eye Lounge artists Logan Bellew, Lee Davis, Sean Deckert, Jenna Duncan, Daniel Funkhouser, Sarah Hurwitz, Dianne Nowicki, David L. Bradley, Morgan MacCallum, Melissa Martinez, Mary Meyer, Crystal Phelps, Lara Plecas, Christina Mesiti, Chris Pruitt, and Claire Warden will be displayed in the East Gallery.

For more information and for gallery hours and times, please visit  or call (602) 430-1490. Eye Lounge is located at 419 East Roosevelt Street
Phoenix 85004, on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix.

Eye Lounge: A Contemporary Art Space is pleased to present Swept, an interactive installation by Christina Pruitt. Installed in the project room, this piece explores how as a culture where more and more is shared openly online, we still keep certain things to ourselves in order to preserve a facade of togetherness or perfection. The viewer is invited to become a participant by writing down what they metaphorically sweep under the rug, and then literally sweeping it under a rug. The gathered statements provided by viewers will be used as research for a future work.

eye lounge: a contemporary art space is pleased to present Mirrored, a mixed media exhibition by Mary Meyer. Featured in the east gallery space and project room, a series of installations carry an evolution of form. Subtle changes in shape and pattern are explored as Meyer uses tactile materials and repetitive processes. Quiet and meditative, the works range from waxed-dipped pigment prints to polished aluminum castings.

This is the newest in a body of process-driven compositions inspired by symmetry and the formal similarities that connect us with all biological systems. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 20th from 6 pm -10 pm.

Opening Reception:
February 17th, 6-10pm

Closing Reception:
March 2nd, 6-10pm

SALT: Studies in preservation and manipulation is the newest exhibition of photographs by Claire A. Warden. In these works, Warden methodically explores the act of preservation by experimenting with botanical specimens crystallized in saltwater and printing each image using a nineteenth-century photographic process. With inspiration drawn from the various botanical illustrations and photographic methods of early herbalists, her work continues to investigate systems of classification and knowledge and ideas of preservation, control and manipulation.

Closing Reception:March 2nd, 6-10pm
My Shenpa series is my personal memorial to a beloved contemporary street artist. Shenpa inspired me to combine impermanent street art with the archaic permanence of clay. Shenpa is attachment, compulsion, and urge. At the subtlest level, we feel a tightening, a tensing, a sense of closing down. Then we feel a sense of withdrawing, not wanting to be where we are. That’s the hooked quality. That tight feeling has the power to hook us into self-denigration, blame, anger, jealousy and other emotions which lead to words and actions that end up poisoning us. When shenpa hooks us, we’re likely to get stuck. The momentum behind the urge is so strong that we never pull out of the habitual pattern of turning to poison for comfort. We could call shenpa “that sticky feeling.” We’re in the habit of associating whatever we’re doing with relief from our own discomfort. This is the shenpa syndrome.

“Shenpa”
by Morgan MacCallum

Opening Reception:
February 17th, 6-10pm

Closing Reception:
March 2nd, 6-10pm

6 x 6 : A Benefit for Eye Lounge

Beginning March 16, Eye Lounge will be hosting the very popular 6 x 6 show as an Eye Lounge fundraiser. The money generated by this show will be used to make repairs to the gallery, work on special projects like catalogues or exhibits in other cities, and for general operating expenses. Eye Lounge has hosted these shows in the past with great success.

We invited artists to make pieces of artwork in a 6″x 6″ format. Thanks to all the wonderful participating artists here as well as those who sent their works from elsewhere.

You can purchase one piece or as many as you wish.

Eye Lounge will display all donated artwork in our East Gallery during Art Detour.  The pieces will be for sale, anonymously, meaning we will not have a label next to the artwork.  All artwork will be sold for $40 per piece during Art Detour, $20 afterwards. The proceeds from the show will be donated to Eye Lounge. Artists have signed the reverse sides, so you will know your artist. This is a cash and carry sale.

Art Detour Benefit Exhibition & Sale
Admission is FREE
Friday March 16 from 6-9pm
Saturday March 17 from 1-5pm
Sunday March 18 from 11-3pm

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Participating Artists are as follows:

Eye Lounge Members:
Logan Bellew
Lee Davis
Sean Deckert
Jenna Duncan
Daniel Funkhouser
Sarah Hurwitz
Dianne Lyisan
David L. Bradley
Morgan MacCallum
Melissa Martinez
Mary Meyer
Crystal Phelps
Lara Plecas
Chris Pruitt
Claire Warden

RSVP’s
Kevin Barbro
Tom Budzak
Peter Bugg
Ernie Button
Amanda Chakravarty
Jason Chakravarty
Kevin Coochwytewa
Zach Cook
Shona Crawford
Cindy Dach
Katherine Darrow
Edward Dennis
Shannon Dillon
Morgan Ellig
Dorothy Glenn
Eliza Gregory
James Hajicek
Spencer Hibert
James B. Hunt
Cindy Inman
Beth Jorgensen
William LeGoullon
Annmarie Leonard
Dakota Leonard
Lindz Lew
Mackenzie Mathieu-Busher
Pyan Peter Miller
Rafael Navarro
Carol Panaro-Smith
Jenna Pillsifer
Michael Pruitt
Lauren Prentice
Ryan Quackenbush
Martha Raisanen
Wendy Raisanen
Angelina Ramirez
Ashley Reynolds
Greg Richard
Monica Robles
Carol Roque
Irma Sanchez
Lisa Marie Sipe
Jillian Schley
Michael Speaker
Jennyfer Stratman
Morgan Taylor
Frances McMahon Ward
Sherlene Wong
Tony ZehNicola Holler
Jennyfer Stratman
Jeremy Levenbach
Rachel koch
Daniel gilco
Cassandra garner
Merkel Mclendon
Chad Godt
Bob Booker
Nicole Dunlap
Constance McBride

Please email us with any questions at eyelounge@gmail.com

Art+Science=Strange Language

Eye Lounge artist members are teamed with scientists to collaborate on
a wide range of topics from Insects’ Sex to Outer Space Spectacles. In
coordination with the first annual AZ Scitech Festival, Eye Lounge
members are working with ASU doctoral students and professors to bring
science to the art gallery.

Art + Science=Strange Language
January, 20th-February, 12th

Opening Reception:
Friday, January 20th, 6-10pm

Closing Reception:
Friday, February 3rd, 6-10pm