What is true love? What is true beauty?

How would you describe it?

It’s sublime.

If you are lucky enough to experience this feeling, you’ll recognize it as the greatest gift one can ever receive. To try to describe it borders on being a disservice, but writers, musicians and artists will continue to do so for eternity because the feeling is all-encompassing you can hardly think of anything else besides that love. It’s the love of a mother for her son, the most beautiful creature she’s ever seen.

November 2011, PHOENIX – CACOPHRODISIAC is the newest exhibition of self-portraits by Daniel Funkhouser and the second with the Eye Lounge gallery. Rendered in a variety of contrasting materials, paint, and experiments with photographic media, this exhibition continues to comment on identity and gender in popular culture.

November 2011, PHOENIX – Eye Lounge Contemporary art is pleased to announce an invitational group exhibition, Nowness. Featuring works by: David Emitt Adams, Joshua Caldwell, Colin Chillag, Susan Copeland, Lee Davis, Fausto Fernandez, Saskia Jorda, Dayvid LeMmon, Lindzey Lew, Ann Morton, Hayley Brunetto, Carol Roque, Sallie Scheufler, Kelsey Viola Wiskirchen, Olivia Timmons, and Angela Williams. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, November 18th from 6pm-10pm. Many of the artists and eye lounge collective members will be present.

eye lounge contemporary art is pleased to present, “Eye Candy: an eye lounge group benefit show” opening on Friday, October 21st from 6pm-10pm. Because the space is paid for through dues and member sales each artist has the complete freedom to exhibit what and how they want. Our annual benefit show helps to buffer the costs of gallery improvements, marketing costs, and support upcoming group exhibitions.

October 2011, PHOENIX – eye lounge is featuring new, small works by current member artists for the annual benefit show. All work is 10″ x 10″ (x 10″) and created for exclusively for this benefit exhibition.  “Eye Candy” will be holding a silent auction in conjunction with the third and first Friday receptions. We are happy to announce extended hours in conjunction with the Evans-Churchill neighborhood tour and the Food Truck Festival on October 22nd from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Additional programming during the month long exhibition, “Eye Candy”, includes:

Puppet show by Dain Gore and Tommy Cannon on Friday, October 28th, admission: suggested donation of $3

Long Shadow Film Festival Pre-Screening on Friday, November 11th, admission: suggested donation of $3

Eye Lounge: A Contemporary Art Space is pleased to present The Episodic Nature of Forgetting, a photography-based installation by Logan Bellew. In this piece Bellew explores individual and cultural queer identity through the unreliable nature of memory and its malfunction. Obsession and the unpredictability of memory’s misfire are revealed and compounded in this installation of over 100 separate photographic prints featuring the figures of multiple young men.

An opening reception will be held on Friday October 21, 2011 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm in conjunction with “Eye Candy: An Eye Lounge Group Benefit Show.” Extended gallery hours will be held on Saturday October 22 from 11:00am to 9:00pm coinciding with the Evans-Churchill neighborhood tour and the Food Truck Festival.

Vox Populi explores the concept of celebrity and how some individuals become famous beyond the realm of similar people doing the same things. A connection is seen between mythological gods of ancient times and certain modern day figures. Just as the ancient gods were replaced by later ones more relevant to a time/place/culture, the figures in this exhibit will eventually be replaced by others.

Memento Mori visually depicts a series of actual events that occurred 30 years ago.

Dain Q Gore presents a series of new paintings in oil alongside a live puppet show, written and co-performed by Tommy Cannon of The Torch Theatre and Great Arizona Puppet Theater’s Puppet Slam. HOLY FOOL? pulls inspiration from the concept of the “Fool-for Christ’s sake (I Corinthians 4: 9-10).”

The puppet performance, “John the Baptist and His Den of Vipers” is lifted directly from the Gospels, with Extra-Biblical twists. Refreshments will be provided courtesy of China Mist Brands of Scottsdale, AZ.

Mike McLeod photographs the men he meets on sex and dating websites. These ordinary and extraordinary men have bared their bodies, shared their possessions and granted access to the spaces in which they live. Shown with urban landscapes and appropriated images, MISC. ROMANCE evokes a world of alienation and unfulfilled desire.

August 19 to September 10, 2011 in the West Gallery

Duncan’s latest work, Grief: Sukiyaki, is the first in a five-part series called Hystrionics. The series is comprised of video and accompanying mixed media depicting different theatrical presentations of women in various stages of emotional meltdown.