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ASU Events
Exhibitions
Capstone 2025
Monday – Thursday | 12 to 5 p.m. | Friday | 12 to 3 p.m. | Closed on weekends and university holidaysMay 12 to 16 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | May 13 | 5 to 8 p.m.
The Digital Photography area proudly presents the annual BFA group exhibition of student work from the program. Capstone 2025 will feature images, books and videos from nearly 50 students who completed their degrees in the Fall of 2024 and the Spring of 2025. Please join us in celebrating the diversity, creativity and hard work of the students from ASU's unique online Digital Photography BFA program.
Image: James L. Shepherd.
BACKLOT | Thesis exhibition
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m. | First and third Fridays | 6 to 9 p.m. | Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidaysApril 17 to May 3 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | April 18 | 6 to 9 p.m.
“BACKLOT” is a solo MFA thesis exhibition from Nicole Ponsart, a current MFA candidate with the School of Art working predominantly in ceramics. The installation is used to confront the paradoxical relationship between the tourist gaze and the commodification of landscape through the creation of a modular, human-scale ceramic canyon. The exhibition is positioned to allow viewers the space to interrogate and recognize the artificial choreography of how nature is often displayed for consumption — as marketable objects of desire, aestheticized and ultimately disconnected from their histories.
Drawing from the romanticized imagery of the American Southwest, the installation is comprised of large-scale sculptures created from 100% recycled material collected from around the greater metro Phoenix Area. The forms are intended as a mirror of how we encounter place in the age of tourism through partial glimpses, controlled movements and surface impressions. Embedded with the intimacy of a historically physical, elemental, craft-based practice, such as ceramics, its production process is a reflection of the intention taken to take a slower, more hands-on approach to a subject so often flattened by spectacle.
This metaphorical layering illustrates the slow erosion of ecological practices, knowledge systems and ways in which we learn to care for each other and the spaces we inhabit. What happens when a place is reduced to a prop, a backdrop for our pre-packaged experiences?
Image credit: @natejean @mrdadmirzaie
Relic
Monday – Thursday | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Closed on weekends and university holidaysApril 28 to May 2 | Harry Wood Gallery
Opening reception | April 29 | 5 to 7 p.m.
“Relic” is a BFA group exhibition that examines the lasting impression works of art leave behind. The art object becomes a relic of the time it was made, of the artist’s life, and of the art process itself. Through printmaking, drawing, painting, photography, video and performance, the collections shown represent the individual artists’ intentions and desires in creating art that will withstand time. The artworks themselves explore the meaning of relics, focusing on dead or past bodies, fragments of the body and weathered materials. The featured artists are Chandler Ellerbusch, Marit Fellner, Omar Ismail, Thane Kyu, Camille Misty, Alejandra Ramirez and Kaden Robb.
Image courtesy of the artists.
Ephemeral: Where Memory Shifts
Monday – Thursday | 12 to 5 p.m. Friday | 12 to 3 p.m. | Closed on weekends and university holidaysApril 28 to May 2 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | April 29 | 5 to 7 p.m.
Ephemeral moments belong to the crumple of a paper, spinning till you get dizzy, solidifying forms, a vulnerability in emotions, femininity, a distant echo, solitude, an anxious thought, a temporary art installation.
Gallery 100 is pleased to present “Ephemeral: Where Memory Shifts," an inspiring exhibition exploring the transient nature of memory, identity and time. This multidisciplinary show invites visitors to experience a rich collection of immersive installations and artworks that delve into how memory is fluid, subjective and often fleeting.
This exhibit features the works of Allie Thurgood, Charlotte Duncan, Elise Hurtado, Ethan Nguyen, Jasmine Gould, Kate Arford, Tracy Starlight and Trinity Brant. Each piece challenges the conventional understanding of memory, presenting it as an ever-shifting, ephemeral phenomenon influenced by perception, emotion and external forces.
Image courtesy of the artists.
