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ASU Events
Exhibitions
SEERS | An exhibtion by Karima Walker
Jan 15 to 26 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | Jan 16 | 6 to 9 p.m.
How do our bodies make sense of the ever-expanding technological infrastructures shaping the planet and human relations? Data centers, algorithms and our personal devices employ opaque digital and material architectures to continue long histories of extraction and the enclosure of natural resources and human connection. SEERS explores these systems through processes of looping, circulation, physical navigation and gesture in order to reassert the body as a messy, necessary fount of wisdom.
Karima Walker is an artist and musician from Arizona. Through performance, sound and multimedia installation, she investigates the mythologies, practices and policies that shape perceptions and relationships to land. A touring musician for the past 10 years, her work has been featured in Pitchfork, NPR, MTV and The New Yorker Radio Hour. She holds certifications in Deep Listening and rainwater harvesting and is currently pursuing an MFA at Arizona State University.
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
#YAR: bitches on the internet
Jan 20 to 29 | Harry Wood Gallery
Opening reception | Jan 20 | 5 to 7 p.m.
Do you have a never-ending desire to consume all media? Of course you do!
Come fill your void at “#YAR: bitches on the internet,” a multi-media group exhibition that critiques and satirizes the devices of pop culture to highlight how the internet has affected gender, consumption, identity and politics. To emulate the chaotic nature of the internet, the exhibition space will be maximalist and full of pop culture references.
Between the organizers, Andrea Quinto and Thane Kyu, “yar” had become an inside joke as a ridiculous way to say "yes,” but it’s come to represent a visual style as well. Defining yar: a digital aesthetic that would most likely be found on social media, that’s reminiscent of the 2010s colorful, nonsensical trends. It's over-the-top and feminine. It's trashy but ultra curated and glamorous. Yar also relates to an artificial way of being. Living for the “likes” and “views,” prioritizing an appearance, embracing the superficiality of social media.
This project is supported in part by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, which receives support from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Artist list: Alejandra Ramirez Campos, Alec Ramirez, Ana Gonzales, Andrea Quinto, Brianna Rios, Chandler Ellerbusch, Destiny Ann Montoya, Ella Sheehan, Emily Sarten, Emoticon Angel, Jackson Beenenga, Janet Flores Ruiz, Katie Gilroy, Lauren Klien, Marit Fellner, Mallory Frazier, Peaboy3xd, Philip Gabriel Steverson, Reed Nunnemaker, Silvatooth, Sofia Ricci, Sonora James, Thane kyu, Trinity Wolynia, Vewn, Yaniv Golden.
Through Lines | Reciprocity in Text & Image
Jan 16 to 31 | Northlight Gallery
Jan 16 | 6 to 9 p.m.
In 2023 and 2024, artist Julie Anand and writer Sally Ball were awarded an IHR Seed Grant in support of their own visio-textual collaboration. Their work together led them to increasingly integrated team-taught courses, including the workshop-style class held in Fall 2025, “Collaboration: Visual Art & Creative Writing.”
At the beginning of the semester, visual artists and writers were placed in collaborative groups determined by their unique interests and insights. Over the course of several months, our writers and artists worked alongside one another to develop work from their collective imagination. Some wrote and created as though through echolocation, a call and response to one another’s work, while some composed in tandem, crossing the boundaries of their genre.
“Through Lines: Reciprocity in Text & Image” brings together new collaborative works by graduate students in Arizona State University’s Creative Writing and Visual Arts MFA programs. Moving across poetry, prose, photography, printmaking, installation and hybrid forms, this exhibition explores how text and image can listen to, lean on and transform one another. This show is not defined by any thematic element connecting each of its pieces, but rather the possibility that lies in human-to-human connection.
Each piece in this exhibition is the result of compromise, conversation and reciprocity—the imperfect and messy reality of creating alongside others: retellings of mythologies and archetypes that reveal the human condition; contemplations on survival after loss; the reenactment of shame; even a high-stakes card game. “Through Lines” offers a new invitation to the page, the canvas, the screen, the plinth—and a tender practice of caretaking across time and space. These are the products of what it means to be co-creators, working alongside one another in community.
Participating artists: Shipra Agarwal, Julie Anand, Sally Ball, Marina Basu, Adia Robinson Butler, Chris Du, Katie Grierson, Jace Hermanto, Celina Hernandez, Dawn Kushner, Isabel Lanzetta, Argent Martinez Brito, Oscar Montes, Maura O’Dea, Hannah Palmisano, Lily Regalia, Brennie Shoup, Lauren Stevens, Annie Stutzman, Heather Weller, Max Wheeler, Zêdan Xelef.
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays of the month | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
Invisible Palettes
Feb 2 to 19 | Harry Wood Gallery
Exhibition lecture | Feb 18 | 6 pm. | Neeb Hall
Closing reception | Feb 18 | following lecture | Harry Wood Gallery
“Invisible Palettes” is a collaborative art/science project, combining a series of paintings by Penny Cagney, which were inspired by and in collaboration with Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek, Professor Nathan Newman, the ASU SciHub team and their device, the Hylighter, which has ten programmable monochromatic lights.
Before the reception, Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek will give a lecture on color perception on February 18 at 6 p.m. in Neeb Hall, 920 S Forest Mall, adjacent to the Art Building. Doors open at 5:30. A reception and refreshments to follow in the lobby of the Art Building.
Gallery Hours
Monday – Thursday | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fridays | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism | A project with artist Yevgeniy Fiks
Feb 23 to March 19 | Harry Wood Gallery
Opening reception | March 18 | 5 to 7 p.m.
Starting in the nineteenth century, millions of Jews left Eastern Europe. Whether they escaped pogroms or sought new economic and educational opportunities abroad, the generation of Jewish artists who grew out of this migration lived simultaneously in the world of Yiddish culture and the emerging world of modernism. Later, in the twentieth century, the careers of Eastern European artists deeply connected to Yiddish culture were cut short by the Holocaust; many of those who survived became refugees.
“Yonia Fain’s Map of Refugee Modernism” explores one chapter in the peripatetic biography of modernist painter and Yiddish poet Yonia Fain (1913–2013). During the Second World War, Fain fled Eastern Europe to Asia to escape Nazi persecution, only to be relocated to the Shanghai Ghetto. After the war, Fain lived in Mexico City from 1947 until 1953, where he was befriended by luminaries in the Mexican art world, represented the country abroad and exhibited his work in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. Fain’s time in Mexico City is chronicled in this exhibition, including his since destroyed mural for the Memorial Chapel in the Panteón Israelita at the Cementerio Ashkenazi, which has been reimagined for this exhibition by Phoenix-based painter Rachel Kornovich.
Part of a series on art histories of Yiddishland developed by Yevgeniy Fiks, Yonia Fain’s “ of Refugee Modernism” intervenes in national art-historical narratives. Yiddishland is not a state and may be something more or less than a nation: even as these artists possess profound connections to Yiddish literature and culture, their national, ethnic and cultural identities remain unresolved (as in the hyphenated description of Fain as Lithuanian-Jewish-Mexican-American, and so on). Rooted in Yiddish-ness, working and living in at least two languages and traversing several countries and even continents, these artists radically expand our understanding of modernism.
This exhibition is accompanied by “Reflections on Refugee Modernism(s),” a compilation of new scholarship by students in the Fall 2025 Art History seminar on the same topic, who explore how paths of forced migration have shaped modern and contemporary art globally.
“Yonia Fain’s of Refugee Modernism” is curated by Dr. Chelsea Haines with curatorial assistance by Mehrdad Mirzaie and Ninabah Winton. This project is supported by an HIDA subvention grant and Jewish Studies at ASU.
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with "Art Workshop: Crossing Borders: Jewish Art, Literature, and Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean.”
Image: Yevgeniy Fiks, “Yonia Fain's Map of Refugee Modernism,” 2019–2022. Courtesy the artist.
Gallery Hours
Monday – Thursday | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Fridays | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
