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ASU Events
Exhibitions
Within Landscape: Landscape Within
Monday – Thursday | 12 to 5 p.m. Friday | 12 to 3 p.m. | Closed on weekends and university holidaysSept 9 to 25 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | Sept 9 | 6 to 8 p.m.
"In the mountains, there is a feeling of isolation, and yet it is not lonely. It is hard to explain, but it is a feeling of quiet awe and tranquility."
-Thomas Moran
This exhibition reflects a semester’s journey through the landscape and into the self. From plein air excursions under shifting skies to quiet hours in the studio, students explored the dialogue between what is seen and what is felt. Guided by readings that spoke of nature, meaning and reflection, their paintings weave together outer place and inner spirit. The works on view resonate as both landscapes and mirrors—echoes of the earth’s presence and the artist’s inner vision.
New Graduate Exhibition 2025
Monday – Thursday | 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Closed on weekends and university holidaysSept 2 to Oct 1 | Harry Wood Gallery
Opening reception | Sept 2 | 5 to 7:30 p.m.
New Graduate Exhibition 2025 is an annual exhibition of work by new graduate students in the School of Art. This year’s incoming cohort represents a diverse set of practices that explore the intersections of identity, materiality and place. Working across ceramics, expanded arts, painting and drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture and textiles, these artists navigate complex cultural landscapes while transforming everyday materials and rituals into explorations of belonging, resilience and transformation. Together, these works demonstrate art's capacity to navigate the spaces between cultures, materials and meaning. Artists: Alixandria Vengoechea, Allie Thurgood, Carolyn Hazel Drake, Dustin Hesser, Grace Gittelman, Grace Piontek, Heather G. Weller, Jai Knight, Jerrie Fabrigas, Liliana Flores, Lily Regalia, Oscar Montes, Scout Heckel and Sonora James.
Design: Ruth Aragón.
Of Light and Alchemy
Sept 5 to Oct 3 | Norhtlight Gallery
Opening reception and artist talk with Brenda Biondo | Sept 5 | 6 p.m.
Artist talk with Joshua Mokry | Sept 19 | 6 p.m.
Closing reception and artist talks with Ariel Wilson and Meg Gould | Oct 3 | 6 p.m.
“I am burning with desire to see your experiments from nature.” – Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Nascent photographic technology was a delicate dance with light and chemistry fueled by curiosity and experimentation. In 1839, two processes were announced, first in France and later in England, with great fanfare. However, Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot were not the only ones toiling in their labs, “burning with desire” as Daguerre described his excitement in a letter to his collaborator Nicéphore Niépce in 1828. Many others endeavored with various processes to capture the potential of an image created by light bouncing off a subject onto a flat surface. Some were motivated by commerce, others by science and still others by beauty; they could not have known how photography would transform the world by advancing the dissemination of information, shaping our relationship to representation and thus influencing culture and history.
In the exhibition, “Of Light and Alchemy,” the desire still burns in these artists as they continue the rich and multi-faceted tradition of experimentation and discovery that was marked by those announcements nearly 200 years ago. Through various iterations of photo-sensitive materials, the artists delve into the human relationship to time, perception and metaphor in collaboration with light and nature to further expand the boundaries of experience.
Guest curator: Liz Allen
Participating artists: Brenda Biondo, Meg Gould, Joshua Mokry, David Shannon-Lier and Ariel Wilson
DOOM POP PROTOTYPES
Sept 5 to 27 | Thursday, Friday and Saturday | Noon to 5 p.m.
Opening Reception | Sept 5 | 6 to 9 p.m.
Step Gallery | Grant Street Studios
Doom Pop is a collaborative installation by Jeremy Ripley and Tra Bouscaren about business and death and the business of death.
We use reclaimed billboards, salvaged neon, e-waste and metal pulled from demolition sites to create tornadoes, flags and body bags. Corporate slogans meant to seduce are recast as monuments to disaster. A tornado made of billboards, and another made of styrofoam, point to the churn of consumer culture, and to its climate impact. Body bags covering the floor mark the human toll. Billboards become memento mori. Turning spectacle against itself, Doom Pop is a storm of reconfigured media where advertising is rendered in terms of its effects.
Tra Bouscaren is an Assistant Professor and Director of the eXMeLab (Expanded Media Lab) in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Yale University, an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Bouscaren’s work has been featured at the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Vittorio Manalese (Berlin), the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Victor I Fils Gallery (Madrid), San Diego Art Institute (now ICA San Diego), Hallwalls (Buffalo), Fort Mason Center for the Arts (San Francisco), the Florida Prize Exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Philadelphia) and Lincoln Center (NYC), among many other venues.
Jeremy Ripley is a versatile artist and program manager with expertise spanning textiles, sculpture, and fabrication. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Textiles from Parsons School of Design and has honed his craft across multiple disciplines, including hand weaving, fiber arts and textile repair. With a solid foundation in visual arts, Jeremy’s work encompasses a broad range of materials, from traditional fibers like wool and cotton to more industrial materials such as wood, metal and plastic. Currently, Jeremy serves as the Program Manager at Grant Street Studios at Arizona State University, where he oversees the daily operations of a 45,000-square-foot facility serving MFA students.
Image: DOOM POP
