Artist Ed Gomez will represent Modified Arts at the ASU 411 Gallery exhibition “Sustainability” from Jan. 28 through May 12, 2012. “Sustainability” explores interpretations of economic, social and environmental sustainability within our community. 411 Gallery is located at 411 N. Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ in the UCENT Building. Hours are Mon-Fri 8am – 5pm/9am – 5pm Sat./Sun.

About the Artist
Arizona-native Ed Gomez investigates traditional art and exhibition practices within multidisciplinary historical contexts. He is a co-founder of MexiCali Biennial and director of G.O.C.A., The Gallery of Contemporary Art, a traveling exhibition space within a suitcase.

Modified Arts presents “Alan Disparte: Recent Paintings and Videos” on view from January 20, 2012 through Feb. 18, 2012. Opening Reception Jan. 20, 6-9pm.

Alan Disparte’s paintings reflect an abstracted landscape rich with themes of industrialism, urban sprawl, organic matter, and geometrics. In the works, the artist seeks to find truth and nostalgia amidst mass production and the modern world. Modified Arts will also present several video works by Disparte, which explore his interest in the subversive nature of media.

Press:
Nouveau Conservateur
Press Release

“Drawing from Reference” is a exhibition of works from local and national artists that explore new contexts, methods, and materials related to the process of drawing. More specifically, artists were asked to address art as an ongoing evolutionary state in which historical traces of the past may be revealed.

Participating Artists include:

Angel Chen
Ed Gomez
Alicia Gorecki
Luis Hernandez
Jonathan Howard
Caroline Maxwell
Dominic Miller
Lauren Strohacker
Tessa Sutton
Jen Urso
 

Press: Karolina Sussland Skewers Mad Ave Vision of Everyman in Photo Exhibition at Modified Arts

James Angel has watched the urban landscape of his native Phoenix morph over time. He notes that the place around him remains a work in progress, and in his paintings repeatedly references the fluidity of the environment in which we live. Phoenix is quick to change. It is a city under constant revision: buildings appear overnight, vacant lots are filled, older buildings are razed. In his paintings, Angel compresses time and places old imagery next to new in much the same way we might see a mid-century modern home adjacent to new condos. He couches harsh urban realities in the softness ofnostalgia and asserts the essentialness of artists and art in the urban community. Angel takes his visual cues from textured walls common in recently built homes, signs and other elements of urban landscapes. These are featured in his paintings, and graffiti—a modern, universal and distinctly urban art form—is celebrated.

Traces of Angel’s travels through Europe and various Latin American countries emerge in his work. He is fascinated with the ubiquity of graffiti, and the distinction between the artistry of various tag and sticker artists as opposed to meaningless vandalism. Angel deconstructs the language of urbanity, graffiti included, and revels in sights commonly seen on city blocks. His paintings relate to the collaborations of Warhol and Basquiat in which Basquiat’s street-aesthetic was applied over Warhol’s sleek corporate emblems—the ultimate metaphor for the organic growth of art in the urban environment.Angel gravitates to the DIY principle of the modern world, as manifest on Youtube.comand MySpace.

He investigates the way our newfound ability to capture and alter virtual space translates into our efforts to control and modify our immediate environment. His paintings are rife with the idea that this is our world, and we will choose how we shape it.

A fundraising event featuring…
Silent Auction
DJ Presentation
Complimentary hor d' oeuvres and  Neuro beverages
And performances by EPIK Dance Company

Proceeds from the evening will go to support the EPIK Movement public education program, their 2012 theater performance, and other EPIK Dance Company initiatives.

EPIK Dance Company is a 501 (c)(3) organization. Contributions to EPIK Dance Company are tax deductible under those guidelines.

September 16 – October 8, 2011

Heavily influenced by the Dutch masters and Caravaggio, Tempe painter geoffrey gersten creates playful works that in contrast, have a major retrospective nod to the Surrealist masters. His paintings are a combination of subconscious imaginations, dreams, and sketched studies that are created using traditional oil painting techniques that begin with a brown and greyunder-painting and are followed with thin glazes, the outlining of major forms and toning colors, and then finished with thick, detailed layers.

gersten is currently inspired by the eternally confrontational repose of the characters in American Gothic. Grant Wood’s depiction is an exploration of the divine mystery of the Garden of Eden and the genesis of man and woman, which may never be fully understood. His colorful work consistently juxtaposes persistent hope alongside the most traumatic elements of the human condition.

At 25, gersten’s work is showing in Scottsdale, Arizona, and San Francisco, California, and is in numerous collections around the country and internationally.

Please attend Dylan Pratt's homecoming show as a newly signed artist to River Jones Music Label.

Artists include Dylan Pratt, The Muddy Moneys, Future Loves Past, Japhys Descent, and HiFi Beta.

Sept. 10, 2011, 6pm – $8

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CD release for You Me and Apollo's new album Cards with Cheats.
Saturday, August 20, 2011 at 7pm – $8

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