🖼️ Enjoy a muralist panel discussion with artists: Sentrock, La Morena, Giovannie Dixon, and Martin Moreno; as they share their experiences, creative process, and the impact of their work on their communities in an enriching panel discussion.
🎨 In-gallery sketching with Aileen Martinez.
🎶 Live music with resident DJ J-ME LEE.
Enjoy delicious bites and beverages from our Food Vendors:
🌯 Amoy Sol
☕️ Harlem Coffee 🌮 El Fogón de Joy
🍸 ARTenders
👩🏻🏫 Docent guided tours
5:30 + 6:30 pm (in English)
6 + 7 pm (in Spanish with bilingual Docents)
ON VIEW NOW @ PHXART
Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series)
A preeminent figure in conceptual art, Charles Gaines is widely known for converting images and text-based documents into numerical structures, musical notations, and other sign systems through rigorous translation mechanisms.
Charles Gaines: 1992–2023
In 1992, Gaines’s practice underwent a pivotal shift when he began to replace non-descript images with critical theory frameworks, ranging from the writings of Franz Kafka and Frantz Fanon to the manifestos of the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement.
PhxArt First Friday is made possible through the generosity of APS and Lexus.