Small Batch Group Show Extended!!
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Charmagne Vasquez
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Charmagne Vasquez is an artist of contemporary paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Her current works often focus on interconnectedness and humankind’s role within earth’s dynamic biology. The artworks are made spontaneously with traditional and non-traditional media, as Vasquez builds up complex, colorful layers. Viewers experience organic landscapes and menageries. She expresses the tension of daily human occurrences, in parallel to the vast, interconnected web of life. Urban and feral. Civilization and hinterlands. She moves away from paradigms of personifying nature and magical thinking, and toward a curiosity-led perspective of better understanding flora and fauna. A work may contain references to the scientific world, as well as a rock and roll anthem. Having reverence of nature, of which we human animals are a part, is a very major theme. With the building up of each layer, she watchfully responds to emerging forms. Vasquez’s process simultaneously radiates in all directions, with many creative projects cross-pollinating in her Phoenix, AZ studio.
Tara Sharpe
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Tara Sharpe’s work complicates perceptions of emotion and myth using color in layered opacities. Combining aspects of classical technique with modern expression, her work captures phantasmagoric images of figures reconfigured for an era verged on the precipice of madness. Influenced significantly by Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, Sharpe’s work depicts concepts independent of time and events, presenting its own origin and mythology stories. Imbued with emotional depth, her art resonates with themes of transformation and transcendence in contemporary conceptions of identity.
Abbey Messmer
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Abbey Messmer, originally from Dallas, Texas, received a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from University of North Texas. She lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona, balancing time between local non-profit Scottsdale Arts and her studio art practice from La Melgosa on Grand Ave. in downtown Phoenix. Messmer's exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Herberger Theater Center, Shemer Art Center, Estrella Mountain Community College, Monorchid, and participated in a project called Art360 with the Arizona Science Center where her work was animated and projected on the dome of the Dorrance Planetarium. Messmer was a member of Phoenix art collective Eye Lounge from 2012-2015 and was a Contemporary Forum Arts Grant recipient in 2015. She was an Artlink Artist Council member from 2018-2024. Her work contemplates the fluid nature of perception and reflects the fragility of our physical and mental states.
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Date & Time
Friday, February 6, 2026— Small Batch Group Show Extended!!
6:00 PM — 10:00 PM
Location
1023 Grand Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85007, USA
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