EXHIBITIONS

 

 

 

 

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Through Lines

Reciprocity in Text & Image

In 2023-24, 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.

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

September 05 – October 03 , 2025

Of Light and Alchemy

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.

April 17-26, 2025

Garden

“Garden” comprises thousands of amateur photographs sourced from digital archives and social media accounts, transferred onto glass. Many of these images are manipulated, stripped of names or any contextual information. They depict individuals who lost their lives, were forcibly disappeared, or arrested due to the socio-political conditions in Iran from the Islamic Revolution of February 1979 to the present.

April 03 - April 12, 2025

Tricky Ricky

Tricky Ricky is an interactive thesis exhibition by Richard Pence.

March 20 - March 29, 2025

long violence dreamt me west

Powerlines and trees connect communities, sharing resources, spreading communication. When the ties between them are cut, only a memory of the bond remains. That memory shifts as it passes from mouth to mouth, malleable as copper, occluding and redefining the original relationship; a story broken from its context and reimagined again and again.

February 28 - March 7, 2025

Gut-Rot

Gut-Rot invites audiences to engage with the regenerative potential of decay and our interconnectedness with one another.

Jan 24 to Feb 22

Reclaiming Red

Reclaiming Red explores the colonial implications of the color redand demonstrates how Indigenous people use it for healing, peace, sacredness, unity and Hózhó

November 15- November 25, 2024

After Party

This exhibition of expanded photography takes the mythology of the “Party School” as a point of departure.

September 06 - November 01, 2024

Tasvir Exhibition

A Research Exhibition on Contemporary Iranian Image-Based Art

March 29 to April 27, 2024

Healing – Rethinking Gender

An interdisciplinary collaborative exhibition of artists, faculty and graduate students at ASU.

January 19– February 03, 2024

Land, Body & Archive

Land, Body & Archive, an exhibition by Southwest Photo Collaborative

Phoenix Transect

Phoenix Transect features the work of ASU alumni who participated in a multi-year field study with Professor Emeritus Mark Klett.

Nov. 17-Dec. 1, 2023

Meaning Making Machines

Meaning Making Machines celebrates/visualizes the embodiment of the photographic process through the singular practices of a group of student artists.

Sept. 15 – Nov. 4, 2023

Seral Bodies

Northlight Gallery’s forthcoming exhibition Seral Bodies, is curated by Roshii Montaño and Ninabah Winton and will examine the contemporary practice of Indigenous photographers and artists.

Oct 21 - Nov 19, 2022

American Journey

Join us in the gallery for the opening reception of An American Journey Continues, photographs and digital montage by ASU Professor Stephen Marc.

Sept 8 - Oct 8, 2022

Reimagining Earth

Features the works of ASU MFA alumni who explore the experience of the human animal and the non-human creatures that share this Earth.

April 1 – 23, 2022

50 Years of Curating

Northlight Gallery celebrates 50 years with an exhibition featuring the creative works of its curators since its establishment in 1972.

March 4 – April 2, 2022

Circle of Influence

Northlight Gallery and the ASU School of Art will honor Regents Professor Mark Klett for 40 years of service to the university with an exhibition.

Oct 21 – Nov 19, 2021

Naked and The Nude

Naked and The Nude brings together works from the Northlight Gallery Permanent Collection and the Solari Foundation Collection.

Sept 9 – Oct 9, 2021

Memento Mori

Memento Mori: Memento Vivere is an exhibition on death and photography, and will showcase a collection of image-based works.

Jan 21 – Feb 19, 2021

Borders and Boundlessness

Borders and Boundlessness features the photographs of ASU MFA alumni.

September 26 - October 26, 2019

Person Perception

Person Perception Persona features portraits from the Solari Foundation on loan to Northlight Gallery by photographers well known and accepted in the canon of the history of photography.