Eye Lounge is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Anecdotes & Myths in collaboration with Art Detour. Anecdotes & Myths will include new work of Eye Lounge members Amy Bird, Swapna Das, Katherine Del Rosario, Regan Henley, Amanda Mollindo, Laura Rodriguez, Dean Terasaki, Hyewon Yoon, and Summer Raine Young.

Eye Lounge is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Veiled Inscriptions featuring photomontages by Dean Terasaki.

Eye Lounge is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, “#NeverForget: Collective Trauma in the Age of Social Media”, a solo exhibition by Regan Henley featuring work in collaboration with J.M. Watkins

Eye Lounge presents a work in progress exhibit by Summer Raine and Swapna Das showcasing cyanotype and ceramic art.

Eye Lounge presents “The Usual Feelings”, Steven Allisons' first solo show at Eye Lounge and a first solo show in general. Steven presents paintings reflecting on his journey with depression and steps taken that have led to a more upbeat existence.

Eye Lounge presents Sex and Sovereignty, a photography exhibition by Amanda Mollindo that centers people who can become pregnant, their healthcare providers, and their advocates. Captured over six years across six U.S. states, participants share their stories and struggles related to sexual and reproductive health.

Eye Lounge is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, "FOR NOW," featuring the works of its three newest members: Swapna Das, Regan Henley, and Dean Terasaki.

Eye Lounge presents "Companion, Comrade, Kasama" Katherine Del Rosario's second solo exhibition. Del Rosario presents a collection of drawings inspired from her reflections and insights gained through her involvement in the national democratic movement, striving for the genuine liberation of Filipinos across the globe. Within this body of work, she contemplates her evolving individual identity as Filpina American woman as it shapes more with a collective identity shared by her close kasamas, who are also part of the Filipinx Diaspora.

Eye Lounge presents Mapping Matrescence: spider becoming, Megan Driving Hawk’s third and final solo show as an Eye Lounge member. In this self-curated exhibition Driving Hawk maps out patterns in her three creative practices of photography, poetry, and traditional needlework that describe her time of matrescence.

Summer Raine Young has used photography for many years as a way to navigate their queer, genderfluid identity and process experiences related to it. This collection of photographs, cyanotypes, and mixed-media highlights the duality of having a loving support system while also confronting judgment from others throughout the ten years that Young has been out.

Work In Progress (WIP) Exhibition from Steven Allison, Katherine Del Rosario, and Summer Young

Our work portrays different systems of support. The people who have shaped and lifted us in times of trouble, chaos and change. These portraits of others demonstrate how people continue to shift us in ways that allow us to return to authentic versions of ourselves. The multitudes of people transform us for the better, never leaving us the same.

To be a part of any collective requires intention, collaboration, mutual respect, genuine criticism, and the willingness to be honest and vulnerable with one another. The All Eyes on You Juried Group Exhibition is a rare selection of talented Phoenix-based artists who have been chosen by our current artist members. The exhibition runs from June 16th until July 9th.

All of us face conditions that impede the creation and display of our best selves. Susan Allred deals with chronic arthritis pain, but others may have a different physical or mental health ailment. Maybe your chronic condition is a thorny relationship that will never improve or an unsatisfying career. The quilt of our universal experiences is pieced from an infinite variety of conditions, each as unique as the person who lives with it.

Whatever the specific symptoms, each of us adapts in attempt to counteract those chronic conditions and lessen their impact on our lives. Sometimes our adaptations are beautiful, enveloping the condition to transform it and us. Other modifications are not effective—worse, they can become a horror show that damages ourselves and our loved ones. Occasionally, it's hard for outsiders to tell the difference between the beautiful and the grotesque.

Our work is slow and meditative. We work to focus the noise around us: to make it mean something, or sometimes to block it out completely. Our finished objects speak without noise. They stand alone, open to thought, meaningful—whether or not we talk about them. 

"Quieted" is an exhibition of our in-progress and finished works. Please look at the works for what they are now and chat with us about what they might become. We'd love to hear what you think they say now, what else they could say to viewers, and how they stand together.

The Static is the second part of a three-part project (The Silence, The Static, & The Horizon). Each series represents experiences processing trauma through finding place. The Static is when gravity is in limbo, and reality is just out of reach. Photographs are a suspension of belief. To Buzzy Sullivan, the process is shooting an arrow straight into the air and believing for one little moment that it won’t come back down to earth. That is the same analogy he would use to describe the Static of trauma. These pictures represent a work in process and, when complete, may look different than the pictures hanging here.

Eye Lounge presents Fold/Unfold, an exhibition featuring works from our current artist members. The exhibition, running from March 17th to April 9th during Art Detour, focuses on the juxtaposition of personal and external realities. The artists explore the dichotomy of embracing change versus sticking to one's reality, and whether it's possible to actualize opposing realities. Fold/Unfold is a collection of pieces that delve into themes of growth, release, and unlearning past burdens. The artists collectively examine how contrary realities can be a driving force that propels one forward without limitations in their personal lives and surrounding environments.

Tender Passage is Shorty Greene’s second solo exhibition at Eye Lounge opens Feb 17th. In this self-curated exhibition, the artist shares a collection of mixed-media collages. Using the sun as a camera proxy to assist in their creative practice. The works bear a dynamic blue hue which is a distinctive feature of a Cyanotype.

Hyewon Yoon presents a recent body of work consisting of drawings of mountains with pen on canvas or panel. These mountains represent the artist's feelings of homesickness, longing for loved ones, and a sense of timelessness. The vastness of the mountains symbolizes the endlessness of the sky, and their depth represents a sense of peacefulness. Through these works, Yoon strives to create a sense of inner calm for herself and to share her appreciation for the beauty of nature with others.

Eye Lounge artists, Steven Allison, Buzzy Sullivan & Megan Driving Hawk give viewers a peak into select works in progress that will be featured in their upcoming solo exhibitions later in 2023. Each artist is in a different point of their Eye Lounge tenure. Steven Allison is working towards his debut Eye Lounge solo show opening on December 15, 2023. Buzzy Sullivan is working on his second solo show with Eye Lounge which will highlight the second part of his long term project set to open on April 14, 2023. Megan Driving Hawk is working on her third and final show focusing on the maternal experience which will open on August 18, 2023.

Please join them January 13-15, 2023 for a weekend of sharing little studio bits of inspiration!

Eye Lounge presents Katherine Del Rosario’s first solo show, Our Solace from December 16, 2022 through January 8th, 2023. Del Rosario’s paintings examines the manifestations of colonialism through a feminist lens of being a Filipina woman within the diaspora.

Charles Kurre's works are narratives of transformation inspired by the landscape of everyday living. Chronicles of competing circumstances, uncertain outcomes, and reshaped beliefs. They're potential and endless possibilities, strings for the imagination to pull.

Eye Lounge presents Body Talk, a group exhibition featuring new members E.G. Hall, Amanda Mollindo, and Summer Young. On display from October 21 to November 13, this show explores the human form in relationship to self, nature, and cognitive processes.

“Walking Out” is a two-person exhibition of works in progress from Susan Allred and Katherine Del Rosario. Both women’s work explores the sometimes harsh realities of womanhood and its male-centered expectations can diminish their individuality, sensibility, expression, and inner power. In “Walking Out” the women express the female form in action through the physicality of dirty and rumpled skirts, the slaying of man, and the movement of woman, as it appears to be shifting, transforming, and wandering.

Eye Lounge presents Yuna Kim’s first solo show, Stacking, Collapsing, Stacking, from September 16 through October 9, 2022. The exhibition features the artist’s latest short animations, focusing on everyday life. Since experiencing the pandemic, Kim’s work explores the mundane things unintentionally overlooked, revealing emotions of anxiety and desire inherent to living in this unprecedented era.

The View From Here is Megan Driving Hawk’s second solo show as an Eye Lounge member. In this self-curated exhibition Driving Hawk continues to weave together her three creative practices of photography, poetry, and traditional needlework in new ways that reveal unique and relatable experiences of motherhood in the second year. Each piece is made in ceremony and dedicated to various experiences of moving forward through change, failed moments in artmaking and parenting, moments of pause in the mundane, teachings of the land, healing trauma, celebrating the navel, honoring memory, and conflicting desires of parenthood. 

Eye Lounge presents Sparks, an exhibition of new and experimental works from three member artists. The exhibition features small-scale landscape paintings by Hyewon Yoon, functional and sculptural ceramics by Amy Sansbury Manning, and digital drawings by Yuna Kim. The artists will be in the gallery Friday, August 12, from 6-9; Saturday, August 13, from 1-5; and Sunday, August 14, from 11-3 to discuss their processes and ideas with interested visitors.

In order to beat the heat, the Eye Lounge presents Summer Snacks: A collection of artwork at great prices to help cool off this summer. It’s a fantastic opportunity to collect original works from current Eye Lounge artists at special pricing. Begin your collection or add a new piece, all while supporting a local art space!

In her first solo show, Love Don’t Speak Like That, Shorty Greene considers the constant cycle between loss and resilience in life. The exhibition showcases new mixed-media collages, photographs, and her own private collection of polaroid postcards.

On view from May 20 to June 12, 2022, is a selected sequence of photographs from Phoenix-based artist and educator Buzzy Sullivan’s project, The Silence. Sullivan has been working on The Silence since 2017 and plans to exhibit one sequence of images from the larger project annually over the next three years. This first sequence explores the ability and futility of mapping the experience of desolation. Being a child of the expansive West, Sullivan found the richness of place as a needed balance from generational trauma. These images arc back to the archetype of landscapes Sullivan searched for in his youth.