Scottsdale Arts Community

SMoCA (Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
 

Any guest showing their Hotel Valley Ho room key at SMoCA can gain free admission for two through Decembern 31, 2010! The museum is located less than a mile from the hotel, at 7374 E. 2nd St.

Spyhopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth
and the Permanent Collection
May 22 - September 19, 2010
Part board game come to life, part art installation— this exhibition is infused with Phoenix-based artist Sue Chenoweth’s profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA’s permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum’s permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities. Visit the artist's website here. 

Architecture + Art: 90 Days Over 100 Degrees
May 22 – Sept 19, 2010
Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener will inaugurate SMoCA’s new Architecture + Art series with their exhibition 90 Days Over 100°. The collaborative team of Jay Atherton and Cy Keener create meticulously researched built environments that call attention to the intersection of perception and time. This installation will explore the temporal and physical qualities of water as it changes from solid to liquid. The installation will transform over the course of each day as ice melts, drips and collects. Responding to the specific context of summer heat in the Valley of the Sun, the project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-Imagining the West:
Selections from the Permanent Collection
June 12 – August 22, 2010
Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee’s sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore’s 2008 critical video portrait of water’s journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA’s collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West’s Most Western Town."

Current Featured Artist

Sue Chenoweth

"Walking Towards Bethlehem" and "The Hero's Dance" by Sue Chenoweth are currently being featured in the Hotel Valley Ho lobby.


Both pieces were made in 2008; are gouache, graphite, acrylic, ink, Letraset, and Pantone paper on birch panel; and are 30" x 30".


Sue's work can also currently be seen at SMoCA, in "Spyhopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth and the Permanent Collection" (see above).


Visit Sue's website here.

Current Featured Gallery

Bentley Gallery

The Bentley Gallery features contemporary painting and sculpture by internationally-recognized and emerging artists, masterworks from the mid- and late-20th century, and Asian artifacts. Visit the gallery in Scottsdale, contact them for personalized service, or peruse their inventory online.

4161 N. Marshall Way, Scottsdale | 480.946.6060

Jun Kaneko
"09-08-06"
Glazed Ceramics
58" h x 31.5" w x 19" d
2009

Louis de Mayo
"Incident"
Acrylic on Canvas
60" h x 48" w x 1.5" d

Angelina Nasso
"Embers #21"
Oil on Paper
60.25" h x 55.5" w
2009

Bobby Silverman
"Diamondbacks"
Glaze on Porcelain Panel; Graph representing the AZ diamondbacks win/loss records.
2007

Emmi Whitehorse
"Dust Storm"
Oil and Chalk on Paper/Canvas
40.5" h x 29" w
2006