LISA SETTE GALLERY 35 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION

Lisa Sette Gallery, an internationally-recognized advocate of contemporary art, will commemorate its 35th anniversary with a March exhibition entitled Serenity Now: Meditations on Humanity. The midtown Phoenix gallery, housed in a strikingly renovated Al Beadle office building, has maintained its unique aesthetic vision and relationships with artists, collectors, and the arts community for over three decades, defying the notoriously transitory art market. Lisa Sette Gallery is recognized for its radical and inclusive curatorial vision, working with significant regional, domestic and international artists and exhibiting work that addresses urgent social and political issues. These essential values give rise to the gallery’s March anniversary exhibit.

The show’s title, Serenity Now: Meditations on Humanity, is both a plea for introspection and a reference to Seinfeld episode 159. The exhibition’s moniker reflects the curatorial philosophy of the gallery as a whole: fierce, poignant, and when necessary, unapologetically irreverent. The exhibition will open on March 7, 2020 and run through May 2, 2020, and includes works by David Kimball Anderson, Enrique Chagoya, Long-Bin Chen, Sonya Clark, Binh Danh, Claudio Dicochea, Ben Durham, Angela Ellsworth, Máximo González, Siri Devi Khandavilli, Mark Klett, Mayme Kratz, Carrie Marill, Mark Mitchell, Marie Navarre, Reynier Leyva Novo, Charlotte Potter, Ato Ribeiro, Mike & Doug Starn, Julianne Swartz, and William Wegman.

Works included in Serenity Now revolve around the notions of selfhood and introspection that are inextricably tied to our relationship to the world. Artworks included will examine the ways in which our own painful and exquisite awareness of others is what defines our own individuality.