Eric Fischl Gallery
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Nestled atop Phoenix College’s Fine Arts Building, the Eric Fischl Gallery will dazzle you with panoramic views of central Phoenix—and some of the most exciting artwork in the Valley!
Exhibitions of local, and nationally known, artists are curated through our annual Call for Proposals, rotating through the fall and spring semesters. We're also proud to share the work of select student artists, through annual events like the Vanguard Showcase. Check back often for updates.
Location & 2026/2027 Hours
Fine & Performing Arts Building, 2nd Floor
Monday through Thursday: 10 am - 6 pm
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: Closed
*Exhibit openings, and some events, feature special hours.
Please refer to the below schedule for details.
Academic Year 26/27 Events
Event name: Edible. Artworks by Ryan Greene
Dates: September 8-24, 2026.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 8 from 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: “Edible” is an interactive ceramic garden consisting of several hundred hand-thrown vessels.Throughout the space, repeating forms are clustered to create an environment inspired by formal and edible gardens. Visitors are encouraged to harvest wares by lifting a lid, picking a bowl, and twisting a cup out of its holding place. This experience is designed to amplify our relationship with pottery by positioning functional wares as fruits for harvest. Pottery is unique in how clay is both a material for creating ceramic wares as well as for growing plants which, in turn, feed us. This cycle represents the deep relationship humans have to the objects we use, the foods we eat, and where they come from.
Event name: Synurbization. Artworks by Daniella Napolitano
Dates: September 8-24, 2026.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 8 from 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: Through a collection of print works, Daniella Napolitano delves into the intricate narratives of animals navigating and adapting to the ever-evolving urban space. Step into a world where hawks hunt between parking decks, coyotes stealthily traverse highways, and grackles ingeniously scavenge amidst backyard barbecues. Each piece in this exhibition captures the resilience, resourcefulness, and sometimes even the whimsical interactions of these urban dwellers. By highlighting “ordinary” animals in her work, the artist reminds viewers that they share a space with wildlife.
Event name: Seen and Unseen. Works by Arizona Photography Alliance
Dates: October 5-22, 2026.
Opening Reception: Monday, October 5, 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: This portfolio-based exhibition explores all the methods, imagination, and styles that we use to communicate our ideas through photography. From the tangible world we perceive to the hidden meanings and emotional states we sense. The exhibition invites viewers to experience an extended portfolio of the selected artists of Seen/Unseen.
Event name: "it's only skin cancer” Artworks by Marie McCarty
Dates: November 2-25, 2026.
Opening Reception: Monday, November 2, 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: Building on personal narratives about pain, trauma and recovery, Marie McCarty’s exhibition, “it’s only skin cancer,” investigates the turmoil and loss that a late-stage cancer patient progresses through as they seek treatment. Figurative paintings infused with pink flesh, surgical wounds, hospital equipment, and tanning objects tell the graphic firsthand stories of a patient’s agony. Confrontational, raw, and often uncomfortable the paintings in “it’s only skin cancer” force one to contemplate all that is done to the cancer patient in the attempts to survive. In creating this body of self-portraits the artist has opened a dialogue inviting the viewer to better understand the impact that the sun can have on unprotected skin.
Event name: The Space Between: Thresholds of Becoming. Artworks by Tess Scherer
Dates: November 2-25, 2026.
Opening Reception: Monday, November 2, 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: The Space Between brings together works on paper and sculptural forms that explore thresholds—those often unseen spaces between what has been and what is still emerging. Using handmade paper, stitching, incised marks, wood, and thread, I create forms that evoke tension and surrender, rupture and repair, memory and becoming. These works give form to thresholds both visible and invisible—spaces of transition, reflection, and quiet transformation. This body of work continues to evolve, extending the inquiry into how we inhabit moments of change, passage, and becoming. Here, threshold becomes not only something observed, but something inhabited—an invitation to pause, attend, and dwell in the space between. In a culture that often urges resolution and forward momentum, these works offer a different proposition: that meaning may emerge not only in arrival, but in the threshold itself.
Event name: Annual Holiday Art Sale
Dates: December 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2026. 12 (noon) p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: Find that special something for that special someone, including yourself! Select from a wide array of ceramics, jewelry, two dimensional art, textiles, and glass, all handmade by our Phoenix College staff and students.
Event name: The Arrivals. Artworks by Brittney Denham
Dates: January 25-February 18, 2027
Opening Reception: Monday, January 25 from 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: What motivates my artistic practice is investigation of tradition, scientific curiosity, and the physical act of laborious processes. My work is deeply rooted in personal narrative, while tangentially being woven into a collective experience. For the past four years, and into the foreseeable future I am exploring the complexities of motherhood identity, body as environment, domestic labor, traditions/history of women’s work, and the dissections of maternal material.
I intentionally employ techniques and textiles that lend themselves to layere conversations of the maternal. When dyeing fabric, I go through the process of creating an indigo vat by first making what is called a Mother. I use passed-down textiles like gifted tea towels, my wedding veil, or fabric from my hospital gown when I experienced fertility loss, or birth. I utilize the alternative photographic process of cyanotypes, historically created to capture flora and fauna data, produce copies, and later blueprints. I use these to reference the beginning of my own child’s life, a human coming from someone else, a copy of the original. These techniques are an act of caregiving, an act of labor.
By nature, quilts are first seen through the lens of a domestic object, one for comfort, for cover, for warmth. After treating and collecting textiles, I piece them together to create compositions referencing the body, a calendar of months pregnant, children lost, fertility windows, feeding schedules, and childlike icons of houses or homes that have the scale of a mother carrying a child, or a pregnant belly. The quilts range from historical half-square piecing that represents stability, strength, and tradition, to spray-painted improvisational works that look fractured and out of control, mimicking the spectrum of caregiving. Finally, the pieces are hand quilted to replicate the physicality, labor, and
imperfection that is motherhood.
Event name: Water’s Whispered Words. Artworks by Diane L. Silver
Dates: January 25-February 18, 2027
Opening Reception: Monday, January 25 from 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description:
As an artist living in the Sonoran Desert, I am acutely aware of the
importance and scarcity of water. My current artwork captures the essence
of water as a source of inspiration as well as highlighting the environmental
and societal challenges surrounding it. Through painting, video, and
installation, I invite viewers to immerse themselves in the mystery of water
and to engage in a meditative and introspective experience. The goal of my
artwork is to evoke an emotional response, prompting reflection by the
viewers on their relationship with water.
Through a multidisciplinary approach, my artwork combines abstract
paintings, sculptural installations, video, and poetic text to create a visceral,
immersive experience. “Water’s Whispered Words” seeks to connect
audiences with the beauty and importance of water, using art as a medium
to convey both its tangible and symbolic value. This work is an invitation to
contemplate the connection between our place in the desert and to inspire
collective action to preserve this precious resource.
Event name: Bend Within A Fold. Artworks by Liza Stout
Dates: March 1-April 1, 2027
Opening Reception: Monday, March 1 from 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: Bend Within A Fold brings together sculptures and photo performances rooted in the tools and gestures of tending.
The works are built from wood, a material that absorbs repeated motion and holds the evidence of hands over time. Each form is shaped around the body, designed to be worn and carried.Through the process of bending wood, the sculptures embody the same focused repetition as a daily task: folding a sheet or sweeping a floor.
The making of each tool is itself a kind of labor, and that process feeds directly into performance, where the objects are activated and brought into dialogue with histories passed down through generations. Each tool is built through repeated motions, put back into use through performance, and carried forward by the object itself. This cycle has no clear ending and mirrors how care work actually operates: ongoing and always beginning again.
Event name: Healing: Natural and Miraculous. Artworks by Gaylen Stewart
Dates: March 1-April 1, 2027
Opening Reception: Monday, March 1 from 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
Description: My painting incorporates several media including oil, acrylic, ink, found objects, various substrates, text and medical documentation. My paintings develop through a process of introspection and exploration. Through mixed media, I am investigating concepts about restoration and healing on physical and spiritual levels. I utilize symbols and metaphorical imagery to add layers of meaning to my content. The juxtaposition of natural and metaphysical imagery references my connection with the natural world and God. My recent paintings focus on flowers from which are derived ingredients used in chemotherapy. Paint and materials are combined and collaged in a manner that builds a complex surface. The process reveals traces of previous stages—a history and reference to change. The layering of paint and objects forms a "skin.” I view the surface as my body. The painting reflects my spirit. Years ago, a bout with cancer, and a medically documented supernatural healing, piqued my interest in the connection between the natural and spiritual realms. My art grows from the crossover between medicine, science, language, philosophy and spirituality. I view my working process as a type of scientific discovery. I develop this interconnectedness by combining my x-rays, sonograms, and CT scans with other referential and autobiographical imagery. Juxtaposed objects, text and signs are re-contextualized in relationship to my medical documentation.
Event name: Vanguard Showcase. Artworks by Phoenix College Students
Dates: April 20-May 6, 2027
Opening Reception: Tuesday April 20, 5:30-8 p.m.
Location: Eric Fischl Gallery
Cost of event: Free
