The exhibitions Sight Lines and First Impressions will be on display in the Eric Fischl Gallery from 01/27/2026 - 02/19/2026. The Eric Fischl Gallery is open to the public Monday - Thursday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. The gallery is closed Friday - Sunday each week. Admission is always free.
Sight Lines. Artworks by Nicole Ponsart
Sight Lines is an installation used to confront the paradoxical relationship between the tourist gaze and the commodification of landscape through the creation of a modular, human-scale, ceramic canyon. The exhibition is positioned to allow viewers the space to interrogate and recognize the artificial choreography of how nature is often displayed for consumption, as marketable objects of desire, aestheticized, and ultimately disconnected from their histories.Drawing from the romanticized imagery of the American Southwest, the installation is comprised of large-scale sculptures created from 100% recycled material collected from around the greater metro Phoenix Area. The forms are intended as a mirror to reflect how we encounter place in the age of tourism through partial glimpses, controlled movements, and surface impressions. Embedded with the intimacy of a historically physical, elemental, craft-based practice, such as ceramics, its production process is a reflection of the intention taken to take a slower, more thoughtful, introspective approach to understanding the complexity of our surroundings.
First Impressions. Artworks by Steve Johnson.
One of my objectives as an artist is to bridge conflicting views by expressing and revealing shared concerns and common ground. I am interested in seeing and processing the world from multiple angles. My current art expresses the basic desire to strengthen family bonds and connect with the natural world. The body of linoleum prints uses handcrafted inks and chine-colle to capture impressions of both my inner and outer world. The small-scale prints are best viewed from an intimate distance to appreciate the subtle tonal gradations of the warm and cool inks and the embossed marks of the carved lino-block.