"Remainders and Disasters " Art Exhibition (Sept 12, 2025 - May 13, 2026)

"Remainders and Disasters" art exhibition is open to public.

September 12, 2025 - May 13, 2026
Monday – Friday | 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays 

RBH197, Ross-Blakley Hall
1102 South McAllister Avenue, , Tempe, AZ 85287

In Remainders and Disasters, the artists Ruth Aragón, Bleshüe, Celina Hernandez, and Alejandro Morales arrange the aftermath of human disasters. The artists in the exhibition carefully collect and manufacture evidence of blows, impacts, and erasures. Their ceramic sculpture, graphic ephemera, and marked textiles transmit signals that become sources of power, healing, and protection. In an age where short transmissions disallow nuance, these four artists draw out investigations and offer histories full of unexpected connections and existential revelations.

This year’s exhibition is curated by Liz Cohen, Professor, School of Art. 

Liz Cohen (United States, 1973) is a photographer, performance artist, and object maker whose decades-long career focuses largely on the intersection of immigration, industry, labor, and women’s representation in popular media. The artist’s work has been recently included in the survey exhibition, Flow States – LA TRIENAL 2024 at El Museo del Barrio, New York (NY), and the landmark exhibition, Xican-a.o.x. Body at the Perez Art Museum, Miami (FL) in 2024, both with an accompanying catalogue. Cohen’s work is interdisciplinary, bringing together inquiry in women’s studies, literature, poetry, and auto mechanics as well as expertise in documentary photography, performance, video, installation, and sculpture.    https://www.lizcohenstudio.com

Ruth Aragón (Monterrey, Mexico, 1993) is a visual artist working with ceramics, textiles, and speculative narratives. She holds degrees in Industrial Design (2015) and Arts (2018) from the University of Monterrey and is currently pursuing an MFA at Arizona State University.

Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions such as I was told not to swallow seeds at Side Gallery GSS (Phoenix, 2025) Con agua y sol me he criado at Heart Ego (Monterrey, 2024) and Bajo el cielo despejado después de la lluvia at Castilla Klyuyeva (Monterrey, 2022) and group exhibitions like Cuarteo, Contemporary Mexican Ceramics at Ballista Space (San Miguel de Allende, 2023), A Full Color at Comercio Popular (Chicago, 2023) And has received several awards and grants, including the Martin Wong Scholarship (2025), Jóvenes Creadores by FONCA (2022), the SECIHTI Scholarship (2024–2026), and CONARTE Fellowship (2024, 2025).

Her practice reimagines nature through speculative feminist fiction, exploring how living beings develop strategies of defense and resilience and transform them into symbolic tools for protection.

Bleshüe is a cultural-curatorial agency founded in 2012. The intention is to provide a non-hierarchical platform for projects and experiments pertaining to the intersection of pedagogy, ontology, and consumer culture.

Celina Hernandez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Phoenix, Arizona, pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at Arizona State University. Her practice explores themes of play, resilience, and social dynamics through performance, sculpture, photography, and video. She uses the visual language of games and sports, including boxing, soccer, cards, and chess, to reflect on shared histories rooted in the experiences of working-class and marginalized communities.

Alejandro "Luperca" Morales (Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, 1990) is an artist, curator, and MFA candidate at Arizona State University. His work has been shown at the Centro de la Imagen, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Les Rencontres d’Arles, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among others. His book The Portrait of Your Absence received a Special Mention at the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award 2022 and was a finalist for the Aperture–Paris PhotoBook Award 2023, with recent projects shortlisted for the Images Vevey Book Award 2025/2026 and the PH Museum Photobook Award 2025. In parallel, Morales has developed curatorial projects as the founder of Proyectos Impala in Ciudad Juárez and through exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum (USA), the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), the Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Uruguay), and other independent and institutional venues. His work and research have also been featured in international publications, including Fisheye Magazine, BOMB Magazine, and Two Sides of the Border (Yale School of Architecture / Lars Müller Publishers).

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