Live Performances & Art Exhibits In Phoenix

Open your eyes—literally—to a world within worlds. Photographer Haley Nishida magnifies the mystery of the human iris, transforming each gaze into a vivid portal. At the center of these large-scale photographs, the pupil reveals unexpected landscapes—golden fields of sunflowers, towering mountains, and more—juxtaposed against the intricate textures and colors of the iris itself.

Part optical illusion, part soul-searching journey, Eyedentité invites you to see how our perception of the world shapes our perception of ourselves. This bold, eye-full of color and emotion arrives just in time for the Fall Equinox—when the light changes, and so do we.

Prepare to be mesmerized, challenged, and inspired. After eye-balling this exhibit, you may never look at your own reflection the same way again.

Opening Reception: Friday, September 12, 2025 – 6 -10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Opening Reception: First Friday, October 3, 6–10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm
Step into the shadows and explore the weird, the wicked, and the wonderfully warped at Alwun House’s Monsters Menagerie — a haunted gallery experience like no other.

This juried exhibit unleashes the imaginations of artists from across the Valley and beyond, revealing creatures of darkness, gothic nightmares, political fiends, and surreal horrors hiding just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. From eerie elegance to grotesque spectacle, you’ll discover a diverse collection of provocative, uncanny, and visually stunning works in every medium.

Join us on First Friday, October 3, from 6–10pm for our Opening Night Reception, where you can meet the artists, enjoy spine-tingling sounds, and sip on sinister spirits in the company of fellow art-lovers and night creatures.

Then, on the most haunted night of the year…Don your most monstrous attire and return for the closing night blowout —

👹 The Monsters Ball – October 31

A night of outlandish costumes, dancing, devilish delights, and all manner of monstrous mischief. Entertainment TBA.

Whether you’re a fan of horror, satire, surrealism, or just love a good Halloween scare — Monsters Menagerie is the perfect place to lose (or find) your soul this October.

• Tickets: https://bit.ly/4mKp788
• Monsters Ball — Halloween Night
  Doors creak open at 7pm, unleashing a night of wicked revelry and bone-rattling performances that stretch into the witching hours. Prepare for an experience that will blow your mind while deliciously tickling your spine.
• Spinning the gnastiest, gnarliest grooves of the night will be Orbit Corbett, conjuring beats fit for fiends.
• The killer stage show ignites with Paper Foxes, whose moody synths, driving basslines, and post-punk bite resurrect the spirit of neon-lit nights and underground clubs. With their blend of cinematic textures and raw stage energy, they set the tone for a haunted sonic journey through Phoenix’s modern alternative scene.
• The spectacle intensifies as Cirque du Ghoulesque takes command—summoning a twisted carnival of flesh and fantasy. Their performances flirt with the line between the scintillating and the sinister: a decadent blend of live vocals, erotic abandon, and spine-tingling gore. Equal parts sexy and shocking, their haunted cabaret will leave you gasping for more.
• Hungry monsters will be fed by Munch Box food truck, dishing up devilishly good grilled monster meats. Elixirs flow all night: sip on special ales from VooDoo Ranger, or take your chances with the infamous Spider Venom—a shot said to inoculate against werewolves.
• This is not for the faint of heart.
  21+ | Come costumed. Come hungry. Come ready to lose yourself.
• • Reserved Table for 4 – $300 includes bottle of champagne & trick-or-treat swag bag
  • Reserved Cocktail Table for 2 – $160 includes $10 complimentary drinks & trick-or-treat swag bag

Step into the wonderfully wacky world of Rodgell, where imagination takes shape in the most unexpected ways. This exhibition of assemblage sculptures and 3D wall hangings transforms everyday found objects into bizarre, dreamlike curiosities—creations that are as thought-provoking as they are delightfully strange.

Rodgell’s works conjure a surreal cabinet of wonders: whimsical, mysterious, and unapologetically out of the ordinary. Each piece is a puzzle of materials reimagined, inviting viewers to linger, laugh, and marvel at the phantasmagoric inventions of his mind.

Whether you’re seeking a conversation-sparking centerpiece or the perfect one-of-a-kind gift, Things Made of Other Things is your chance to claim a piece of the extraordinary. Come ready to explore, and you just might leave with a curiosity you’ll treasure for years to come.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 12, 2025 – 6 -10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

A Night of Misfit Films Film Festival celebrates it’s 10th year anniversary and this year showcases three nights of films from across the country and internationally. Each night dedicated to different genres. Friday night(11/28/25) is showcases horror & Sci Fi. Saturday evening (11/29/25) features comedy & drama. Ending Sunday evening (12/30/25) with international fare following with the awards ceremony.
The ninth A Night of Misfit Films Festival is presented by Full Figure Productions and founded by Dineta Williams-Trigg a filmmaker and actress and directed with Gauthier Raad, A Night of Misfit Films came out of a desire to see more diverse content in the Valley of the Sun community. The festival celebrates the artistic talent of all filmmakers and artists by focusing on original content that has not been screened at other festivals.
A Night of Misfit films is in association with the Lebanese Independent Film Festival – LIFF, WIFF – The Worldwide Independent Film Festival and Fantasy Film Festival in Paris.

Tickets: http://filmfreeway.com/anightofmisfitfilms/tickets 

Opening Reception: First Friday, December 5, 6–10pm

This December, Alwun House transforms into a glowing wonderland, where the gallery lights go out and the art takes over—casting its own radiance across rooms and spilling into the gardens. Wander through a dazzling collection of works that bend, bounce, and breathe light: glowing light-boxes, sculptural lamps, shimmering art shrines, bold neon, hypnotic LEDs, and mixed-media marvels.

From functional brilliance to pure conceptual magic, every piece invites you to linger, explore, and bask in its glow. One gallery will be completely bathed in UV light, dedicated to electrifying blacklight-reactive works that pulse and pop with color.

Come see the art glow, flicker, flash, and shine in this rare, immersive experience that proves—sometimes the most beautiful things are found in the dark.

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm {Gallery closed December 23-26}

Opening January 2026, Alwun House invites you into the kaleidoscopic worlds of John Chakravarty, a fine artist whose wacko watercolors and interactive wood cutouts defy convention.

Bordering on the surreal and psychedelic, Chakravarty’s paintings are portals—playful yet pointed—where each scene tells a story and dares the viewer to step inside. Rooted in the grit and energy of Phoenix’s punk rock and bar scene, his works reimagine iconic underground haunts through fantastical watercolor landscapes that are as whimsical as they are haunting.

Beneath their vibrant surfaces, Chakravarty’s narratives bend and twist sci-fi tropes to shed light on urgent realities—class divides and water scarcity in the desert Southwest—making the bizarre unexpectedly profound.

Rounding out the exhibit are interactive wood cutouts that invite you to reshape the narrative with your own hand, blurring the line between artist and audience.

This is more than an exhibition—it’s an invitation to lose yourself in strange, colorful worlds that reflect our own.

Opening Reception: May 15, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Opening Phantasmagorical Spectacular: February 14, 7–12pm

Opening Valentine’s Day 2026 at Alwun House

This Valentine’s Day, Alwun House invites you to step into a gallery where seduction meets sophistication. For over four decades, the Exotic Art Show has been the country’s longest-running celebration of fine art that dares to explore the sensual, the surreal, and the taboo.

From elegantly suggestive to wickedly whimsical, each work on display is a masterful creation designed to ignite curiosity, stir the senses, and spark conversation. This is not pornography—it’s an intoxicating mix of high-caliber artistry and audacious imagination, crafted by adventurous artists who revel in pushing the envelope while honoring the discipline and beauty of fine art.

Paintings, sculpture, photography, mixed media—every piece chosen for this juried exhibit tempts the viewer to linger just a moment longer, to savor the craftsmanship and feel the thrill of the forbidden. Whether lushly romantic or deliciously scandalous, the works share one aim: to draw you beyond the ordinary.

And because passion loves competition, three artists will receive $1,000 Critics’ Choice Awards, with a $500 People’s Choice Award decided by the most important judge—you.

This Valentine’s season, indulge your curiosity. Be tempted. Be captivated. Come see what happens when art sheds its inhibitions.

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

“Walking the Path” is an exhibition that confronts the complexities of the human psyche. Artist John Tuomisto-Bell transforms the gallery and gardens with monumental cast bronze sculptures and intimate drawings, each exploring the raw depths of the human condition.

Tuomisto-Bell reflects on intelligence, aggression, and violence—forces that have shaped humanity as both its greatest strengths and its most dangerous flaws. Through massive bronze figures and fragmented icons—a solitary figure, an isolated head, a fractured body—he invites us to witness these tensions in stark, visceral form.

Together, the sculptures and drawings chart an emotional terrain where beauty and brutality coexist, offering a profound meditation on what it means to be human, vulnerable, and bound to one another in a shared existence.

Opening Reception: March 13, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Teena Maree is a hidden gem—an artist whose architectural training shapes not just her creations, but the spaces they inhabit. This exhibit unfolds as a spatial journey, guiding viewers through emotion-charged acrylic and mixed-media portraits of female faces, and into the intricate realm of her figurative sculptures—each one a fusion of the discarded and the divine.

With every stitch, scrap, and salvaged fragment, Maree weaves stories of identity, memory, beauty, trauma, and the unyielding resilience of the human spirit. Her work offers a tender postmortem of what we keep, what we hide, and what we ultimately become.

In her hands, the doll—a long-standing emblem of innocence and gendered perfection—emerges transformed. Beheaded, reconstructed, and adorned with ancestral relics and obscure artifacts from across the world, these totemic figures speak of fracture and repair, of the ways we dismantle and reassemble ourselves through life’s rawest passages.

Step inside her world, and you may just find yourself piecing together your own.

Opening Reception: April 17, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

“Nappy Roots, The Homecoming” is a bold and intimate visual journey into the beauty, complexity, and resilience of Black identity, told through the lens of hair, heritage, and healing. This series honors the ancestral crown, the coiled, kinked, and twisted strands that have carried both burden and brilliance across generations.

Myja Lark uses stylized silhouettes, symbolic textures, and vibrant contrasts, the work invites viewers to reconsider the narratives we’ve inherited about what is beautiful, what is worthy, and what is ours.

This is not just a celebration of Black hair, it’s a homecoming to self. To the softness we were told to suppress. To the roots we were encouraged to cut. To the stories we carry in every coil.

Each piece stands as a quiet revolution, a love letter to those who never stopped searching for home, in their bodies, in their histories, in their communities. “Nappy Roots, The Homecoming” does not ask for acceptance, it claims space.

Opening Reception: May 15, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm