Crosstown Arts resident artists Terri Phillips and Emily C. Thomas will discuss their work currently on view in “Don’t Look for My Heart” (West Gallery) and “Imprismed” (East Gallery), respectively. Both exhibitions are on view through March 11.

Elizabeth Alley discusses her work in “Two Stories of Iceland,” a narrative exploration of Icelandic stories and landscape in small paintings and drawings.

On view: January 26-March 11

Jazz tribute to the music of Ella Fitzgerald featuring Jiana Hunter (vocals), Alvie Givhan (piano), Sylvester Sample (acoustic bass), Kelvin Walters (alto saxophone), and James Sexton (drums).

The Crosstown Jazz Series, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends.

Jazz performance featuring Stephen Lee (piano), Johnny Yancey (trumpet), John Birdsong (acoustic bass), and Renardo Ward (drums).

The Crosstown Jazz Series, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends.

Jazz performance featuring Jamille Hunter (vocals), Keenan Shotwell (piano), Vince Oglesby (bass), Isaac Daniels (saxophone), and Chris Pat (drums) performing the works of jazz legend Sarah Vaughn.

The Crosstown Jazz Series, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends.

Jazz performance featuring Dr. Bill Hurd (alto and soprano sax), Sylvester Sample (acoustic bass), Alvie Givhan (piano), Gerard Harris (guitar), and Renardo Ward (drums).

The Crosstown Jazz Series, presented by Strictly Jazz Entertainment in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends.

Jazz performance featuring Stephen Lee (piano), Johnny Yancy (Trumpet), Sylvester Sample (Acoustic Bass) and Nygel Yancey (Drums) celebrating the legacy of Thelonious Monk.

The Crosstown Jazz Series, presented by Strictly Jazz in collaboration with Crosstown Arts, is designed to salute classic jazz music as contemporary musicians perform the work of the legends.

An interactive performance with Wu Fei, a genre-bending composer, guzheng virtuoso, and vocalist from Nashville — by way of Beijing. Wu Fei blends her Western and Chinese traditional sensibilities with a contemporary, idiosyncratic, experimental dialect as she performs original compositions on the guzheng, an ancient 21-string Chinese zither. Presented by Sonosphere in collaboration with Crosstown Arts.

On the final day of the We Need to Talk exhibition, we invite you to take a moment to “paws” and reflect and heal your broken heart in this Yoga with Cats event hosted by Memphis Animals Services (MAS), Crosstown Arts, and Co-Motion Studio.

MAS will have approximately 10 adoptable cats at the Crosstown Arts gallery from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Adriene Holland, co-owner of Co-Motion Studio, will teach two yoga classes — one at 11 a.m. and another at noon — during which cats will be free-roaming and interacting with the yogis.

An open call exhibition of break-up art and artifacts.

Duets for Mellotron — a blue vinyl gatefold LP package of a live performance by Jonathan Kirkscey and Robby Grant, organized in collaboration with Winston Eggleston — will be available for pre-order pick-up on January 13, 14, 17 and 18. A limited number of copies will also be available to the general public for $20 each.

A unique experience of experimental chamber music curated by Terri Phillips featuring the Blueshift Ensemble.

Retos y Retratos, an exhibition of portraits of Latino/a artists and samples of their work, strives to give a voice to the struggles, triumphs, and experiences of this community of artists in Memphis. Committed to different forms of expression, united by art and the challenges they have faced, these artists seek to preserve and communicate their roots. The portraits demonstrate both the artistic and intimate side of these creators.

Artist and architect Brantley Ellzey discusses his new work on display in “Sweet,” an exhibition of 20 new pieces created from hand-rolled construction paper in a kaleidoscopic array of colors and forms.

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 6-9 PM

Crosstown Arts is pleased to present SWEET, an exhibition of 20 new works by Memphis-based artist and architect, Brantley Ellzey.
For the past 15 years, Ellzey’s practice has typically involved media-based content in service to a particular subject. His works consist primarily of paper from magazines, books, and other printed media which he deconstructs, rolls and methodically builds into complex, layered forms.  Hand-rolled, individual pages contain information that create an archive, a time ….

Photography exhibition curated by Tommy Kha

From the minds of Laura Jean Hocking, Sarah Fleming, and Christopher Reyes, FISH is a site-specific, immersive display combining traditional audio, visual, and sculptural media with technology.

From the minds of Laura Jean Hocking, Sarah Fleming, and Christopher Reyes, FISH is a site-specific, immersive display combining traditional audio, visual, and sculptural media with technology.

Group exhibition opening June 10

An open call exhibition organized by Crosstown Arts and the Cleveland Street Flea Market

OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 6-9 PM
ARTIST TALKS AND PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 5-7 PM
In the early nineties the international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and the artists Bertrand Lavier and Christian Boltanski wanted more flexible and open-ended art exhibitions.  Could “scores” or written instructions by artists, as a point of departure, be interpreted anew every time they were enacted? Twenty years later the exhibition they came to call do it grew to include instructions by nearly three-hundred artists, choreographers, ….

Crosstown Arts is pleased to present “Blind Navigator,” an exhibition of new individual and collaborative works by New York-based artist Clare Torina and Memphis-based artist Alex Paulus.
Clare Torina’s recent paintings and objects refer to one another in sequence, symbolism, and mimicry. She pulls from a personal set of fascinations – her dog (Lolita), the Illuminati, basketball, patriarchal painting history, ancient art – and subjugates their representations to a multitude of transitions using color models and plays on style.
Alex ….

Opening Reception: Friday, December 11, 6-9 pm
Curator Talk: Saturday, December 12, 2 pm

A group exhibition organized in partnership with Creative Growth Art Center (San Francisco).

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 5-8 pm

A survey of Latina/o Artists Working in Memphis, organized by Centro Cultural.

Performance by artist Joel Parsons in conjunction with You are the Hole,  currently on view at 422 N. Cleveland.

Opening Reception: Friday, October 9, 6 – 9 pm
Performance: Sunday, October 25, 2 pm

Installation by Memphis artist Joel Parsons.

A large-scale multi-media installation incorporating audio, video, digital photographs, and tamale leaves created by Memphis artist Richard Lou. The installation is an immersive experience alluding to a ceremonial site where people come to share their stories and personal histories. The piece is informed by stories exchanged through the artist’s family: stories told by the artist’s mother and father, the stories he shared with his children, and the stories retold by his children as their own.

A discussion about abstraction in conjunction with “Between the Eyes”

Just as the relationships of pitch and duration can express emotion in music, the formal relationships of hue, value, shape, and placement can collect to create meaning in abstract painting.

A group exhibition about relationships curated by Mary Jo Karimnia.

Crosstown Arts, the UrbanArt Commission and ArtsMemphis are partnering to present a multi-venue exhibition and programming series throughout 2015 to acknowledge public art makers in Memphis.
The series will collectively recognize and share the work of artists who have participated in Memphis’ public art projects and initiatives, including the studio work (non-public art projects) of these artists, as well as insight into their processes and involvement in creating public art projects from conception to completion.  The exhibition and ongoing events ….

An exhibition of digital media work by Georgia-based artist Derek Larson, curated by Miranda Lash, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville.

A raw wild visual gumbo to accompany the sick sonic stew of Gonerfest, organized by Goner Records.

A group exhibition of Baltimore-based artists curated by Dwayne Butcher

Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Colossus, an exhibition of new large-scale collage works by Memphis artist Lester Merriweather.

Featuring sculpture, painting, and drawings by outsider artists working from the 1930s through today, the show aims to make connections among widely varying practices, perspectives and origins. Artists include self-taught California painter Esther Pearl Watson, Memphis sculptor Hawkins Bolden, and “Prophet” Royal Robertson from Louisiana, among others.

 Utilizing the approximate quantity of wood used to frame a small house, the installation explores questions of diaspora, exile and relocation, with occupancy as a form of resistance, and construction as a metaphor for idea formation.The colorful and fragmented imagery of houses, figures and abstract designs cast on a variety of standard, wooden framing surfaces is the first phase of a two-part project. At the close of the exhibition, the graphically altered lumber will be ….

An environment of selected works by the artists and patients of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Tower 2 Project, organized and curated by Youngblood Studio.

A group show curated by Ian Lemmonds with work by  Emily Cifaldi, Melissa Dunn, Carl E. Moore, Alex Paulus, Nick Pena, Joey Slaughter, Bobby Spillman & Melanie Spillman

Crosstown Arts is pleased to present Reconstruction, an exhibition of works by New York-based artist Valerie Piraino. Her work examines how sentimental objects are used to rebuild portraits of place and time. With slide installations, framed porcelain cameos, and works on paper, Piraino uses conditions from a recollected past to address the meaning of nostalgia and memory. The artist will visit Memphis and present a discussion of her work on Wednesday, November 20, at 6 pm at the gallery.
Valerie Piraino (b. ….

Jessica Lund explores memory through mapping and architectural space in the forms of drawings and large-scale installations.

This exhibition celebrates and commemorates Material Art Space’s inspiring and longstanding impact on the Memphis art community and its unprecedented run as an alternative space.

Socially-conscious work by Jill Wissmiller, Brooke White, Coriana Close, Terri Phillips, and Georgia Creson curated by Dwayne Butcher