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The Knockdown Serenade

Thesis Exhibition by: @villamilyvillamil

Openeing Reception: May 1st, 6 PM.
May 1st - 11th, 2026

Northlight Gallery, 605 E Grant Street Studios, Phoenix ,AZ

A thick atmosphere settles over Grant Street, spilling from Northlight Gallery into the air. The scents of blue raspberry, green apple, and cherry cola blend with the voices waiting for their chance to shine.

Follow the sound and step into ecstasy alongside a choir of fallen stars singing along to the latest fountain soda one-hit wonder mix. Filthy sweet voices after dark, slushed dreams, and mixed feelings. Let yourself be permeated by the pure contamination of The Knockdown Serenade.

website: villamilyvillamil.com

Northlight Gallery invites ASU faculty and graduate students, and Arizona based artists to submit photographs for an exhibition about the relationship between photography and performance / performativity, involving embodiment, representation and self-representation, masquerading, enactment, role-play, body politics, gender and cultural identity. Photography epitomizes a long history of tensions, objectification, and oppression, as well as of agency, experimentation, self-determination and autonomy.Photo-Role-Playing is an exhibition that centers the bodythrough performing the self and others in photography as a vital form of agency in contemporary art.

Please submit the photograph/s for consideration, CV, and contact information via email:

northlightgalleryresearch@gmail.com

Deadline: August 1st

Open Lab: Work in Progress invites you into the space of making.

Featuring MFA students from the Spring 2026 Cross-Practice Critique (Seminar by Liz Cohen),

This activation invites viewers into a working state, where artists share material and ideas in development, including studies and provisional forms.Viewers are invited to engage directly with artists and the conditions of art making, experiencing the process as visible and shared.Visitors are encouraged to engage directly with the work and its conditions of production, experiencing artistic practice as something shared, visible, and in motion.

🗓 Friday, April 17
⏰ 6:00–9:00 PM
📍 Northlight Gallery, ASU

Curatorial, Collections & Exhibition Intern – Northlight Gallery (Fall Session C)
Position Overview

Northlight Gallery seeks a Curatorial, Collections & Exhibition Intern for Fall Session C, or alternatively Sessions A or B. This structured, supervised internship integrates collections management, digital archiving, exhibition production, and promotional development within a university gallery setting.

The intern will work closely with Northlight’s assistant curator Mehrdad Mizraie, and collaborate with graduate students and curatorial teams on collection organization, exhibition preparation, installation, documentation, and design materials.

This internship prioritizes mentorship, professional skill development, and experiential learning and it aligns with ASU and Herberger Institute internship standards.





Learning Objectives

By the end of Fall Session C, the intern will be able to:

Conduct structured collection inventory and archival organization
Apply accessioning standards and metadata development practices
Digitize photographic and lens-based works for institutional archives
Assist in exhibition preparation, installation, and deinstallation
Understand spatial planning and exhibition layout strategies
Contribute to promotional material design and visual communication
Participate in collaborative curatorial workflows
Develop professional skills in gallery operations and institutional practices
Term & Credit

Fall – Session C
Start Date: 8/20/2026
End Date: 12/4/2026

Credit structure (ASU policy):

1 credit = 45 hours
Typical enrollment: 3 credits (135 hours total) Students can also enroll in a minimum of 2 credits during the A or B sessions.
10 hours per week recommended
Hours may only begin after full approval in Handshake. Retroactive credit is not permitted.

International students (F-1) must obtain CPT authorization prior to beginning work.



Location

605 E Grant Street
Northlight Gallery
School of Art
Arizona State University

Collection Inventory Intern - Northlight Gallery (Summer Session B)

Link: https://app.joinhandshake.com/public/jobs/10894673?utm_source=web&utm_campaign=job_share&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_content=emp-copy_link-all_jobs_page

Northlight Gallery seeks a Collection Inventory & Digital Archive Intern for Summer Session B. This structured, supervised internship focuses exclusively on inventory management, digitization, and digital access development for the Northlight Gallery Collection and website.

The internship is designed as an educational mentorship experience centered on archival methodology, collections management, and digital catalog infrastructure within a university gallery setting.

The intern will work closely with Northlight’s assistant curator Mehrdad Mizrae, receiving direct supervision and structured feedback throughout the session.

This internship prioritizes professional skill development in collections management and digital archiving.

Learning Objectives

By the end of Summer Session B, the intern will be able to:

Conduct structured inventory of a photography and lens-based art collection
Apply accessioning principles and collection numbering systems
Develop and refine metadata for digital archival records
Digitize photographic works and archival materials using institutional equipment
Organize digital files according to professional file management standards
Contribute to improving the online visibility and digital infrastructure of a gallery collection.

To Wilt
Thesis Exhibition By Danyal khorami

March 20,2026 - March 28, 2026

Opening Reception: March 20, 2026 6:00 - 9:00 PM

This is not a romance. It is an inquiry into what love becomes under observation:
image, transcript, measurement, replay.
In translating intimacy into visual data, whether through artificial generation or camera-based capture, the work exposes the instability of emotion when subjected to analysis. The individual's tragedy is structural; each act of capture confirms the disappearance of love.

EXHIBITION EXTENDED TO MARCH 06. ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡Anne Noogle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection
Feb 6 to March 06 | Northlight Gallery

We are delighted to invite you to the opening reception of “Anne Noogle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection” at Northlight Gallery. An exhibition that explores the transformation of traditional documentary and pastoral photography to conceptual, “ordinary” and experimental photography in the 1970s.

EXHIBITION EXTENDED TO MARCH 06. ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡Anne Noogle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection
Feb 6 to March 06 | Northlight Gallery

We are delighted to invite you to the opening reception of “Anne Noogle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection” at Northlight Gallery. An exhibition that explores the transformation of traditional documentary and pastoral photography to conceptual, “ordinary” and experimental photography in the 1970s.

EXHIBITION EXTENDED TO MARCH 06. ⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡Anne Noogle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection
Feb 6 to March 06 | Northlight Gallery

We are delighted to invite you to the opening reception of “Anne Noogle, Roger Buchanan and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection” at Northlight Gallery. An exhibition that explores the transformation of traditional documentary and pastoral photography to conceptual, “ordinary” and experimental photography in the 1970s.

Tomorrow we will be presenting two films as part of our Nightlight Screening Series, a new event dedicated to presenting artists’ moving image works that engage with the exhibitions at Northlight Gallery. Our current exhibition “Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection,” is a group show curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill @fajardohill exploring photography’s transformation from traditional documentary to conceptual, “ordinary,” and experimental photography in the 1970s.

In response to the current exhibition, Bradley Smith @bradleybradley___ (Guest Curator, Moving Image) selected two artists’ films for this event: “Soft Fiction” by Chick Strand and “Roseblood” by Sharon Couzin.

Nightlight Screening Series
Friday February 20th at 6:30pm
605 E. Grant St. Phoenix 85004
Free and open to the public

This Friday we will be presenting two films as part of our Nightlight Screening Series, a new event dedicated to presenting artists’ moving image works that engage with the exhibitions at Northlight Gallery. Our current exhibition “Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views,” is a group show curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill exploring photography’s transformation from traditional documentary to conceptual, “ordinary,” and experimental photography in the 1970s.

In response to the current exhibition, Bradley Smith (Guest Curator, Moving Image) selected two artists’ films for this event: “Soft Fiction” by Chick Strand and “Roseblood” by Sharon Couzin.

Soft Fiction
Chick Strand
1979, 54 minutes

A unique document of expressive power, Soft Fiction contains the stories of five women who share tales of sensual encounters ranging from joyful, to confusing, and traumatic. Blending documentary, experimental, and ethnographic modes while using long close-up takes that dissolve the distance between filmmaker, subject and audience, Strand makes space for every gesture and facial expression. These intimate portraits drift and memory itself becomes soft at the line between truth and fiction, leaving only the moments captured—fleeting, personal, resilient and full of aliveness. Strand’s career focused on a feminism founded in women’s stories, and Soft Fiction is the crowning achievement from a key pioneer in radical filmmaking during the 1960’s and 1970’s in California.

Roseblood
Sharon Couzin
1974, 8 minutes

At once a dance film, and a film that dances—jittering, swaying, leaping through time and dashing across the frame—Roseblood hums with energy. Featuring a movement performance from Carolyn Chave Kaplan and a sound collage including Stockhausen and Enesco, this work of lyrical cinema conjures the subliminal journey of a female figure moving through the world as she moving through herself. Cousin was a vital figure in the Chicago experimental film scene during the 1970’s and 1980’s, and the surreal Roseblood was her breakout film.

Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection at Northlight Gallery. An exhibition that explores the transformation of traditional documentary and pastoral photography to conceptual, “ordinary,” and experimental photography in the 1970s.
Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.


February 06 – February 28, 2026

Join us tomorrow at 6:00 pm.

Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection

We are delighted to invite you to the opening reception of Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection at Northlight Gallery. An exhibition that explores the transformation of traditional documentary and pastoral photography to conceptual, “ordinary,” and experimental photography in the 1970s.
Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

February 06 - February 28, 2026

Opening reception: February 06, 6:00 - 9:00 PM.

Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection

We are delighted to invite you to the opening reception of Anne Noggle, Roger Buchanan, and New California Views: 1970s Photography in the Northlight Collection at Northlight Gallery. An exhibition that explores the transformation of traditional documentary and pastoral photography to conceptual, “ordinary,” and experimental photography in the 1970s.
Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

February 06 - February 28, 2026

Opening reception: February 06, 6:00 - 9:00 PM.