Ellen Wagener
Cloud Bank, Arizona, 2011
Pastel on paper
Center Space
i hear what you’re seeing
Experience what a painting might sound like or what sounds could look like.
Jan 17, 2020 - May 6, 2021
Exhibition Details
Experience what a painting might sound like or what sounds could look like. Seven visual artworks by six different artists are interpretively translated into sound works by graduate students at Arizona State University in the School of Music and the School of Arts, Media and Engineering. i hear what you’re seeing is an experiential exhibition, meant to bring sight and sound together to heighten art’s inherent quality of conveying a mood, telling a story, and igniting the imagination.
Featured visual artists: Laura Spalding Best, Bill Dambrova, Cam DeCaussin, Monica Martinez, Lara Plecas, and Ellen Wagener.
Featured sound artists: Devin Arne, Shomit Barua, Laura Brackney, Andrew Robinson, Jacob Smith, and Gina Xu
Experience the Exhibition
Click on the images in the virtual exhibition below to view a video of each visual artwork as the sound artworks play. If you want to move on to the next artwork without finishing the full video, please pause the video so the sound does not carry over to the following video.
Exhibition
Ellen Wagener, Cloud Bank, Arizona, 2012, pastel on paper
Sound: Jacob Miller Smith | School of Music, Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University | A Thread Submerged In Horizon, 2019, digital sound recording.
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Ellen Wagener, $8 Million Dollar Gender Reveal Party Gone BAD in 5 Acts, 2019
Sound: Andrew Robinson | School of Arts, Media and Engineering Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University | Audio for $8 Million Gender Reveal Party Gone BAD in 5 Acts, 2019, digital sound recording.
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Bill Dambrova, She Asked Me My Name and I Gave Her My Social Security Number; That’s How They Got My Spleen, 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas
Sound: Gina Xu | School of Arts, Media and Engineering Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University | Audio for She Asked Me My Name and I Gave Her My Social Security Number; That’s How They Got My Spleen, 2019, digital sound recording.
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Monica Aissa Martinez, Two Studies - Nervous System and Lymphatic System, 2019, mixed media (casein, gesso, graphite, gauche, Prisma pencil, micaceous iron oxide) on mylar | Drawing on two sides of mylar; nervous system side is shown.
Sound: Laura Brackney | School of Music, Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University | Audio for The Nervous System and The Lymphatic System, 2019, digital sound recording.
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Laura Spalding Best, Refracted Oasis, 2018, oil on found objects
Sound: Devin Arne | School of Music and Arts, Media and Engineering Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University | Roadside Apparition, 2019, digital sound recording.
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Lara Plecas, Petite Alliance, 2019, encaustic collage on panel
Sound: Laura Brackney | School of Music, Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University | Audio for Petite Alliance, 2019, digital sound recording.
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Cam DeCaussin, Or so I’m told but how would you fake it, 2017, oil on panel
Sound: Shomit Barua | Synthesis / School of Arts, Media and Engineering Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts, Arizona State University | Mermaid Soup is a Bowl of Melted Ice Cream, 2019, analog looped cassette tape and solid state tape player.
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Exhibition Space Prior to COVID-19. Center Space is currently closed to the public.
Center Space
Center Space is a community space designed for visitors to learn about the arts. Each fall and spring exhibition will feature activities for you to explore your creativity. We hope you will visit and spend time finding the artist in you!
Center Space is located inside Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 East Second Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. It is open to the public Tuesday – Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday, noon – 5 p.m.; and during evening performances.
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