Fall 2025 Exhibitions
MCAM - Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum
September 2025 – January 2026
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum presents five new exhibitions featuring artists Yuko Yabuki, Jennie Sweo and Melissa Haviland alongside “Curated Chaos: 20 Years of Collecting,” an exhibition showcasing works from Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s permanent collection and “TAKE OVER,” an encore group exhibition curated by former Red Floor Gallery.
Yuko Yabuki: Duality
September 12 – December 14, 2025
I Magician, 2019
Mixed media on paper, 53 x 64 inches
© Yuko Yabuki
XV Beast, 2019
Mixed media on paper, 62 x 52 inches
© Yuko Yabuki
Yuko Yabuki presents her worldview in “Duality,” exploring two opposite forces in balance. Their energy creates a helix that uplifts us to the future. Every end leads to a new beginning, showing constant evolution through opposing forces in movement, shaping our destiny and the cosmos.
Jennie Sweo: Cut, Crumpled, Remembered
September 12, 2025 – January 4, 2026
Portrait of Tamar, 2023
Paper, ink, acrylic, 36 x 36 inches
© Jennie Sweo
Working with ink and paper manipulation, Jennie Sweo’s works deal with portraiture. On the surface, she presents a likeness of her subject, yet embedded in her renderings are the relationships between the subject and herself. Her works serve as mementos, a means of self-expression and an exploration of new and imagined forms of representation.
Curated Chaos: 20 Years of Collecting
September 12, 2025 – January 11, 2026
la última cena (The Last Supper), 2015
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 inches
© Anne Coe
In celebration of Mesa Arts Center’s 20th Anniversary, “Curated Chaos” reveals the evocative, whimsical, striking, beautiful — and occasionally strange — 2-D artworks that constitute the collections at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. Artworks for this exhibition were collaboratively selected by the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum team.
TAKE OVER by Red Floor Gallery
September 12, 2025 – January 18, 2026
Image © Courtesy of the MCAM
Tempe’s former Red Floor Gallery is returning for an encore exhibition featuring over 80 regional artists from across the valley including a special installation of La Pequeña Galeria.
Melissa Haviland: of fog
September 12, 2025 – January 25, 2026
of fog, 2024
Handmade paper with watermarks
(from indigo dyed vintage linens), ribbon, 20 x 20 x 15 feet
© Melissa Haviland
“of fog” is a hanging installation of 2,000+ shaped and watermarked handmade paper sheets from indigo-dyed linen, cottons and ribbon. Melissa Haviland’s practice of repetition and pattern in multiples fills the space and surrounds the viewer.
About Mesa Arts Center
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is part of the Mesa Arts Center, owned and operated by the City of Mesa, Arizona. It is a unique, architecturally stunning facility located in the heart of downtown Mesa. Arizona's largest arts center is home to four theaters, five art galleries and 14 art studios. Guests, patrons and students come to Mesa Arts Center to enjoy the finest live entertainment and performances, world-class visual art exhibitions and outstanding arts education classes. Mesa Arts Center’s mission is to create meaningful arts experiences in Mesa for everyone.
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