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Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm
Gallery Admission: FREE
Phone Number: (480) 350-2867
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Current Exhibition:
An Amalgamation of Place
Apr 10 - May 10, 2026
Painting and music composition merge into an MFA solo thesis exhibition by Rachel Rinker. Moving fluidly between practices, An Amalgamation of Place explores gesture, rhythm, and emotional energy through abstraction using both sight and sound. The exhibition features the artist’s first interactive painting, where viewers are invited to become part of the soundscape.
Interactive sound design developed with Kylar Gardener
Opening Reception: April 17, 5:30-9pm
Opening Reception Performance: April 17th at 6:15pm
Experience a unique fusion of visual art and music as multiple flute performances bring the artist’s paintings to life, turning brushstrokes and colors into sound.
Participating Artist: Rachel Rinker
Rachel Rinker (b. 1994) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and composer currently based in Phoenix, Arizona and pursuing her MFA at Arizona State University. From Goose Creek, South Carolina, Rinker earned her BFA from Clemson University in 2016. Rocks, relationships, the color green, and home. Organization, life cycles, accumulation, memory and entropy. Rest balancing rhythmic, painterly expressions and the unfurling of environments with layered personal history and human connections; reflecting life as it is experienced in a nonlinear fashion - like ever growing scrapbooks and run-on sentences of present (un)conscious moments - cyclical and always subject to change.
MFA Thesis Exhibition for ASU
Sound to Image: A Mixed Media Collage Workshop
April 25, 10:30 am - 2:30 pm | Limited availability
Create a mixed-media artwork inspired by your favorite song. Through guided prompts and hands-on experimentation, you’ll translate sound, memory, and environment into color, texture, and layered imagery.
No prior art experience required. Best for Adults and children over 8 years.
The Gallery at TCA provides visitors a space for thoughtful and engaging art experiences. FREE admission, tours and outreach programs are available year-round. Large-scale rotating exhibitions include a wide variety of local, regional and international artists, as well as themes of popular culture and interest.
Since opening in 2007, the Gallery at TCA has produced more than 160 large and small-scale art exhibitions and featured more than 2,500 local and national artists. New and exciting exhibitions continue to be developed with a special focus to broaden the mind, relate to multiple age groups and create interest in a variety of fields and subjects.
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