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Angela Cazel-Jahn says she uses repurposed items to show “endeavors that we know won’t last.”
Photos by Jose Sosa
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If the roof can support it, Phoenix artist Angela Cazel-Jahn will hang a 200- to 300-pound installation made from recycled to-do lists from a gallery’s ceiling. If not, she might build a small wooden house surrounded by hundreds of dried paint chips instead.
“All I am really sure of at this point,” Cazel-Jahn says, three months before her September show in Downtown Phoenix’s Eye Lounge contemporary art space, “is that there will be ‘several hundred’ items of some odd material, and some new paintings too, exploring the idea of intent and impermanence.”
A Valley resident for nearly 40 years, Cazel-Jahn worked in commercial art and public murals before attempting gallery art during the past two years. She has shown her work in Phoenix’s Paulina Miller Gallery, Trustgallery and the Children’s Museum.
Her second show at Eye Lounge looks at “how abundant and rich everything is, and how fast everything changes,” she says. In the past, she’s used canvas, drywall, ball chains and LED lights. It’s part of her fascination with “how much effort we put into endeavors that we know won’t last,” she says.
Cazel-Jahn’s show opens at Eye Lounge (419 E. Roosevelt St., Phoenix, 602-430-1490,
eyelounge.com) on September 17, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.