Live Performances & Art Exhibits In Phoenix

Opening Reception: First Friday, December 5, 6–10pm

This December, Alwun House transforms into a glowing wonderland, where the gallery lights go out and the art takes over—casting its own radiance across rooms and spilling into the gardens. Wander through a dazzling collection of works that bend, bounce, and breathe light: glowing light-boxes, sculptural lamps, shimmering art shrines, bold neon, hypnotic LEDs, and mixed-media marvels.

From functional brilliance to pure conceptual magic, every piece invites you to linger, explore, and bask in its glow. One gallery will be completely bathed in UV light, dedicated to electrifying blacklight-reactive works that pulse and pop with color.

Come see the art glow, flicker, flash, and shine in this rare, immersive experience that proves—sometimes the most beautiful things are found in the dark.

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm {Gallery closed December 23-26}

Opening January 2026, Alwun House invites you into the kaleidoscopic worlds of John Chakravarty, a fine artist whose wacko watercolors and interactive wood cutouts defy convention.

Bordering on the surreal and psychedelic, Chakravarty’s paintings are portals—playful yet pointed—where each scene tells a story and dares the viewer to step inside. Rooted in the grit and energy of Phoenix’s punk rock and bar scene, his works reimagine iconic underground haunts through fantastical watercolor landscapes that are as whimsical as they are haunting.

Beneath their vibrant surfaces, Chakravarty’s narratives bend and twist sci-fi tropes to shed light on urgent realities—class divides and water scarcity in the desert Southwest—making the bizarre unexpectedly profound.

Rounding out the exhibit are interactive wood cutouts that invite you to reshape the narrative with your own hand, blurring the line between artist and audience.

This is more than an exhibition—it’s an invitation to lose yourself in strange, colorful worlds that reflect our own.

Opening Reception: May 15, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7-deadly-sins-pain-proof-punks-tickets-1977639989445?aff=oddtdtcreator

7 Deadly Sins is a devilish & delicious freakshow event featuring Burlesque, Drag , & Sideshow acts.

The Pain Proof Punks are back again to excite and fright with Sideshow, Burlesque, Drag, and more! Join us as we delve into a frightfully fiendish evening of delving into our deepest desires.

See our performers display their take on

PRIDE • LUST• GREED • WRATH • ENVY • GLUTTONY • SLOTH

We will incorporate such acts as Bloodbaths, Human Pincushion, Wrestling, Fire Play, Belly dance, Pole, and many more! This is an outdoor stage style event with seating and vendors! We will test your boundaries and transport you to a world of the creepy and comedic, the beautiful and bizarre!

Bring your dollar bills and your taste for the strange!

Performers: Rusty The Clown, Jacqueline Hide, Berlin Mewnich, Ennis F.W, Olive YouMoore, Poppet Silver, Dayshawna Rose, Alexander Stryke, Katara, Stella Doe, Ginger Liqhor, Eve Silver, Irene Silver

Doors open: 8pm • Show starts: 9pm • Rain or Shine

TICKETS: ADVANCED PURCHASE

VIP: $25 (reserved front rows of seating)

GA: $20

Day of Show tickets $25 if available

Produced by The Pain Proof Punks • Rusty The Clown & Britni Bloodshed

Opening Phantasmagorical Spectacular: February 14, 7–12pm

Opening Valentine’s Day 2026 at Alwun House

This Valentine’s Day, Alwun House invites you to step into a gallery where seduction meets sophistication. For over four decades, the Exotic Art Show has been the country’s longest-running celebration of fine art that dares to explore the sensual, the surreal, and the taboo.

From elegantly suggestive to wickedly whimsical, each work on display is a masterful creation designed to ignite curiosity, stir the senses, and spark conversation. This is not pornography—it’s an intoxicating mix of high-caliber artistry and audacious imagination, crafted by adventurous artists who revel in pushing the envelope while honoring the discipline and beauty of fine art.

Paintings, sculpture, photography, mixed media—every piece chosen for this juried exhibit tempts the viewer to linger just a moment longer, to savor the craftsmanship and feel the thrill of the forbidden. Whether lushly romantic or deliciously scandalous, the works share one aim: to draw you beyond the ordinary.

And because passion loves competition, three artists will receive $1,000 Critics’ Choice Awards, with a $500 People’s Choice Award decided by the most important judge—you.

This Valentine’s season, indulge your curiosity. Be tempted. Be captivated. Come see what happens when art sheds its inhibitions.

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

“Walking the Path” is an exhibition that confronts the complexities of the human psyche. Artist John Tuomisto-Bell transforms the gallery and gardens with monumental cast bronze sculptures and intimate drawings, each exploring the raw depths of the human condition.

Tuomisto-Bell reflects on intelligence, aggression, and violence—forces that have shaped humanity as both its greatest strengths and its most dangerous flaws. Through massive bronze figures and fragmented icons—a solitary figure, an isolated head, a fractured body—he invites us to witness these tensions in stark, visceral form.

Together, the sculptures and drawings chart an emotional terrain where beauty and brutality coexist, offering a profound meditation on what it means to be human, vulnerable, and bound to one another in a shared existence.

Opening Reception: March 13, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

Teena Maree is a hidden gem—an artist whose architectural training shapes not just her creations, but the spaces they inhabit. This exhibit unfolds as a spatial journey, guiding viewers through emotion-charged acrylic and mixed-media portraits of female faces, and into the intricate realm of her figurative sculptures—each one a fusion of the discarded and the divine.

With every stitch, scrap, and salvaged fragment, Maree weaves stories of identity, memory, beauty, trauma, and the unyielding resilience of the human spirit. Her work offers a tender postmortem of what we keep, what we hide, and what we ultimately become.

In her hands, the doll—a long-standing emblem of innocence and gendered perfection—emerges transformed. Beheaded, reconstructed, and adorned with ancestral relics and obscure artifacts from across the world, these totemic figures speak of fracture and repair, of the ways we dismantle and reassemble ourselves through life’s rawest passages.

Step inside her world, and you may just find yourself piecing together your own.

Opening Reception: April 17, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm

“Nappy Roots, The Homecoming” is a bold and intimate visual journey into the beauty, complexity, and resilience of Black identity, told through the lens of hair, heritage, and healing. This series honors the ancestral crown, the coiled, kinked, and twisted strands that have carried both burden and brilliance across generations.

Myja Lark uses stylized silhouettes, symbolic textures, and vibrant contrasts, the work invites viewers to reconsider the narratives we’ve inherited about what is beautiful, what is worthy, and what is ours.

This is not just a celebration of Black hair, it’s a homecoming to self. To the softness we were told to suppress. To the roots we were encouraged to cut. To the stories we carry in every coil.

Each piece stands as a quiet revolution, a love letter to those who never stopped searching for home, in their bodies, in their histories, in their communities. “Nappy Roots, The Homecoming” does not ask for acceptance, it claims space.

Opening Reception: May 15, 6-10pm

Exhibit Viewing: Tuesday – Friday, Noon – 6pm