Figuratively Speaking

"Figuratively Speaking" Ian Amaya, Nicolette Berlan, Joe Denzak, Rachel Harris, k’Atri RoxiAni, Cristina Torres, Sierra Vannelli Location: Gallery 100, 65 E. University Drive, Room 111, Tempe, AZ 85281 Dates: November 3 - 12, 2026 Reception: Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Gallery 100 is pleased to present “Figuratively Speaking”, a group exhibition featuring seven artists working across illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture. The exhibition brings together works that explore natural figures in their many forms and lore: human, symbolic, and the unsettling. Through distinct materials and visual languages, the artists examine the body, landscape, memory, transformation, and the uncanny. Some works draw from the recognizable world of flesh, flora, and terrain, while others move into stranger territory, where figures appear altered, symbolic, dreamlike, adventurous, or haunting. Together, the exhibition considers how nature and imagination shape our understanding of beauty, discomfort, and the unknown. Featuring works by Ian Amaya, Nicolette Berlan, Joe Denzak, Rachel Harris, k’Atri RoxiAni, Cristina Torres, Sierra Vannelli, Figuratively Speaking highlights a range of contemporary approaches to figuration. Illustrations, paintings, photographs, and sculptural works are placed in conversation to reveal shared concerns with form, presence, mythology, and the emotional charge of the natural world. The exhibition will be on view at Gallery 100 from November 3 through November 12, with an opening reception on Tuesday, November 3, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend. Image courtesy the artists.