Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum celebrates the opening of five new exhibitions featuring artists Yuko Yabuki, Jennie Sweo and Melissa Haviland alongside “Curated Chaos: 20 Years of Collecting.”

The exhibition will showcase works from Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s permanent collection and “TAKE OVER,” an encore group exhibition curated by former Red Floor Gallery.

The free opening reception goes from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12 and includes musical entertainment, light refreshments and a cash bar.

Fall 2025 Exhibitions:

“Duality,” by Yuko Yabuki

Sept. 12–Dec. 14

Yabuki presents her worldview in “Duality,” exploring two opposite forces in balance. Every end leads to a new beginning, showing constant evolution through opposing forces in movement, shaping the cosmos.

“Cut, Crumpled, Remembered,” by Jennie Sweo

Sept. 12–Jan. 4

Working with ink and paper manipulation, 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.

“Curated Chaos: 20 Years of Collecting”

Sept. 12–Jan. 11

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.

“TAKE OVER,” by Red Floor Gallery

Sept. 12–Jan. 18

Tempe’s former Red Floor Gallery is returning for an encore exhibition featuring more than 80 regional artists from across the Valley including a special installation of La Pequeña Galeria.

“of fog,” by Melissa Haviland

Sept. 12–Jan. 25

“of fog” is a hanging installation of 2,000+ shaped and watermarked handmade paper sheets from indigo-dyed linen, cottons and ribbon.