March 20, 2014

Office-Turned-Gallery

PHX Architecture celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by

transforming their office space into an art gallery to

host an art sale to benefit O’Connor House. Guests

for the opening evening included Justice Sandra Day

O’Connor, O’Connor House supporters,

PHX Architecture staff, clients and colleagues, and

art dealer John D. Rothschild and artist Beth Ames

Swartz with their guests.

On display was artwork from the collection of John Rothschild, owner of Rothschild Fine Arts in New York and now Arizona. The experienced art dealer has collected throughout his career with a special focus on the works of Hunt Slonem and Wolf Kahn. He is offering these pieces selected from his private collection, along with the works of his wife, local artist Beth Ames Swartz, for this benefit.

Swartz is an Arizona-based painter and printmaker. She has received multiple awards, including the Arizona Governor’s Art Award and the Veteran Feminists of America Medal of Honor. Her work is included in the collections of several museums around the globe.

Internationally acclaimed, Slonem is best known for painting tropical birds, often based upon birds in his personal aviary that includes as many as 300 birds of various species. His pieces are large in scale and vibrantly saturated with color.

Kahn is a German painter, pastelist and printmaker, whose works can be found in museums in New York Washington D.C., Massachusetts and California.

A percentage of the proceeds from art sold that evening through March 22, when the exhibit will close, benefits the O’Connor House.

The former adobe home of United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is the inspiration for O’Connor House, where Sandra Day O’Connor entertained Arizona’s leaders as well as national and international dignitaries. Using hospitality and civil discourse as a platform, she worked to build consensus and collaborate in solving complex issues. Today, O’Connor House continues Justice O’Connor’s lifetime work of solving important social, economic and political problems through civil dialogue and civic action.

PHX Architecture, which provides complete architectural services for residential and commercial facilities throughout the West, is an active patron of O’Connor House and friends of John Rothschild and Beth Ames Swartz.

The exhibit is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through March 22. PHX Architecture is located at 7507 E. McDonald Drive, Suite B, in Scottsdale. 480-477-1111 or info@phxarch.com.