Best Place to Buy Original Affordable Art

READERS' PICK: More than just a music venue, Solar Culture is also the most interesting gallery in town. Steven Eye invites all artists who want to show work. This makes for a rich, complex stew of skill levels, intentions, visions and media. The work is crowded together salon style on the walls, and it's up to the viewer to decide what's good, what's stupid, what's ugly, what's sublime, what's profound, what's transcendent, what's beautiful. There's a lot of work by excellent emerging Tucson artists who aren't famous yet, and much of it is priced within the means of even the poorest wage slave. Commercial galleries are for buyers who need handholding and a guarantee of good taste. Trust yourself and buy something you love. When you buy original art we all win: The artist gets to eat, you get something original that moves you, and the community thrives by being a place that nurtures the creative.