SEPTEMBER 2025
FIRST FRIDAY OPENING: September 5, 5-8 pm
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW: Saturday, September 6 - Friday, September 26
GALLERY HOURS: Thursday-Sunday, 1-4 pm
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ARTIST GALLERY SITTING DATES:
j.Reto | Saturday, September 6 and Sunday, September 7, 1-4 pm
ANNEX [UN]STUCK PARTICIPATION DATES:
First Friday, September 5 from 5-8pm
CENTER GALLERY
Conversations|Listening | Deborah Hansen
Deborah Hansen, The Good Queen, earthenware ceramic, 28 x 12 x 12 inches
The topics in the show are common to human experience: Dreaming, Sorrow, Power and Justice, Life and Death. I came to think of them not just as topics of conversation, but concepts which permeate art, writing, and religion. I use an extinct language, fairy tales, and ideas I see in the news, as well as a retelling of Christ’s story, as a vehicle for conversing and listening to what is happening to us. Is the concept of Justice no longer a subject of conversation? Do we talk about Power and its use? Do we listen to our dreams? Is Christ an immigrant? Does it matter? Can we talk about it?
NORTH GALLERY
DUOS | Curated by j.Reto
Addie Studebaker
Christina Young
Graham Dane
j.Reto
Joshua Demain
Owen Tucker
Sally Carr
Suzanne Dvorak
Winter
Yulia Kalagaeva
DUOS is an experiment in collaboration between local artists. Each painting is the result of two artists working independently on different areas of the piece, then concealing the work and passing it onto the other artist. Neither artist knows what the completed piece looks like.
The works are hung fully wrapped and will be taken off the walls and torn open at 6pm opening night.
DUOS is also an experimental show with viewer participation. The paintings are meant to be held, passed around and rehung in any order. The randomness and spontaneity are aspects of the show.
In all, DUOS is an attempt to bring artists and audiences together, and to break down the divide between art and observer.
DUOS is curated by j.Reto, a founding member of CIRCLE5 art group.
SOUTH GALLERY
Drawn North: Portraits in Texture | Suzanne Yeremyan
Suzanne Yeremyan, Path to a Path at Dusk: Eklutna Lake, Sumi ink, graphite powder, vinegar, and water on Yupo, mounted on plywood, matte varnish, 20 x 26 inches
Drawn North: Portraits in Texture features new work by abstract visual artist Suzanne Yeremyan, developed following a winter 2025 artist residency with Alaska State Parks. Her practice centers on experimental landscape portraiture, grounded in the textures, patterns, and movements found within a natural environment. Based in Rhode Island, Yeremyan spent several weeks in various remote regions of Southcentral Alaska. Staying in public-use dry cabins, daylight was spent outdoors on foot, gathering visual information to later highlight and work from upon her return to the East Coast.
This exhibition presents the final renderings of the notes and impressions gathered in and around Lowell Point, Eklutna Lake, and Turnagain Arm.
IGCA ANNEX
[UN]STUCK | ADDIE STUDEBAKER
[UN]STUCK : an interactive installation for all ages. You are invited to the IGCA annex to enjoy and co-create an immersive community space & sensorial experience of line, color, texture. Over the next two months visitors will fill two annex walls with tape: a ubiquitous material stuck in the gray area of function vs. form. Is it THE most toss-able tool of our times, here to facilitate packaging, transporting, and creating with other mediums…or is it the medium itself?
Come get stuck/unstuck/restuck; zone out in creative flow, sensorial exploration, and a flood of sunlit color. Watch the space evolve through early October, as the light changes with the season and the white walls gradually fill with color and pattern.
A variety of painters, masking, and washi tapes, and tools, are at your disposal during Annex open hours (TBA) and during First Fridays, with tape donations highly encouraged! Kid-friendly - lots of low-lying wall space.
Addie Studebaker, the artist behind [UN]STUCK, lives and works in the Mat-Su valley and will be on-hand this First Friday to introduce the installation.