February 2025

FIRST FRIDAY OPENING: February 7, 5 - 8 pm

EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW: Saturday, February 8 - Friday, February 28

GALLERY HOURS: Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 4 pm

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CENTER GALLERY
Perusing Paris | Charles Mason

Charles Mason, In the Louvre, archival ink print, 12 x 18 inches

This exhibition of street photography in Paris was made in late 2022, when my wife and I traveled there for ten days. Lisa is a walker, and I am a street photographer. This happy coincidence of our interests led us to walk ten miles a day for each of the eight days we were there. That’s eighty miles of city streets and sidewalks and museums and other public places that I was able, Leica camera in hand, to observe and photograph. All in arguably the most walkable and photographable city in the world. It was sheer photographic joy, and the work here is the result.

https://masonphotos.zenfolio.com/
https://www.uaf.edu/cla/news/2025/perusing-paris.php


NORTH GALLERY
Staged | Response

Staged is an immersive still life installed in the Annex gallery next door. Over the past several months the community has been invited to participate in this environment, exploring the process of making as a performance - artists coming and going within the Annex, visible to passing-by viewers. Staged | Response is a collection of the aftermath, work made within and from the installation highlighting how different artists respond to a single space. This exhibit showcases a snapshot of our community's perspectives and how still life fits within contemporary art.


SOUTH GALLERY
The Egg Series, a Collection of Related Images | Susan Johnson

Susan Johnson, Black Triptych #15, inkjet prints, 9 x 13 inches each

This project came into my life while adapting to sudden retirement and trying to deal with the isolation of my first long Winter in Kasilof. When it’s well below zero, it is way too cold to bring a camera outside. Despite that brutal cold, every day my Nine chickens were producing beautiful multicolored Eggs. They were not my usual subjects, and shooting indoors was a real change for me. I’d rather capture big dreamy landscapes outdoors, but this project proved to be a perfect way to keep shooting throughout the Winter.

After the editing and proofing were done, and when the prints were laid out on the table, I began to see how well the images related to each other. The layouts, shapes and colors formed into triptychs fairly naturally, and a concept was created out of chaos. These images were meant to stand alone, but since they all worked so well together, new visual relationships were created between the individual pieces, and the parts became a whole.