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Fool's Paradise | Sally Carr

July 17, 2025 Karinna Gomez

Sally Carr, Skinning a Rabbit detail, oil, canvas, wood panel, 46 x 72 inches

JULY 2025
SOUTH GALLERY
Fool's Paradise | Sally Carr

When you look at the past, the lost, what do you see?

Connection, it is a breath. It is a slowness.

A crab apple tree outside my window seemed to have more knowledge than I ever could dream to hold. Seemed to possess secrets of the world in a cyclical and literal sense. I yearned for its awareness of silence. It merely asked a few things of me, but I wasn’t aware enough to listen. I admired, appreciated, loved, and yet still didn’t hear the requests.

Growing complacent from its fruit, a child is one that takes without considering how to repay. How many times must this happen before you recognize your own imprecision.

Can one continue to maintain care in retrospect, or does it reshape into something more selfish. A search for silence, or maybe forgiveness. An empty gesture.

www.sallycarr.net


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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Fun on the Move | Judith Hoersting

July 17, 2025 Karinna Gomez

Judith Hoersting, Slinky, mixed media on paper

JULY 2025
NORTH GALLERY
Fun on the Move | Judith Hoersting

“Fun on the Move” was inspired by my past two years of travel. Slinkie, Cheerios, Dots, copper foil and a sketch book were my studio. They are so portable!

The movement of dance (The Stroll from the Fifties) and mechanical toys (Hey Jude music box) are another kind of motion I enjoy. The vibrant color and speedy growth of wheat grass, delights my senses, too. It summons me to pause and appreciate the wonder of chlorophyll, the basis of life.


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags North Gallery, drawing, Anchorage artists
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Invasive Flora, Intricate Prints | Rachel Singel

July 17, 2025 Karinna Gomez

Rachel Singel, Cicada, 2024 Intaglio on handmade paper with Oriental Bittersweet and abaca fiber, 12 x 18 inches

JULY 2025
CENTER GALLERY
Invasive Flora, Intricate Prints | Rachel Singel

My work is a response to the intricacies and depth of natural forms Lines are the building blocks of my imagery. Lines develop into curves, from curves to circles, and then to fields. As each line extends outward, the form begins to resemble how it occurs in nature: preconditioned, though subject to the elements around it. 

Beyond bringing attention to the immense complexity of the natural world, one of my primary goals as an artist is to raise environmental consciousness. I print on handmade papers made from recycled materials such as old cotton shirts and linen sheets, as well as plant fibers, especially those of invasive plants. Conceptually, the union of process and subject embodies an important metaphor for my views. I hope that making sheets by hand not only can help the environment, but also can promote sustainability. 

Rachel Singel is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville. Rachel grew up on a small farm in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 2009 and a Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2013. Rachel has participated in residencies at the Penland School of Crafts, the Venice Printmaking Studio, Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Art Print Residence in Barcelona, Spain, Wharepuke Print Studios in New Zealand, Proyecto'ace, an Artist-in-Residence Program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and AGA Lab in the Netherlands. She has studied non-toxic printmaking at the Grafisk Eksperimentarium studio in Andalusia and recently traveled to Japan to research papermaking with invasive plants. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and represented in private collections and public institutions. 

www.rachelsingel.com


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags Center Gallery, printmaking
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The stubborn blindness of optimistic philosophers | Graham Dane

June 18, 2025 Karinna Gomez

Graham Dane, A garden of earthly delights: a collection of emblems for the ingenious, 2023-24, mixed media painting and sculpture

JUNE 2025
NORTH GALLERY
The stubborn blindness of optimistic philosophers | Graham Dane

Painting is a very human activity that can be traced back potentially tens of thousands of years; it’s an ancient activity. In an increasingly tech-orientated world, a world of cell phones, Instagram, of instant gratification and cheap mass production, of being drowned out by the cacophony of social media, what could be more humanizing than looking at art and producing something new, unique, that requires quietude, an intellectual and emotional foundation and physical effort beyond using just your thumb and index finger.

The way I work – of small-scale studies, combining elements from one or several into larger compositions, then allowing the picture to develop is similar to the way jazz and blues musicians improvise. The finished piece is always a surprise.

All abstraction is open to interpretation which is one of its aspects that I find appealing and I rarely go into detailed explanations about meanings of titles or the literary references. What I will say is that the show title references the overly optimistic Doctor Pangloss, the tutor from Voltaite’s Candide. Make of that what you wish.

www.grahamdane.com


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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Our Better Angels | Ted Kincaid

June 17, 2025 Karinna Gomez

Ted Kincaid, Che, 2025, ink, spray paint and acrylic on found object

JUNE 2025
CENTER GALLERY
Our Better Angels | Ted Kincaid

When we think of political art we tend to think of violent and accusing images drawing attention to the double standards and faults of humanity.  Our Better Angels is a show bent on the other half of that argument, the "now what" side of change.  Ted Kincaid uses his graffiti-meets-indy comic art style to bring legends out of reality and places them on a pedestal.  Better Angels continues on a 2011 body of work as he tries to modernize both the people included but also the style into a more vibrant and punchy multi-media approach.

theodorekincaid.smugmug.com


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags painting, Anchorage artists
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IGCA MEMBERS EXHIBITION

May 19, 2025 Karinna Gomez

MAY 2025
IGCA MEMBERS EXHIBITION

The annual IGCA members exhibition features new work from the gallery's membership community. This year, over 80 artists are sharing their art in the exhibition, including ceramics, collage, drawing, fabric works, painting, photography, and sculpture.

Artists included: Meg Anderson, Christina Barber, Elizabeth Belanger, Barbara Bigelow, Kayo Bogdan, Carol Bryner, Margaret Burke, Kim Bustillos, Myesha Callahan Freet, Joel Camins, Randall Carlson, Sally Carr, Sharlene Cline, Michael Conti, Joshua Demain, Suzanne Dvorak, Jennifer Euler, Linda Brady Farr, Mark Figura, Araya Flowers, RJ Fontaine, Ted Gardeline, Rachel Gebauer, Donna Goldsmith, Mariano Gonzales, K N Goodrich, Carolyn Gove, Jim Gove, Stephen Gray, Ann Gray, Patricia Grenier, Annekathrin Hansen, Lyndsi Harris, Kendra Harvey, Judith Hoersting, Rhonda Horton, Valerie Jaimes, Jody Jenkins, Susan Johnson, Arlitia Jones, Yulia Kalagaeva, Mary Kancewick, Amanda Kelly, Scharine Kirchoff, Matt Klinn, Max Kritzer, Susan LaGrande, Bill Lee, Petra Lisiecki, Melanie Lombard, Emily Longbrake, Linda Lucky, Iryna McCoskey, Tehya McLeod, Diane Melms, Erica Miller, Richard Murphy, Karen Olanna, Carlos Pereira, Nathan Perry, Tami Phelps, j. Reto, Elise Rose, Alex Rydlinski, Mikhail Siskoff, Alexandra Sonneborn, Lauren Stanford, Adrienne Stohr, Addie Studebaker, Shoko Takahashi, Sandra Talbot, Sara Tabbert, Irina Tova, Sharon Trager, Owen Tucker, Kathy Vail-Roche, Ron Viol, Liliana Walton, Jen Wang, Lee Waters, Lily Weed, Christina Young, and 4 and 2 is 6.


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags Members, MembershipMonth, painting, drawing, photography, installation, collage, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking
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Boreal Echoes

April 22, 2025 Karinna Gomez

APRIL 2025
Boreal Echoes | In a Time of Change (ITOC) collaborative arts-humanities-science exhibit

Boreal Echoes is a touring exhibit produced by the Alaska-based collaborative environmental arts-humanities-science program known as "In a Time of Change (ITOC)". Boreal Echoes is the result of three years of learning, conversation, and experimentation by a cohort of artists who were inspired and informed by the boreal forest, the scientists who study it, and each other. Artists built relationships to the boreal biome and one another through outdoor field trips, scientific presentations, artist craft talks, and monthly group activities. The cohort then created original artworks sharing their collaborative and individual investigations, inspirations, and care about the boreal biome. Boreal Echoes is directed by Mary Beth Leigh and includes artwork by Susan Campbell, Alyssa Enriquez, Nancy Hausle-Johnson, Mary Bee Kaufman, Margo Klass, Jennifer Moss, Ree Nancarrow, Oralee Nudson, Teresa Shannon, Todd Sherman, Marianne Stolz, Connie Stricks, and Sara Tabbert.

The "Boreal Echoes" exhibition was produced by the "In a Time of Change" program with support from the National Science Foundation through the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Program, the USDA Forest Service, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Rasmuson Foundation through the Harper Arts Touring Fund administered by the Alaska State Council on the Arts State Council on the Arts, with in-kind support from IGCA and other partners.

Founded in 2007 by the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) in Fairbanks, Alaska, the In a Time of Change (ITOC) program facilitates and produces collaborative arts-humanities-science exhibits and events focused on ecological themes important to Alaska. ITOC recognizes that cross-disciplinary interactions between artists, humanities scholars, and scientists can foster community engagement with the natural world and build collaborative capacity, helping society to address complex environmental problems. ITOC emerged within the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research program in Interior Alaska and is funded by the National Science Foundation, the USDA Forest Service, and private contributors, with in-kind support from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks Arts Association, and other partners. UAF professor Mary Beth Leigh directs ITOC in collaboration with ITOC researcher and evaluator Lissy Goralnik (Michigan State University). ITOC is part of a growing network of place-based, environmental arts-humanities-science programs across the U.S. and around the world. 

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Photographs by Hans Hallinen

In Exhibitions Tags Group Shows, Fairbanks artists, science and art
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Reciprocity

March 26, 2025 Karinna Gomez

MARCH 2025
Reciprocity | Collaboration between Emily Longbrake, Christine Sundly & Momentum Dance Collective

In a world where we are all connected, the exchanges and cooperation we have with one another through time are a critical piece of the human experience. Reciprocity is a month-long performance and visual art installation that brings together work from Emily Longbrake, Christine Sundly and Momentum Dance Collective. The work explores the relationships between time, memory and the dualities that are constant in all phases of life.

During the gallery's regular hours, the community was invited to experience the art installations and video projection. There were also four live dance performances by Momentum Dance Collective.

About the artists

Emily Longbrake is a freelance artist from Anchorage, Alaska, blends craft and technology across various media. Her art is inspired by the patterns, connections, and constant change found in nature, particularly the mountains and plants surrounding her home.
https://emilylongbrake.art/

Of the Menominee Nation, Christine Sundly is an Alaskan-based artist with an emphasis on creating abstract art. She has an absolute love of color and patterns as shown in experimenting both digitally and in mixed media. Through both education and working experience, Christine maintains strong bones in pushing her limits and asking the big “why” questions when creating.
https://sundly.blogspot.com/p/about-artist.html

Momentum Dance Collective is a contemporary dance company in Anchorage, Alaska that delights in activating possibilities through collaborative partnerships and in unusual spaces.
https://www.momentumdance.org/reciprocity


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Installation photos by Hans Hallinen


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Performance photos by Lauren Langford Photography and True North Photography

In Exhibitions Tags Anchorage artists, performance, mixed media, installation
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The Egg Series, a Collection of Related Images | Susan Johnson

February 20, 2025 Karinna Gomez

FEBRUARY 2025
SOUTH GALLERY
The Egg Series, a Collection of Related Images | Susan Johnson

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.


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Staged | Response

February 20, 2025 Karinna Gomez

FEBRUARY 2025
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.


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Perusing Paris | Charles Mason

February 20, 2025 Karinna Gomez

FEBRUARY 2025
CENTER GALLERY
Perusing Paris | Charles Mason

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


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In Exhibitions Tags photography, Fairbanks artists, Center Gallery
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UNTITLED :  Portal Series | j.Reto

January 12, 2025 Karinna Gomez

JANUARY 2025
SOUTH GALLERY
UNTITLED :  Portal Series | j.Reto


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags painting, Anchorage artists, South Gallery
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Sketchbooks | Carol Lambert

January 11, 2025 Karinna Gomez

JANUARY 2025
NORTH GALLERY
Sketchbooks | Carol Lambert

Presented in the North gallery for January, a collection of sketchbooks and drawings from Carol Lambert, curated by Joe and Sally Carr. 

Carol was a longtime friend and supporter of the gallery as well as a regular exhibiting artist in our community. 

As an accomplished painter and printmaker, Carol fundamentally took an analytic approach to her practice and method of creation. This involved countless hours of drawing and development of concept and ideas. 

This exhibition provides insight into a truly unique creative mind, and a wonderful human being. 


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags painting, Anchorage artists, South Gallery
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Old and New: Soft, Sweet, Feathered and Furred | Christopher Judd

January 11, 2025 Karinna Gomez

Christopher Judd, Lion and Lady, graphite on Moleskine paper, 8 x 11.5 inches

JANUARY 2025
CENTER GALLERY
Old and New: Soft, Sweet, Feathered and Furred | Christopher Judd

This show is about animals. 

Mostly bears, but mainly animals.

This body of work exemplifies who I’ve become as an artist, both in technique and subject matter. I love whimsy, I love characters, and I love storytelling. All of these drawings have pieces and parts of all three loves, but more than anything they’re a simple exploration of inspiration and imagery recorded the best way I know how. 

The following is a collection of graphite drawings that I’ve created off and on over the past five years coupled with some of my work for 2024. It’s a contrast of an evolving style that exemplifies the first time everything clicked for me while drawing. 

The drawing Jackal kicked off this long relationship with animals, and it was one of the first drawings that I had ever done that I felt pleasantly surprised by. Detail, feeling, composition, lighting, and style all finally came together into a picture that was the first major success in a medium I had not spent much time on in the 3 years preceding its creation. It was a moment where exploration in other media finally came together in the first material I was drawn towards.

I consider it to be the beginning of whatever mastery I demonstrate when it comes to Graphite drawing. The rest of the show is how things have gone since then.

Instagram @dao_ofdraw


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags drawing, Anchorage artists, Center Gallery
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Process | IGCA Member Creative Process Videos

December 16, 2024 Donna Carr

Process: An IGCA member video compilation celebrating our community's ingenuity, craftsmanship, and creativity.

Artists include: Christina A. Barber, PhD, Mandy Bernard, Joe Carr, Sally Carr, Michael Conti, Maxine Fekete, AnneKathrin Hansen, Meghan Holtan, Tracy Irsik, Yulia Kalagaeva, Sharine Kirchoff, Carol Lambert, Emily Longbrake, Linda Lucky, Jacob Paiz, Tami Phelps, Gayla Ranf, Susan Joy Share, Adrienne Stohr, Sharon Trager, Owen Tucker, and Jen Wang.


Christina A. Barber PhD

Mandy Bernard

Sally Carr

Joe Carr

Michael Conti

Maxine Fekete

Annkathrin Hansen

Meghan Holtan

Tracy Irsik

Yulia Kalagaeva

Scharine Kirchoff

Carol Lambert

Emily Longbrake

Linda Lucky

Jacob Paiz

Tami Phelps

Gayla Ranf

Susan Joy Share

Adrienne Stohr

Owen Tucker

Sharon Trager

Jen Wang

In Exhibitions Tags video, Members
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Memory Bank | Katie Ione Craney

November 13, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Katie Ione Craney, waiting, 5 x 7 inches; seed song II, 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches; “stay” (in braille), 3 1/2 x 5 inches

NOVEMBER 2024
SOUTH GALLERY
Memory Bank | Katie Ione Craney

This series is a reflection on my slow move from Southeast to the Interior; a process over 10 years in the making when I first started grad school and am now back to finish a degree in the Arctic & Northern Studies program. Within many of the images are words and phrases written in Braille. Some words repeat as meditations on their meaning and are in conversation with the place they are paired with. Incorporating Braille and mirrored surfaces into my work echoes a sensory experience of the lands and beings in the imagery. I’ve been learning to write in Braille as a communication attempt with my Great Grandmother Mary Etta, who was blind, as well as create space to consider many ways of knowing and being in relationship with a place or a person.

The handwritten Braille in this series is a letter-for-letter transcription, also known as Grade 1 Braille. The letters are written backwards, as I use a portable slate and a hand stylus to press the letters onto the page, or in this case, onto clear transparencies or into soft metal.

katieionecraney.com


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags South Gallery, photography, mixed media, landscape, glaciers, installation, Fairbanks artists
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Resilient: Defining Alaskans through Landscape | Jason Lazarus

November 13, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Jason Lazarus, Rivulets of Gold, Castner Glacier, archival pigment print on Canson Baryta Photographique

NOVEMBER 2024
NORTH GALLERY
Resilient: Defining Alaskans through Landscape | Jason Lazarus

Alaska.

Towering glaciers, noble peaks, enchanting flora and plentiful fauna — all of these have been rendered in the idyllic perfection of a trillion photographs over the years.

Captured in the silver grains and digital pixels that shape our collective memories, these representations often fall short of truly conveying what Alaska is — they fail to define what Alaska means to Alaskans.

Shaped by their surroundings, Alaskans are a curious bunch, often taking pride in character traits that, to the outsider, seem unflattering. Old timers take pride in their tenacious and stubborn nature by being called Sourdoughs, while Cheechako newcomers are harshly mocked for their failures, yet strangely encouraged to persevere.

Our jargon-laden existence divides real Alaska (The Bush) from a more pedestrian lifestyle in the Lower 48 (the contiguous US). Our Breakup relates to a fifth season before Spring and Termination Dust signals the onset of winter.

Summed up in one word, Alaskans are Resilient. A product of our harsh climes, we have been shaped by our surroundings and carry with us a stoic nature that is reflected in the place we call home. For many of its people, Alaska’s lonely landscapes, unwelcoming frigid tundra and tumultuous winter weather reflects its true beauty in a way no sublimely captured landscape could. This work intends to capture that deep connection and our unwavering character traits through our surroundings, showing a rarified Alaska for Alaskans.

obscura-works.com


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags North Gallery, photography, landscape, Fairbanks artists
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Hotter Faster Louder | Sara Tabbert

November 13, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Sara Tabbert, The Sultry Ditch, 2024, wood veneer, relief printing, 12 x 12 inches. Photo credit Sarah Lewis Photography.

NOVEMBER 2024
CENTER GALLERY
Hotter Faster Louder | Sara Tabbert

I spent much of the past summer in a long-anticipated residency, the Windgate Arts Residency Program, offered through the Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia. During my residency I continued my work in marquetry, using the focused time to dive into new ways to layer, carve, sandblast, and print onto wood veneer surfaces. This experimental approach is informed by my background as a printmaker, where I’ve grown comfortable with the push and pull of adding and subtracting material to create images. Marquetry is traditionally a woodworking technique of great precision. I embrace the ongoing challenge of executing at a high level, while also choosing to approach working with the material in a less precious, less predictable way.

Summer in Philadelphia was defined by intense heat, overwhelming noise, and my own disorientation as I wandered the city. I walked through unimaginable amounts of trash, wild vacant lots, and observed the march of condominiums through old neighborhoods. I delighted in the unplanned sky party of orange electrical insulators and nests of wiring, the city’s baby blue bridges, the murals, graffiti, and ornamentation. I felt the challenges and beauty of such a peopled place.

Upon returning home, I realized the visual contradictions I sought out in an urban setting are the same friction points I look for everywhere. In a city’s density, the collisions seem louder and brighter, but they are all around me at home as well. The elemental nature of delicate vines climbing an iron fence in a trash-filled lot is not that different from the lacy ice forming on the edge of a mud puddle in my driveway. There is an energy in the edges, where disparate things that don’t necessarily make sense together are found in proximity, forced into accidental coexistence.

On display are the result of such musings, meanders and focused labor. I see these pieces as records of place and travel, riddles of process, and a reflection of my cheerful curiosity during a time of accelerating tension.

This exhibition has been supported by the Museum for Art in Wood’s Windgate Arts Residency Program and by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from Rasmuson Foundation’s Career Opportunity Grant.

saratabbert.com


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Photographs by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags Center Gallery, wood, printmaking, Fairbanks artists
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Unfrozen | Erica Miller

October 12, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Erica Miller, FE Co. Dredge No. 4, acrylic and mixed media on cradled wood, 6 x 6 inches

OCTOBER 2024
SOUTH GALLERY
Unfrozen | Erica Miller


This is a love letter to the great land. After the gold has been extracted and the trees harvested; what remains of industry, the grand machinery of human endeavor, ambition and toil, sinks into the gentle embrace of earth. So prevalent in Alaska, the rusting iron of the past is beautiful somehow. Wrecked and abandoned now, it seems to belong, becoming a part of the forgiving landscape, a witness to the passage of time. It is a story of history and decay, of nature's reclaiming force, accepting the encroachment of age on all things.

ericamillerart.com


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Photography by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags South Gallery, painting, mixed media, Hope artists, landscape, built environment
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Listening to the Quiet | Cheryl Lyon

October 12, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Cheryl Lyon, Exact Spot, encaustic on wood panel, 12 x 12 inches

OCTOBER 2024
CENTER GALLERY
Listening to the Quiet | Cheryl Lyon

Listening to the quiet is about noticing what I notice when I venture outdoors through the Alaska seasons. Taking in the beautiful complexities before me. Paying attention to the light as it gracefully skips across the water or shines through the clouds.  Listening to the wind as it whispers through the trees, and gently moves around my face. As the poet Mary Oliver said about nature, “If you notice anything, it leads you to notice more and more”. I agree, I long ago embraced, I’m always painting, even when I’m not painting. I’m an observer, an explorer and an eternal student.

cheryllyon.com


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In Exhibitions Tags Center Gallery, painting, encaustic, Anchorage artists, landscape
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