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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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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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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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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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Photography by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags Center Gallery, painting, encaustic, Anchorage artists, landscape
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Alaska: My Take | Elizabeth Pohjola

October 12, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Elizabeth Pohjola, Sitka Roses, mixed media, 36 x 36 inches

OCTOBER 2024
NORTH GALLERY
Alaska: My Take | Elizabeth Pohjola


A few years ago I walked into a paper store in Seattle and haven’t been the same since. I was seduced. This show of works in collage represents the products of that seduction. The images are based on elements from my homeplace, a place that has mesmerized me with its splendor my whole life. Alaska: My Take. Please enjoy!

Instagram @elizabethpohjola


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Photography by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags North Gallery, painting, Anchorage artists, landscape, wildlife
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Haiku | Shoko Takahashi

September 12, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Shoko Takahashi, Against the Wind, 2024, linocut and type

SEPTEMBER 2024
SOUTH GALLERY
Haiku | Shoko Takahashi

This series of relief prints with type stamping is my visual Haiku.

Japanese Haiku focuses on capturing a moment in time, a sense of enlightenment, and images from nature. When I read Japanese haiku, I always feel a sense of calmness and fresh air. I wanted to create the feeling of Haiku by focusing on Alaskan and Japanese animals and keeping the image simple. By integrating text into the design, I created the written haiku feeling in each print.

Instagram @print_wonder


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Photo credit: Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags South Gallery, printmaking, Anchorage artists
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Inosculation | Kendra Harvey

September 12, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Kendra Harvey, No Hard Feelings, 2024, ceramic earthenware, underglaze, watercolor, glaze, housepaint on wooden backdrop, 40 x 30 x 11 1/2 inches

SEPTEMBER 2024
CENTER GALLERY
Inosculation | Kendra Harvey

Inosculation investigates the symbolism of interconnectedness, exploring both the double-edged sword which comes with it: support and codependence, enablers and detractors, isolation and community. Using earthenware clay, I depict the organic nature of these connections by sculpting a wide cast of animal figures. These familiar forms, rendered in unfamiliar colors and poses, invite viewers to observe them coil towards and away from each other, narrating the complexities of our shared human experience.

www.kendraharvey.net


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Photo credit: Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags Center Gallery, sculpture, ceramics, Anchorage artists
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3 Threads | Mariano Gonzales

August 19, 2024 Karinna Gomez

AUGUST 2024
3 Threads | Mariano Gonzales

 

NORTH GALLERY
Talismans

Have you ever had your identity stolen? Your money? Have you ever been hacked or your bank account and identity compromised? I certainly have!

Talismans are supposed to protect the user/wearer from bad luck or calamity. The talismans I have made will (hopefully) protect the wearer from evil stuff that happens in our digital world.

These talismans have wall mounts so that they can function as Art…not just live obscurely in a jewelry box in the bathroom!

WARNING: Should you purchase a talisman and find that it doesn’t protect you, no refunds!


CENTER GALLERY
Killer Drones

Look at the faces of the killer drones. Look at the faces (or bodies) of their victims.

Think about the killer drones’ racism, misogyny, homophobia, love of assault weapons, and hatred for others not like them.

This is the country and world you live in.

Protect yourself and your fellow human beings!


SOUTH GALLERY
Landscapes

I am an artist who has lived in Alaska for 65 years, though I am far from an Alaskan artist!

I am consistently visually fascinated with the beautiful and amazing land mass that is this state.

As well, having driven through every state in this nation (except Vermont and Hawaii) and Canada, I also have memories of the many wondrous landscapes outside of Alaska.

So, I am always exploring alternative media and imagery to create landscapes from memory.

These days, I find that digital tools and media offer the quintessential alternatives!


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Photo credit: Hans Hallinen/IGCA


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In Exhibitions Tags Anchorage artists, digital art, installation, mixed media, North Gallery, South Gallery, Center Gallery
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What Good is Fruit that is not Sweet? | Young Kim

July 16, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Young Kim, Imported Fruit, archival pigment print

JULY 2024
CENTER GALLERY
What Good is Fruit that is not Sweet? | Young Kim


"What Good is Fruit that is not Sweet?" is a photography project documenting the life of my mother as she ages and confronts changes in her health and mobility. It explores our relationship as parent and child and how roles shift as time persists. These circumstances also pose the questions of whether we can quantify or qualify how good a person is at fulfilling a societal role and whether the romanticization of the “American Dream” can influence those parameters. 

These images aim to celebrate daily life with an emphasis on my interpretation of events and with less rigidity around how the events unfolded. This body of work utilizes the indexical nature of photographs to world-build, create and preserve a past that is nostalgic and reminiscent, regardless of whether it is factual.

www.young.kim
Instagram: @theyoungkimosabe


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In Exhibitions Tags photography, Anchorage artists, Center Gallery
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Behind the Canvas | Samuel Infante Marchan

July 16, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Samuel Infante Marchan, The Silence of the Girl, oil on canvas

JULY 2024
SOUTH GALLERY
Behind the Canvas | Samuel Infante Marchan

Behind The Canvas is to emerge yourself in a fascinating world of vibrant colors and captivating expressions. Each work becomes an artistic testimony that captures the essence and diversity of the daily experiences of each woman. From warm and passionate tones to fresh and lively tones; we immerse ourselves in each brushstroke that transmits an emotional range and reflects the complexity of female emotions and experiences. These works offer a visual journey through the multiple dimensions of femininity. By exploring this collection, viewers enter a universe of beauty, strength, and vulnerability.

Instagram @samuelmarchan_


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In Exhibitions Tags painting, Anchorage artists, South Gallery
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Fieldwork | Owen Tucker

May 9, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Owen Tucker, Gold 1, collage on paper

MAY 2024
NORTH GALLERY
Fieldwork | Owen Tucker

Fieldwork is a collection of collages made with found materials, colored papers, hand-drawn patterns, and shiny garbage. Aside from focusing on subjects found out in “the field”, the images are geometric explorations of the two-dimensional field.


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In Exhibitions Tags North Gallery, collage, Anchorage artists
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How to skip a rock | Jenny Irene Miller

April 16, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Jenny Irene Miller, Pulling (together), 2023, archival inkjet print, 20 x 16 inches

APRIL 2024
SOUTH GALLERY
How to skip a rock
| Jenny Irene Miller

How to skip a rock is a visual poem about relations and the magic found within queerness that is both tender and active. Within these cyclical connections are imagination, admiration, and the sharing of knowledge.

jennyirenemiller.com


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In Exhibitions Tags Anchorage artists, photography, portraits, South Gallery
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Arctic Phoenix and the Quest for the Sublime | Joshua Demain

April 16, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Joshua Demain, Play Place (detail), oil on copper, 12 x 18 inches

APRIL 2024
NORTH GALLERY
Arctic Phoenix and the Quest for the Sublime | Joshua Demain

My artwork navigates scenes I encounter from everyday life in Alaska. Ranging from magnificent sunset cityscapes to glorious natural landscapes, these paintings reflect the inherent grandeur of local Alaskan scenery. My goal is to convey the message that beauty is everywhere, and often where we least expect it.

ephemeralgrandeur.com


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In Exhibitions Tags Anchorage artists, painting, oil, landscape, North Gallery
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Guided by Voices | Scott McDonald

April 16, 2024 Karinna Gomez

Scott McDonald, Love charm (ex-voto) 1, 2024, mixed media on synthetic paper, 11 x 14 inches

APRIL 2024
CENTER GALLERY
Guided by Voices | Scott McDonald

What I do best is keep working and letting things happen. I called this show Guided by Voices because that’s sort of how the process works. I work intuitively and I try not to second guess my intuition. To me, being an artist means working in private and letting things happen–finding surprises, experimenting, showing up, not mediating, not censoring. It also means being vulnerable and presenting what happened.

scottmcdonaldart.com


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In Exhibitions Tags Anchorage artists, painting, printmaking, oil, Center Gallery
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Things My Mother Taught Me (How To Have a Good Party) | Jade Ariah

February 12, 2024 Karinna Gomez

FEBRUARY 2024
NORTH AND SOUTH GALLERIES
Things My Mother Taught Me (How To Have a Good Party) | Jade Ariah

I have always been curious about better understanding my extended family, a large and generally disconnected bunch, many of whom I have photos and faint memories of, but no strong ties. As I've grown and learned more about my family’s history, I can recognize how many of these connections were lost. Domestic violence, substance use, and unresolved trauma play a large part in the lack of connectedness we have towards one another. I’m especially interested in how that shapes the experiences of my grandmothers, mothers and myself.

My sweetest memories are associated with celebrating, cooking and eating. The women in my life are, by and large, the ones who continue to pass down these traditions. Our relationships with food are similarly complicated to our relationships with one another. Everything shared, taught, internalized. Not only how we make food, but how we eat it, how we talk about it and about our bodies. What we shouldn’t eat because we're trying to be “good”. What we make when we’re hosting a party, when we’re struggling to pay the bills, when someone we love is sick. Socialized to provide comfort and tender care for others, often at the expense of showing tenderness towards ourselves.

The process of making this work allows me to reflect on the relationship and stories I have of the women in my life. Using food and everyday objects, this series of work serves as an abstracted matrilineal family tree.

jadeariah.com
@jadeariahh

Purchase sculptures here


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Paper Quiltmaking Workshop with Jade Ariah | Saturday, February 10th

Thank you so much to the folks that attended Jade's paper quiltmaking workshop - and to Jade for creating this experience for everyone!

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In Exhibitions Tags South Gallery, North Gallery, Anchorage artists, sculpture, ceramics, painting
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The Animals Within | Amy Schilling

February 11, 2024 Karinna Gomez

FEBRUARY 2024
CENTER GALLERY
The Animals Within | Amy Schilling

Within society we are taught that expressing too much of our inner workings is shameful. We must hide all the ugly parts of ourselves in a dark room, paint our faces, and show to everyone we are happy, and healthy. When the darkness comes creeping out, there are hushed tones and changes of the topic. In my experience growing up, there was always this creature hidden in the shadows, not knowing what that feeling is and why it haunts me. Many people grow up also not understanding what lurks inside them. I was told that that's life, suck it up, and carry on despite the pain of this invisible force weighing down, crushing you. For so long mental health issues weren’t taught or discussed. It has put isolating barriers up in relationships with family and friends. After years of walls built up around me, I have torn them down piece by piece. I made myself be raw with my emotions with my loved ones. Through sculpting with ceramics it has allowed me to depict for them how things feel. I have been able to process and come to terms with my own experiences and be better understood by those I care about.

This exhibition documents the struggles and invisible feelings we fight with everyday. I’m able to portray the many aspects of mental illness with animals as subject matter by utilizing their characteristics and animalistic nature that is unique to that species. I silhouette each of these animals in an ornate frame, in order to highlight the beautiful parts of ourselves that we have survived through, almost like a trophy of what we overcome. Through my work I hope to initiate an open discussion about what is considered a taboo topic. Invoking specific emotions that others might not understand, to bring people together to be vulnerable and raw with their struggles, feelings, in order to realize they aren’t alone and it isn’t something to be ashamed about.

@talentedterror

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Photos by Hans Hallinen


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In Exhibitions Tags Center Gallery, Anchorage artists, sculpture, ceramics, mental health
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off and on / Hans Hallinen

December 19, 2023 Karinna Gomez

DECEMBER 2023
@ the IGCA Annex
off and on / Hans Hallinen

Meditations on light and shadow, and the compression and expansion of space. A collection of objects created with digital manufacturing methods, software, and traditional techniques.


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In Exhibitions, IGCA Annex Tags light, sculpture, design, installation, Anchorage artists, Alaska artists, winter
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Stories of Old and New | Yulia Kalagaeva

November 13, 2023 Karinna Gomez

Yulia Kalagaeva, Yaroslav the Wise: 1031 Year Old Legend, charcoal, 26 x 32 inches

NOVEMBER 2023
SOUTH GALLERY

Stories of Old and New | Yulia Kalagaeva

I’ve always loved stories: the old legends, myths, and histories, as well as the new everyday life experiences and events. I find it fascinating how these stories — some universal, some unique — overlap through our lives to create who we are as individuals. This exhibition is a collection of (mostly) charcoal portraits that depict my perception of a person and the stories within. I like to think of them as extracts of biographical anthologies.


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In Exhibitions Tags South Gallery, Anchorage artists, Alaska artists, drawing, charcoal, portraits
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Wunderkammer: Boundaryless Plants | Sandra Talbot

November 13, 2023 Karinna Gomez

Sandra Talbot, But They Are So Beautiful (Crepis and Leucanthemum), 2023, archival ink printed on metal distressed using steel artifacts collected in the Aleutian Island Archipelago, 21 x 6.5 x 0.2 inches. Imagery is from photographs of metal collected from the site, locale photographs, and digitized field press collections of the invasive Crepis tectorum and Leucanthemum vulgare collected from the abandoned NSGA military site, Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska.

NOVEMBER 2023
NORTH GALLERY
Wunderkammer: Boundaryless Plants | Sandra Talbot

To the medieval mind, the Order of Nature was reflected in the ‘typical’ form and function of natural phenomena.  Anything rupturing this order—the novel, rare, capricious, uncanny ‘sports,’ monstrous objects brought back from distant lands—filled Wunderkammers (cabinets of curiosities), the precursors of herbaria and natural history collections.  These uncanny sports evoked not only a sense of wonder, but collective discomfort, and even terror, as well. Such discomfort, even collective terror, resides in the minds of many contemporary researchers and conservationists when faced with the spreading of alien species into novel environments. 

I participated in 20th and 21st century scientific expeditions to remote, treeless, windswept islands of Alaska’s Aleutian Island Archipelago and allied island groups where landfall was made during the Bering Expedition.  These islands remain largely uninhabited, yet almost all have endured negative ecological impacts associated with military, cattle ranching, fox farming and other (western) human activities during the 19th and 20th centuries.  Following years of research solely on native plant species, during which introduced plants rarely occurred in our vegetation study plots, I noticed the transition of introduced plant species into invasiveness. That is, they have traversed the threshold between ‘introduced’ and a state wherein they expand into and alter a novel environment. 

The eradication of invasive plants, difficult even in easily accessible places, is less likely each year as the invasives’ ranges increase on these islands.  As such, invasive plant species are liable to continue impacting indigenous plant communities, eventually becoming integral (likely dominant) components of the islands’ vegetation communities.  Given a parallel to western colonial expansion into Alaska, these invasive plant species can be viewed as proxies for human expansion and community disruption. Many of the common invasive plant species on these islands—among them, the ox-eye daisy, the dandelion, the bird’s-foot trefoil and several hawksweed species—are characterized by changeable taxonomic nomenclature, morphological variability, and varying ploidy levels.  For example, on Simeonof Island, in the Shumagin Island group south of the Alaska Peninsula, the ox-eye daisy is subject to relatively high levels of fasciation (see The Pleasure of Natural Sports). Via morphological variability, hybridization and ploidy, these invasive plant species obscure the boundaries of classical Linnean nomenclature, and via invasiveness breach the ecological boundaries of long-established indigenous plant communities. They are “boundaryless plants.”

This exhibition presents a Wunderkammer of alien, strange, unwelcome and/or unidentifiable (and sometimes beloved) plant species to draw attention to the presence of invasive plant species in far-flung islands of western Alaska.  The Wunderkammer includes photographic imagery, including of herbarium specimens collected on the islands, printed on steel plates distressed using iron artifacts also collected on the islands, and cast aluminum or bronze and various artifacts in repurposed commercially-made boxes.  Four prints featuring imagery of dandelions include digital imagery generated using artificial intelligence, a technology that increasingly evokes a collective discomfort, even terror, in contemporary minds but also forces us to examine the boundaries of human intelligence and creativity.


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In Exhibitions Tags North Gallery, Anchorage artists, Alaska artists, sculpture, science and art, Aleutian Islands, AI
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