DUOS | Curated by j.Reto

SEPTEMBER 2025
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.

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Photographs by Hans Hallinen

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Virtual Exhibition Tour

[UN]STUCK | ADDIE STUDEBAKER

AUGUST - OCTOBER 2025
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.

www.whatamilookingatt.com

Fool's Paradise | Sally Carr

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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Virtual Exhibition Tour

Lux Botanica | Vanessa Powell

JUNE 2022
CENTER AND NORTH GALLERIES
Lux Botanica | Vanessa Powell

Artist Statement
I have always known the connection between nature and humanity. As a child I spent hours singing, dancing, and creating imaginary worlds among the lights and shadows dappling the forest floor. Nature has long been my playmate, my partner and my space to dream. 

My alternative process photography series, Lux Botanica, combines botanical material, expired photographic print paper, and a centuries old cameraless photography technique to create artwork that coaxes shifts in perception and invites new interpretations of my known world. Color, translucency, and light guide a refocusing of surface level vision to reveal an image that feels familiar and, at the same time, manifested entirely of dreams. '

Lumen Prints
The lumen print was first developed in the 1830’s by William Henry Fox Talbot. Talbot placed plants on sensitized paper and exposed the paper to sunlight, creating a negative print from which positive contact prints could be made. The original lumen print is archivally unstable and known as a fugitive (impermanent) print. Fugitive prints continue to expose over time, leaving countless opportunities for reiteration and exploration.

The images in Lux Botanica derive from their original, fugitive prints. Immediately taken after being pulled out of the light, these images are scanned, then refined in the digital darkroom to portray the artist’s vision. 

Each fugitive print is unique to the paper on which it was created. Expired black and white photographic print paper was used to create all of the images in Lux Botanica, ranging in expiration between 1956-1988. Variable focus, uniquely textured areas, and interesting inclusions are expected as they add to the authenticity of the photograph. These are unique to the ephemeral nature of the alternative process print.

https://www.vanessapowell.photo/

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Virtual Exhibition Tour

Seasoned Soul | Rose Hendrickson

APRIL 2022
IGCA Annex
Seasoned Soul | Rose Hendrickson

Rose Marie Hendrickson was born in Anchorage, Territory of Alaska, in the middle of winter. She is the oldest of seven sisters, and has one (adult) child, a daughter.

Rose has been passionate about mark-making since early childhood, teaching herself about concepts like perspective and volume from found art books, or modeling small figures from window putty, mud, children’s modeling clay, or wax.
 She has worked independently in many mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, pastel, watercolor, oil pastel, and oils. Early influences were the old masters of the renaissance and the iconic illustrators: Arthur Rackham, Brian Froud, Alphonse Mucha and the Hildebrandt brothers.

More recently Rose has been studying sculpture at UAA, graduating with her BFA in December, 2021. She has been devoting herself to ceramics, metal casting, and steel fabrication designs. Contemporary influences include Kesler Woodward, for his acute observations on Alaska’s changing light, and Nicholas Galanin, for his fearless incorporation of a broad range of materials in his focused pieces.

She lives and practices her art in Palmer, Alaska, where she is also a musician, gardener, gatherer, and nature lover in general.

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Artist Statement
The rhythm of our seasons is my breath and my heartbeat. There is a symbiotic intertwining between that rhythm and my very soul that grounds me here in this place through the passing of time.

The seasons are a light map, a timekeeper, a compass directing life. Here, the endless winter darkness robs the breath, chills the bones and slows the heart to the tempo of hibernation. The welcome spring quickens the soul with joy and the hope of new life. The glorious summer drenches us in eternal light, filling our days with riotous color and abundance. The golden fall brings a tang to the air while the changing foliage, with bittersweet glory, warns of the coming dark. 

Our extremes of light, temperature and terrain have challenged artists from among the first inhabitants forward to communicate the unspeakable beauty, power, scale and the seasonal light that have surrounded us here throughout time. The cycle of the seasons in this unique place focuses a sense of the Sublime: boundless, breathtaking, even terrifying. Our seasons and terrain can nurture, or kill, but they will never fail to inspire.

Against the pandemic framework that has so impacted our lives, I see the pure, relentless constancy of time and the endless roll of the seasons, one into another, year after year. I find comfort in this constancy.

We are so temporary. We get sick, we die, constant in our inconsistency, flickering against the backdrop of time. The seasons weave that backdrop. They breathe in their own rhythm. They do not stop for pandemics… and even the coldest depths of the whispering winter hold the promise of the coming spring.

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