Anchorage Portrait Group

November 20, 2025 Karinna Gomez

NOVEMBER 2025
NORTH GALLERY
Anchorage Portrait Group

The Anchorage Portrait Group is a collective of artists who gather weekly to study the traditional practice of portraiture. For over ten years artists have gathered across Anchorage to create community and foster growth in observational painting. Crossing generations, this has been a group that has welcomed artists of many levels, working in a variety of mediums. This exhibition highlights the creative endeavors of the group over the past two years while we have been located within the annex studio space next door to the main IGCA gallery. This is not a class or a workshop, but an open session with models and passionate artists. All the artists within this group come from different studio practices and ideals, but within the three hours on Saturday morning, we sit down and create something universal.

Photographs by Hans Hallinen

Virtual Exhibition Tour

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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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.