August 2025
FIRST FRIDAY OPENING: August 1, 5 - 8 pm
EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW: Saturday, August 2 - Friday, August 29
GALLERY HOURS: Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 4 pm
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ARTIST GALLERY SITTING DATES:
Isabell Daniel and Cynthia Morelli | Saturday, August 2, 1 - 4 pm
Francesca Singleton | Saturday, August 9, 1 - 4 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION WITH AUGUST ARTISTS: Friday, August 29 at 6pm
CENTER GALLERY
Antithesis of Demure | Isabell Daniel and Cynthia Morelli
This August Isabell Daniel's and Cynthia Morelli’s sculptures will be on display in an exhibit titled Antithesis of Demure at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska. That's us in the picture, dancing as teacups and saucers on a summer night in Atlanta, Georgia in 1985. With this two person exhibition, we celebrate a deep and enduring friendship, born from and sustained through a shared history with clay. Our ongoing project, in which we shake up our own figure-based abstract sculpture through collaborative studio time, materials and place exchange, channels our heartfelt trust and bold playfulness inspired by each other. This is an intentional exchange based on the foundation of clay that began our forty-plus year friendship at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in the 1980’s. Please join us at the opening reception on Friday August 1st in Anchorage!
NORTH GALLERY
Churning Mother | Brianna Allen
Brianna Allen, Mother Of Josephine and Manon, oil on panel,18 x 24 inches
“Churning Mother” explores the depth and agitation experienced in early motherhood and reflects on what emerges thereafter. The exhibit includes paintings, installation and literary work.
“Mother Of…” portraits are paintings of mothers with their hands full and their own identities changed forevermore. They are surrounded by their own early mothering ethos; preserved bouquets, faded stuffies, crystals, band aides and lollypops. This ongoing series of portraits invoke a kind of mothercode sentiment that feels safe when together.
Other paintings reflect a personal time of overload and burnout. These are a vulnerable offering for those who may have felt it too.
My published book, The Momologue Collective: An Anthology by Self-Identifying Mothers. Volume I, archives my ongoing social art practice of sharing the vulnerable depths of motherhood. The book features 100 anonymous stories which have inspired and continue to inspire my artwork and treasured relationships.
SOUTH GALLERY
Last five years in the Chugach | Francesca Singleton
Francesca Singleton, Fall Colors, watercolor on paper, 18 x 24 inches
This collection of paintings is a visual journal and journey through my last five years in Alaska. Here, I selected scenes and macros that portray the Chugach mountains and their nature, as I experience them in my very frequent outings. It is an attempt to meditate on the uncommon beauty that I see every day, to let the eye and the mind linger in nature, dwelling in the outdoors even while indoors.
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.