February 2023

My drawings - On art and art history, taking in the entire scope of human existence from Neanderthals to now: plus religion, rock music and poetry | Matthew Collings
My Love is Winter: Gray Paintings | Paul Behnke
Recent Work | John Coyne

FIRST FRIDAY OPENING: February 3 | 5 - 8 pm

EXHIBITIONS ON VIEW: Saturday, February 4 - Friday, February 24, 2023

WINTER GALLERY HOURS: Thursday - Sunday | 1 - 4 pm

We are happy to accommodate private viewings outside of our gallery hours. Please email igcamanager@igcaalaska.org to arrange a time.

To purchase works from this month’s exhibitions, please visit our ONLINE STORE.

Interviews with Paul Behnke and Matthew Collings on Art Matters on Out North Radio KONR 106.1FM

Paul Behnke interview with Graham Dane will air at 11:00 am on Saturday, February 4
Matthew Collings interview with Graham Dane will air at 11:00 am on Saturday, February 11

CENTER GALLERY
My drawings - On art and art history, taking in the entire scope of human existence from Neanderthals to now: plus religion, rock music and poetry | Matthew Collings

Matthew Collings is a British artist, author and broadcaster who started producing these drawings at the start of the Covid pandemic, having produced a couple thousand of them to date. They’re a response to his reading and interest in art history – a personal merging and mashing of figures across time into eclectic works of intellectual fantasy. Toward the end of 2023 a book is being published about them.

NORTH GALLERY
My Love is Winter: Gray Paintings | Paul Behnke

These somber works completed in 2020, shortly after Behnke arrived in Taos, are a deliberate reaction to and against the fabled light, color and space of the high desert community. Threading form and color together with an uncharacteristically grayed down palette the paintings do not consciously reference landscape. But instead plumb the depths of memory and very loosely act as an abstract visual interpretation of writings that reference winters spent growing up in the South, and recently lived, on the East Coast.

https://www.paulbehnke.net/

SOUTH GALLERY
Recent Work | John Coyne

The numinous happens all around us, from the ever changing cloud formations to the play of light on treetops. Anywhere from the seemingly mundane streets in my neighborhood or the shoreline of Point Woronzof, from Anchorage parking lots at sunset to the landscapes of Central America there is transcendence. As an artist I keep my eye open for latent beauty wherever it may occur.

https://www.johncoyneartist.com/