We are happy to announce that we will reopen on July 3rd with three new exhibitions. Although things will be slightly different in this time of Covid-19 (no events, altered open days and hours, social distancing, etc.) we feel that, with the cooperation of our volunteers and community, we can safely open to the public and share these wonderful new works of art. For more details on our Covid-19 sanitation and safety protocol, please click the button below.

On View July 2020:
Trine Bumiller | In Memoriam
Sandra Talbot | Third Nature: Divining the Scientific Archive
Alex Rydlinski | Home

Please Note - The gallery will not be hosting a First Friday opening event this month. In addition, the days and times we are open have changed as well.

On view: Friday, July 3rd - Saturday, August 1st

Gallery hours: Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 12 - 4pm | Thursday 4 - 8pm

Although the gallery will not be hosting any in person artist talks at this time, artists are encouraged to gallery sit, which we will publicize, in order for the public to meet and talk with them while maintaining safe practices. Furthermore, please be on the lookout for content involving the showing artists online throughout the month.

See images of all the works in each of these shows along with extra content about the artist, exhibtions and more in our blog archives:
Trine Bumiller | In Memoriam
Sandra Talbot | Third Nature: Divining the Scientific Archive
Alex Rydlinski | Home

CENTER GALLERY : Trine Bumiller | In Memoriam
In Memoriam is an installation comprised of fifteen large watercolor paintings of spruces, one golden. Through the story of the Golden Spruce, it honors the memory of living things, both trees and humans, in a time when life seems more precious than ever.

Artist Website: www.trinebumiller.com

NORTH GALLERY : Sandra Talbot | Third Nature: Divining the Scientific Archive
Archives of scientific activities and expeditions can be viewed simultaneously by both artists and scientists as repositories of knowledge, ways to satisfy the desire for order and control, and as mirrors of ourselves, of the collector, and of culture and society. In Third Nature: Divining the Scientific Archive, I leverage archived science-made materials and imagery gathered during my own scientific expeditions to remote treeless islands of southwestern Alaska and the Aleutian Island Archipelago. The work explores the impact of scientific expeditions—including the mid-18th century Bering Expedition—and subsequent colonial expansion on the ecology of these harsh but beautiful geographies.

Artist website: www.sandratalbot.com

SOUTH GALLERY : Alex Rydlinski | Home
Alex Rydlinski is an oil painter from Fairbanks currently living in Kenai. He spent over a decade living in the lower 48, traveling around the country, and trying to get back home to Alaska. In 2017 he studied in Norway with the master painter Odd Nerdrum. He’s been living on the Kenai peninsula for nearly a year, creating a body of work steeped in the old master tradition with special interest in the human being in the Northland wild.

Artist website: www.rydlinski.com

Alex will be gallery sitting on Saturday, July 4th and Saturday, August 1st from 12-4pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to view his exhibition and meet the artist in person.