June 2022
Lux Botanica | Vanessa Powell
Cubist Portraiture | Shiela Mahaney

First Friday opening: June 3rd | 5 - 8 p.m.

On view: Saturday, June 4th - Friday, June 24th

Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday | 3 - 7 p.m.

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

Artworks available for sale from the current exhibitions can be purchased through our online store, and you can read more about each artist and their exhibitions on our blog.

Artist Talk with Shiela Mahaney and Vanessa Powell: Tuesday, June 14th at 6:00 p.m.

Center and North Galleries:
Lux Botanica | Vanessa Powell

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.

Image: Vanessa Powell, Three of Wands, giclée from lumen process image, 18 x 12 inches.

South Gallery:
Cubist Portraiture | Shiela Mahaney

Cubist Portraiture chronicles a painter’s rite of passage along my journey of stylistic exploration. One day, while dabbling with a cubist framework for painting composition, something clicked. I found myself under the spell of true inspiration! Suddenly, my family, friends, and even our dog Maximus, were all transforming in my mind’s eye, through a cubist filter. I could not wait to express their images onto canvas using the most vibrant colors possible. There are 31 paintings in the collection, and the work flowed from my brushes as though Cubist Portraiture had been inside me all along waiting to be freed.

Image: Shiela Mahaney, Family, acrylic on paper, 12 x 9 inches.