The Exotic Sublime | treading softly
May 16 – August 5, 2024
Reception with the Artists | Thursday, May 16th | 5:30 – 8 pm | Free and Open to the Public
THE EXOTIC SUBLIME treading softly will present a contemporary bestiary focused on the many creatures that walk above or live below the earth in the Sonoran Desert. In plain sight or elusive, real and imagined creatures are ever-present, existing, threatened, mysterious, endangered, mystical, and magical. Or extinct. Mammalian, reptilian, amphibian, aquatic, and arthropodous worlds walk, hop, slither, swim, crawl, creep, and bound around us; resilient lifecycles adaptably ever-changing. Or not. We witness – in macrocosm or microcosm – the effects of time in slow dissolution or methodical accretion; cautionary and symbiotic tales combine what this place used to be with what this place will become. The voice in between, the creative and artistic resolve, is a visionary current toward the odd and wondrous grandeur of The Exotic Sublime.
Exhibiting artists: Jo Andersen, Tina Baker, Karen Bell, Sue Bergman, Barbara Jo Borch, Pamela Bosch, Alexander Brauer, Daniel Cheek, Shari Coia, Katie Cooper, Craig Cully, Ann Dahlgren, Nathen Danforth, Pat Frederick, Bruce Fulton, Ramon Garcia, Zach Gordon, David Griffin, Ulli Hain, Charles Hedgcock, Brian Hooker, Helen Kennedy, Samantha Kolb, Scott Larson, William Lesch, Mark Mahaffey, John McNulty, Melanie McPherson, Lydia Miszuk, Terry Moss & Ric Maledón, Rafael Navarro, Cyndy Padilla, Angela Puffer, Lyle Rayfield, Robert Renfrow, Mark Rossi, Dana Smith, Susan Thompson, Gavin Hugh Troy, Bekah Unsworth, John Weitfeldt
Image: clockwise from upper left (details): Craig Cully, Dana Smith, Cyndy Padilla, and Bruce Fulton
Queen of the Night
June 1 – July 28, 2024 | Deadline for Entries: May 10, 2024
For one night each year, this fragrant and stunning flower reveals itself to anyone lucky enough to greet it. To celebrate the treasured Peniocereus greggii or night-blooming cereus, in 2024 an exhibition in the Entry Gallery will feature the Queen of the Night in all her glory.
Artists are asked to contribute works that represent the Peniocereus greggii plant: the bloom, flower, cactus, tuber, or fruit. Artists can submit 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional works in any media for consideration in this curated exhibition. The Entry Gallery is an intimate space that only allows for a small number of works.
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Image: Kelly Houle
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