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.
Image: clockwise from upper left (details): Alexandra Bowers, Christopher Allison, Nancy Chilton, and Brian Hooker
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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