Curator’s Talk | Impressions in Place
May 20 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Curator’s Talks | Tuesday, May 20 & Thursday, May 22 | 10:00 am | Free with Admission
Join Director of Arts, James Schaub, to learn more about the artists, media, and inspiration behind Impressions in Place.
The Desert Southwest is marked with pictographs and petroglyphs, ancient images painted onto and carved into stone that describe man’s place in the world. Mystifying and enlightening, they serve as timeless accounts toward the importance of place.
To the same effect, but on a smaller scale and at a more intimate level, artists have often lived in or traveled to a place that grounds them and speaks to them, with that place becoming a significant part of their person as well as an instrumental and inspirational component in their work.
IMPRESSIONS IN PLACE will investigate the human need, since the dawn of time, to leave behind a mark that records existence; a mark that establishes and documents a “sense of place” – a meaningful connectedness and an artistic awareness of how a place is impressed upon the artist and the artist is impressed upon the place.
Image: clockwise from upper left (details): Catherine Nash, Fadi Daher, Vincent Sebastian, Dee Ruff