Impressions in Place | Reception with the Artists

Reception with the Artists | Thursday, May 15 | 5:30 – 8:00 pm | FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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.

Impressions in Place Exhibiting Artists: David Adix, Corinne Babcock, Imo Baird, Barbara Jo Borch, Pamela Bosch, Chad Brady, Alexander Brauer, Amy Bright, Katherine Burdick, Annette Campbell, Daniel Cheek, Shari Coia, Alisha Conner, Fadi Daher, Rick DeMont, Jennifer Eschedor, Corbin Frame, Michelle Haden, Brian Hooker, Jerry Jacobson, Albert Kogel, William Lesch, Mark Mahaffey, Michele Miller, Catherine Nash, Stephanie Nordlin, Lyle Rayfield, Dee Ruff, Vincent Sabastian, Judith Shangold, Gavin Hugh Troy, Mary Vaneecke, Victoria Westover, David Windsor, Jim Woodside, Holly Worthington

Image: clockwise from upper left (details): Catherine Nash, Fadi Daher, Vincent Sebastian, Dee Ruff