Current Exhibitions

Jim Waid and Andy Iventosch | The Heart of Nature

The Heart of Nature features works on paper by Jim Waid and pottery by Andy Iventosch. Renowned painter, Jim Waid has lived and worked in Tucson for over 50 years. Andy Iventosch is a potter who calls Tucson his hometown. The two artists honor their connection to nature through their subject matter and media.

“The complex play of line, texture and space produces intuitive connections rather than simply literal or narrative ones. We witness a rendezvous of lovers, the insect and the flower uniting as one. It is in this in-between space of representation, one also revealed through the use of multiple perspectives, that the poetry of Waid’s vision of nature resonates with the improvisations of jazz music and dissolves the boundaries between artist creation and the energies of nature. As he puts it: Among other things, the drawings are about observed plant life; improvisation, growth patterns, insects, doodles, perception, all trying to capture that sense of life, of energy, that is at the heart of nature.” – Paul Eli Ivey

“It is the job of the artist to discover and convey wonder in the universe. The potter is perhaps the most well situated to make discoveries due to the close rhythmic, daily work with clay. Mud is the most basic yet most incomparable of materials. It connects the potter with primordial aspects of the world around us. The potter is grounded by the making of pots that contain volume.”

Image: clockwise from upper left (details): Andy Iventosch, Jim Waid, Andy Iventosch, Jim Waid

Featured Artist: Norah S. Siller

“I paint how I feel. Every piece is an extension of myself, they are my emotions illustrated. I was born in Hermosillo, Sonora Mexico. Parented by a painter, a writer, and a psychiatrist, two cultivated the creative, one showed me the importance of introspection. I’ve never questioned my need to create, I just do.”

Kate Long Hodges | Thorn Blizzard

Open through January 5, 2025
Entry Gallery

Kate Long Hodges is the second Entry Gallery Project Space (EGPS) artist to exhibit her work during the 2024-2025 season.

Thorn Blizzard gathers thorns like a field of arrows, directing our footsteps back to the center of a circle. Like the dendrochronology of a tree, this center shares a beginning; we are born from a pith and core that connects us to our family roots.

These arrows point toward a particular family story- my father, mother, sister, and brother, sharing roots of growing up on a farm. Family roots inform our being; even within old chaos, perhaps we choose to see humor, or remember beauty, before the imprint fades like a leaf on the ground, dissolving back to earth.

Why have thorns become arrows for me? Through experience, the thorn has told me what the wrong direction is, and the pain of the wrong direction becomes a guide, leading me to move in a dance that follows guidance, a focused energy.

Thorns are respectfully gathered from two places where I spend time: Hawthorns from Vermont, and Agave thorns from Tucson. Acknowledging the symbiotic relationship of these plants, their similar forms grow in vastly different places, speaking of a great interconnectedness.”