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.”

Susan Lyman | Postcards from the Border

January 11- February 23, 2025

Entry Gallery

Artist Talk with Susan Lyman

Wednesday, January 29th | 12 pm | Main Gallery | Free with Admission

Susan Lyman is the third and final Entry Gallery Project Space (EGPS) artist to exhibit her work during the 2024-2025 season.

“Working both as a painter and a wood sculptor, my work has long been inspired by the landscapes of the three habitats where I have been spending my time: Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, Michigan’s northern woods, and Outer Cape Cod’s coastal environment. However, in the last several years my view of landscape as a subject has shifted. I have felt an increasing urgency to express the sorrow and loss I feel over the destruction of and disregard for this planet earth that we share with all humankind and all forms of life.

Since I began making art in Tucson eight winters ago, the environmental devastation occurring at the border wall during the 45^th POTUS wall construction has been eating at my heart. I felt compelled to bear witness to this destruction, which is explored in my ongoing series, Postcards from the Border. I find inspiration in the investigative photography and writing of photojournalists covering the border, and also work from my own photographs taken in the borderlands. As the series has progressed, I have been using multiple or layered images to create a re-imagined landscape.”

Image: (details): Susan Lyman