City Listings - Art (February 8 - February 14, 1996)

ART

Opening This Week

ARTIST OF THE MONTH GALLERY. Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd Street. 748-1551. Opening February 9 and continuing through March 1: an exhibition by the UA art community featuring works by Josh Goldberg, Bart Morse, Andrew Rush and Richard Schaffer. There is an artists' reception from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, February 11. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Opening February 14 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and continuing through March 8: Shanghai Ink works by contemporary Shanghai artists Li Hou, Chen Xing, Wang Tiande, Zhi-pin Lu and Wang Jieyin. Qiu Deshu discusses his work from 2 to 3 p.m. Sunday, February 11. Continuing through February 9: Picture This, an exhibit of photographic works by internationally renowned artists, including William Wegman. See Special Events for details on the gala fundraising dinner February 9. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
PLATINUM GALLERY. Hacienda Del Sol. 5601 Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. Opening February 11 with a reception from 1 to 4 p.m. and continuing through March 15: platinum photographic printmaking by Gary Auerbach. Call for gallery hours.
ROTUNDA GALLERY. UA Student Union. Third Floor. 626-4215. Opening February 8 and continuing through March 14: Interstices, an exhibition of recent photography by Kye Bajakian, contrasting civilization and the wilderness that surrounds it. Call for gallery hours.
TEMPLE GALLERY. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-8210. Opening February 8 and continuing through March 20: monotypes and pastels by Jim Waid. An artist's reception gathers from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 16. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and prior to ATC performances.
UNION GALLERY. UA Student Union. 626-4215. Opening February 8 and continuing through March 7: Photographs From Africa, silver gelatin prints of scenes from Rwanda, Mali and the Masai Mari by Richard Laugharn. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Continuing

APPARATUS GALLERY. 299 S. Park Ave., Studio C. 791-3505. Continuing through February 29: paintings by Sarah Kucerova. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ARIZONA GALLERY. UA Student Union, Second Floor. 621-5123. Continuing through February 23: The Material and the Dream Can Join, paintings by Barbera Crisp, Deborah McMillion-Nering and Judith Walsh. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Arizona Historical Society. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Continuing through December 31, 1996: Emergence: The South Park Story, 1940-1950, a photo exhibit tracing the development of the South Park neighborhood, located along Park Avenue south of 22nd Street. Continuing through December 31, 1996: A Memento for My Descendants: The Buehman Studio Perspective, featuring the photographic works of German immigrant Henry Buehman. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
BERO GALLERY. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 792-0313. Continuing through February 24: mixed-media photo-constructions and sculptural books by Sharon Holnback and Patricia Katchur. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Night Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
Center for Creative Photography. UA Fine Arts Complex, southeast of the pedestrian underpass at Speedway and Park Avenue. 621-7968. Continuing through March 10: Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, featuring 12 contemporary American artists who explore themes central to the definition of multi-culturalism in the 1990s. Sculptor Gavin Lee presents a slide presentation of his works at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, February 8. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
CENTRAL ARTS COLLECTIVE. 188 E. Broadway. 623-5883. Continuing through February 28: Merged Realities: A Synthesis of Art and Science, a national juried exhibition of artists from 22 states whose work is inspired by science. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Night, Thursday Night Art Walk and by appointment.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through March 2: new paintings by Bruce McGrew and drawings and sculpture by Judith Stewart. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
DE GRAZIA GALLERY. Little Gallery. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. Continuing through February 16: Neon Pueblos and Native Cacti, an exhibition of brightly colored watercolors by Cal Cook. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
DESERT ARTISANS GALLERY. 6536-A Tanque Verde Road, La Plaza Shops. 722-4412. Continuing through March 11: New Beginnings, an exhibition of works by various local artists. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 795-4503. Continuing through February 24: an exhibition of four new mixed media works on paper by Laura LaFave. Continuing through February 24 in the small gallery: drawings by Diane Ferris. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
ECLECTIC GALLERY. 69 E. Pennington St. 620-1668. Continuing through March 15: an exhibit of realist works by Tucson artists. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Thursday Night Art Walk, Downtown Saturday Night and by appointment.
ELEANOR JECK GALLERY. 4280 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 5. 299-2139. Continuing through February 23: paper pieces and acrylic mixed-media on canvas by Greg Benson. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through March 30: paintings by Nancy Tokar Miller and Simon Donovan, and drawings by Fred Rhoads. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and Downtown Saturday Night.
G.A.S.P. GALLERY. Utterback Middle School. 3233 S. Pinal Vista. 617-6100. G.A.S.P Gallery is Tucson's only student-run gallery, and is supervised by art instructor Linda Poverman and UA Museum of Art Curator of Education, Josh Goldberg. Continuing through March 5: Eleven From ABC Multi-Media Art, an exhibition of painting, printmaking and ceramics by eleven African Americans from the Artists' Black Community (ABC). Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
HUNTER GALLERY. 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road. Suite 15. 298-8270. Continuing through March 30: drawings by American fashion illustrator Gregory Weir-Quiton, works by nine contemporary artists, and Early California Plein Air artists. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday and Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Closed Tuesday.
MELIORA GALLERY. 178 E. Broadway. 792-9544. Continuing through March 31: Line and Space: Projects and Process, featuring architectural drawing and models by Les Wallach. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY. St. Philip's Plaza. 4340 N. Campbell Ave. 577-3598. Continuing through March 24: creative jewelry by Michael Boyd, Jude Clarke and Diane Egbert. Introducing tapestry art by Amy Weber, work in handmade paper by Nancy Wilkoff and new drawings by Mary Ryan. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
PCC WEST CAMPUS ART GALLERY. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 884-6385. Continuing through February 20: Photo and Foundry, an invitational exhibition of alternative process photography by Linda Poverman, Keith Schreiber and Todd Walker, and cast metal sculpture by Susan K. Johnson, Susan Krause, Joe Harris and Don Haskin. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday.
PHILABAUM GALLERY. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through April 27: Southwest Invitational IX: Homo Vitreus, featuring 20 artists' interpretations of the human form in glass. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Continuing through March 11 in the Main Gallery: black and white photography of Yosemite National Park, Monument Valley and Death Valley by Allen "Ike" Fordye. Continuing through March 17: Arizona Designer Craftsmen '96: A Treasury of Fine Craft, a juried exhibition featuring jewelry, furniture, art quilts, handmade books, fiber art and clay. Regular gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. A $2 donation is requested.
TUCSON/PIMA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY. 240 N. Stone Ave. 624-0595. Continuing through February 23: Beauty and the Bead: The Many Facets of Beadwork and Pure Color, a combined exhibition featuring works by members of the Tucson Bead Society. Also showing are a collection of pastel drawings by TMA students of Gail Marcus-Orlen. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and Thursday Night Art Walk.
Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through March 10: A Gift of Vision, a collection of works donated by the Small family. Admission to the museum is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, free for members and children under 12. Free for all on Tuesdays. Docent-led tours of the TMA Historic Block are offered at 11 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
UA Museum of Art. UA campus, Speedway east of Park Avenue in the Fine Arts Complex. 621-7567. Continuing through February 29: La Raza: Diversity and Identity in Mexican and Mexican American Art, an exploration of the cultural contributions of Mexican artists from both sides of the border. Reina Prado of the UA Mexican American Studies and Research Center and UA art history graduate student Gretchen Gibbs present a free lecture from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, February 14 on the Los Angeles studio Self-Help Graphics, which produces public art in the form of prints and posters. Continuing through March 10: Robert Beckman: The Body of a House, featuring eight large paintings detailing the 2.3 seconds of a house's destruction during the 1953 nuclear bomb test in Nevada. Beckman discusses his work at 12:15 p.m. Monday, February 12. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed on Saturdays and UA holidays. Admission is free.

Last Chance

JCC ART GALLERY. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Continuing through February 11: Persuasive Moments, oil paintings by Bruce Horn and Tucson and San Diego Series, watercolors by Diana Schwartz. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing through February 10: Mascaras Pintadas: Retratos Intimos, works in gouache on paper by Cristina Cardenas, and acrylic paintings by Gonzalo Espinoza. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and 6 to 9 p.m. Downtown Saturday Night or by appointment.
LOCAL 803, INC. 803 E. Helen St. 882-4625. Continuing through February 10: fiber installation by Julia Latané, fiber sculpture by Melinda Morey and non-silver photography by Elaine Querry. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through February 10: recent paintings by Joe Forkan and Heather Green. Forkan's works are painterly, multi-image commentaries and observations. Green's works include paintings inspired by travel and impossibilities. Regular gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Night and Thursday Art Walk.

Announcements

VISUAL ARTS LECTURE. PCC Center for the Arts and PCC Art Gallery presents The Visual Artist Lecture Series at the PCC West Campus Center for the Arts Recital Hall, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tucson abstract painter Jim Waid opens the series with a free slide lecture of his work at 7 p.m. Tuesday, February 13.
ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR. Tucson Parks and Recreation hosts the Reid Park Arts and Crafts Fair from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, February 11, at Reid Park, 22nd Street and Country Club Road. Hundreds of artisans will show and sell their handcrafted works and food venders will share a variety of ethnic delights. Free parking and shuttle service from Hi Corbett Field parking lot. Call 791-4873 for information.
NON-PROFIT GRANTS. The Tucson/Pima Arts Council, 240 N. Stone Ave., has grants available for non-profit organizations whose primary focus is to provide arts programs to the Tucson area. Applications may be picked up at the T/PAC office. Deadline is March 15. Call Albert Soto at 624-0595, ext. 18, for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Entries for a juried show of abstract works are being accepted for an exhibit scheduled to open April 20. Send SASE for prospectus to: Eclectic Gallery, P.O. Box 2066, Tucson, AZ 85702. Deadline for entries is March 25. First, second and third cash prizes will be awarded. Non-refundable entry fee of $15. Call 620-1668 for an appointment and information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The PCC West Campus Gallery is accepting submissions for upcoming shows. Works by two to four artists are usually exhibited for four-week periods. College provides announcements and a reception. Interested artists should send ten 35mm slides, slide list, resume, other pertinent information, and SASE to: Linda Rosenfield, Gallery Coordinator, Arts Division, Pima Community College, 2202 W. Anklam Road, Tucson, AZ 85709-0001. Call Linda at 884-6385 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. G.A.S.P. Gallery seeks proposals for group and solo exhibitions. All media accepted. Send up to twenty slides and support material with SASE to: Linda Poverman, G.A.S.P. Gallery, Utterback Fine Arts Magnet School, 3233 S. Pinal Vista, Tucson, AZ 85713.
ART TALK. Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave., offers the following free lectures at 1:30 p.m. in the Education Building: February 8,Women and Their Quilts, with Helen Thompson; February 12, Maynard Dixon's West, with Glen Hamilton; and on February 15, George Wilson talks about painter/sculptor Frederick Remington. Call 624-2333 for information.
ART WALK. Visit the Downtown Arts District from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, with free docent-led Art Walk tours beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Park Inn Suite Santa Rita Hotel, 88 E. Broadway. Guided tours end at 7 p.m. Call 624-9977 for information and a listing of participating galleries.

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