Tucson Weekly: Listings: Art (October 9

ART
Opening This Week
Listings ARTIST OF THE MONTH GALLERY. Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 748-1551. Opening with a reception from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, October 12, and continuing through November 7: Centennial Celebration, works by members of the National League of Pen Women. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
EL CENTRO CULTURAL DE LAS AMERICAS. 40 W. Broadway. 629-9536. Opening with a reception from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, October 11: Arte y Bocaditos, works in various media by seven artists. The reception will feature bocoditos (samples) of specialty foods prepared by the artists, varying from Hungarian gulyas to calabacitas con elote. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and by appointment.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 792-4503. Opening October 9 and continuing through October 11: Raise Art '97, works by students of the Pima County Adult Education Project RAISE. There's a reception and performance from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Saturday, October 11. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
ROTUNDA GALLERY. UA Student Union, third floor. 621-5123. Opening October 9 and continuing through November 13: For Amusement Only, photographs of the Arizona State and Maricopa County Fairs. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Opening with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, October 9, and continuing through November 30: a juried exhibition by members of the Arizona Colored Pencil Society. Continuing through November 17: Contemporary Beadwork: Traditions and Transitions. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Continuing
APPARATUS GALLERY. 299 S. Park Ave. 791-3505. Continuing through November 1: Illumination & Steel Sculpture, luminarios, lamps, candelabras, and sculpture incorporating light. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ARTERY FINE ART GALLERY. 2843 N. Campbell Ave. 327-6094. Continuing through November 30: Desert Images, featuring contemporary, traditional, and Southwestern art. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
BERO GALLERY. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 792-0313. Continuing through October 25: digital photography by Joseph Labate. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 5 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, Downtown Saturday Nights, and by appointment.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. Continuing through October 18: portraits and travel scenes by Kate Frohlich Bell. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call for weekend hours.
CENTRAL ARTS COLLECTIVE. 188 E. Broadway. 623-5883. Continuing through October 25: River of Voices, In Honor of Elders, a living installation of stories, voices, water, and life. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Nights.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. Casas Adobes Office Park. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through November 1: Monoprints, a survey of monoprint techniques by five artists in abstract, figure, and landscape themes. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
DESERT ARTISANS' GALLERY. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Continuing through November 9: Search For Tranquillity, paintings, sculpture, and mixed-media creations. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
ELIZABETH CHERRY CONTEMPORARY ART. 437 E. Grant Road. 903-0577. Continuing through November 8: Unite! To Win Still Greater Victories, posters and prints by Frank Kozik. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment.
ETHERTON GALLERY. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through November 8: paintings by Gail Marcus-Orlen; photographs by Christopher Burkett; and paintings by Owen Williams. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
EVERYDAY MYSTERIES HEALTH CENTER. 135 S. Fifth Ave. 629-0959. Continuing through October 31: Birth Art, featuring works in all media. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
FRAMED TO PERFECTION GALLERY. Park Mall. 5870 E. Broadway. 571-1963. Continuing: Hale-Bopp photography by Flandrau astronomer Michael Terenzoni; 3-D wall sculptures and wall puzzles by Syd Clayton-Seeber; and landscape photography by Bill Lesch. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
HACIENDA DEL SOL GALLERY. 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. Continuing through November 6: paintings by Robert Goldman. Gallery hours are 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
IRONWOOD GALLERY. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Continuing through November 16: Desert Paintings, works by Juan Rios Ce-Acatl. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, free with museum admission.
JCC GALLERY. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Continuing through October 27: clay works by Pamala and Tim Ballingham; and portraits and still lifes in oils and pastels by Virginia Reilly. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing through October 25: mosaics by Las Artes, a youth program encompassing community art projects, reintroduction to secondary education, and problems facing dropouts and "at risk" youth. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Downtown Saturday Nights and by appointment.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through November 6: Surface Tension, an installation by Phoenix artist Laurie Lundquist. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
KALEIDOSCOPE FINE ARTS GALLERY. Unitarian Universalist Church. 3601 W. Cromwell Drive. 742-3815. Continuing through October 30: The Magic of Light in Nature, paintings by Jonquil Master. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to noon Sunday and by appointment.
LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY. Gross Gallery Building. UA Fine Arts Complex, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through October 17: Displaced Perspectives, featuring works by Emily Tellez and Mark Seely. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
M. REVAK & CO. 1440 N. Stone Ave. 624-3445. Continuing through October 30: Urban Landscapes and Other Discoveries, works by Cynthia Savage, Kristen Muench, and Christina Lytwynczuk. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
MURPHEY GALLERY. St. Philip's In The Hills. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-1816. Continuing through October 30: impressionistic-style acrylic paintings by Leslie Schultz; and oil portraits and landscapes by Tony Quesada. Gallery hours are 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY. 4340 N. Campbell Ave. 577-3598. Continuing through November 1: El Día de los Muertos/ Day of The Dead Multi-Media Exhibition, featuring works by more than 30 artists. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
PCC ART GALLERY. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. Continuing through November 4: quilts of geometric simplicity by Ruth Garrison; clay constructions by Andrée Richmond; and press photographs of the 1996 Summer Olympics from the Atlanta Journal and the Atlanta Constitution. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and during weekend performances at the Center for the Arts.
PHANTOM GALLERY. Various downtown locations. "Light boxes" by Robert Renfrow are on display at 38 E. Congress St. Paintings by Elizabeth Elequin highlight the Tucson Arts District Partnership office, 4 E. Congress St. Photographs taken by the children participating in Club Randolph, a Tucson Parks and Recreation Department summer program, are on display at 45 N. Sixth Ave. Call 624-9977 for information on other Phantom Gallery locations.
PHANTOM MURALS AND SCULPTURE. The following outdoor murals are located in the Arts District: Ofrenda, by Martin Hernandez, 111 S. Sixth Ave; Homage To Tucson, by Lydia D'Amico, 400 N. Fourth Ave; Cats, by Monika Rossa, 36 E. Congress St.; mythical muscular figures by Gustavo Rocha behind Johnny Gibson's in Arizona Alley; Drawn to the Light, by Luna Lee Ray, corner of Broadway and Stone Avenue; and The Thinkers, by Eleanor Kohloss, Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street. Ned Egan's Blue Steel Bouquet, the first in the Phantom Sculpture Spring Series, can be found next to the Julian Drew building on Broadway between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Call the Tucson Arts District Partnership at 624-9977 for information.
PHILABAUM CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through November 8: Molten Marriage, Combinations of Metal and Glass, featuring works by 14 artists. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
PINK ADOBE GALLERY. 222 E. Congress St. 623-2828. Continuing through October 31: ceramic music boxes by Joyce Canaan; silver and beaded jewelry by Joan Dulla; and watercolors by Margie Bassler. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
PINK ADOBE GALLERY. 6538 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-5995. Continuing through October 31: Judaica jewelry by Wendy Silver; ceramic plates by David McDonald; and metal sculpture by Henry Dupere. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through October 11: recent paintings and prints by Katie Cooper, including iconographic monoprints. Also continuing through November 22: Raw Light, an exhibition of miniature works by the group T.A.G., in the Raw windows. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, until 7 p.m. for Thursday Night Art Walk, Downtown Saturday Nights, and by appointment.
RED GALLERY. 1139 E. Sixth St. 628-9921. Continuing through October 31: paintings, assemblage and 1950s-inspired furniture by Anne and Todd Winkler. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment.
ST. GREGORY ART GALLERY. 3231 N. Craycroft Road. Continuing through October 31: photographs by Don Clouse. Call Barbara Rosenberg at 749-1162 for information.
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through November 29: Images of Mission San Xavier del Bac, an exhibition celebrating the Bicentennial of Mission San Xavier. Continuing through October 26: George DiGeorgio's 24-panel Grand Canyon Suite. Continuing through October 17: Familiar Places, black and white photographs by Cy Lehrer. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, and free for children under age 12. Admission is free for all on Tuesdays.
TUCSON PIMA LIBRARY. 101 N. Stone Ave. 791-4393. Continuing through October 30: Mixed Media Monotypes, Etcetera, works by Sheila Chambers, Chris Bondante and Acacia Alder. Exhibit space is open during regular library hours.
UA MUSEUM OF ART. UA Fine Arts Complex, pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7567. Continuing through April 1: Robert Wick: Campus Outdoor Sculptures. Continuing through October 10: Memories of Childhood: So We're Not The Cleavers or The Brady Bunch. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
WINGSPAN GALLERY. 300 E. Sixth St. 624-1779. Continuing through October 31: Wingspan's third annual OUToberFEST juried exhibition. Call 624-1779 for gallery hours.
WOMANKRAFT GALLERY. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Continuing through October 25: Visible For A Change, paintings celebrating lesbian sexuality by Lorraine Inzalaco. Regular gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Last Chance
ARIZONA GALLERY. UA Student Union, north side of the mall, east of Old Main. 621-5123. Continuing through October 16: Still Lifes and Other Cultural Icons, black-and-white Tucson photography by José Galvez. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
G.A.S.P. GALLERY. 3233 S. Pinal Vista, Utterback Middle School. 617-6100. Continuing through October 10: Reality Check, 12 artists' perspectives on realism. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. G.A.S.P. (Great Art by Students and Professionals) Gallery is a student-run gallery.
SHANE HOUSE GALLERY. 218 S. Fourth Ave. 623-2577. Continuing through October 12: recent sculpture and drawings by Megan DeArmond. Gallery hours are during Downtown Saturday Nights and by appointment.
TEMPLE GALLERY. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Continuing through October 15: Saints and Sinners, mixed-media and works on paper by Daniel Martin Diaz. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and prior to ATC performances. Call 624-7370 for information.
UNION GALLERY. UA Student Union, first floor. 621-5123. Continuing through October 13: mixed-media works by Jeff Falk. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Out Of Town
OTERO STREET GALLERY. 5 Camino Otero, Tubac. Continuing through November 23: Views of the Santa Cruz Valley, featuring works by Shirley Flynn, Margaret Johnson, Mary Langston, and Rea Ragatz. Call 398-8014 for gallery hours and information.
TUBAC CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 9 Tubac Road, Tubac. Opening with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, October 11, and continuing through November 9: Twenty-Five Years of Art Commitment in Tubac, featuring works by 50 resident artists. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. Call 398-2371 for gallery schedule.
Announcements
ART WALK. A wealth of fine artists and galleries await on the weekly Art Walk, a self- or docent-guided stroll through the Downtown Arts District between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Free tours of public art displays and participating galleries begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Park Inn Suite Santa Rita Hotel, 88 E. Broadway. Call 624-9977 for information and a listing of participating galleries.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Dinnerware Contemporary Art Gallery is accepting slides for its artist roster. Inclusion on the roster confers eligibility for exhibitions and membership in the artists' cooperative. To qualify, applicants must work professionally in the visual arts (not be working toward a degree), be Tucson residents, pay monthly dues of $35, and be willing to contribute time and energy to the Dinnerware Artists' Cooperative. For application and information, send a business-sized SASE to: Dinnerware Roster, 135 E. Congress St., Tucson, AZ 85701. Application deadline is November 1.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Tucson Jewish Community Center is accepting proposals from artists in two-dimensional media for the 1998 Fine Art Gallery exhibition schedule. Proposals are reviewed by the TJCC Visual Arts Committee. Application materials include 10 slides, completed prospectus form, résumé, SASE and $10 fee. Submission deadline is October 15. Call Lori Lantz, gallery coordinator, at 299-3000 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Tucson/Pima Arts Council seeks proposals from artists to create free-standing work and/or other artistic enhancements in conjunction with planned roadway improvements on west Silverlake Road between I-10 and Mission Road. Submission deadline is October 16. Call Beth Hancock at 624-0595, ext. 21, for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Tucson International Mariachi Conference seeks submissions for the Tucson International Mariachi Conference poster. Submit original artwork, sketches, or three slides of work completed within the last two years. An honorarium of $1,000 will be awarded. Work should reflect the 1998 Conference theme: Aires Mexicanos--its impact and cultural significance--in an abstract or representational style. Posters from the last 15 years can be seen at La Frontera Center, 502 W. 29th St. Submission deadline is December 15. Call Lolie Gomez at 884-9920, ext. 243, for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Subway Gallery in Bisbee seeks submissions for the Day of the Dead Altarpiece Show, to run October 31 through November 2. Open to all Arizona artists. Call 1-888-632-4716 for prospectus.
CALLING COMMUNITY ARTISTS. The Tucson Arts Brigade is a multi-cultural, intergenerational collective of community-based cultural workers. They're seeking artists interested in collaborating on neighborhood and community-based art projects. Current projects include a series of posters and murals on Communities in Transformation--Healing Themselves, Healing Others. For information on weekly design and brainstorming sessions, commissions and donations of art supplies, call 791-9359; or email ArtBrigade@aol.com.
EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOPS. WomanKraft Castle Art Center. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. WomanKraft continues its Neighborhood Arts Empowerment Workshop Series on October 11 with: Glazing Clay Works. Classes meet from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Workshops are $10, free to anyone making less than $15,000 a year, carless or homeless. Children who are capable of working independently are welcome; others must have adult supervision. Pre-registration is required. Call 629-9976 for registration or for a schedule of upcoming workshops.
GLASSBLOWING DEMONSTRATION. Watch glassblowers practice their craft at the downtown studio of Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass, 711 S. Sixth Ave. Call 884-7404 to confirm the day's schedule, or if there are more than six people in your party.
WAREHOUSE WALKS. Take a tour of Tucson's Historic Warehouse District with The Tucson Arts District Partnership. Tours run the second Saturday of each month, and meet at 8:50 a.m. in the lobby of the Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St. Tour groups are limited, and RSVP's are requested by 5 p.m. the Thursday prior to the tour. Participants should dress comfortably, and plan on being outdoors. Call 624-9977 for reservations and information.