Girl-Woman by Judith Mariner

On Saturday January 29^th there will be a closing exhibition titled “Reflections of the new mythic body: Figurative painting by Judith Mariner.” This will be a great opportunity to see this talented artist’s work before it leaves and meet the new owners of one of Tucson’s newest galleries in the historic warehouse arts district.

Card Reader by Judith Mariner

Judith is a local artist living and working in Tucson. Her primary life focus is philosophy, metaphysics and the multi-dimensionality of consciousness.  Her work is investigative and fueled by awe, longing, and divine discontent, which she believes are the handmaidens of creation and evolution.

Women In the Bath by Judith Mariner

Judith’s college B. A. is in music performance and her visual art talents are self taught . She has been a guest working artist at the Drawing Studio here in Tucson.

By learning through experience she now uses her talents to teach others watercolor, oil and drawing through private lessons at various Parks and Recreation centers while raising her two children as a single mom. Judith’s work is not easily categorized. She covers a range from landscape, portraits, psychological studies and abstracts.

American Souls by Judith Mariner

The closing exhibition will be this Saturday  29th of January at 6:00 PM- 9:00 PM at the Wanderlust gallery, 439 North 6th Ave, Tucson

(Entrance on  6th Street. Best parking is behind the 6^th Ave/6^th St. building entering from 6^th Ave.

For more information call 520-207-3346.

Refreshments provided.

The Etherton Gallery is having its first exhibition of the 2010-2011 season, Ojos bien abiertos/Eyes Wide Open opening September 7 and running through November 6, 2010.

It is part of a yearlong celebration of Etherton Gallery’s 30^th Anniversary.  The show features sgrafitto drawings by Alice Leora Briggs, hand-colored gelatin silver photographs by Guatemalan photographer, Luis Gonzalez Palma and documentary photographs by Mexican photographer Rodrigo Moya. Together these artists give the viewer access to intimate moments, insider views and documentary images that challenge the cultural myths and historical understanding that have conditioned our appraisal of Latin America.

Coral by Luis Gonzalez Palma

The Etherton Gallery will host an artist reception Saturday, September 11, 7-10 pm at the gallery. Luis Gonzalez Palma, who lives in Argentina, is traveling to Tucson in one of his few trips to the United States this year, to attend the reception and will speak at the Center for Creative Photography the next day.

Observar en Silencio by Alice Leora Briggs

Etherton Gallery will show new work by Alice Leora Briggs as well as a number of works from Dreamland: The Way Out of Juarez, a collaboration with writer Charles Bowden, which she describes as part “illuminated manuscript” and part “crime blotter.” Briggs’ sgraffito drawings reveal the otherwise untold story of the victims, bystanders, and collaborators in the Juarez drug wars.  Images from a series of postage stamp styled drawings like Silencio make clear that sins of omission are in fact political acts that can have the same deadly consequences as sins of commission, regardless of who perpetrates them.

Eyes Wide Open showcases work by Palma, including photographs from the series, Your Gaze Distorts Me Without Knowing It (translated from Spanish), which features portraits of young women with bleached, riveting eyes. The series, inspired by Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), articulates Palma’s belief that, “when we see, we do not see what we see, we see who we are.”  In Palma’s words these portraits  “. . . support an imagined gaze, to establish a relation that does not exist in reality, but does create its own reality.”

LaPesca Milagrosa by Rodrigo Moya

Working in the tradition of Henri Cartier Bresson and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer Rodrigo Moya covered political unrest throughout Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s. Part photojournalist, part street photographer, Moya  brought the human cost of civil and military uprisings and the people who lived through these turbulent times to the pages of magazines such as Impacto, El Espectador, Politica, Sucesos and Siempre! Moya documents not only the newsworthy event, he provides us with the insider’s view, as though his subjects were waiting for his camera. Eyes Wide Open features a selection of Moya’s most iconic images from this period, including his photographs of the charismatic Che Guevara.

Etherton Gallery will host an artist reception at the gallery Saturday, September 11, 7 to 10 pm. Luis Gonzalez Palma and Alice Leora Briggs will attend.  The following day, September 12 at 2 pm, Luis Gonzalez Palma will give a talk about his work at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.

Etherton Gallery is located in SoCo at 135 South 6th Avenue in downtown Tucson, AZ 85701. Regular business hours are Tuesday — Saturday, 11 am-5 pm and by appointment. For more information, contact the gallery at (520) 624-7370 or info@ethertongallery.com

John Muir (standing) & John Burroughs at the Grand Canyon (1909) PHOTO by Karl Moon

Opening June 8 and running through August 28, 2010 at Etherton Gallery, A Grand View: Arizona Landscape Photography 1871-2010, is an historical survey of landscape photographs, featuring a selection of images by more than 30 photographers including: including: Ansel Adams, Linda Connor, Forman Hanna, Eliot Erwitt, Timothy O’Sullivan, Richard Misrach, Frederick Sommer, as well as nationally known Arizona photographers including William Lesch, Jay Dusard, Edward McCain, and many more.

Sahuaras (1890) PHOTO by Willis P. Haynes

Cactus Tree, Arizona (1875) PHOTO by Elias A. Bonine

Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, Mouth of Kanab Wash Looking West (1872) PHOTO by William Bell

A Grand View features work from individual artists and Etherton’s extensive inventory by some of the most important masters of the medium, illuminating our long standing and storied fascination with Arizona. Beginning with the first government sponsored surveys of the West, Timothy O’Sullivan’s Black Cañon, Colorado River from Camp 8, Looking Above (1871), made for the US Geological Survey, is an image of a man seated in a boat with a box of camera equipment, dwarfed by the jagged canyon walls that frame the image. Although O’Sullivan could only hint at the roaring motion of the river, the image creates the impression of Arizona as a dangerous uncharted frontier, when the transcontinental railroad was just 100 miles away.

Medicine Wheel, Sedona, Arizona ( 1989) PHOTO by Debra Bloomfield

Among the contemporary works included in A Grand View is Santa Catalina Sunset, Arizona (2001) by Jeff Smith, a large format color photograph that romanticizes the wild beauty of Arizona’s monsoons. Smith’s use of color — saturated velvety blues and inky blacks — heightens the contrast with the dramatic veins of lightning that dominate the Tucson city lights below. William Lesch’s black and white topographic view of the Tucson valley, Developing Thunderstorm over the Tucson Valley, Triptych, August, 2006 makes clear that Arizona’s beauty resides in its treasured wide open spaces and the lofty clouds that rise and fall as they pass over the valley. A Grand View captures the paradox of Arizona, its great cultural history, natural beauty and iconoclastic spirit, reminding us why we call Arizona home.

Motel, Southern Arizona (2007) PHOTO by Scott B. Davis

Canyon de Chelly (1910) PHOTO by Roland Reed

Seen and Not Seen PHOTO by Ken Rosenthal

A Grand View: Arizona Landscape Photography 1871-2010 opens June 8 and runs through August 28, 2010. Etherton Gallery is located in SoCo at 135 S. 6^th Ave., in downtown Tucson, AZ. Summer hours are Tuesday – Saturday, 11am-5pm and by appointment. For information about the exhibition please contact Etherton Gallery at (520) 624-7370 or info@ethertongallery.com

Rural Graffiti By Diana Yakowitz

Diana Yakowitz’s photography is more than just recording the visible. More than shades and shapes they are a visible interior journey she has followed revealing her inner self. Her new exhibition opens this Friday, March 26, at the unique KUZU gallery here in Tucson.

Loving Memory by Diana Yakowitz

She shoots few frames and often waits for some recognition to occur. Diana studies her images afterwards and often discovers something that influences her work later or an overlooked image which she views with new eyes and interprets its true meaning.

Reaching Out by Diana Yakowitz

The images she chose for this show were taken in the past year with a few exceptions.  Most of the  images are from the Pacific Northwest near Seattle and have in common some degree of human interaction or intrusion on nature. If you read the titles you will better understand the journey of discovery she has been following.

Lessons From The Dunes by Diana Yakowitz

Intervention by Diana Yakowitz

As a child, she opened the back of her first camera and accidentally exposed all of the film. She stated “that unfortunate experience made me look upon photography equipment as something to avoid, overcome, put up with, pull one over on, cheat, use, abuse, circumvent, and then finally befriend.”

Careful by Diana Yakowitz

Since that first learning experience, Yakowitz’s photographic works have been the result of her interior journey through the seventies, influenced by the sixties, honed in the eighties, on pause in the nineties, and with many forks and dead ends in the ‘roads’ leading up to today.

Something To Hold Onto by Diana Yakowitz

In searching for an overall title for her new exhibition, she kept coming back to the image above titled “Something to Hold Onto.” For her, it expressed frustrations and her longing laid bare. She found the title fit not only this image but also the entire show with all illustrating, sometimes subtly, this expression in a literal or metaphoric way.

She told me she couldn’t think of a better expression for her relationship with photography itself than “something to hold onto.” It seems to say it all, a true reflection of her inner self, reflected in her unique photographs.  As you view her exhibition you will understand her visible journey and see the inner journey she is still following.

L A Shroud by Diana Yakowitz

If you would like to see a much larger body of her work  and her journey through life visit this site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37498647@N06/3617797619/

The exhibition of Diana Yakowitz’s new photographs is being held at one of Tucson’s newest unique gallery, KUZU, located at 1991 E. Ajo Way, Suite 161.

Opening hours: 6:00PM -9:00 PM

For more information call: 520-624-7290

Directions to KUZU