The light is low, the air is cold, the year is almost gone.
We thank you for your support and encouragement throughout 2022.
Light Art Space will be closed December 24 and 25. The final week of 2022 we will be open Thursday – Saturday 11 – 5.
We are closing January and February with plans to reorganize and rejuvenate.
Flash and I send love and light your way!
Karen Hymer
Nancy Spencer
Rhonda Munzinger
Kathleen Koopman
Eric Renner
Juan Velasco
Art Peterson
Joel Armstrong
Carmen Ruiz
Craig LeCroy
Flash
Light Art Space and the Silver City Art Association Independent Artists invite you to Fiercely Independent, a group exhibit of their artwork. A variety of media will be on display by 23 artists, including painting, sculpture, jewelry, and photography.
Reception: Tonight, November 18th, 2022. 5 pm – 7 pm
Exhibition Dates:
Thursday, November 17th – Sunday, 27th, 2022
Participating Artists:
Anne Alexander, Joel Armstrong, Franky DeAngelis, Sandy Feutz, Stacey Gagle, Mary Gates, Bryan Hyde, Kelly Johnson, Hilary Klein, Kathleen Koopman, Susan Mach, Rhonda Munzinger, Felix Norero Jr, Susan H. Porter, Gay Scheibl, Jo Thomas, Sally Tilton, Marcia Tinker, Tom Vaughn, Mariah Walker, Myron Weckwerth, Kit West, Val Weston
Upcoming exhibitions:
December 1 – 31st
Reception Friday Dec. 2nd, 5 – 7 pm
Artist talks 5:30 pm
Join us for a book signing this Saturday at 3 pm in the North Gallery at Light Art Space. Photographer, Dale Taylor, will present his recently released coffee table book, “A Personal Williamsburg”. The book is Dales’s personal portfolio of the restored colonial town in which he worked and lived. Books will be available for purchase.
In the Galleries:
Also on Display, Work by Light Art Space artists Carmen Ruiz, Joel Armstrong, Art Peterson, Eric Renner, Nancy Spencer, Juan Velasco, Karen Hymer, Kathleen Koopman, and Craig LeCroy.
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Karen Hymer
Juan Velasco
Joel Armstrong
Eric Renner
Carmen Ruiz
Kathleen KoopmanCraig LeCroy
Nancy Spencer
Flash in the Fall Light
This is a great weekend to visit Silver City! Friday evening join us at LAS for a public reception for two new printmaking exhibitions.
Push & Pull, juried by Frank Rose director of Hecho a Mano gallery in Santa Fe, features hand-made prints by 19 artists from across the United States. Don’t miss the amazing work. Exhibiting Artists: Paul Acevedo Gomez, Justin Barfield, Stephanie Berrie, Douglas Bosley, Nancy Dodd, Joshua Flores, Raluca Iancu, Mario Kiran, Julianna Kirwin, Stephanie Koply, Lujiang Li, David Manje, Peter Nickel, Mike Pennekamp, Abigail Ranic, Anders Sandstrom, Roxanne Sexauer, Diane Vera-Ureño, Sharon Whitham.
Pressed: Five Printmakers in the Southwest present a variety of processes including collagraph, woodblock, monotype, drypoint, transfers, cyanotype, handmade books, silkscreen, and 3D constructions.
Work by Jo Andersen, Cristina Cardenas, Jamie Karolich, Carmen Ruiz and Glory Tacheenie-Campoy.
The dates for both exhibitions are October 7th – November 12th, 2022.
Reception: Friday, October 7th, 5pm – 7pm.
Weekend at the Galleries takes place Saturday 10 am – 7 pm, and Sunday 10 am – 3 pm. Stop in to see new work and demonstrations, and enjoy refreshments. Pick up a map/brochure at Light Art Space. The Silver City Art Association creature auction fundraiser will also take place on Saturday at the makers Market downtown. Come bid on your favorite Javelina, Raven, or Gila Monster.
AND Don’t miss the Southwest Print Fiesta vendor market, steam roller printing in the street, and other events from Saturday – Monday.
For more information visit https://www.southwestprintfiesta.org/
Saturday, October 8th
9 am-4:30 pm
$95 includes all supplies and equipment
Sign up for this fun workshop with Tucson artists Jo Andersen and Vanessa Dearing.
No experience is needed, ages 12 and up are welcome.
Register at: https://lightartspace.com/product/things-with-wing…on-book-workshop/
Part of the Southwest Print Fiesta! October 7th – 10th
More workshops and events at:
https://www.southwestprintfiesta.org/
Join us tomorrow, Thursday, September 15th, at 6 pm (MT time) for an Artist Talk on Facebook. Paul will discuss the paintings in his current exhibition, Intimations of Immortality, in the Flash Gallery at Light Art Space. Here is the link:
https://www.facebook.com/paul.hotvedt.painting
September is here and it feels like fall! Temperatures in Silver City are cool and perfect now for hiking, roasting green chili, and visiting Light Art Space. Here is what is happening…
Tuesday, September 6th at midnight (mountain time) is the
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT to Push & Pull, handmade prints Part of the 2022 SW Print Fiesta!
Submit at:https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=10495
Happy September!
Correction: the upcoming reception is on Friday, August 5th (not the 6th)…
This is the final week to view the CLAY exhibitions: Reflections in CLAY, a juried exhibition, and House of Judgment, work by Jamie Bates Slone.
Stop by Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11 am – 5 pm. Our next exhibitions, Through The Body, and Causation, open with a reception on Friday, August 5th, 5 pm – 7 pm. Juror, Michael Puff, will speak about the jurying process at 6pm. Joe Huebner will speak about his work at 6:30.
CALL FOR WORK: Push & Pull, handmade prints. Part of the 2022 SW Print Fiesta!
The deadline to submit is September 6th. Submit at:https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=10495
Congratulations to the following artists whose work was accepted into the Though The Body juried exhibition:
Jim Allen, Rebekah Alviani, Anne Auld, Ray Bidegain, Diana Bloomfield, Ally Christmas, Dennis Collins, Kendra Connally, Walter Duddington, Julie Enos, Vallarie Enriquez, Frani Evedon, Blair Friederich, Rheana Gardner, Stephanie Gerhart, Nicholas Gialanella. Elizabeth Kelly, Colin Knight, Kathleen Koopman, Lance Larson, Chantal Lesley, Michael McFadden, Angel O’Brien, Robert Oehl, Monica Paez Espinosa, Carmen Ruiz, Kris Sanford, Shelley Socolofsky, Brianna Taylor, Marcia Tinker, Jacob Wachal, Jake Whalen.
There is still space in the following workshops:
August 22nd – Experimental Printmaking without a Press with Carmen Ruiz
September 25th – The Beauty of Land and Water – one-day photopolymer gravure with Karen Hymer, Sponsored by Hahnemühle and the Gila River Festival
Register at: https://lightartspace.com/workshops-classes/
