Gallery at the Gardens:
At this time, the Gallery is not accepting applications for exhibits.
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Postage Stamps: A Global View of Prehistoric History
May 2 - September 30, 2008
A private collection of stamps from around the world including Malaysia, Japan and Africa depicting our prehistoric history will be on display in the Gallery.
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Richard Laugharn: Photographs
October 2, 2008 – November 23, 2008
Public Opening Reception: Sunday, October 5, 11 am – 1:00 pm
Richard Laugharn, whose passion for the Sonoran desert fills his bookshelves at home, makes extended or collective portraits of desert plants. His work draws from multiple sources including the fine art landscape tradition, nineteenth century botanical illustrations, and scientific investigation. Over the last seven years, he has photographed over 80 individual plants, including saguaros, palo verde, mesquite and ironwood trees, as well as a variety of other desert perennials, nurturing a stronger connection to the desert country that we call home.
Richard Laugharn (pronounced Larn), was born in 1959 in California and grew up in New York. He received his BA in Art from California State State University at Long Beach and his MFA from Arizona State University. His photographs have been exhibited at the Temple Gallery in Tucson and Northlight Gallery in Phoenix, and in group exhibitions, such as Photo Lucida in Portland, OR and Photo Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collections of the Center for Creative Photography and the Scottsdale Museum of Art.
This exhibit managed by Etherton Gallery.
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Karl Blossfeldt German (1865—1932)
November 26, 2008 – January 28, 2009
Public Opening Reception, Sunday, December 7, 2008, 11 am – 1 pm
Photographer, sculptor, teacher and artist, Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) is best known for his magnified, sharply defined and detailed images of plants and flowers published in two famous texts, Urformen der Kunst (Forms in Art) (1928) and Wundergarten der Natur (Magic Garden of Nature) (1932). He believed that pure, organic forms found in nature could be the source for a new, modern art. For a period of over 30 years, Blossfeldt made thousands of enlargements of plant details, in an attempt to reveal the fundamental structures of the plant world. Blossfeldt’s flowers, removed from their natural habitat and photographed against neutral backgrounds, are at once reminiscent of architectural designs and nineteenth century botanical illustrations. Blossfeldt’s work is significant because it served as an important bridge between the notion of photography as science and its acceptance as a fine art, making him a celebrated artist in the New Objectivity movement in the years following World War I.
Blossfeldt was born in Schielo, Harz, Germany, and educated in Harzgerode from 1871 to 1881. From 1882 to 1884 he was a sculptor's apprentice and modeler at the Art Ironworks and Foundry in Magdesprung. He studied painting and sculpture on a scholarship at the School of the Royal Museum of Arts and Crafts in Berlin from 1884 to 1891.
Blossfeldt began to photograph plant forms with a camera of his own making in 1899 in Berlin. His systematic documentation commenced the following year. This work was used as part of his teaching at the Kunstgewerbemuseum School where, from 1898 to 1931 he was an instructor, assistant professor, and professor, successively, in the sculpture of living plants. Throughout his career, Blossfeldt continued to travel, particularly in the Mediterranean, collecting specimens of foreign plants. He retired in 1931. Prints from Blossfeldt's original plates were first published in 1975.
This exhibit managed by Etherton Gallery.
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