ASIF: Artists' Studio in the Foothills

Weds evening workshop led by Midge Giles !

Weds night Hand Building😊hard at work in the ceramics studio. We are making marine inspired mobiles this session. They will be shown at this summers upcoming Student and Teacher show! The reception will be July 17.

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Join us tomorrow, Friday May 22, 5-7pm for the opening reception of David Arnold’s exhibition of ABANDONED THINGS.

David Arnold is an internationally acclaimed fine art photographer and educator whose career spans over forty years. His photography reflects travels to all seven continents, exploring themes of history, memory, landscape, and the visual remnants of human experience. Arnold received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his photography book Situations, further establishing his reputation as an influential voice in contemporary photography.

In addition to his work and international recognition as an exhibiting artist, Arnold is a recognized educator of photography both locally and regionally. He taught photography at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley for twenty-two years, from 1995 - 2017 - and currently serves as an adjunct professor in the Art & Design and Photography Department at Sierra College and in the School of Photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

Abandoned Things is an ongoing series of infrared photographs of abandoned cars, boats, houses, trailers, gas stations, and various types of debris scattered throughout the landscapes of California, Nevada, and the American West. With the use of infrared photography, a process which records wavelengths of light outside the visible spectrum, Arnold creates surreal, false-color images that transform ordinary scenes into dreamlike and otherworldly environments.

Central to Arnold’s photography is the idea that our understanding of the past is shaped through history, memory, and relics. He views photography as both a physical record of time and a catalyst for personal and collective memory. Much like historical artifacts themselves, photographs exist in a tension between past and present, gathering meaning through context, interpretation, and subjective experience. His work reflects the belief that neither photography nor history can fully contain the complexity of a lived experience, just as no photograph can completely capture the entirety of a landscape viewed through the camera lens. 

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Please join us for ASiF’s Spring Invitational Show opening this Friday, May 22nd, 5-7pm! The exhibit features DAVID ARNOLD‘s ABANDONED THINGS, a series of other worldly infrared photographs, and RACHEL FRITZ’s GOLDEN, a series of magical black and white lithographs. Join us at 5pm for wine, refreshments and a live piano performance by Gregory S. Young - and at 6:30pm in the gallery to talk about the work!

Join us tomorrow night for ASiF’s Spring Invitational Show, opening, Friday, May 22nd, 5-7pm! The exhibit will feature DAVID ARNOLD‘s series of other worldly infrared photographs, ABANDONED THINGS, and RACHEL FRITZ’s GOLDEN series of magical black and white lithographs. Join us at 5pm for wine, snacks and a live piano performance by Gregory S. Young - and gather at 6:30 in the gallery to talk with the artists’ about the work!