{"id":4114,"date":"2016-10-05T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/state-museum-announces-solo-artist-exhibits\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T15:03:41","slug":"state-museum-announces-solo-artist-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/state-museum-announces-solo-artist-exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"State Museum announces solo artist exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"

JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> The State Museum\u2019s upcoming solo artist exhibitions will highlight eight artists across the state including two from Ketchikan and one each from Juneau and Skagway.<\/p>\n

Every two years the Alaska State Museum solicits Alaskan artists to submit their portfolios for solo exhibitions. This year the museum\u2019s review committee reviewed 58 submittals from artists across the state and selected eight individuals to show their work.<\/p>\n

The first of this series of solo exhibits will open in March 2017. The series will conclude in the spring of 2019. Dates for the individual exhibitions are still being arranged with the artists.<\/p>\n

The selected artists are:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Carmel Anderson, an installation artist from Ketchikan. Anderson\u2019s life size sculptures and installations addresses issues of abuse and social issues.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Annette Bellamy, a sculptor from Halibut Cove. Bellamy\u2019s sculptures explore the natural resources of Alaska, focusing on both traditional and nontraditional uses of those resources.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Linda Infante Lyons, a painter from Anchorage. Lyons oil paintings explore the sublime nature of the northern landscape through imagined Alaskan scenes of hushed stillness devoid of human presence and inhabited by flora and fauna.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Amy Meissner, a quilter from Anchorage. Working with gifted cloth from strangers, Meismer combines multi-layered narratives by allowing the materials to provide an entryway to confront charged emotions around culture, motherhood, and domesticity.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Daniel Papke, a painter from Skagway. Papke\u2019s paintings focus on the human experience by layering visual narratives including contemporary characters, mythological settings, and the beauty and isolation of the north.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Charles Rohrbacher, an icon painter from Juneau. Working as an icon painter in Alaska for 35 years, Rohrbacher\u2019 icons depicting images of solace, peace, tenderness and vulnerability.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sara Tabbert, a printmaker and sculptor from Fairbanks. Observing the world around her, Tabbert\u2019s work focuses on the small and microscopic elements of nature as a starting point for her work which includes, collages, carved panels, and relief prints.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Donald Varnell, a Haida carver and mixed media artist from Ketchikan. Varnell\u2019s carvings and mixed media work explore the ever-expanding zeitgeist of the human condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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