The City of Reno operates four public art galleries at various locations around town. Admission to all is free and they are open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Exhibits in these galleries change several times a year.
Metro Gallery - City Hall, 1 East First Street
Gallery East - McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive
Gallery West - McKinley Arts & Culture Center, 925 Riverside Drive
Southside Gallery - Southside Cultural Center, 190 East Liberty Street
Of particular interest to photographers are the exhibits currently showing at the Metro Gallery and Gallery East. Both exhibits will be on display from January 23 through March 9, 2012.
At the Gallery East, Altered Abstraction by Amy Hunter features atmospheric photography inspired by little everyday things that spark the imagination. Hunter recently graduated from the Cain College of the Arts in Logan, UT, where she received a BA in fine arts with an emphasis on photography. About her photographs, Hunter said, "The human imagination offers thousands of images waiting to be explored and rediscovered. We connect bits and pieces of what we see every day to seemingly impossible undertakings. Workings of the mind can be the investigation to life's unanswered questions. Why? How? What if? This is where my inspiration begins. Using photographs as my working medium, I try to answer these questions with light, color, textures, paint, resin, and any material available. I have a vague idea in mind of what I want to create but as I go along, things mold and change and the art forms itself. When I give the work room to grow that is when the bond between the tangible and the impractical meet to create the possible."
At the Metro Gallery, Victoria Veedell presents Atmospheric Conditions, an exhibit of her abstract paintings. According to Veedell, "Atmospheric Conditions are more than weather conditions, they elicit a personal response to the landscape. The setting of my work may be abstracted landscapes, but the root of my work is an emotional reaction to the environment. My paintings are based on nature, fashioned from memory and imagination, and imply landscapes not necessarily seen, but felt. I dissolve the landscape, leaving only what I consider to be the essence of nature. I hope to draw the viewer to the light and colors that radiate from the canvas and give them pause."
Source: City of Reno press release.
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