Tucson Weekly: Listings: Art (December 11

ART
Opening This Week
Listings SHANE HOUSE GALLERY. 218 S. Fourth Ave. 623-2577. Opening December 11 and continuing through January 4: Into The House, a Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition by Dean Hamerly, featuring paintings and fabricated sculpture. Gallery hours are during Downtown Saturday Nights and by appointment.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Opening December 17 and continuing through January 26: ART/WEAR, tapestry jackets by Barbara Brandel and contemporary jewelry by Arizona artists. Continuing through February 1: Little Pieces of My Heart: Mexican-American Quilts and Needlework of Southern Arizona. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
T/PAC COMMUNITY GALLERY. 240 N. Stone Ave. 624-0595. Opening with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, December 13, and continuing through January 16: Full Frontal Night, an exhibition of photography and mixed-media works by Figurehead, a Tucson-based artist group featuring six artists. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
WINGSPAN GALLERY. 300 E. Sixth St. 624-1779. Opening December 11 and continuing through December 30: Fractured Glamour, photography by David E. Franck. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Continuing
ACCESS TUCSON GALLERY. 124 E. Broadway. 624-9833. Continuing through February 1: Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying), works by Daniel Martin Diaz. Gallery hours are noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 3 to 11 p.m. Saturday.
APPARATUS GALLERY. 299 S. Park Ave. 791-3505. Continuing through December 27: Assemblage, a group exhibition of works in three-dimensional collage by David Adix, Diane Mansfield Colligan, David Elliott, Lorin Lambardee, Michael Longstaff, Cantrell Maryott, Joel Murphy and Julie Sasse. There is a closing reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, December 13. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ARTERY FINE ARTS. 2843 N. Campbell Ave. 327-6094. Continuing thorough December 30: The Warmth of the Desert, an exhibition of contemporary, traditional and Southwestern art by more than 40 local artists. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
ARTIST OF THE MONTH GALLERY. Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 748-1551. Continuing through December 31: Children's Art, works by the children of the Unitarian Universalist Church. There is a reception from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday, December 14. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY. 621-7968. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. Continuing through January 11: Mexico City 1941: Photographs by Helen Levitt. Also continuing through January 11: Foto/Auto/Bio: The Charles Harbutt Archive. Hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
CENTRAL ARTS COLLECTIVE. 188 E. Broadway. 623-5883. Continuing through December 30: Stranger in an Amazing Land, photographs of India and Nepal by Jocelyn Wolf; and Dreams of the Rood, intaglio prints by Gloria Isak-Morton. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Nights.
EL CENTRO CULTURAL DE LAS AMERICAS. 40 W. Broadway. 629-9536. Continuing through December 20: 1997 Festival de los Artes, featuring works in all media. The gallery is accepting canned goods for the Community Food Bank. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, and by appointment.
DESERT ARTISANS' GALLERY. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Continuing through January 11: Warm Colors for Winter, paintings, sculpture and mixed-media creations. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 792-4503. Continuing through December 20: Inge Morath: The Pamplona Shoot. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
ELEANOR JECK GALLERIES. 4280 N. Campbell Ave. 299-2139. Continuing through December 31: paintings by Francisco Franklin. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and by appointment.
ELIZABETH CHERRY CONTEMPORARY ART. 437 E. Grant Road. 903-0577. Continuing through February 14: Olestra. Curated by Darren Clark, this culturally saturated exhibition focuses on the fat substitute, and its demand and emergence into our society, featuring works by Robert Flynt, Valerie Galloway, Gregory Sale and Kenneth Schorr. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment.
ETHERTON GALLERY. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through January 24: photographs by Graciela Iturbide and Kate Breakey, and mixed-media works by Elizabeth Ernst. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
GOOFY GALLERY. 2639 E. Broadway. 320-1488. Continuing through February 1: works by Desert View High School Students. Continuing through December 31: handcrafted fountains by Michael Krapek. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
THE IMAGE GALLERY. 127 E. Congress St. Continuing through January 25: Platinum Legends, the Arizona Media Arts Center's collection of photographs by Gary Auerbach. Call 622-2262 for gallery hours.
IRONWOOD GALLERY. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Continuing through January 25: The Sonoran Connection, a juried exhibition of the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, free with museum admission.
JCC GALLERY. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Continuing through December 29: works on paper by Michael Stack and oil paintings by Paul Waid. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing through January 10: Images of the Virgin de Guadeloupe, featuring non-traditional representations of the Virgen de Guadeloupe. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and 6 to 9 p.m. Downtown Saturday Nights.
LAS MAÑANITAS GALLERY. 1070 E. Miles St. 388-9911. Continuing through January 10: Flora in the High Alleghenies, watercolors by Janet Tifft. Gallery hours are by appointment.
MEDICINE MAN GALLERY. 7000 Tanque Verde Road, Suite 7. 722-7798. Continuing through January 21: paintings and sculpture by more than 20 artists featured in Donald J. Hagerty's book Leading the West: 100 Contemporary Painters and Sculptors. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
M. REVAK & CO. 1440 N. Stone Ave. 624-3445. Continuing through January 31: framed prints and etchings by George Elbert Burr. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
MURPHEY GALLERY. St. Philip's In The Hills. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-1816. Continuing through December 31: paintings by C. E. Dolsberry and V. Dave Dame. Gallery hours are 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY. 4340 N. Campbell Ave. 577-3598. Continuing through December 27: paintings by Simon Donovan; mixed-media figures by Elizabeth Frank; and contemporary steel mirrors and mixed-media jewelry by Thomas Mann. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
OLD PUEBLO GALLERY. 6290 E. Grant Road. 885-0746. Continuing through December 31: Favorite Things, watercolors by Cynthia Juliano; and oils and pastels by Joyce Huntington and Richard Watzulik. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and by appointment.
PHANTOM GALLERY. Continuing through December 15 at 38 E. Congress St.: "Lost Glove," installation by Janet Bardwell. Continuing at the Tucson Arts District Partnership, 4 E. Congress St.: neo-primitive paintings by Elizabeth Elequin. Continuing at 45 N. Sixth Ave.: works by student artists from Carrillo Intermediate School. Call 624-9977 for information on other Phantom Gallery locations.
PHANTOM MURALS AND SCULPTURE. The following outdoor murals are located in the Arts District: Ofrenda, by Martin Hernandez, 111 S. Sixth Ave; Homage To Tucson, by Lydia D'Amico, 400 N. Fourth Ave; Cats, by Monika Rossa, 36 E. Congress St.; mythical muscular figures by Gustavo Rocha behind Johnny Gibson's in Arizona Alley; Drawn to the Light, by Luna Lee Ray, corner of Broadway and Stone Avenue; and The Thinkers, by Eleanor Kohloss, Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street. Ned Egan's Blue Steel Bouquet, the first in the Phantom Sculpture Spring Series, can be found next to the Julian Drew building on Broadway between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The newest addition to the Phantom Sculpture Series, 2B by Konried Muench, is in front of the Bank of America Plaza at 33 N. Stone. Call the Tucson Arts District Partnership at 624-9977 for information.
PHILABAUM CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through January 24: Temporal Discord, psychological studies of contemporary life. The exhibit features works on paper by Daryl Childs, and works by eight glass artists. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through January 10: Slow Traffic in Stolen Bone, a mixed-media narrative by Michael Longstaff. Also continuing: a narrative series of small works dealing with a poem by William Blake, by the art group TAG. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, until 7 p.m. for Thursday Night Art Walk, Downtown Saturday Nights, and by appointment.
ROTUNDA GALLERY. UA Student Union, third floor. 621-5123. Continuing through January 22: monotypes printed on antique linen damask napkins, tea towels and other textiles by Carolyn Zarr. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
TEMPLE GALLERY. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Continuing through January 7: Ideas/Idas, figurative paintings by Christina Cárdenas. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and prior to ATC performances. Call 624-7370 for information.
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through January 4: Contemporary Southwest Images XII: The Stonewall Foundation Series, featuring works by Emmi Whitehorse. Continuing through January 11: the 22nd annual Western Federation of Watercolor Societies exhibition. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, and free for children under age 12. Admission is free for all on Tuesdays.
UA MUSEUM OF ART. UA Fine Arts Complex, pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7567. Continuing through January 27: 62 bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection. Continuing through April 1: Robert Wick: Campus Outdoor Sculptures. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Last Chance
APPAREL GALLERY. 191 E. Toole Ave. 798-1952. Continuing through December 15: The Lady Wore Red, a mixed-media exhibition by several local artists. Gallery hours are 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
ARIZONA GALLERY. UA Student Union, north side of the mall east of Old Main. 621-5123. Continuing through December 11: The Relevance of The Beautiful, photographs by Diane Mansfield Colligan and poems by Charles Gillispie. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. Casas Adobes Office Park. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through December 13: paintings on paper sacks by Herb Gilbert; paintings on canvas by Albert Kogel; and wood and metal sculpture by Barbara Jo McLaughlin. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
G.A.S.P. GALLERY. 3233 S. Pinal Vista, Utterback Middle School. 617-6100. Continuing through December 12: Ghosts of a Chance, monoprints and mixed-media works by The Drawing Studio. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. G.A.S.P. (Great Art by Students and Professionals) Gallery is a student-run gallery.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through December 11: Annual BFA Senior Exhibition. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY. Gross Gallery Building. UA Fine Arts Complex, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through December 12: Idea Image Object Action, a group showing by students from the New Genre class. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
PCC ART GALLERY. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. Continuing through December 11: drawings by Michael Contreras; paintings by Kay Emig; and three-dimensional collages by Diane Mansfield Colligan. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and during weekend performances at the Center for the Arts.
THUNDERBIRD MUSEUM & GALLERY. 300 E. Broadway. 795-0086. Continuing through December 12: works by Navajo painter Glory Tacheenie-Campoy. Also continuing: works in silver and gold by Samuel Patania. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
UNION GALLERY. UA Student Union, first floor. 621-5123. Continuing through December 15: Tucson Connection, the University of Arizona's annual Alumni Exhibition. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Out Of Town
55 MAIN GALLERY. Bisbee. 432-4694. Continuing through January 31: From Realism to Abstraction and Back Again, new paintings by James Ru. Call for gallery hours.
OTERO STREET GALLERY. 5 Camino Otero, Tubac. 398-8014. Continuing through January 25: Cornucopia of Color and Form, featuring works by Diana Davis and Pat Marohn. Gallery hours are from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
VIRGINIA HALL GALLERY. Tubac. 398-9234. Continuing through December 21: Paintings Informed by Buddhist Practice, 1997. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday; appointments are welcome. Call for gallery location and directions.
Announcements
ARTS BRIGADE. Calling Community and Neighborhood Artists: Want to have some fun and help your community ? The Tucson Arts Brigade is a multi-cultural, intergenerational collective of community based cultural workers in search of artists interested in collaborating to design and produce public art that makes a difference. Current projects include street and wall murals, group exhibits and street puppets. All events are free and open to the public. For information on weekly events, providing donations of art supplies or commissioning the Arts Brigade for a project or program, call 791-9359; or email ArtBrigade@aol.com.
ART WALK. Fine artists and galleries await on the weekly Art Walk, a self- or docent-guided stroll through the Downtown Arts District between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Free tours of public art displays and participating galleries begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Park Inn Suite Santa Rita Hotel, 88 E. Broadway. Call 624-9977 for information and a listing of participating galleries.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Central Arts Collective, an artist/member run gallery, is accepting applications for new membership. Applications may be picked up from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, downtown Saturday Night or Thursday night Art Walk, at 188 E. Broadway. Application deadline is December 15. Call 623-5883 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Tucson International Mariachi Conference seeks submissions for the Tucson International Mariachi Conference poster. Submit original artwork, sketches, or three slides of work completed within the last two years. An honorarium of $1,000 will be awarded. Work should reflect the 1998 Conference theme: Aires Mexicanos--its impact and cultural significance--in an abstract or representational style. Posters from the last 15 years can be seen at La Frontera Center, 502 W. 29th St. Submission deadline is December 15. Call Lolie Gomez at 884-9920, ext. 243, for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Central Arts Collective is accepting entries for my pet 2, a serio/comic/emotional/conceptual look at people's involvement with pets. This juried exhibition is open to all U.S. artists in all media. Deadline is February 1. For prospectus, send an SASE: "my pet 2", Central Arts Collective, 188 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ 85701.
GLASSBLOWING DEMONSTRATION. Watch glassblowers practice their craft at the downtown studio of Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass, 711 S. Sixth Ave. Call 884-7404 to confirm the day's schedule, or if there are more than six people in your party.
WAREHOUSE WALKS. Take a tour of Tucson's Historic Warehouse District with The Tucson Arts District Partnership. Tours run the second Saturday of each month, and meet at 8:50 a.m. in the lobby of the Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St. Group size is limited, with RSVPs requested by 5 p.m. the Thursday prior to the tour. Participants should dress comfortably, and plan on being outdoors. Call 624-9977 for reservations and information.