Perennial winner Etherton puts together such excellent, elegantly curated shows that it just may nab the Best Fine Art Gallery award until the end of time. This past season, Rockin' the Desert was a star-studded extravaganza of early rock 'n' roll classics by photogs Baron Wolman and Lynn Goldsmith. Kate Breakey's Slow Light photos captured light in the landscape. Around St. Patrick's Day, Joe Forkan unveiled luscious plein-air paintings of Ireland; Nancy Tokar Miller showed swift and sure abstractions of Hawaii; and Lisa M. Robinson's black-and-white photos celebrated the Atlantic tides. Add in the Don't Look Now show of work by Chris Rush, Craig Cully and Jim Reed, and the sumptuous summer show, A Classic Collection: Photographs From the Estate of Julian T. Baker Jr. (1939-2011), and you've got a season for the ages.
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