New Exhibit On Display At Village Arts: Catch Of The Day

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on January 17, 2024
- 12:12 pm

‘Catch of the Day’ exhibit at Village Arts. Courtesy/Village Arts

VILLAGE ARTS News:

Village Arts has reeled in artists to celebrate the New Year with its exhibit, “Catch of the Day”.

Now on display through Feb. 17, this show asked artists to bring in their favorite recent pieces, both finished and unfinished, and the artists did not disappoint.

Featuring the work of more 20 artists and Village Arts regulars from the community and surrounding region, the variety of styles, media and subject matter is sure to connect. Owner Ken Nebel expressed his initial worry about pulling together artwork on such an open theme, but there are wonderful threads in color and style at play. This allows work like the abstracted paint pours of Eileen Lime to link the whimsical animal paintings by Bonnie Dickman to Eileen Patterson’s detailed collage work and the precise colorful mandalas of Linda Casias.

The color palettes at work in Cindy Boone’s botanical and landscape watercolor paintings act as a through-line between Fran Stovall’s mosaic Trout and Ted Greer’s photographs of a Grey Fox and a Frosted Pinecone. Stephanie Hagelberg’s Fiesty Fiber scarf links sketches to the fantastical dreamscapes and travel inducing encaustic landscapes from Darla Thompson. Color shifts in a series of batiks by Gloria Sharp pull in Liz Aicher’s majestic sunset to an intimate colored pencil work by Phyllisha Hamrick and a collage series by Sue Ellen Hains.

These unexpected links are exactly what Nebel said he loves to explore. He explained that while Village Arts has been a creative hub in Los Alamos for more than 40 years, this is the 15th anniversary at the DP Road location.

Starting the year off with something special seemed appropriate, and that means highlighting the exceptional artwork of the community and looking back on the community’s recent achievements was a perfect way to begin the New Year.

While the exhibit reflects back, the front window display looks forward to the memories that we’ll make in 2024. The request in the Call For Art for unfinished works, like Diane Thurston’s graphite “Mist” drawing, perfectly mirrors this transition between past and future promise.

Village Arts plans to host a full year of exhibits curated by the community and looks forward to the ways the future exhibits will inspire artists and connect to the community at large. Village Arts is now looking for artwork along the theme, “Where the Wild Things Are” in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the children’s book by the same title winning the Caldecott award, which will be on display from late February through the month of March.

Village Arts invites people to stop on by, get inspired, vote on their favorites, and perhaps give a home to a treasured piece that you know is an artist’s favorite!

Village Arts mission is to provides inspiration and tools for artists and hobbyists from start to finish, and custom archival framing for all those memories Los Alamos is busy creating!

Village Arts at 216 DP Road, is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Find out more on social media.

‘Catch of the Day’ exhibit at Village Arts. Courtesy/Village Arts