Art Exhibition Through March 7

Pima Community College's Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery exhibition, Land Art and the Sacred: Three Perspectives, will be on display through March 7.   The show features a selection of works by D. Y. Begay, Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi and Claire Campbell Park. 

A gallery talk is scheduled for Thursday, February 7, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.  A reception for the artists will be held in the gallery February 7, 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.  A Family Arts Day with hands-on creativity, including painting and weaving, is planned for Saturday, February 16.

The three artists participating in Land, Art and the Sacred express their community and spiritual values through the abstraction of the land.

D. Y. Begay is a fourth generation Navajo weaver. Her work is foremost an expression of community—a continuity of generations with an on-going relationship with the land.  Begay’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including the Kennedy Museum of Art, and is featured in numerous books. She has been an exhibition consultant for several institutions, including the Smithsonian and the Wheelwright Museum.

Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is a second generation Anmatyerr painter from Australia, who depicts stories such as the “Women Ceremonies,” “Bush Tucker (Black Seed and Exploding Seed from the Mt. Allan area),” and “Seven Sisters Dreamings.”  She honors her Aboriginal tradition by painting interpretations of stories inseparable from her spiritual and community life and from the land.  Her work has been exhibited in New York, Washington, D.C., Poland, Switzerland and throughout Australia.

Claire Campbell Park’s weavings are meditations on hope and resurrection inspired by the beauty of creation.  Exhibitions of her artwork include: “Made in California 1900-2000: Art, Image and Identity” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and “The International Textile Competition” in Kyoto, Japan. She has lectured on her work in France, Japan, India, Australia and throughout the United States.

The Bernal Gallery is located at the Center for the Arts on Pima Community College's West Campus, 2202 West Anklam Road.  Gallery hours are 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Fridays, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Feb. 10, 16 and 23, March 2 and before most evening performances in the Center for the Arts theatres. The Gallery will be closed Feb. 21-22.

For more information, contact the gallery at 206-6942 or email centerforthearts@pima.edu.

PRESS CONTACT: David Irwin, Executive Director for Public Information
(520) 206-4528