BY KAREN BOSSICK
The Sun Valley Center for the Arts will unveil its new visual arts exhibition, “Night Watch,” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 30, at The Center in Ketchum.
The opening celebration will include refreshments.
Timed to occur with the Great American Solar Eclipse on Aug. 21, the exhibition will feature the work of several contemporary artists:
- Peter Alexander, a pioneer of the Light and Space movement
- Vija Celmins, internationally recognized for her realistic works on paper
- Anna Fidler, whose “Vampires and Wolf Men” explore the idea of night as an actor of transformation
- Vanessa Marsh, whose images are crafted through a process involving drawing, painting and darkroom techniques
- Michael Rovner, whose works feature shadowy images of the jackal, an elusive nocturnal animal
- Robert Zakanitch, who led the Pattern and Decoration movement in the late 1970s in New York
The works provide “varied, beautiful and provocative considerations of the night,” said Kristin Poole, artistic director for The Center.
The exhibition, which will run through Aug. 25, will include an Evening Exhibition Tour with Vanessa Marsh at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 13, and a presentation on Central Idaho Dark Sky Reserve at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, July 13.
It will also include a lecture by the American Astronomical Society on 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, the eve of the eclipse.
The Center is located at 5th and Washington streets in Ketchum.