Capital City Arts Initiative

Artists’ Reception: Thursday, June 7, 5 – 7pm
Exhibition Dates: June 5 – September 4, 2012
Exhibition Venue: CCAI Courthouse Gallery 885 E Musser St, Carson City

New Crop 
Exhibition at CCAI Courthouse Gallery

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] presents its summer exhibition, New Crop, with work by six northern Nevada artists at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery from June 5 – September 4, 2012. CCAI will host a reception for the artists on Thursday, June 7 from 5 – 7pm. During the reception the artists will give an informal talk about their work beginning at 5:30pm. The Courthouse is located at 885 East Musser Street, Carson City. The exhibition and reception are free and the public is cordially invited.

The artists in the exhibition are Amy Aramanda, Kaitlin Bryson, Logan Lape, Kath McGaughey, Emily Rogers, and Karl Schwiesow. The six artists bring a variety of media and ideas to the exhibition. Through his interest in the environment, Lape built a solar-powered machine will create a drawing in the gallery during of the exhibition. Photographer Rogers begins viewers’ travels at known Reno sites and connects the past and present through forgotten details of previous residents with current images of the home. McGaughey focuses her art on the narrative of things frequently overlooked including the loss of public recognition of mourning a loved one. The energy potential of objects and materials motivated Schwiesow’s creation of three large ceramic bell structures. Through her large quilt built with discarded library card catalog cards, Bryson focuses viewers on the rituals in everyday lives. Aramanda uses photography to challenge viewers’ knowledge of painting masterworks as she gives the paintings a bath of contemporary culture.

Lape and McGaughey graduated last year with their BFA degrees from Sierra Nevada College [SNC]; Schwiesow will graduate from SNC with his BFA degree later this year. Aramanda and Bryson graduated this month from the University of Nevada Reno [UNR] with BFA degrees; Rogers is a graduate student in the Art Department at the University.

Writer Sarah Lillegard wrote the exhibition essay for New Crop. Lillegard manages the visual art programs for The Holland Project in Reno and earned her BA in Art at Walla Walla University. The essay will be available online at arts-initiative.org and in the gallery during the exhibition.

New Crop is made possible with lead donations from Wally Cuchine and the Hop and Mae Adams Foundation. CCAI sincerely thanks them for their generous support.

top image: New Crop artists [l-r] Logan Lape, Kath McGaughey, Emily Rogers, Amy Aramanda, Kaitlin Bryson; not pictured Karl Schwiesow
middle image: New Crop reception
bottom image: New Crop exhibition flier