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Waking Dreams: Prints, Paintings, Photography

Presented by Pima Community College Center for the Arts at Pima Community College - Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery

October 26-December 4, 2009

Waking Dreams: Prints, Paintings, Photography features the recent works of artists Laurie Blakeslee, Christina McNearney and Melanie Yazzie. According to McNearney, who organized the exhibition, Waking Dreams refers to "the nature of the state of mind that artists channel in the creative process." All three of the exhibitors are artist/educators interested in conveying to their students and the community at large the influences and inspirations that spawn the creation of their work. Blakeslee's color photographs tell a story of a fictional childhood on a stage set for a dark comedy. Each of the characters' strategy is to maintain the illusion of normalcy. She is currently an associate professor of art and teaches photography and coordinates the undergraduate art foundations program. McNearney's work is abstract and in many cases would be considered nonobjective. She is a painter, who is equally comfortable with a computer or an intaglio press. Her work reflects the influence of the dense vegetation of the area and how layers and layers of foliage seemed to extend throughout the landscape. She is currently part of the full-time faculty at Pima Community College's West Campus visual arts department. Yazzie's paintings in this exhibition are images drawn from her childhood growing up in northeastern Arizona on the Navajo Reservation. Her paintings began as a way to record her memories from time she spent at her family's home in Red Lake, New Mexico. Yazzie is an associate professor of art at the University of Boulder, Colorado.