Center of the triptych "Pluto and Proserpina," an oil painting by Dan DeRoux. DeRoux's work will be on display at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum during the month of January.
Jewelry by Rowan Law will be on display at the Juneau Artists Gallery.
"Snowstorm" and other wax paintings by Alexandria Feit will be on display at the Juneau Arts and Culture Center.
Story last updated at 1/6/2010 - 12:10 pm
On the first Friday of each month, Juneau galleries, museums, and shops stay open late and host show and exhibit openings, artist meet-and-greets and more. Following is information about events available as of press time. All events and openings are on Friday, Jan. 8. To have your event listed here next month, e-mail details to editor@capweek.com no later than one week prior.
JUNEAU-DOUGLAS CITY MUSEUM, 4TH & MAIN
"I want my art to have a little humor and life in it," says local artist Dan DeRoux of his work, which will be featured at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum this month. Paintings by Dan DeRoux will open at the City Museum on January 8 with a reception from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.
A third generation Alaskan, DeRoux has painted in Juneau nearly all of his life. Artist and Alaskan art historian Kesler Woodward describes DeRoux's work as "mixing portraits of friends, homages to and take-offs of work by Alaskan masters, and settings borrowed from the paintings of European masters from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Dan's paintings delight one's senses, wits and sometimes even one's conscience."
"It is very exciting to have DeRoux exhibiting here at the Juneau-Douglas City Museum again," says museum director, Jane Lindsey. "His painting is compelling and accomplished, engaging the viewer in many ways. This is a sophisticated art community who appreciates fine art, DeRoux always delivers and then some."
His work is in the collection of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, the Smithsonian Permanent Collection, the Morris Museum in Atlanta and museums throughout Alaska. DeRoux has exhibited and won awards in many National and International competitions. In 2008, DeRoux was awarded the Alaska State Council's 2008 Governor's Award for the Arts. Most recently he completed two one percent for art projects including the Focus on Statehood mural for the Linny Picallo parking garage in Anchorage and the Encryption Wall at Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau.
This spring, DeRoux will be completing and installing a 16'x18' painted metal wall sculpture titled "Precipitation" on the new parking garage. The piece is about the history of Juneau which coalesces into a waterfront view of Juneau with city lights.
Paintings by Dan DeRoux will run through January 30. Admission to the City Museum is free during the month of January in memory of Harold O. Fossum.
For more information, call 586-3572 or visit online at juneau.org/parkrec/museum.
THE CANVAS, 223 SEWARD ST.
"Family," an exhibition of artwork by REACH artists, will continue to be on display at The Canvas during the month of January. The show features glass, fiber, clay, paint and mixed media works. There will be no opening reception, but the exhibition will be on display during regular hours. For more information, call 586-1750 or visit canvasarts.org.
Silverbow Backroom, 120 Second St.
Spray art by Brian Johnson will be on display during the month of January. For more information, call 586-4146.
JUNEAU ARTISTS GALLERY, 175 S. FRANKLIN ST.
Jeweler Rowan Law is the featured artist for the first Art Walk of the new year at the Juneau Artists Gallery. Rowan will be in the gallery from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on January 8 with his work. His new creations are matching sets consisting of earrings and coordinating pendants. Rowan has never offered sets before, and is excited about these one-of-a-kind combinations.
Rowan is well known in Juneau for his handcrafted jewelry, which is mostly made with sterling silver. He usually oxidizes the silver, which gives it an antique or rustic looking dark patina. Many of the pieces also contain yellow gold, copper, and brass. Stones including opal, labradorite, and turquoise are set into some pieces. Rowan cuts and shapes many of the stones himself, using an electrically powered grinding wheel. By holding each stone against the wheel, he creates unique shapes from the original rough stones, and then finishes by polishing the stone, also against the wheel.
Rowan and a friend once owned a window washing business in Maui, and one of their customers was a high-end jewelry store. Rowan washed the windows inside the shop, and he thought the studio area in the back of the shop, where the jewelry was created, was very interesting. It wasn't until about three years later, after he moved to the mainland, that he started reading about jewelry making and eventually took a few classes, including from Michael Hunter who used to teach at UAS. For the most part Rowan is self taught, and his style has evolved as he developed his skills.
The gallery is open from 11 am to 6 pm, Tuesday through Saturday, during the winter.
JUNEAU ARTS & CULTURE CENTER, 350 WHITTIER ST.
The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council presents "Winter Light," paintings by Alexandra Feit. An opening reception will be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Friday.
Feit's paintings are made of many thin layers of wax and pigment. The wax is repeatedly painted on and scraped off a wood backing to create a lush, beautiful, layered surface. A sense of light and depth comes up subtly through the layers of wax.
Her work draws from Minimalist Art, where the visceral sense of a piece enriches its simple form or color. Her work is also influenced by her natural surroundings. She is interested in getting the viewer to slow down and enjoy the richness of quiet.
Alexandra Feit is a painter and installation artist who moved to Haines about 9 years ago from San Francisco. She has primarily exhibited in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. This will be her first exhibition in Southeast Alaska. For more information, visit alexandrafeit.com.
KTOO Studios, 360 Egan Drive
The Juneau Homeless Coalition is proud to announce the opening of "Out of the Rain: A Snapshot of Homelessness," a gallery showing of photographs taken in and around Juneau and the unveiling of its 2010 calendar "Out of the Rain."
The opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, upstairs at the KTOO Studios, and the show will be on display through the month of January.
Both the calendar and gallery showing features photographs on the subject of homelessness taken by Juneau photographers Scot Allen, Lance Caldwell, Marilyn Holmes, Doug Sturm and Teri Tibbett. Call 463-6425 for details.
