MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
In 1989, the Phoenix Aviation Department began providing spaces for exhibitions to promote Arizona through its arts, culture, sciences, natural and historical attractions. Currently, the airport system has more than 25 display areas that include a gallery, built-in cases, and portable walls and pedestals. Display areas are added and changed as the airport grows. For images or additional information, call (602) 273-2105.
Terminal 3, Level 1, (north & south cases)
Through Dec. 2, 2008
Romancing the Cape: Wearable Art by Eleanor Bostwick
“Art is the consuming passion of my life. I have always tried to manifest my creative vision through a wide variety of media and a diversity of materials," said Eleanor Bostwick. "While the content I work with is abstract — stimulated by the environment, culture and my own feelings — my creations represent a lifetime’s worth of attention to fine art and the mastering of textile crafts.
"As an artist I believe that by shaping works to be worn as art, I am blending creative vision into our everyday lives. To me, this represents the power and significance of art,” Bostwick added.
This series of capes has taken years to realize. Each cape is reversible and alike only in size and basic form. Each surface is executed in different combinations of materials and fiber techniques rich with layers of meaning and detail.
Terminal 3, Level 2, (4 cases, east end)
Through May 11, 2008
Trading Faces: Wooden Masks
Mesa, Arizona artist Zarco Guerrero is a man of many talents. As a visual artist, he is a mural painter, bronze sculptor and mask maker. As a performing artist, he wears his masks in his music, dance and theater performances. He is constantly trading faces.
Guerrero’s obsession with masks has led him to study mask making throughout Asia and Mexico, learning from master woodcarvers. From these experiences, he blends various styles to create a wide variety of masks which reflects a world view of this art form. Thus far, he has created more than 1,000 masks. This exhibition features wooden masks created by Guerrero. Inspired by various cultures and traditions from around the world, he carves, paints and embellishes them to amuse or awe the viewer.
Terminal 3, Level 2 (three cases near Starbucks)
Through Oct. 26, 2008
Bodacious Botanicals (bold and outrageous plantlife)
Botanical art grows from the natural pleasure we derive from looking at flowers and plants. The gardener and artist have a temperamental kinship in that they both are observant, patient and in love with the colors and forms of nature.
Bodacious Botanicals highlights the balancing act between truth and beauty, a balance that the best artists are able to turn to splendid visual effect.
Artists exhibited: Pat Bailey, oil paintings; Linda Ingraham, photo constructions; Sandra Leuhrsen, sculptural ceramic teapots; Barbara Rogers, oil paintings.
