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 (east end, 4 cases)
Through Nov. 16, 20088
Playful Mystique
Arizona artist Bandhu Dunham always wanted to be a mad scientist or an alchemist. “By fifteen, I had an extensive chemistry lab. I thought the beakers at the hobby store were never cool-looking enough, so I taught myself the basics of lampwork glassblowing. Later, I dropped out of Chemical Engineering to become an artist.” Familiar with lampworking, it was natural for Bandhu to use glass to create his artworks.
Bandhu’s glass artworks include kinetic engines and marble machines as well as intricate sculptures that illustrate the paradoxical characteristics of the material: delicate and malleable yet strong and rigid.
The artist’s intent is to create a sense of wonder and mystique that invites the viewer to pause and delight in a playful moment.
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.
