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Spectrum Art Gallery Auction 2023 Exhibition

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Spectrum Art Gallery Auction 2023 Exhibition

Exhibit: April 6 to April 30, 2023
Art Hop Reception: April 6, 2023 – 5PM to 8PM
LIVE Auction: April 30, 2023 5PM @ Tower Theatre – 815 E. Olive, Fresno CA

Finally, we can once again hold an unforgettable live event! Please join us to celebrate and support 43 years of bringing fine art photography to the Central Valley. During the month of April, Spectrum will be exhibiting a diverse collection of fine art photographs from distinguished and emerging artists. The works will be displayed through April at Spectrum Art Gallery, 608 East Olive Ave. Fresno, CA 93728.

For the main event, we have selected a NEW VENUE! This year, the live auction will be held at the historic, Tower Theater, 815 E Olive Ave, Fresno, CA 93728.
These fantastic works of art will be auctioned off to the highest bidder during this Live Annual Benefit Reception and Auction, held Sunday evening, April 30th. We will provide our guests with music, food, and wine while they mingle with fellow art enthusiasts and collectors in this grand old Theater.

Spectrum Art Gallery is a cooperative organization that exhibits both local and out of area fine art photography. We are proud to give our local artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in a premium gallery setting. We also bring in noted photographers each year to allow our local patrons a chance to see and appreciate nationally recognized artists in our local setting. This event combines a chance to view and appreciate fine art as well as an opportunity to take home artworks that speak to you. Nowhere else in the area will you have the chance to view and purchase works from the roster of both local and nationally known artists represented in this auction. Photography is an excellent investment in both economic and personal terms. Think of the opportunities that have been missed in the past. How many times have you, or someone you were speaking with, said “if only I had bought work by “x” back in (fill in the date) before he/she hit it big”. This is your chance to bid on both up and coming as well as fully established, internationally recognized, artist’s/artists’ work.

Your generous participation benefits Spectrum Art Gallery – one of the oldest cooperatives of its kind dedicated to advancing photography as an art form. Your support allows Spectrum to achieve its mission of supporting those who create, enjoy and collect photography, and offering an accessible community space for activities and programs to meet the community’s needs. Through your generosity, Spectrum is able to offer supplemental educational programs and workshops to our community, and continuously make a significant impact towards furthering the arts in the Central Valley.

This event is the primary annual fundraiser for Spectrum Art Gallery. Please join us for this important event and support photographic art in our community. Our gallery is a 501c(3) registered non-profit organization. 

Spectrum Art Gallery’s New Hours of Operation:

Thursdays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Fridays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Invited Guests of Spectrum Art Gallery

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Invited Guests Of Spectrum Art Gallery

Exhibit: March 2 to April 1, 2023
Art Hop Reception: March 2, 2023 – 5PM to 8PM
David Hoffman, Moonrise, Clearing Storm, 2022

Each Spectrum Art Gallery member invited one, non-member guest whose work they admire to display in this special exhibition of powerful imagery from our community in the gallery’s main space. On March 24th, Spectrum will host a Friday Photography Live, walk around discussion of the works on display and the various approaches the artists practice.

Friday Photography Live, walk around discussion, March 24, 7 pm

Spectrum Art Gallery’s New Hours of Operation:

ArtHop (1st) Thursdays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Fridays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Signature Works: Members Show 2023

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Signature Works: Members Show 2023

Exhibit: January 5 to February 26, 2023
Art Hop Reception: January 5, 2023 – 5PM to 8PM

Spectrum Art Gallery is proud to present the 2023 Member’s Exhibition. We are excited to show new works from our membership, including members who have recently joined our collective. This show will be an open theme, so members are able to highlight their favorite works they would like to share.

Our membership is an eclectic group of photographic artists from many different walks of life. We’ve come together to express our joy of photography, and continue to do so well into our current era. Forty-five years ago, exhibitions of photography as an art form appeared very infrequently, especially in the San Joaquin Valley. It was at that time that a growing number of photographic artists congregated in Photo-Synthesis, a darkroom rental gallery establishment. In 1980, this group formed a not-for-profit cooperative and created a local forum for fine art photography.

Spectrum Art Gallery’s New Hours of Operation:

ArtHop (1st) Thursdays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Fridays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM

“Gallery of Foxes” by John Moses

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“Gallery of Foxes” by John Moses

Exhibit: December 1, 2022 to January 1, 2023
Art Hop Reception: December 1, 2022 – 5PM to 8PM

The pandemic brought about many changes for photographers. Most of us postponed travel plans.  Many focused on inanimate objects from around the house or flora in the yard for their principal subject matter.  I had a different opportunity from the city slowing down around me. Not only did the urban wildlife already in the city become more prevalent, but the view from my home office into our backyard garden afforded me unexpected photographic subjects: a family of gray foxes living in the Fresno High neighborhood.

My first “capture” was in October of 2020, several months after the COVID stay-at-home period had begun.  My wife had seen the fox first, in the driveway of the house next to ours. It was the first time either of us had sighted one in the city. As the weeks passed, I would catch sight of a fox either next door or in our own back yard. The sightings were infrequent enough that usually my camera wasn’t close at hand or without a telephoto lens, so most of these early captures were disappointing. 

That all changed the next summer when an entire family of foxes arrived—the tod, the vixen, and three kits!  Nearly every day for the next three months, one or more of the family was in the yard.  Usually, the tod would come in the late afternoon to find a spot to sleep, then hunt birds after waking. One day, two kits arrived together to play a game of keep-away. The object of the game was possession of the dead squirrel that one carried in its mouth.  The two chased each other about chattering, or gekkering.  The original possessor rushed away behind our garage, returning without the squirrel, then lounged for a minute or two on a bench in the garden. Soon he rushed off to bring the squirrel back in play, only to abandon it so the other kit could have his turn. 

Late in the summer, one of the kits limped into the yard, having had some kind of fall or other mishap. There seemed no obvious wound, so we hoped time would heal the foot.  Eventually, the lameness did heal, but the juvenile fox’s limp gave us the time to recognize him whenever he came and follow his maturation over the winter and spring of 2022, until he became the head of his own family with a litter of four.  

“Gallery of Foxes” showcases these three generations of foxes that have been living in the Fresno High neighborhood. Urban foxes are common, even in the most bustling of cities, but the frequency with which these adult foxes and their litters have appeared in our backyard—to hunt, to sleep or, in the case of the kits, to play—has given me a unique opportunity to capture the lives of these beautiful animals, whose presence in the city often goes unnoticed.

Spectrum Art Gallery’s New Hours of Operation:

ArtHop (1st) Thursdays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Fridays: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Saturdays and Sundays: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM