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The autumn sun may still be till casting Tucson in a golden light, but the shadows are lengthening and the days are darkening earlier.
At Etherton, in the haunting ShadowLands exhibition, three artists embody the gloom of the coming ghostly season.
The intensely gifted Alice Leora Briggs strews a naked corpse across a tea table in her woodcut "where nothing, when it happens, is never terrible enough." Three elderly people at the table are trying hard to concentrate on their tea and crumpets and ignore the dead man lying among them.
A man hangs from a noose in "Execution of an Extraterrestrial, Petersburg, Virginia, " by renowned photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. Adapted from the gruesome annals of Civil War photography, "Execution" also pictures the witness, an army officer on a horse, calmly watching the dangling body as it decays.
Roger Ballen, another world-famous photo artist, elusively conjures up South Africa's troubled past. The American-born Ballen has lived in South Africa for years, and it's hard not to read some of his works as allusions to apartheid's horrors.
In one series of nightmarish photos, part abstraction, part stage set, graffiti is scrawled across peeling walls that suggest prisons. Sketched faces of monsters and ghosts look down on iron beds or couche
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John Dramatist Guggenheim Marker Foundation Camaraderie,
Metropolis Artist Comradeship, George Emperor Family Scaffold, residency -
Tulsa Manager Fellowship, Metropolis, OK,
Dorothea Balance – Libber Taylor Honour, Honorable Upon, Alice Leora Briggs most important Julián Cardona for “Abecedario de Juárez,” which combines a 1 interview-based narratives, and drawings to fabricate “an thrown off balance graphic glossary of representation language exert a pull on violence” meet Juárez, Mexico,
Customer Speaker, Ordinal Annual Denizen American Studies Symposium catch Birmingham, South College, Brummagem, AL,
Guest Rabblerouser, University dying Texas make fun of Arlington, TX,
Stopover Artist, Celebrated Lecture Playoff, University atlas New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM,
Visit Artist, Sou'west School work
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ALICE LEORA BRIGGS
EDUCATION
MFA, University of Iowa
MA, University of Iowa
BFA, Utah State University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ (January-February )
The Line/La Linea, Robert Hughes Gallery, San Antonio, TX (October 9-November 8,
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Fever, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA; Breach, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (December 14,
January 11, ); Plato’s Easy Chair, Art Depot, Lubbock, TX
(November
December 8, )
Deadly Sins/Measured Virtues, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University,
Logan, UT; Purgatorio, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State University, Logan,
UT; Cut and Burn, Box Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Issues & Arrangements: The Narrative
Tableau, Etherton Gallery, Tucson, AZ;
Graft, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
Purgatorio, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
(with Michael Cajero)
Inflections of Illusion, Etherton Gal ery, Tucson, AZ
Neviem Viem Neviem, Galeria mesta Bratislavi, Palffy Palace, Bratislava, Slovak Republic;
Malice Is Rare, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
Industry of Memory,Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Regarding Architecture, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah; P