Straight Shooter

Silverland Gallery
St. Mary's Art Center
55 N. R Street
Virginia City

Evan Dent
Straight Shooter



Mr. Dent's exhibition transforms the attic space of the Silverland Gallery into a montage of cartoon history.

In his Reno News & Review article, local arts writer Brad Bynum explains: "Artist Evan Dent picked stills from old, public domain 1910s and ’20s cartoons and projected them onto the walls of the gallery. Using charcoal, he filled in the drawings directly onto the walls of the gallery, adding or subtracting images as he saw fit, and obsessively worked and reworked the surfaces."

Through September 17

Smoke and Mirrors

[Below, link to a second review by Brad Bynum in the Reno News & Review of an artist featured in CCAI's upcoming June 2009 "Grad Night" exhibition project.]

Smoke and mirrors
Jeff Erickson

By Brad Bynum

"Just four days before the opening of his exhibit Western Star in the Sheppard Gallery, Jeff Erickson was still making decisions about his installation. This wasn’t indecision—it was part of the creative process. When artists who work in traditional media—like, say, oil paints—install their work in a gallery, their primary concern is to display their artwork in a representative manner. But for a site-specific artist like Erickson, the installation process is the artwork."

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[Photo from Reno New & Review. Caption: "Jeff Erickson, with reflection, during the installation of Western Star." Photo by Brad Bynum."]

Ahren Hertel Theory of evolution

[An exhibition by UNR MFA candidate Ahren Hertel, one of the artists to be featured in CCAI's June 2009 "Grad Night" exhibition project, is the subject of a review by Brad Bynum in the current Reno News & Review.]


Theory of evolution
With his MFA thesis exhibit, Ahren Hertel evolves
beyond pop surrealism
By Brad Bynum

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[photo from Reno News & Review website. Caption: "Hertel’s style is evolving from pop surrealism to more realistic portraiture."]