September 10 – 28, 2009 at the Truckee River Gallery
Reception, Saturday, September 20th from 4 to 7pm.
The Burning Man festival is a celebration of creativity. For one week each year art of every kind fills the playa of Black Rock Desert, but it doesn’t end there. In celebration and response to the artwork that Burning Man inspires, the Truckee River Gallery in Downtown Reno hosts Burn on the Black Rock Playa, an annual exhibit of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.
Phoenix, featured on the left, is on display at the Truckee River Gallery’s Burn on the Black Rock Playa exhibit. Phoenix is a part of a series of etchings and drawings depicting two headed woman with wings of fire. This work was created in the fall of 2002 after my first visit to Black Rock City. The woman represents an inter struggle of spirit and passion divided between two worlds of creativity and reality. Burning Man and the temporary city of Black Rock (BRC) inspire the same internal divide. For one week attendees are set free from the restrictions of the everyday life (money, cell phones, cars etc.) and are flung into a world of creativity and art. However, we are only visitors, and no one can stay in BRC forever. The city disappears with flames when the Man and Temple are burned. From the ashes the plan for the year ahead is formed and a population of 50,000 will come together to create it all again the following August.
Join us on Saturday, September 20th from 4 to 7pm at the Truckee River Gallery for the reception and help us celebrate art and to bridge the divide between BRC and reality.
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