On Thursday, September 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, Stremmel Gallery will host an opening reception for South Lake Tahoe artist Phyllis Shafer. Shafer's exhibition of new works, entitled "Radiant Land: Paintings of the Sierra Nevada," are observations from her wide-ranging explorations of the rugged Sierra Nevada landscape that surrounds the Lake. The show will continue through October 9.

The Lake Tahoe resident and plein-air painter creates compelling, poetic paintings of the rugged, rhythmic Sierra landscape. Shafer finds patterns in her subjects both up close and far, using exaggerated perspective to create a heightened contrast between fore- and background. As she says, her use of these intensified spatial extremes addresses "the relationship between 'world' and 'self.'" Through her intuitive process of painting her subjects, her artistic goal, she states, is "to distill and crystallize" their "essence and the vital rhythms that animate it."

Phyllis Shafer received her M.F.A. from University of California, Berkeley in 1988, and is currently on sabbatical from her position as full-time instructor in painting, drawing, design, printmaking and art history at Lake Tahoe Community College. She has shown widely throughout the region, including Sacramento's Crocker Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, as well as having participated in an exhibition that traveled throughout Colombia, South America. Her works may be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Nevada Museum of Art.

On Thursday, September 16, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, the public is invited to the reception to meet the artist and view her work. The show will continue through October 9. Stremmel Gallery is located at 1400 S. Virginia Street. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, and Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm. For more information, contact Stremmel Gallery at 786-0558.

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Phyllis Shafer