It’s First Friday in Juneau and galleries and businesses around the city will stay open late to showcase new art. Annie Kaill’s will feature emerging artists. Owner Colleen Goldrich says she wanted to do something a little different.
“You know, I like to change things up and just showing some new people. There’s all this young energy in town and I just wanted to provide a place to do a great show.”
Among the four artists in the show, three of them will be showing for the first time. Catherine Walsh is a senior at Juneau-Douglas High School who works with a variety of mediums. She enjoys creating contrast in her work and says that her piece, “Fire Guy,” exemplifies her attention to the details.
“And the thing that I really liked on it was the flames. It was not like getting the actual white of the fire, it was getting the grays, the slight grays in it to actually make it look—rather than make it look like a white scratched out blob–that it actually had the texture to it.”
Mandi Johnson uses puff paint, scrapbook paper and scrap-booking scissors to make Alaska themed landscapes and wildlife pictures.
“I was back from college years ago and I was bored so I decided to go to Joanne’s and get some scrapbook paper. Sherry MacDonald is someone I really like her art and look up to. So I kind of took an idea from that, but then used my own spin with scrapbook paper and edges with scissors and things like that.”
The other two artists showing at Annie Kaill’s are Elizabeth Jurgeliet and Kaila Buerger.
