The opening reception for Salt Creek Artworks’ final show in its current location is Friday, June 29, from 6 to 9 p.m. — the last reception in Salt Creek Artworks’ 20-year history.
The former furniture warehouse known as Salt Creek Artworks, which housed up to 40 artists, will be razed to create a parking lot for the neighboring fish processing plant, according to a recent post on I Love the Burg’s site. The gallery has shown some of the most intriguing exhibitions this past season.
Art critic Megan Voeller wrote about a dual show by mixed-media artist Kirk Ke Wang and painter Steven Kenney earlier this spring, and a recent photography show offered amusing and candid views of yard sales in America.
Member and esteemed photographer Herb Snitzer and artist Carol Dameron will be selling their works 70 percent off list price. Brose 11-by-14-inch and 16-by-20-inch silver gelatin prints of jazz, nature, nudes, social and racial commentary, iconic images of New York, London and Paris circa early 1960s, and more.
If you can’t make it to the finale reception, the gallery will be open Saturday and Sunday, June 30 and July 1 (a nice break from the hoo-ha of the Pride Fest Promenade if you’re downtown for the event).
SCA owners Pat Burgess and her father, Claude Azell Prince, opened the gallery to offer work spaces for artist of all disciplines and allow them the flexibility to create and work in their own unique ways, curator Lance Rodgers says. “Pat and Azell were great art community champions as well, lending Salt Creek Artworks’ unique space to other organizations for events and causes,” he adds. Friday’s event will offer refreshments by Pipo’s. 1600 Fourth St. S, St. Petersburg. 727-894-2653, saltcreekartworks.com.
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2012.