Arts council hosts ‘Explorations in Photography’ exhibit

The Doña Ana Arts Council (DAAC) is presenting the works of Krista Anderson, John Craig, Robert Peticolas and Alison Tinsley in an exhibition titled “Explorations in Photography” through Monday, March 28.

The exhibit’s opening reception will be noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at DAAC, 205 W. Amador Ave.

Originally from Santa Fe, Anderson resides in Santa Teresa. Her love of New Mexico and the surrounding areas has fueled her passion for photography and desire to capture the beauty of everything that New Mexico holds.

“I truly believe we live in a place like no other,” Anderson said.

She has exhibited work throughout New Mexico, including the Light Art Space Gallery in Silver City, Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces and the Albuquerque International Airport, as well as Schuster Design Studio’s Spring Art Show in El Paso. Anderson’s images have also appeared in Western Horseman and New Mexico Horse Breeders Association magazines.

Craig grew up in New Jersey and received an associate degree in marketing arts and design (photography option) in 1974 and a bachelor of fine arts degree in photography from New Jersey City University in 2006. He has extensive experience in pre-press, black and white processing/printing, marketing and digital photography. Craig and his wife moved to Las Cruces in 2018, where he is pursuing his love for fine art photography, focusing on the themes of memory and experience.

Peticolas grew up in El Paso and had an interest in fine arts from an early age. After living on the East Coast, Peticolas and his wife moved back to the Southwest in 2011. Shortly after that, he began his pursuit of landscape photography. Craig has studied under Wayne Suggs and spent time with the local community of landscape photographers.

“I have been further grounded in the art and craft of landscape photography by a community of talented artists who took an interest in me and my work,” Peticolas said. “In my photography, I am not seeking to merely document a scene, but to evoke a material metaphor of thoughts and feelings in the viewer."

 Since birth, Tinsley has been living a nomadic life. She was born in southern California but graduated from high school in Rome. Her first camera was a Kodak Brownie, and at 20, she inherited a Leica and a Zeiss Icon that started a lifetime fascination with photography. Now, after years of multiple cameras, darkroom experiments and photographic adjustment techniques, Tinsley is using her cell phone to capture her unique vision instead of technical manipulation.

Tinsley's photographs have appeared in various lifestyle and travel magazines and, most recently, in “Sleeping with the Toucans: 100 Great Places to Stay in Costa Rica,” the product of a four-year fling in Costa Rica with her husband, Chris Fields. Tinsley and her husband now split their time between Mesilla and the village of Caunes-Minervois in southwestern France.

DAAC is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. for First Friday and noon to 5 p.m. the second Saturday of each month.

Call 575-523-6403.

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