Tierra del Sol Gallery presents Bazaar Bazaar, an end-of-the-year exhibition featuring all 130 Tierra Studio Arts Program artists. Bazaar the show celebrates and highlights the diverse interests and genres of artists at both the Upland and Sunland Studios.
This year, Tierra del Sol gallery director Paige Wery selected one work from each artist, and from these found common themes that together playfully suggest a marketplace of delights. Bazaar Bazaar offers visitors an immersive experience that engages multiple senses, from tactile ceramics and textiles to colorful watercolors, portraits and landscapes.
As gallery director, Wery doesn’t dictate or guide Tierra del Sol artists’ practices, and this exhibition demonstrates the same model of studio-to-gallery relationships that built and maintain the art canon. Encountering the sublime and bringing that experience into the public imagination is exemplified in this year’s group show, while breaking the boundaries of the canon to include those once considered outsiders.
Bazaar Bazaar emphasizes how Tierra del Sol Gallery makes space for the creative, fantastical, the practical and the innovative making of 130 different artists united as community in the Studio Arts Program. Artists who have had solo exhibitions at the gallery are featured throughout the shops alongside their studio coworkers. Visitors will recognize a John Maull floral painting in the Florist boutique and Sarit Halo and Jackie Montes’s whimsical animal ceramics in the Pet Shop. There are home goods, a couture salon, automotive-inspired offerings and artist Victor Frias will be drawing portraits during the opening night at the Portrait Store.
Traditionally, a bazaar or souk is a public market with many offerings of goods. In the west, bazaars are often tied to charitable events and fundraisers. Tierra del Sol Gallery honors both ideas, encouraging visitors to be inspired by the generosity of artists joined by the power and purpose of art making and in return can help support the larger mission of the Tierra del Sol Foundation to champion inclusion and value for all people with disabilities through creative pathways to employment, education, and the arts.
Bazaar Bazaar opens at Tierra del Sol Gallery on Saturday, November 16th with a reception from 6-8 pm. The exhibition will be on view through December 21st, 2024.
