Searching For Solid Ground Art Exhibit

Artists Rose Moon and Cathy Gazda

Sedona Arts Center

15 Art Barn Rd, Sedona, AZ 86336

Opening Reception April 3, 5:00 - 8:00 pm

Open 10:00 am - 5:00 pm everyday

Don’t miss “Searching for Solid Ground” – an art exhibition at Sedona Arts Center that features artists Cathy Gazda and Rose Moon. It is an artistic exploration of life, and the wondrous ways we seek equilibrium and peace along the way. Living on a precarious planet in constant motion and a world teaming with life, anything can happen and does.

Plants, humans and animals seek to find in each moment some place of stability in a reality where the only thing one can count on is change.

While primarily a painter, Cathy Gazda often combines traditional and experimental mediums to bring a 3-D or sculptural element to a 2-D painting. A viewer may be asked to actively participate. Lenticular works combine several paintings into one piece and require a person to move left to right to fully experience the image. Gazda says “While the mediums I’ve used over the years have changed, the essence of what I create is an attempt to capture a glimpse of divinity within all creatures.”

Cathy Gazda, a long-time resident of Sedona, has won many awards, been featured in posters, book covers and has been displayed in numerous national shows and museum venues including the internationally renowned Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum’s “Birds in Art”.  More of Gazda’s work can be seen at www.cathygazda.com 

Rose Moon is known for her quirky magical realistic paintings depicting an array of life’s circumstances. Having spent years as a hypnotherapist it is no wonder the sub-conscious mind is brought forward in her work. Lines become blurred between what lies inside and outside of the mind. Influenced by surrealists and Jungian psychology her art offers up metaphorical visions. Moon says “I like my viewers to find something personally meaningful that might inspire them to experience the world in a different way.”  She works primarily in acrylic paint, and occasionally in oils and watercolor.

Moon, graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in art and psychology, but dropped out of graduate school to start a family, which she claims is the best education available on earth.  She has won awards in local and international exhibitions and can be seen at The Manheim Gallery in Cottonwood.  More of Moon’s art can be viewed on her web site www.rosemoon.net

“Searching for Solid Ground" will be open to the public at Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Road in Sedona from April 2 through April 14, 10 am to 5 pm.  The Opening Reception will be April 3, 5 pm till 8 pm. It will be a gathering you won’t want to miss.  All are welcome!