The Art Stand Gallery

09/05/2020

We have reopened our gallery in downtown Sanger. Our hours are 11-4 today. See you soon.

03/21/2020

Our gallery is temporarily closed due to precautions over COVID-19 . Our members, Tiwi Wood, Elaine Town Lane and Chieko Delgado, are looking forward to seeing you again soon. Until then, we will post photos of our artwork from our gallery. Enjoy!

03/17/2020

There is no denying that this is a difficult time for all of us, for some more, for some less than for others. But, friends, amidst the hardship, Beauty is present. If it's not in our own world (in my case here, the garden) it's peeking over from the next. I have no purple lilac but my neighbor does. My job is to let it cheer me up. Beauty is ever present. May we let it cheer us up, even for a brief moment. If you'd like, post what cheers you up below, and may others have some of that hope and joy. Let us bless each other this season. Be well.

03/03/2020

Get busy and make art!

02/23/2020

Inspiring with beauty.

An impoverished inner city is the last place that many would expect to find a ballerina.  For former professional ballet dancer Aesha Ash, growing up an inner city was all that she knew but it didn't stop her from fulfilling her dreams. As a young girl Aesha, who is from Rochester, New York, always...

02/13/2020

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The late 19th century Armenian-Russian painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky created some truly spectacular paintings of seascapes that capture the

02/09/2020

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A broken CD isn't much good to anyone. Unless you're Sean Avery that is. Because while most of us would just throw them in the trash, the South Africa-born, Australia-based artist turns them into various dazzling animal sculptures.

02/09/2020

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Neile Cooper used her artistry to craft a stained glass cabin that's decorated with her nature-inspired imagery. Cooper uses it as a sanctuary.

12/02/2019

As you can imagine, working with fragile leaves requires a lot of patience and a steady hand, but the focus of my work for me lies on the effect it has on the viewer, on the ideas that flow into the compositions and the thoughts the pieces can evoke.

11/28/2019

Give thanks for our gifts, big and small, scrumptious and meager.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends.

Image: A still life by Alexander Adriaenssen the Elder (1587-1661)

09/11/2019

09/07/2019

This is salt fired pottery by Tomoo Hamada, grandson of Shoji Hamada, a potter who was a great part of the Japanese Mingei (folk art) movement in the early 20th century. I posted his photos here to show those of you who are not familiar with the pottery making process how drastic the transformation of the pot and its glaze is between the unfired state and the glaze fired. The glaze ingredients react with each other, and with the fire and the temperature reached, and with the atmosphere inside the kiln. It is truly magnificent chemical reactions. In layman's term, it's magical! 😉

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