Etherton Gallery Exhibition: Jim Waid, Lawrence Gipe, Alejandro Macias

Etherton Gallery opens its 2025–2026 season with three compelling solo exhibitions: Jim Waid: Instars, Lawrence Gipe: Casbah Noir, and Alejandro Macias: In the Cases. Together, they offer a nuanced exploration of landscape, memory, and cultural identity, seen through the lens of three distinctive painters whose work resonates well beyond regional narratives. Dates: September 23-November 29, 2025. Opening Reception: September 27, 2025 at 7-10pm.

In Instars, Jim Waid—long regarded as one of Arizona’s most accomplished painters—presents recent large-scale works that translate the desert’s shifting light and organic complexity into vibrant, abstract compositions. Casbah Noir finds Lawrence Gipe reexamining mid-century Hollywood depictions of colonial North Africa, transforming fleeting cinematic images into oil paintings that interrogate the aesthetics of power and exoticism. In In the Cases, Alejandro Macias offers a deeply personal body of work that reflects on identity, migration, and belonging through finely rendered, symbolically rich portraiture.

Elegant and incisive, these exhibitions reflect Etherton Gallery’s ongoing commitment to presenting ambitious contemporary painting that is both formally compelling and culturally resonant. For information contact the gallery at [email protected] or (520) 624-7370.

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