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March 1 - 30 Main Gallery Alchemy | Christine Wallers and Steve Peters Opening Reception First Thursday, March 1, 6-10pm Alchemy, a collaborative installation by artist Christine Wallers and sound artist Steve Peters, was originally presented in 2000 as a site-specific installation at the Old San Ysidro Church, an historic adobe chapel in Corrales, New Mexico. A series of large bowls made of spun yellow brass rest on steel plates suspended from the ceiling. Transducers affixed to the bowls transmit sound directly into the metal, causing them to resonate. The sound is derived from the whispering voices of 24 people reading written responses the artists received from over 300 people in fifteen countries imagining positive change in the world. Heard clearly in the first bowl, the individual voices are electronically transformed into increasingly pure, abstract tones as they flow through the space in a quiet wave and gradually subside into silence. Random groupings of unprocessed voices are also played at very low volume through small speakers distributed throughout the gallery. The Artists Christine Wallers – work is built around conceptual themes that ultimately take the form of installation- based works that are site-specific, experientially based, and often fleeting. Combining materials such as steel, copper, glass, translucent film, soil, or honeycomb with more ephemeral elements (light, breath, intention, condensation, sound, touch), Wallers’ installations are often concerned with “the emergence of things…the barely visible glow, the phenomenon of color just beginning to radiate…” Time and its shifts are central to experiencing much of Wallers’ work. View Resume Steve Peters – (b. 1959) makes music and sound for dance, theater, radio, film/video, recordings, concerts, galleries/museums, and public spaces. Attentive to the subtle nuances of perception and place, his work is often site-specific using found/natural objects, acoustic instruments, electronics, environmental sound, and spoken text to explore the sonic poetry of the world around us. Since 1989 he has been the Director of Nonsequitur, a non-profit organization producing recording and concerts of experimental music and audio art. After fifteen years in the high desert of New Mexico, he now lives in Seattle and is a member of the Phonographers Union, an improvisational collective that performs with field recordings. View Resume View Blog Art In America Article

Artist Talk Saturday, March 3 2pm $2 | pac members free