SEDONA , AZ - For its “1^st Friday Gallery Tour” reception on September 4^th, from 5-8 pm, Lanning Gallery features “Menagerie” showcasing animals in all their Fine Art guises.   Center stage will be shared by birds and beasts alike as this Classic and Contemporary Fine Art gallery spotlights the heady magnetism of animal art.

When the heart and soul of fine artists depicts the heart and soul of an animal something wholly special occurs: creatures borne of this singular manner of mortal creation carry a primal core of mythical reality capable of touching us all.   Featured will be the unusual and captivating welded steel birds of artist Nina Scott-Hansen, some charismatically bedraggled, others simultaneously delicate, curious and ruffled, and the elegant horses captured on canvas by artist Kathleen Kinkopf who melds realism with touches of surrealism to capture the true essence of magnificent rescue horses.

Magnificent lion heads peer down from the gallery wall, looking inordinately real and belying their origins in sisal, a process the artist, Anne Andersson never reveals.   Dixie Jewett’s tabletop-size and larger than life-size horses continue to confound visitors who marvel that the same type of found objects they may have littering their property can be welded together into the perfect conformation of a horse.  

As disparate as these, and other, examples of animals in Fine Art are, the bond that unites them is, almost without exception, each artist’s reverence for animals’ place in our shared universe.   An SGA “Art of Gold” event.   For further information contact:   Lanning Gallery, Hozho Center, 431 State Route 179, Sedona, AZ.   928-282-6865 or www.lanninggallery.com .   Open daily: 10-6:00 Mon-Sat, 11-5 Sun.