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Shelley Niro: Film and Photography
April 19, 2023 @ 5:00 pm - April 21, 2023 @ 7:00 pm MST
The Essential Sensuality of Ceremony
Shelley Niro: Film and Photography
Exhibition opening April 19th Film screening April 21 5pm
Reception for the artist on April 22nd at 7 pm
The Andrew Smith Gallery Arizona, LLC is excited to announce it’s next exhibition featuring works by contemporary Native American artist Shelley Niro. The opening reception is Saturday, April 22, 2023, 7:00-10:00 PM at 330 S. Convent Ave, Tucson, AZ 85701.
In addition to the opening at the Andrew Smith Gallery Shelley Niro’s film, The Incredible 25th Year of Mitzi Bearclaw, will be screened as part of the 31st Arizona International Film Festival on Friday April 21st at 5:00 PM followed by a Q&A with Shelley Niro.
An internationally acclaimed artist, Shelley Niro is a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) Nation. Born in Niagara Falls, New York, and currently residing in Ontario, she grew up near Brantford on the Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Niro is known internationally for her feature-length film Kissed by Lightning (2009), performance pieces, painting, beadwork, and particularly for her extensive photographic body of work. Since the late 1980s, she has prolifically produced and exhibited ambitious work at a high level, nationally and internationally, and she has long been a significant creative presence in Toronto.
A career retrospective of Shelley Niro’s paintings, photographs, mixed-media works, and films Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch will run from May 27, 2023 – January 1, 2024, at the National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in New York City.
Through April 8, 2023
Michael Hyatt:
Crossroads – The Streets & Music of Los Angeles 1969 – 1981
Michael Hyatt (b. Long Beach CA, 1946) has been a staple of the photography, radio, and music scenes in Tucson for nearly 40 years, particularly known for his long-running radio program Route 66 on KXCI and his recent photographic work of migrants and the border.
The Andrew Smith Gallery show has Hyatt’s street photography of L.A. and its environs, focusing on photographs made in L.A.’s legendary Skid Row, and portraits of musicians in the burgeoning punk, new wave, and roots rock scenes happening in L.A. in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. General Hershey Bar Waste Moreland – Los Angeles, 1977 ©Michael Hyatt Hours: Monday – Friday 10-4 and Saturday 12-5