March First Friday at TRAX-“Pour and Metal”
310 Birch Hill Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99712
USA
This First Friday is our last one of the season and we plan to knock your socks off! Spring is in the air at TRAX! Gorgeous art, ice-cold beer, yummy local treats, and live music are on the menu for March. Three local artists, Lisa Roger-Peter, Riva Sazama and Bob Bashore will be gracing our walls with their art and we’ll be rocking out to live music by The South Cushman Social Club. The Roaming Root will be debuting their amazing new business this night at TRAX! Come join us for an evening of fun!
Artist Bios:
Lisa Rogers-Peter is a Fairbanks Artist. Self-taught and native to Alaska. Although she works in many mediums, this exhibit will be the first showing of her new pour paintings. Her next shows are IABA and Woman’s Affair at the Carlson Center in March and April. She will also have her artwork at the Farmers Market all summer.
Riva Sazama is a copper artist living and working in Fairbanks. She specializes in creating wall art, jewelry, and dishes from copper sheets with extensive use of patinas. Riva’s work is entirely hand made, one of a kind pieces that are heavily influenced by nature and natural processes. For her First Friday at Trax, Riva will be showcasing new abstract wall art, as well as copper dishes, cuff bracelets, and new copper earring designs.
Bob Bashore
NXAK Fine Art Photography
A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and the University of California at Davis, bob’s love of photography began in the early 1970s with surf photos and super8 ski movies, then later transitioned to city architecture. With the inaugural project of his new studio, NXAK (North by Alaska), bob turns his photographic eye to the 49th state. stylized and cropped in-camera, the images of “Overwinter” reflect the struggle of machines and nature against the frigid embrace of Alaska’s winter.