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New Exhibition at Sedona Arts Center!

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New Featured Artists in Our Gallery!
Uptown, Sedona

Bill Cramer, Cliff Finity, Byron McKeown, Deanne McKeown, and Lesley Aine McKeown

The Center’s Fine Art Gallery showcases the largest selection in Sedona of artwork by local artists. If you are seeking a rare piece of fine art, a gift of exquisite jewelry, appreciate stunning photography, or looking for a lovely keepsake from your visit to Sedona, the Arts Center has it all and more. The Arts Center is a 501(c)3 organization that offers all purchases without sales tax – almost a 10% savings.

The Fine Art Gallery is currently open Wednesday through Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm. Sedona Arts Center is located at 15 Art Barn Road in Uptown Sedona.

Our new online gallery represents a full spectrum of the diversity of artists represented by the arts center.  Visit us today!
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Now Showing in our Fine Art Gallery in Uptown, Sedona
Bill Cramer
Bill Cramer is best known for his striking oil paintings of the American West. Growing up in the west, Bill always had an interest in exploring nature and creating art. As a longtime rock climber, he spent much of his youth enjoying the more vertical aspects of the landscape. After receiving a University of California fine arts degree, he moved to Arizona with his wife Michelle to be closer to the scenery they both enjoyed. It was there that he discovered the delight and challenges of plein air painting, his outdoor experiences providing much of the insight and inspiration for his landscape paintings.  Bill works in a style best described as Impressionistic Realism, where strong brushwork and colors are used to express the vitality and beauty of the natural world.
Cliff Finity
The intriguing and intricately detailed oil paintings of Cliff Finity draw upon a deep well-spring of observation and inspiration, fed by his early experiences in the American wilderness of his youth; by Renaissance and Surrealist art; and by the temporal flow of technology in his lifetime. This unusual blend of influences has led to a unique body of work depicting anthropogenic technology immersed within the matrix of the wild, primarily using archaic or obsolete creations of humankind set in imaginary scenes from the natural world, and containing a rich symbology of memory, language, and time; adaptation and transformation; puzzles and games — all metaphors for the myriad of interweaving elements shared by the common endeavor of life.
Byron McKeown
“Over the years I’ve learned to appreciate excellence although I rarely achieve it. The closest I come is in the ephemeral areas of concept and integrity. But, since I believe that my next effort will be my best, I will continue to pursue excellence. Although I believe that I’ve learned more from my many failures than my few successes.”
Deanne McKeown
Known for her creative bronze sculptures and beautiful jewelry, Deanne has led a storied career in the arts. She often looks at the world in a three-dimensional fashion featuring Ravens, Shamans and fanciful critters combined with antique objects such as type writers, roller skates and old books.

“None of us perceive the world in exactly the same way. Our oneness lies in a yearning to touch and to understand. My work is an endeavor to share my thoughts and vision through form and color and relationships, hoping to charge my images with meaning which will reach across the spaces between us. However, in the long run, it’s all about making art – great if there’s communication, but if not, I’d still do it anyway. In looking back over a lifetime of working and exploring ideas, I realize that I have never created art, art has been, and is now, creating me.”
Lesley Aine McKeown
“For me, creating and breathing are the same thing. From the time I was a small child I was given tools to make things and an environment that inspired me. I am drawn to exploration and my work is an evolution of that process. I design with a mind to form and negative space. My technique is low tech using traditional metal smithing tools. The use of unique stones are often the inspiration of a design. I work primarily in sterling silver and high karat gold.

Each piece is created in my studio in the tradition of the American Studio Art Jewelry movement of the 1940’s through the 60’s, which dictates that the work is created entirely in the artist’s studio. It is my hope that the wearer of my work will identify with something in the piece that speaks their aesthetic and deeper less tangible emotions thus completing the creative circle.”
Visit the Sedona Arts Center Fine Art Gallery Online Today!
Sedona Arts Center is one of Northern Arizona’s most well-established cultural organizations and serves as the creative heart of Sedona. Founded in 1958, the nonprofit organization is based at the Art Barn in Uptown and offers year-round classes, exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events that enhance the creative life of the Verde Valley. The Center’s Fine Art Gallery promotes the original works of over 100 local artists and regularly offers special assistance for collectors and art buyers, offers private studio visits, and fosters hundreds of arts education opportunities each year.
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