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In 1981, Terry Etherton knew exactly what he wanted his new art gallery to be: a showcase for the burgeoning medium of photography. Photographs were...

Longtime Artist Friends Finally Stage A Group Show At Davis Dominguez Gallery. By Margaret Regan FOLLOW THE ROCKS in the new Mini Blockbuster show at Davis Dominguez Gallery. If you read them right, they tell the story of a longtime relationship among three pioneering artists up at Oracle's Rancho Linda Vista. James G. Davis has painted a big gray boulder set against a blue-green landscape in "Friends," an oil on paper. The rock is the backdrop for two men affectionately posing arm in arm. You'll find the same rock, a half-circle flattened out on the bottom, in Bruce McGrew's "Colorado Pond...

The Best And Worst Of The Local Arts Scene In 1997. By Margaret Regan ONE OF THE best moments in the whole art year took place in its earliest weeks. Liz Lerman's Dance Exchange had come to town in January, and worked intensively with local groups to incorporate them into a professional performance at Centennial Hall. After weeks of rehearsals, old Mexican-American women from El Rio Neighborhood Center, Jewish mothers and children from the Hebrew Academy, gay activists and even Ken Foster, head of UApresents, joined Lerman's troupe onstage for "Still Crossing," a dance about immigration an...

Below the slopes of the Catalinas' north face, the Bachman Wash twists its way through thickets of mesquite and creosote. Given a German name loosely translated as "man by the brook," the beloved wash snakes through the Rancho Linda Vista artist colony in Oracle. It's an arroyo both sandy and rocky, and it changes with the seasons. Sometimes it's a raging creek, sometimes a bed of wildflowers, sometimes a parched and desperate gulch. For 38 years, from 1968, when the ranch got started, to 1999 when he died, painter Bruce McGrew lived just a few steps away. He was deeply attac...