Capital City Arts Initiative presents Entitled to the Sun, an exhibition by Western Nevada College Fine Arts Professor Rachel Stiff. The exhibition is open to the public through May 26 at the Carson City Justice and Municipal Court, 885 E. Musser St., in Carson City.

Stiff studies the rugged and vast qualities of the Western landscape. Her large-scale abstract paintings investigate local desert-city relations. Viewers will experience the dissimilitude that exists between the natural world and the construct of surrounding urban developments. Stiffs paintings take viewers beyond city limits where they too can feel solace and peer out into the atmosphere.

The West has a lot to offer, she said. My journey to western Nevada has taken me through the greater western states. At all these outposts, Ive found each locations individual sense of place, space, color palette, and topographical textures. From the outskirts of town, one can examine the composition of a city and its relationship with surrounding landforms. There are endless variations of color and light, depending on exact location and time of day.

In the artists own words: Through painting, I frame the modern West; exit ramps serve sunsets to go and mysterious bluffs quietly exhibit the beauty of perspective from the grocery store parking lot.

Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For those whod like to view the exhibit virtually, CCAI is planning to provide online viewing at a date to be determined.

For more information, go tohttps://www.ccainv.org/stiff-entitled-to-the-sun/