
Our Gallery is located in the landmark Baer's building on Washington Street. in downtown Sonora. Sonora natives remember the building as Baer's Clothing Store, run as a family business for over 50 years. More recently, it was an antique store. The beautifully renovated interior is gorgeous!
Aloft Art Gallery
The MLAA opened the Aloft Art Gallery in 2008 to provide MLAA members with a venue to display and sell their work. It is member-run. For much more information, and images of beautiful art, go to the Gallery's website: www.aloftartgallery.com
Aloft Art Gallery
The MLAA opened the Aloft Art Gallery in 2008 to provide MLAA members with a venue to display and sell their work. It is member-run. For much more information, and images of beautiful art, go to the Gallery's website: www.aloftartgallery.com
Find the Aloft at:
105 S. Washington Street
PO Box 5140
Sonora, CA 95370
www.aloftartgallery.com
www.facebook.com/AloftArtGallery
aloftgallery@aol.com
209.588.8604
The Gallery is open 7 days a week, 10 to 4.
105 S. Washington Street
PO Box 5140
Sonora, CA 95370
www.aloftartgallery.com
www.facebook.com/AloftArtGallery
aloftgallery@aol.com
209.588.8604
The Gallery is open 7 days a week, 10 to 4.
What's new in the Gallery: Introducing new Gallery member Larisa Stevenson

"For me, making art is like breathing, a necessity of life and obviously painful when absent. It's part of my nature. I began when I was a little Russian kid growing up in Kazakhstan, encouraged by my father who was a painter and wood carver. In that place and time of the Soviet Union, it was expected of young girls to learn and practice some sort of practical craft. He encouraged my knitting or sewing to be done creatively and useful to my art, as in doll making. He taught me to express myself through different mediums of art, whether it was painting, ice skating or doll making. My father pushed me beyond the ordinary and instilled a love of art classics that very much remains today.”
“I discovered clay as an adult. After sculpting my first face, I was hooked for life. Clay responded to every movement of my hands. It is a three dimensional form that molds, mutates and renews itself into a tangible lifeform. Although I also have done painting and doll making, clay became my absolute favorite medium. As my sculpting skills grew, I was able to express movement and emotions in my clay creations, whether portraits, figure, or animals. I love to sculpt them all.”
"Art is part of my nature. I know it is part of my destiny."
Larisa exhibits at the Aloft Gallery in Sonora. She also a member of the Blue Line Art Gallery in Sacramento and the Mother Lode Art Association. She shares her studio in Murphys, California with a very independent black cat named Yvette.
“I discovered clay as an adult. After sculpting my first face, I was hooked for life. Clay responded to every movement of my hands. It is a three dimensional form that molds, mutates and renews itself into a tangible lifeform. Although I also have done painting and doll making, clay became my absolute favorite medium. As my sculpting skills grew, I was able to express movement and emotions in my clay creations, whether portraits, figure, or animals. I love to sculpt them all.”
"Art is part of my nature. I know it is part of my destiny."
Larisa exhibits at the Aloft Gallery in Sonora. She also a member of the Blue Line Art Gallery in Sacramento and the Mother Lode Art Association. She shares her studio in Murphys, California with a very independent black cat named Yvette.
MLAA Guest Artist Panel at the Aloft: Steven Showers
A panel in the Aloft Gallery is reserved during each rotation for the use of an MLAA guest artist, who is not a Gallery member, but can exhibit their work free of charge. Go to the Venues page for more information on availability of this prime venue!
Steven "Jamie" Showers is the current MLAA Guest Artist Here is what Steven has to say about his art.

"My main academic training has been in the fields of English and biology and history, and for more than four decades I taught a wide variety of high school classes, from Honors English and Shakespeare to AP Biology, Aeronautics, and Physics. The uniting factor for all of these courses has been my wonder at the variety of the universe.
I work principally with watercolors. Their translucent quality coaxes the imagination to see and feel that which might only be suggested by the piece. However, in contrast with many who use watercolor, I am attracted to vibrant, rich colors perhaps more common to acrylics and oils. But layers of color are possible with watercolors, so I remain focused on these and the effects they can produce. As for styles, I tend toward impressionism but have explored many different modes from abstract to realism. Each time I go to a gallery and see what other artists have done, I am fascinated by their choices and the apparent courage it takes to express their visions. Each stroke of a brush, next tile in a mosaic, or new thread in a fabric is a step into the unknown which will change the shape of the piece and leave behind a thousand other choices that could have been made, yet the path then appears for the next possible steps and beyond.
I work principally with watercolors. Their translucent quality coaxes the imagination to see and feel that which might only be suggested by the piece. However, in contrast with many who use watercolor, I am attracted to vibrant, rich colors perhaps more common to acrylics and oils. But layers of color are possible with watercolors, so I remain focused on these and the effects they can produce. As for styles, I tend toward impressionism but have explored many different modes from abstract to realism. Each time I go to a gallery and see what other artists have done, I am fascinated by their choices and the apparent courage it takes to express their visions. Each stroke of a brush, next tile in a mosaic, or new thread in a fabric is a step into the unknown which will change the shape of the piece and leave behind a thousand other choices that could have been made, yet the path then appears for the next possible steps and beyond.

As for styles, I tend toward impressionism but have explored many different modes from abstract to realism. Each time I go to a gallery and see what other artists have done, I am fascinated by their choices and the apparent courage it takes to express their visions. Each stroke of a brush, next tile in a mosaic, or new thread in a fabric is a step into the unknown which will change the shape of the piece and leave behind a thousand other choices that could have been made, yet the path then appears for the next possible steps and beyond. "
Apply to join Aloft Gallery
Applications and information can be downloaded on the Aloft website at aloftartgallery.com. Applications are also available in the gallery.