Photos: First Friday shows in Anchorage for January, 2015

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"Edgar Allen Who?" digital photography by Mark Hoover. Showing at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation gallery, 500 W. 6th Ave.

The biggest First Friday reception in Anchorage for January 2015 will probably be at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D St. It's the opening of its Annual Member Artist Exhibition, which has been one of the more vibrant group shows in years past. The members will take up all the wall space except for the Guest Room, where Nathan Perry will have a show of work on varied themes titled "Refined Edge."

At Alaska Pacific University's Leah J. Peterson Gallery in the Carr Gottstein Building (next door to J. Jason Lazarus' "Stories Fading Fast" photos), former ADN photo chief Richard Murphy will be opening "A Narrow Road to the Interior Winter." Murphy relocated to Fairbanks for a year. While there, he took advantage of the chance to shoot winter landscapes in the Upper Tanana River Basin.

How did you spend 2014? Artist Scott Clendaniel spent the year painting a different beer portrait every day. The results of his industry and, um, research will be part of the First Friday art opening on Jan. 2 in the Loft of the Midnight Sun Brewing Company, 8111 Dimond Hook Road. Not surprisingly, he's displayed his beer art there before.

Read more: ArtBeat -- First Friday fete celebrates a year of beer