Special to the PVT An example of James Stanford's work in creating a montage of Las Vegas neon using Adobe Photoshop. The display can be seen in the Red Barn Art Center at the Goldwell Red Barn Art Center through Oct. 19. Advertisement

Rhyolite -- Goldwell Open Air Museum will host the opening reception for the "Indra's Jewels" exhibit by artist James Stanford at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, in the Red Barn Art Center.

New work by James Stanford of Las Vegas was executed with Adobe Photoshop, which allows a form of photomontage perfect for illustrating a sense of wonder.

In a press release, Stanford said this exhibit was inspired by Francis H. Cook's, Hua-Yen Buddhism, The Jewel Net of Indra. "I used modern technology to reflect segments of Las Vegas neon signage, the former jewels of the desert night, and then I wove it all together into patterns using the artifice of perfect symmetry into Jewel-like objects of meditation," he said. Stanford added, "after some secret manipulations everything gets printed onto jewel-like metallic paper, which adds a translucency that glows like a northern Renaissance painting."

Goldwell Open Air Museum is a Nevada nonprofit organization that preserves and encourages artistic exploration in and of the Amargosa Desert near Death Valley National Park.

The Museum cares for an eight-acre outdoor sculpture park near the ghost town of Rhyolite which is best known for the ghostly "Last Supper" sculpture by Belgian artist Albert Szukalski.

The Red Barn Art Center is a 2,250-square -foot facility and houses a large 1,125-square-foot multi-purpose studio and exhibition/performance space and an intaglio print-making studio.

The Red Barn Art Center is located just southwest of the Museum in the historic Bullfrog town site near the ghost town of Rhyolite in Nye County. The center is open weekends. The exhibit is free and runs through Oct. 19.