FAMoS - First Fridays -Sitts/Pollio Exhibit

The Fine Art Museum of Sedona (FAMoS) is proud to announce the opening of Resonance: Frequency and Legacy, a landmark exhibition exploring the intersection of intuition, innovation, and energetic awareness. Featuring the works of Sedona-based artists Jan Sitts and Lynnda Pollio, the exhibit invites viewers to move beyond traditional representation and engage with art as a direct, felt experience.

We also invite you to our FAMoS First Friday on March 6^th from 5 to 7 pm to meet Lynnda Pollio and Dick Sitts.

Rooted in the unique creative and spiritual atmosphere of Sedona, Resonance showcases two distinct yet harmonious practices that prioritize inner perception over the external world.

 Jan Sitts | The Power of Legacy: Resonance: Frequency and Legacy explores how artistic practice carries vibration across time—how gesture, memory, and lived experience continue to echo beyond the artist’s physical presence. Within this framework, Jan Sitts’ High Top Shoes becomes both anchor and signal.

Sitts’ work is rooted in intuitive abstraction—an approach that privileges felt experience over literal depiction. In High Top Shoes, layered textures and earthen tonalities create a field that feels less constructed than unearthed. The surface operates like sediment: memory accumulated, obscured, and revealed through time. Marks punctuate the composition like pulses, suggesting a frequency embedded within the paint itself.

The central form—ambiguous, hovering between creature and spirit—resists fixed interpretation. It evokes movement, transition, and interior life. The painting does not narrate; it resonates. Its energy unfolds slowly, asking the viewer to attune rather than decode. This attunement is central to the exhibition’s premise: resonance is not volume, but vibration sustained.

The title High Top Shoes introduces a grounded, human reference—an object tied to youth, journey, and embodiment. Set against the painting’s atmospheric expansiveness, the title creates a dialogue between the earthly and the transcendent. It reminds us that legacy is not abstract; it is carried through lived steps, repeated gestures, and decades of disciplined practice.

Sitts’ career, spanning decades in Sedona, reflects a profound commitment to intuitive process. Her work embodies the exhibition’s exploration of legacy not as monument, but as continuity of frequency. Even in her physical absence, the visual language she refined persists—layer by layer, mark by mark—transmitting presence through paint.

Within Resonance: Frequency and Legacy, High Top Shoes stands as a meditation on endurance. It affirms that art, when created from sustained interior listening, does not end. It reverberates.

Lynnda Pollio | The Future of Frequency

Lynnda Pollio’s The Arrival operates within a distinctly different register than intuitive abstraction; it is codified, intentional, and architectonic. Where some artists excavate memory through layered atmosphere, Pollio constructs a calibrated energetic system. Her self-described “Frequency Art” proposes a new visual language—one that prioritizes vibrational alignment over narrative interpretation.

Structural Architecture & Symmetry

At first encounter, the composition presents as highly symmetrical and frontal—almost totemic. The vertical axis acts as a stabilizing spine, dividing mirrored geometric forms that radiate outward. This bilateral symmetry evokes sacred diagramming traditions: mandalas, cosmograms, ceremonial shields, and architectural schematics.

The work is not spatially deep; it is concentrically active. Forms expand from the center like an energetic broadcast. Rather than creating illusionistic depth, Pollio constructs a vibrational plane—an image designed to be experienced head-on.

Chromatic Strategy

Pollio’s palette is saturated and declarative: electric blues, high-frequency yellows, crimson accents, and verdant greens. These colors do not blend atmospherically; they are compartmentalized and assertive. Each hue functions almost as a tonal note within a larger harmonic system.

The chromatic contrasts generate optical energy. Blue against yellow, red against turquoise—these complementary tensions create visual oscillation. The painting hums. This is color deployed not for descriptive realism, but for energetic activation.

Geometric Symbolism & Visual Language

The Arrival introduces symbolic fragments—triangles, spirals, radiating segments, directional arrows, circular mandala-like forms. These are not illustrative motifs but components of Pollio’s emerging lexicon. The work reads almost like a frequency map or spiritual circuitry diagram.

Triangles point, circles cycle, quadrants rotate. The composition suggests motion within stillness—an arrival not as physical landing, but as energetic alignment. The title reinforces this reading: arrival as activation, as tuning into a new bandwidth.

Participation Over Interpretation

Pollio’s stated aim—to transcend narrative—becomes central here. Unlike narrative-driven symbolism, this work does not ask, “What does it represent?” Instead it asks, “What does it do to you?”

The symmetrical structure centers the viewer. The geometry draws the eye inward and outward simultaneously. The piece functions less like an image to decode and more like a portal to engage. It invites sustained looking, almost meditative viewing, where the viewer becomes part of the energetic exchange.

Integration into Resonance: Frequency and Legacy

Within the broader exhibition theme, The Arrival represents the forward trajectory—the “future” dimension of frequency. If legacy embodies accumulated resonance across time, Pollio’s work proposes conscious calibration of what comes next.

Where Jan Sitts’ work demonstrates frequency as sedimented memory, Pollio’s offers frequency as intentional broadcast. Sitts excavates; Pollio constructs. Together they form a continuum:

• Legacy as lived vibration

• Frequency as designed transmission

An Immersive Experience

Unlike traditional museums that focus on "looking at" a subject, Resonance is designed for "feeling through" the medium. The exhibition highlights how art can serve as a bridge to consciousness, making it a must-see for art patrons, cultural tourists, and those interested in contemporary, experiential movements.

Combining Pollio’s frequency work alongside Sitts’s storied intuitive legacy, we are offering a deeply emotionally resonant experience that mirrors the spirit of Sedona itself.

FAMoS is located at 2081 West State Route 89A, Suite 4, Sedona, AZ 86336 (Sunset Plaza where the Harkins Theatres are located).

Open Thursday through Sunday from 1pm to 5pm.

FAMoS exhibits explore the many different types of art that has been inspired by Sedona and the Verde Valley and gives the guest an in-depth education about the art and the fascinating artists who have lived and worked in Sedona.

A multimedia room shows continual videos about local artists and the museum and potential future museum designs.

The current exhibit is free and donations are accepted to the not for profit to help in the mission of establishing our permanent facility.

Please contact info@fineartmuseumofsedona.org or +1 888 602 2667 if you would like to schedule a group tour at times other than the current hours of operation. The maximum capacity for tours is 15 people.