LAS VEGAS -- Desert Nudes of professional model Arial Bat-Shiva by artist Allio are the featured exhibition in the Graceful Nudes Gallery on September 10, 2011. This is the first appearance for the Las Vegas-based professional model in this foreign art gallery.

"The gallery selection process is a meticulous one, we inspect and handpick every image based on our standards," explained David Roland, curator of Graceful Nudes Gallery. The goal of the gallery is to provide patrons with positive images of models who are comfortable being nude.

The original ten-image Desert Nudes artwork exhibition represents a first-time collaboration between natural nude live art model Arial Bat-Shiva and professional artist and photographer Allio. The complete collection of the female figure posing nude for art in the Mojave Desert was selected for presentation by the Graceful Nudes Gallery.

"Man(/Woman) never looks insignificant next to a mountain or a megalith, for man(/woman) can force those mountains to follow his/her wish. A megalith only proves the outstanding ability of the human mind," Roland said about the Desert Nudes gallery. "Our appreciation of who we are, of our abilities, of our brains - what made us reign supreme over this planet, is what keeps the world going. If our minds are blind, then we can neither see beauty, or create anything of value."

A virtual copy of the "Desert Nudes" exhibition may be viewed at: http://www.gracefulnudes.com/Galleries/david_allio_desert_nudes/gallery.php