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Raphaëlle Goethals Lumens XXX, Encaustic on panel, 54" x 78" UF, Raphaelle Goethals - RaG 57 - sold |
February 2 - February 29, 2008
ENCAUSTICS
Christopher Reilly, Michelle Haglund and Raphael Goethals explore the use of encaustics to develop their beautifully organic paintings. Reilly and Haglund paint the nuances of the natural world - including trees, plants, flowers butterflies and birds. Goethals’ takes a more non- objective approach using color and tone to create serene and engaging paintings. All three artist have a the ability to present lush and romantic images that move beyond the everyday.
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Theodore Waddell Reinheimer's Horses, Oil on canvas, 61" x 67" F, Theodore Waddell - ThW 368 - sold |
February 2 - February 29, 2008
Quarter Horses and Other Dreams
Theodore Waddell has been described as an artists – artist. As a rancher, and constant painter, he is inspired by his immediate surroundings. His abstract expressionistic style captures his subject’s natural form and movement with contemporary sparity. Painting impressionistic images of horses, cattle and sheep in open fields and against colorful skies, Waddell weaves a western dream. His works in oil and encaustic on canvas, bronze and wood sculptures, along with graphite and oil on paper engage the viewer to share in the moment and be part of his experience. His passion for animals, including his beloved dogs, emerge from the paintings in a heartfelt burst of color and emotion.
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Delos Van Earl Interlude, Oil enamel and patina on steel, 22" x 14" x 8 1/2", Delos Van Earl - DeV 185 |
February 2 - February 29, 2008
Current Perspective
Using multiple layers of paint and deconstruction, Delos Van Earl’s paintings/sculptures are an exploration, revealing the transformation from raw material to a multifaceted work of art. After applying each layer of material, he sands, scrubs, and buffs the oil, enamel and mixed media on panel to expose the true surface and process of the piece. His paintings are a reflection of his life. His steel and bronze sculptures are also textured and exposed after weathering an range of techniques. The result for both the paintings and the sculpture are tactile journeys that invite the viewer to reach out and touch their surfaces.
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Deborah Oropallo Dead Riding Hood 1/3, Mixed media , 67 1/2" x 60", Deborah Oropallo - DeO 46 |
February 2 - February 29, 2008
Deborah Oropallo
Deborah Oropallo’s show continues in the Viewing Room at the Gail Severn Gallery. Deborah’s exhibition explores the artistic transition from painting to digital imaging. By incorporating the multimedia of printmaking, photography, digital technology and tapestry, Oropallo brings classical art into the modern realm. Using the costume of the socially powerful: the police and military, and the guise of the socially powerless: the French maid and the Cowgirl, Oropallo’s feminist twist provokes the institutional roles. Paradoxically demonstrating the woman, as a man, as a whole being, Oropallo shows women radiating a complex yet dominant and quiet strength.
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Christopher Reilly/ Michelle Haglund Imaginary Branch, Encaustic, mixed media on canvas over panel, 60" x 48" F, Christopher Reilly/Michelle Haglund - CrR/ MiH 01 |
December 21 - February 8, 2008
Suchness
Both Chris Reilly and Michelle Haglund’s natural transformation images symbolically represent the eternal cycle of evolution. Reilly’s work incorporates life forms such as the dragonfly as well as seasonal forms such as seeds and budding blossoms to continually remind the viewer of the ever-constant growth stages in life. His current work also delves into the subconscious dream state, blurring meditation and imagination. Tangentially, Michelle Haglund’s encaustic pieces demonstrate the later stages of the life cycle. With the evolvement from bud to withered leaf and from vibrant green to rich reds her works represent the “fall” of life. Both their styles and subject compliment one another to embody the complete cycle of life. Visually, both Haglund’s and Reilly’s pieces suggest sensual qualities by using layer upon layer of wax and watercolor and other mediums to achieve their final visual composition.
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Jan Aronson Leaves #9, Watercolor, 18" x 24", Jan Aronson - JaA 11 |
December 21 - February 8, 2008
While Rome Burns
Nationally acclaimed for her paintings that capture nature and abstraction concurrently, Aronson continues to paint stylized studies of leaves, rocks, and water in both oil on canvas, graphite and watercolor on paper. Vital and lurid colors painted with quick, short strokes of paint draw you deep into the grooves of every rock and the crest of every water ripple. Aronson’s paintings are arresting not only for the rich use of color and perspective but for their personal sense of psychological and formal considerations. Her images are alive, moving and suspended in time.
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December 21 - February 8, 2008
Head to Head
Deborah Oropallo’s current work explores the artistic transition from painting to digital imaging. By incorporating the multimedia of printmaking, photography and digital technology Oropallo brings classical art into the modern realm. Turning her attention towards the human figure, Oropallo explores the balance of thresholds and challenges the relationships traditionally associated with established social roles. Using the costume of the socially powerful: the police and military, and the guise of the socially powerless: the French maid and the clown, Oropallo’s feminist twist provokes the institutional roles. Paradoxically demonstrating the woman, as a man, as a whole being, Oropallo shows women radiating a complex, submissive, yet dominant and quiet strength.
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Connie Borup Leaf Geometry, Oil on canvas, 50" x 40", Connie Borup - CoB 89 - sold |
November 19 - December 22, 2007
Landscapes
Group landscape exhibition capturing the transformation of nature with oil on canvas paintings by Connie Borup and Greg Stocks , watercolors by Divit Cardoza and pastels by Bruce Park.
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Brad Rude Gold Dust 1/3, Cast Bronze, enamel, paint and patina, 28" x 10" x 10", Brad Rude - BrR 304 - sold |
November 19 - December 22, 2007
Telling Stories
Exploring art as a means of communication through a variety of techniques and media. Judith Kindler, Gay Odmark, Brad Rude, Squeak Carnwath and David Bates.
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Robert McCauley Mixed Metaphor XIII, Oil on canvas, 33" x 41" F, Robert McCauley - RtM 152 |
November 19 - December 22, 2007
Mixing Metaphors
Dramatic oil paintings depict the relationship of animals and the balance of nature. Storytelling draws reference from early North American history. McCauley's animals interact in human-type behaviors and suggest nature as nurturing and reflective.
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Jack Spencer Snow Ponies 1/5, Mixed media photograph, 26 1/2" x 39 3/4" Image 38 1/4" x 51 1/2" F, Jack Spencer - JaS 221 - sold |
August 29 - October 7, 2007
Jack Spencer
Photographer Jack Spencer’s current body of work explores the landscapes of the American west and mid-west. His flawless mixed media photographs portray haunting images of wild horses, powerful western storms, and historic structures. This self-taught photographer from the South is on a constant quest for beauty, to capture a moment that once frozen in time evokes emotion and allows the viewer to create a story about the piece. Images of subjects such as a wild buffalo grazing in the Tetons, a lone tree surrounded by land and clouds, and a looming storm in the distance are all perfectly captured and printed in Spencer’s world-famous photographs.
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Tony Berlant Animal Magnetism, Found and fabricated tin on panel with steel brads, 22 1/2" x 14 3/4" x 1", Tony Berlant - ToB 53 |
August 29 - October 7, 2007
Tony Berlant When God Was A Woman
Found pieces of printed tin are the starting point for Tony Berlant colorful collaged pieces. Inspired from early family trips to the California and Arizona deserts, Berlant gained a strong appreciation for Native American art and its’ geometric designs, which he has incorporated into sculptural images of landscapes and flowers. Hundreds of pieces of tin in various shapes, sizes, colors and patterns are carefully and thoughtfully applied in deliberate patterns. Steel brads, which are as much a part of the artwork as the tin, affix the pieces to a wood panel. Within the piece of tin are fragments of images; a wisp of hair, a moose’s antler, a tuft of green grass, or a block of color. Taking a step back from the piece unveils the intended image in its entirety while a treasure trove of tiny details lie within.
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Marcia Myers Polyptyque MMVI-III, Fresco on linen, 46" x 75" x 2", Marcia Myers - MaM 499 |
August 29 - October 7, 2007
Marcia Myers Recent Frescoes
Marcia Myers rich, colorful frescoes link the ancient and contemporary worlds. The Roman wall paintings at Pompeii and Herculaneum are the basis for Myers’ Mediterranean hued paintings in which she successfully creates a rich contemporary surface while using this ancient technique of applying colored pigments to a plastered surface. Myers not only incorporates the old technique, but the archaeological sense as well in the names of her pieces using titles like “Scavi,” Italian for excavation, and “Frammento del Muro,” meaning wall fragment. The paintings are highly focused on blocks of color, concentrating on ruby reds, creamy whites and bright aqua, while hints of these colors appear scattered throughout the textured fresco surface.
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David deVillier The Woman who Dreams of Other Lives, Acrylic on panel with steel frame, 55" x 55" F, David deVillier - DaD 457 |
August 1 - August 28, 2007
David deVillier Those Who Follow Fate
David deVillier’s colorful paintings, framed in bold yet complimentary steel frames, are splashed with fanciful images of instruments, birds and women. Within the paintings, you can expect to find anything from a flute perched atop a lone chair, to a multi-colored bird wearing bright red stilettos. deVillier’s imaginative works and titles are satiated with emotionally driven messages while at times being sharply humorous and full of wit.
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Squeak Carnwath Always Now, Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel, 70" x 70" UF, Squeak Carnwath - SqK 36 |
August 1 - August 28, 2007
Squeak Carnwath A Matter of Record
The thoughts and events of everyday life are the driving force behind Squeak Carnwath’s latest body of work, “A Matter of Record.” In her bright colors and familiar imagery, Carnwath gives voice and form to the kinds of deeply affecting experiences that many of us find difficult to articulate. Powerful, spirited and at times humorous, Carnwath includes bold words and symbolic imagery, such as vinyl records that symbolize an entire generations history.
In this show we are also exhibiting tapestries, with which a unique innovation has been used, bringing to the time-honored medium of tapestry a new computerized method that captures minute details of the artist's design. This new technique allows the design to be woven directly with no alteration from the weaver. As such, the artist maintains control over the final work and ensures that the result is an authentic expression of the artist's intentions. |
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Gwynn Murrill Triangle Cat 2/9, Bronze, 8" x 23" x 14", Gwynn Murrill - GwM 81 - Sold |
August 1 - August 28, 2007
Gwynn Murrill Cats
With life-size and majestic cats, Gwynn Murrill has successfully conveyed her appreciation of felines into her current show of bronze sculpture. Although she casts sculptures of many animals, cats are Murrill’s favorite due to their ability to gracefully take on numerous forms, which poses an exciting sculptural challenge. Wandering through Gwynn Murrill’s show of bronze cats, you feel as though you are observing a wildlife preserve filled with resting felines.
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Lynda Lowe Artifacts, Mixed media, 14" x 24", Lynda Lowe - LyL 29 - sold |
August 1 - August 28, 2007
Lynda Lowe Not Yet Spoken
Lynda Lowe’s layered details and stunning surfaces draw the viewer in to discover the quiet presence of data between layers of vibrant color. The delicate images, inspired by the artifacts Lowe has encountered and collected in her many travels, include items such as ancient pots, exotic florals and Asian antiquities. Etched in the surface of her rich colors are numbers, words, mathematical equations and geometric shapes. The information scratched into palettes of ruby red, Sahara sand and sapphire evoke a philosophical and spiritual sense.
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Laura McPhee Understory Flareups, Fourth of July Creek, Valley Road Wildfire, Custer County, Idaho 4/5, , 50" x 60" UF, Laura McPhee - LaM 04 |
July 1 - July 29, 2007
Laura McPhee River of no Return
Acclaimed photographer Laura McPhee bases her photography series on a dilemma. “River of No Return” is no exception, and highlights the juxtaposition of individualism versus community, and development versus preservation in the American West. This powerful traveling exhibition of haunting, large-scale color photography captures conflicting ideas of land use and landscape across remote areas of Central Idaho. McPhee spent two years in the Sawtooth Mountains attaining these sprawling, cinematic images of picturesque landscapes in coexistence with humanity and development. “River of No Return” is currently on display at The Guggenheim, Shanghai, was recently featured at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and will be showing at the Boise Art Museum later this summer.
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Julie Speidel Penates (God of the household, Etruscan), Bronze, 20" x 19" x 10", Julie Speidel - JuS 190 - sold |
July 1 - July 29, 2007
Julie Speidel Sibu
A collection of unique bronze and glass sculpture, Julie Speidel’s exhibition titled “Sibu”, a creator god from the Andean people of Peru, draws inspiration from sacred and spiritual locations around the world. The vision of this exhibition is to pay tribute to these sacred places and their power to link the world of senses to the world of nature, human history and the spirit. Speidel’s early experiences in travel and culture have strongly influenced her work, from the megaliths of Europe to the Buddhist Caves of China. Her contemporary forms are iconic and figurative, yet saturated with ancient influence.
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Rene Rickabaugh Nirvana Nuvo, Gouache on paper, 17 1/2" x 18 3/4", Rene Rickabaugh - ReR 72 |
July 1 - July 29, 2007
Rene Rickabaugh Recent Paintings
These incredibly detailed small-scale, still-life paintings are splashed with color. Intricate patterns of meticulously applied gouache on paper weave through images of bright fruit and baskets. The amount of detail found in a postcard size piece is tantamount to that found in many large-scale paintings and with gouache being one of the most difficult mediums, the work becomes greatly impressive. Recognized as one of the finest artists in the Northwest for the last 35 years, Rickabaugh’s attention to imaginative detail and design draw the viewer in for an intimate look at his exquisite paintings.
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Michelle Haglund Ghost Echeveria, Encaustic and mixed media on canvas over panel, 49 3/4" x 49 3/4" F, Michelle Haglund - MiH 116 - sold |
July 1 - July 29, 2007
Michelle Haglund & Christopher Reilly
A love of nature and serenity are the inspirations behind Chris Reilly and Michelle Haglund’s luxurious encaustic paintings. The work is tranquil, yet spiritual and enchanting in the soft depictions of blossoms, buds and maples. Subtle features in the under layers of encaustic give way to a rich surface filled with color, light and detail, ultimately invoking a sense of peace.
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Rene Rickabaugh Fragrant Evening, Watercolor on paper, 20" x 17 1/2", Rene Rickabaugh - ReR 73 - Sold |
May 15 - June 25, 2007
Eloquent Flower XI
In its 11th year, Eloquent Flower is a group exhibition of contemporary artists. Intended as a celebration of Spring, an extrinsic dialog emerges between each artist and their personal depiction of the flower. The artists present us with unique perspectives of the traditional symbol of spring and countless other concepts, like beauty, sensuality, and vitality: Donald Campbell’s color-pencil studies of fresh flowers from Florentine street markets, Kenna Moser’s delicate renderings of flowers covered with resin, Michelle Haglund and Christopher Reilly’s calm and spiritual encaustic paintings, David Giese’s sculptures of fictionalized artifacts unearthed from canonic worlds, Gary Nisbet’s bright collages of domestic patterns and materials of everyday life, Lynda Lowe’s highly-refined paintings combining art and science to explore the mystery of life, Renè Rickabaugh gouache paintings of still-life adorned with intricate, imaginative detailing, Morgan Brig’s intimate, playful copper and enamel wall sculptures, and Jack Spencer’s large-scale, hand-finished photographs of sensual and ethereal flowers and petals.
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Bo Bartlett Midwinter Spring, 2006 Oil on linen, 57 3/4" x 76", Bo Bartlett - BbT 01 |
March 8 - April 10, 2007
3-Person Show: Bo Bartlett, Michael Gregory, and James Lavadour
Bo Bartlett, Michael Gregory, and James Lavadour are three of the foremost American painters. Large-scale paintings make ordinary, everyday life seem quite extraordinary. New to the gallery, Bo Bartlett is one of the most renowned painters of American Figurative. Painting in the realist tradition of Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett creates paintings of idealistic, heroic, mysterious, even haunting figures. These Rockwell-esque figures seem caught in a moment of drama, but the plot is only partially revealed. The viewer is left to guess at the gravity of the unfolding scene within and beyond the picture plane. While Bartlett creates icons out of his figures, Michael Gregory paints icons of the American Landscape. Silos, barns, homesteads sit as lone icons of the great expanse of the American landscape. Gregory’s realist landscapes, where homesteads exist in a distant middle-ground underneath romantic skies, are metaphors for the struggle of American ideals: the balance between nostalgia and hope, pioneer spirit at the risk of isolation and beauty within the mundane. Where Bartlett and Gregory paint within the realm of realism, James Lavadour paints the landscapes with elements of reality (eroding cliff bands, hydrology, and hillsides that disappear into ravines), but his art diverges into abstraction. His oil on wood paintings do not replicate the landscape, rather they embody the same energy, the same spiritual occurrence of jagged mountains and unspoiled valleys, some of abstracted tranquil scenes and others of worlds on fire. While Lavadour’s art does not deal directly with his Native American identity, his art is an expression of his life and, intrinsically, the contemporary Native American and Reservation culture. These three artists create art, distinctly American, and distinguished in their individual approach.
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Gary Komarin Roxy, Mixed media on canvas, 84" x 60" UF, Gary Komarin - GaK 10 - Sold |
March 7 - April 10, 2007
Gary Komarin Mexican Thoughts
The gallery's premiere solo-exhibition with Gary Komarin. Gary Komarin’s exhibition of mixed media on canvas paintings is the contemporary evolution of Abstract Expressionism. A former student of Phillip Guston, now internationally shown, Komarin is a storyteller of color. Raw canvases are filled with outbursts of color and spontaneous lines and shapes. Surreal objects, items covered in plaster and paint that he collects in his studio are mysterious and indefinable: “If I knew what the objects were, I wouldn’t paint them.” Objects emerge and disappear out of the large color-fields. Amidst clumps of plaster, splattering of paint, and the childlike, unconscious creation of line there is the carefully controlled drawing with paint. In an unresolved, unsettled world on canvas there is the moment, the occurrence of clarity and control, where the artist has pulled back from the frenetic and physical process; we get to experience a brief moment of calm. The titles, like The Disappointed Mistress, allude to sequences from poems, tales, and myths but are never coherent in connection to what is happening on the surface of the painting. Komarin’s paintings contently reside in the realm of the unknown and inexplicable.
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Judith Kindler Hello!, Mixed media and encaustic on panel, 48" x 60" UF, Judith Kindler - JdK 07 - Sold |
March 7 - April 10, 2007
Judith Kindler Memories
Judith Kindler creates art by layering encaustic painting over digital photography and then inscribing, burning drawings and texture into the outer surface. It is a process of exploration and experimentation. The photographs are of young girls or women or of wild animals that capture either a telling glance or a revealing gesture. Over the photographs, Kindler builds up a narrative of symbols and iconography with her paintings and mark making. She draws envelopes around running horses, strings tangled between birds, branches wrapped around the feet of a little girl, or vines growing outward from another girl. The objects she draws are symbols: bottles represent illusion, birds represent the voyeurism of the viewer, cages represent social conditioning and so on. It is an iconographic system Kindler creates to delve into universal conditions. The intertwined layers of photography and painted-symbols work together to unveil emotions, fears, insights, premonitions, and intellectual struggles. The very combination of the materials creates depth; the delicacy and clarity of the photograph is seen beneath the transparent layers of wax. The encaustic is layered over the photography like Kindler’s revelations on the struggles of life are poised over reality.
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Michael Gregory Middle Ground, Oil on Cnvas, 72" x 60", Michael Gregory - MiG 212 - sold |
February 3 - March 6, 2007
Michael Gregory "Ballads"
Celebrated painter, Michael Gregory, introduces his new, large-scale oil on canvas paintings of the American landscape. Silos, barns, and homesteads sit as lone, isolated, icons on the vast expanse of the Great Plains. Rather than orienting his canvases in the traditional horizontal manner, Gregory’s pieces are vertical to “de-emphasize the landscape as a subject and draw attention to the human presence.” The barns and homesteads sit back on the horizon where the sky and earth converge. His use of middle-ground creates a startling psychological state. While these are landscapes, they are defiantly not about place, not about the Great Plains nor specific leaning buildings; these are places intended as metaphor, a metaphor shared by our collective cultural consciousness, a metaphor for the struggle of American ideals: the balance between nostalgia and hope, pioneer spirit at the risk of isolation, beauty versus dispair. Gregory remembers when we first landed on the moon; the initial images sent back were disquieting for their sense of isolation and loneliness despite the triumph and adventure of the moment. As in his painting “Fable,” where a house sits alone, far from anywhere but underneath a beautiful, starlit night, Gregory wants to acknowledge the inherent, dichotomous existence of despair and hope.
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James Cook Red Horse - Lakeside #1 , Oil on linen, 40" x 75" UF, James Cook - JaC 448 |
February 3 - March 6, 2007
James Cook
Nationally recognized for his painterly, impasto oil on linen paintings that capture mountains, rivers, hillsides, cliff-faces, evergreens, and aspens. Cook’s grasp of abstract composition and color theory elevates his work beyond sheer landscape. A lone yellow aspen on a steep hillside full of blue pine trees is a function of composition – a pure play of color normally reserved for abstract expressionists – but as the viewer steps away from the canvas the vigorous marks of oil paint focus into well-observed, powerful scenes of the Western landscape.
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Victoria Adams Quiet Light, Oil and wax on canvas, 60" x 72" UF, Victoria Adams - ViA 208 - sold |
December 27 - February 1, 2007
Victoria Adams "Refugia - Recent Works"
Nationally celebrated in museum collections, Victoria Adam’s latest oil, wax on linen paintings continue her work of treating the environment as a subjective experience. Steeped in the tradition of classic, romantic landscapes, Adams’ imagined vistas are concerned with weather systems, cloud banks, and storms that move and hover over land, waterways, and oceans. In this new body of work she has lowered the horizon-line on the picture-plane to depict a deeper sense of space and to “intensify the drama of the light falling on the land.”
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Gary Komarin The Blinding of Polyphemus, 2006 Mixed Media on Canvas, 76 1/4" x 64 1/4", Gary Komarin - GaK 01 - sold |
December 26 - February 1, 2007
Group Contemporary
This group exhibition brings together artists that are pursuing form, surface, shape, and movement – distilled beyond a need for subject matter. From internationally acclaimed sculptor Bruce Beasley's dynamic formations of geometric objects to Raphaelle Goethal's atmospheric encaustics to Kris Cox’s subtle/ tactile/ sculptural paintings to Marcia Myers' abstract frescoes to Delos Van Earl’s reductive enamel paintings and twisting bronzes to Julie Speidel’s totemic bronze sculptures with her contemporary, stylized sense of line, and introducing Gary Komarin's paintings that emerge out of the storied school of the Abstract Expressionists.
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Sheila Gardner Ode to Gold (Trail Creek Beaver Ponds), 2005 Oil on canvas, 40" x 60" UF 41 3/4" x 61 1/2" F, Sheila Gardner - ShG 475 - sold |
November 20 - December 26, 2006
Sheila Gardner "Light • Color • Landscape"
Once a longtime resident of the Sun Valley area, Sheila Gardner continues to paint well-observed landscapes, rich with color and textured light. Despite a long, highly acclaimed career of observing nature, Gardner has not settled and continues to progress and develop as an artist. This new body of watercolor studies and oil on canvas paintings shows us a new freedom of loose, gestural brushstrokes as she captures the play of early morning light on the Big Wood River or how the light changes on the side of Nevada-foothills as a clouds move over. The artist is fascinated with how light and color forms the world around us; furthermore, Gardner is showing us how the appearance of the world transforms with constantly changing light.
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Tony Foster From the Ponds Below Alice Lake Looking SW, Watercolor, 49 1/2" x 65 1/4", Tony Foster - ToF 41 - sold |
September 1 - September 30, 2006
Tony Foster "Rocky Days and Other Journeys – Watercolour Diaries"
British artist Tony Foster is as much a modern day explorer as he is an artist. Foster travels to remote regions of the world, treks into pristine wilderness, sets his tent, and paints watercolors on location. These journeys include painting icebergs in the Arctic, seascapes in Greenland, rainforests in Honduras, volcanoes in Bolivia, Georgia swamps, the Himalayas, and locations here in Idaho. The paintings are like visual entries into a captain’s log. The watercolors are not just the landscape but records of his encounters: including collected objects, flora and fauna, written observations of coordinates, geology, weather, history of the area, and personal notations. Along with the exhibition, the artist will hold a special presentation of, “The Man Who Painted Everest,” a new documentary film about the artist’s most recent adventure to paint the world’s highest mountain
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Theodore Waddell Argenta Paints #7, Oil, Encaustic on Canvas, 60" x 66", Theodore Waddell - ThW 298 - sold |
September 1 - September 30, 2006
Theodore Waddell "Recent Works"
Theodore Waddell describes the West as one large painting, he simply has to select the composition. His large oil, encaustic on canvas paintings, bronze sculptures, and oil, graphite on paper works are contemporary impressions of the beautiful, rugged, untamed panorama around us. With a natural abstraction, his canvases may capture horses standing on a ridge as an impasto-thick thunderstorm builds in the distance, or horses circled together for warmth in a snowfield, or the faint movement and forms of far off cattle escaping the August heat under the shade of willows. The West’s ever-present horizon line is always lingering in the distance, balancing the canvas. Waddell uses the west as a point of departure to explore to frontier of modern painting.
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James Lavadour MV 01, Oil on wood, 24" x 30", James Lavadour - JmL 30 |
September 1 - September 30, 2006
James Lavadour "Magic Valley"
James Lavadour’s art is an experience of the landscape. His oil on wood paintings do not replicate the landscape, rather they embody the same energy, the same spiritual occurrence of jagged mountains and unspoiled valleys, some of abstracted tranquil scenes and others of worlds on fire. While Lavadour’s art does not deal directly with his Native American identity, his art is an expression of his life and, intrinsically, the contemporary Native American and Reservation culture. Meaning does not emerge from the final painting rather through the kinetic process of creation; painting becomes “a transfiguration of the experience of living.” The physical act of painting – arm length brush strokes with dried and cut-up brushes that push, scrape, and layer paint in rhythmic structures – is like the artist’s daily struggles; painting becomes the action of experiencing.
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Cole Morgan exhibtion shot, Gallery 1, August, 2006 - CoM |
August 4 - August 31, 2006
Cole Morgan "X's and O's"
American-born, Belgian artist, Cole Morgan creates detailed mixed media paintings. He combines his own spontaneous visual-language of bright colors, mysterious handwritten scrawl, scratches, glimpses of underpainting, and strange characters with formalist, abstract compositions. On each canvas, colorful and peculiar objects seem to be archeological finds brought back from explorations into the artist’s imagination. Morgan paints in such a way that every object appears to sit 3-dimensioanlly on the surface. Undecipherable notes and calculations are jotted in pencil around each canvas, as if the artist were attempting to solve Art’s mystery himself.
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Deborah Oropallo exhibition shot, Gallery 2, August, 2006 - DeO |
August 4 - August 31, 2006
Deborah Oropallo "By and Large"
Deborah Oropallo, a self-described painter and recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Award, is exploring the space between painting and digital-imagery – a process that combines painting, printmaking, photography, and computer-based technology. Sliced images of houses, animals built out of leaves, sponge toy pistols, melting pill bottles, boxing gloves, blurred figurines, and comic-book backgrounds are exaggerated and obscured via the computer before being printed on canvas with acrylic paint. Her opening at the gallery follows a solo exhibition at The Boise Art Museum, funded in part by the Paul G. Allen Foundation. As well, her work can be found in numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Luis González Palma Bellini, Kodalith, goldleaf, resin, 40" x 40", Luis Gonzalez Palma - LuP 69 - sold |
August 4 - September 29, 2006
Luis Gonzalez Palma
Representing Guatemala at the last two Venice Biennales, photographer Luis Gonzalez Palma suspends his black and white, kodalith photographs over gold leaf and red-paper, before encasing them in resin; even displaying some in unconventional light boxes. His seductive photographs are beautifully haunted by grief, but not despair. He sublimates scenes of calm and silence with inner conflict. A hospital bed is divided between two empty hospital rooms. A woman swallows a sword on an aged lavish couch. The artist finds the surreal and supernatural in the human condition. Also showing is the series featured at the Biennale. He re-interprets master-artists’ scenes of the crucifixion; instead of re-capturing entire compositions he focuses his photographs simply on the nature of each loincloth depicted by the artists, like Velazquez or Rubens. The absence of the immaterial body is an exploration into his Latin-American heritage and the role an artist plays in religion and culture.
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Jan Aronson Leaves #16, Oil on canvas, 48" x 72", Jan Aronson - JaA 02 |
August 4 - August 31, 2006
Jan Aronson "Mystery - The Leaves Series"
Oil on canvas paintings and graphite and oil pastels on paper drawings by Jan Aronson are featured in her first solo exhibition at the gallery. Nationally acclaimed for her paintings that capture nature and abstraction concurrently, Aronson paints stylized studies of leaves. Large scale canvases monumentalize and intensify the leaves as they appear in cropped, abstract compositions. Vital and lurid colors painted with quick, short strokes of paint are set against stark backgrounds, meant as beacons of beauty amidst darkness.
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Julie Speidel Pomona, Bronze, 10 1/2" x 10" x 6", Julie Speidel - JuS 167 - sold |
July 7 - August 3, 2006
Julie Speidel "Govannon"
Julie Speidel’s exhibition of new work opens in conjunction with the premiere of her monograph, “Julie Speidel,” celebrating 20 years of bronze sculpture. Internationally regarded, her contemporary sculptures recall forms of ancient civilizations. Her contemporary, stylized sense of line and mass keeps the sculptures on the edge of modernity, while simultaneously evoking megaliths, totems, mythical figures, fertility goddesses, even the postures of Xi’an’s terracotta warriors. Speidel views her work as modern derivatives of primordial visual culture. The book, published by Northwest Museum of Art with support from Gail Severn Gallery, is a retrospective of Speidel’s career to this point. The book includes several essays, including an interview of the artist by Clare Henry, art critic for the Financial Times in London. The artist will be available to sign copies of the book.
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David deVillier The Bird Who Lives Where the Heart Belongs, 2006 Acrylic on panel with steel frame, 55" x 55", David deVillier - DaD 402 - sold |
July 7 - August 3, 2006
David deVillier "Birds of Passage – Female Migrations"
Mysterious and playful narratives unveil themselves across deVillier’s new paintings of acrylic and wax on panel enclosed in steel frames. The nationally recognized artist balances a highly educated background with an outsider’s aesthetic. Lone women and outrageous birds find themselves on painted stages and in scenes rather than in the typical art-lexicon of foregrounds and backgrounds. The artist’s theatre is full of details and symbols, like a bird wearing only one red high-heel, that give depth to each unfolding drama. Curious, passionate, and enigmatic – the figures have imaginative stories that play out in front of the viewer.
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Allison Stewart Arpent Canto #14, Mixed media on paper, 52" x 23", Allison Stewart - AlS 176 |
July 7 - August 3, 2006
Allison Stewart "A Closer Look"
Stewart’s mixed media on paper pieces are intended as intimate observations of the process of nature and the effect of water. They are, as the artist describes, “a closer look” at the movements and vibrations of botanicals as flowers float away or as stems bend under a rush of water. Expressive yet analyzing, calligraphic brush strokes and bursts of color focus in on leaves, stalks, runners, and petals as they ebb across the surface of each painting.
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Delos Van Earl exhibition shot, Gallery 2, June, 2006 - DeV |
May 15 - June 30, 2006
Delos Van Earl "Everything Matters: Viscus Paintings - Luna Sculpture"
The new Viscus series by Delos Van Earl moves from his simple geometric compositions on bronze to reductive paintings with rich interactions of color and pattern. The new work mirrors such natural phenomena as the movement of rivers and the action of rain drops. But the work does not directly represent nature, rather as the artist works and reveals innumerable layers of colors, the act of painting through reduction begins to echo the process of erosion and the passage of time. Also being exhibited are his new bronze sculptures. The solid forms dynamically curve and twist, but the ends appear raw as if the sculptures were torn from a larger, complex system of bronze. This will be the first exhibition showing both his new series of paintings and new bronzes.
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Deborah Oropallo Rubber Roses 3/3, Mixed Media, 46" x 46", Deborah Oropallo - DeO 01 |
May 15 - June 30, 2006
Eloquent Flower X
In its 10th year, Eloquent Flower is a group exhibition of contemporary artists. Intended as a celebration of Spring, an extrinsic dialog emerges between each artist and their personal depiction of the flower. The artists present us with unique perspectives of the traditional symbol of spring and countless other concepts, like beauty, sensuality, and vitality: from Allison Stewart’s expressive botanical studies on paper to Jan Aronson’s painterly leaves to Lynda Lowe’s flower renderings that fall equally between scientific and spiritual explorations to Michael Gregory’s realist tulips to Tony Berlant’s collages of metal to Deborah Oropallo’s large manipulated digital photographs to Donald Campbell’s color-pencil studies of fresh flowers from Florentine street markets. Also including work by David deVillier, Sheila Gardner, Zoe Hersey, Kenna Moser, Chritopher Reilly, and Jack Spencer
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Gay Bawa Odmark Be Like The Lotus 11/20, 2006 Monoprint with chine colle, 19 11/4" x 17 3/4", Gay Bawa Odmark - GyO 282 |
May 15 - June 30, 2006
Gay Bawa Odmark "Be Like The Lotus..."
For Indian-born, local-artist Gay Bawa Odmark, the lotus holds life long meaning. From childhood reminiscence to her most recent re-visit to the Bangalore region and beyond, the lotus serves as both an object of her childhood and as a cultural metaphor for the transformation of self. Traditionally, the lotus is a tool of visualization: a form to focus on, to calm the mind when troubled. The artist points out that it is a flower that grows, transcends from mud and murky water; it is a metaphor for the self to overcome humble origins. Odmark’s monoprints with chine colle are meditative explorations that echo a personal and collective understanding of the lotus.
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Bean Finneran White cone (8-9,000 curves), Earthenware and acrylic stain, , Bean Finneran - BeF 14 |
May 15 - June 30, 2006
Rana Rochat and Bean Finneran
This two-person show is an excess of color. Both artists work with saturated color and expressive line quality. Bean Finneran’s ceramic sculptures are constructions of hundreds, even thousands of brightly colored, hand-rolled pieces of earthenware. The curves of ceramic burst outwardly from the center. The liveliness of Bean Finneran’s sculptures are equaled by Rana Rochat’s new series of encaustic paintings. Rochat’s new paintings use scrawling lines, rhythms of dots and texture, and sophisticated color to create an uplifting atmosphere. The artists together create an exhibition space full of energy.
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James Cook White Mountain #5 (diptych), Oil on linen, 120" x 70" UF, James Cook - JaC 409 |
March 8 - April 21, 2006
Group Exhibition: Contemporary West
The paintings of James Cook, Nicole Charbonnet, and Theodore Waddell are explorations into the modern concept of the American West. James Cook’s oil on canvas paintings capture mountainous landscapes but with the fervor and intellectual regard of an abstract expressionist. Nicole Charbonnet’s heavily textured, mixed-media paintings are manifestations of childhood memories of heroic, silver-screen cowboys, faded and distressed by time and adulthood. Theodore Waddell’s impressionistic paintings of vast western-vistas with roaming horses and grazing cattle reveal an intimate knowledge of the land. The exhibition’s paintings do not romanticize the West as much as they reveal the American psyche’s inherent idealism of the rugged, unconquered frontier.
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Delos Van Earl The Immortal Amaranth, 2005 Oil Enamel on panel, 72" x 72", Delos Van Earl - DeV 148 - sold |
March 8 - April 21, 2006
Group Exhibition: Painting as Object
Contemporary works by Delos Van Earl, Squeak Carnwath, Tony Berlant, and Kris Cox create a dialog of surface: tactile layers of paint, dripping brush strokes, intentional cracking, collages of printed tin, text, deep layers of color, and subtle pattern. The work in this show embodies the modernist concept of the painting as an object – an object to be observed, experienced, and absorbed. Whether it is Kris Cox’s sensual juxtaposition of lead and wax or Tony Berlant’s intricate assemblage of tin to create faceted images or Squeak Carnwath’s rhythms of text and color or Delos Van Earl’s process of reduction to reveal abstract patterns, these works are definitive ventures into non-traditional painting.
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Michael Gregory Los Robles, Oil on panel, 42 1/2" x 54 1/2" F, Michael Gregory - MiG 193 - sold |
March 8 - April 21, 2006
Michael Gregory
This month in the viewing room the full range of Michael Gregory’s imagery will be shown. From his oil on panel paintings of iconic barns to his delicately painted hummingbirds to petal-soft renderings of tulips to stacked playing cards to his enigmatic structures wrapped in bright fabric, pieces from each series will be shown, representing the spectrum of his work, together for the first time.
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Jun Kaneko Untitled, Platter, Glazed ceramic, 22" x 28" x 3", Jun Kaneko - JnK 13 |
March 8 - April 21, 2006
"Red, White, and Black"
This thematic group-exhibition is curated according to a limited palette of black, white, and red. The exhibition visits a number of artists working in different mediums and how these artists individually handle the three colors. The artwork, in dialog with each other, is distilled down to each artist’s personal sense of mark making, medium, and composition. The manner in which internationally renowned ceramicist, Jun Kaneko, creates calligraphic strokes of glaze over thick, inviting ceramic forms is echoed in Rana Rochat’s encaustic paintings of abstract language and symbols. Bean Finneran’s sculptures, created out of hundreds of pieces of hand-rolled ceramic, are untamed versus Tim Andrews’ remarkable precision with porcelain raku.
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Squeak Carnwath Attempting to Be Happy, Oil and alkyd on linen over panel, 70" x 70" x 2 1/2", Squeak Carnwath - SqK 19 |
February 6 - March 6, 2006
"Surface"
“Surface” group contemporary show focusing on surface built by a variety of processes, materials & imagery, featuring Tony Berlant’s collages of found & fabricated hand-shaped pieces of printed tin, Squeak Carnwath personal narrative paintings made of oil and alkyd on canvas, Kris Cox’s modernist grid paintings made of wood putty & wax, Julie Speidel’s fabricated bronze sculptures exploring ancient cultures, and Delos Van Earl’s new abstract paintings with layers of oil enamel on panel.
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Nicole Charbonnet Cowboy (yellow), Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 60" x 66" x 2", Nicole Charbonnet - NiC 06 - sold |
February 6 - March 6, 2006
"The Horse and The West"
Nicole Charbonnet, Jack Spencer and Theodore Waddell share a common passion for creating images that give the viewer a sense of The American West. In this exhibition, the horse, a graceful icon of the west, is captured through the eyes of three artists with diverse backgrounds ranging from the Southern states to Idaho and Montana. Charbonnet’s mixed media paintings, Waddell’s oil paintings on canvas and paper, and Spencer’s mixed media photography all covey the horse in both the real and the imaged West.
This exhibition is Nicole Charbonnet’s debut at Gail Severn Gallery. Charbonnet is widely regarded in the International contemporary art scene for her use of imagery from popular culture to explore memory and recollection. |
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Michael Gregory Untitled (variegated burgundy tulip), Oil on panel, 12" x 8" UF 17 1/2" x 13 1/2" F, Michael Gregory - MiG 191 - sold |
February 6 - March 6, 2006
“Monochromatic”
An exhibition comprised of mostly black & white sculptures and paintings by internationally recognized artists Tim Andrews, Bean Finneran, Michael Gregory, Jun Kaneko, Cole Morgan, and Rana Rochat.
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David deVillier The Woman Who Grew Her Own Magic Wand, Acrylic, wax, steel, 32" x 32" F, David deVillier - DaD 368 |
February 6 - March 6, 2006
David deVillier
New body of acrylic paintings on panel with wax, encased in his hand-made steel frames, connecting structural imagery, landscape, and figures in staged settings. deVillier playfully composes vivid imagery consisting of birds, buildings, music, and isolated women poised in complex situations.
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Marcia Myers Color Journey MMV-I (35 Panels), 2005 Fresco on Linen in Maple Frame, 56" x 76", Marcia Myers - MaM 457 |
December 28 - February 3, 2006
Marcia Myers "Synaethesia"
Recognized for her ground-breaking use of fresco as a contemporary medium, Myers’ new exhibition marks the international debut of two new series: Memory Paintings and Color Journeys. She continues to base her work’s proportions off the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii and continues to use natural pigments derived from the regions of the archeological sites, but with her new fresco on linen paintings, she believes in a painting’s ability to evoke tactile responses in the viewer: the memory of a sound, smell, or taste – and it all starts with color.
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Lynda Lowe Evidence (diptych), 2005 Mixed Media, 24" x 39" x 1 1/2", Lynda Lowe - LyL 14 - sold |
December 28 - February 3, 2006
Lynda Lowe "Flight"
Lynda Lowe etches and embeds diagrammatic drawings and gestures into every surface as she begins her process of slowly and meticulously building rich mixed-media paintings with deliberately placed vessels, leaves, compasses, birds, and other iconic images. Full of mystery, the work’s meaning is elusive and shrouded in Lowe’s spiritual, philosophical, and scientific searching.
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Untitled, 2005 Raku, 34" x 27" x 15", PlS 02 |
November 21 - February 3, 2006
"Raku: Origins, Impact, and Contemporary Expression"
Jim Romberg (USA), Tim Andrews (UK), Jean Biagini (France), David Jones (UK), Chang-Juan Chang (Taiwan), Aline Favre (Switzerland), Fabienne Gioria (Switzerland), Rick Hirsch (USA), Toshio Ohi (Japan), and Paul Soldner (USA). The Majority of the artwork to be featured in the exhibition was created during a twelve-day symposium attended by these 10 artists during the spring of 2005 at the Eagleheart Center for Art and Inquiry in Colorado.
This Raku exhibition is a rare opportunity, not only to view a variety of world-class Raku ceramics, but also to learn about the Raku process and the unique, collaborative environment that resulted in this outstanding exhibition. After debuting at Gail Severn Gallery, the exhibition will travel to additional galleries and museums throughout the United States for one year. Sales during the exhibition will fund the Legacy Arts in Education Program. |
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Sheila Gardner Ode to Gold (Trail Creek Beaver Ponds), 2005 Oil on canvas, 40" x 60" UF 41 3/4" x 61 1/2" F, Sheila Gardner - ShG 475 - sold |
October 3 - November 3, 2005
In the Midst
Group landscape exhibition featuring paintings by Victoria Adams, Connie Borup, Divit Cardoza, James Cook, Sheila Gardner, Theodore Waddell, and bronze wildlife sculpture by Gwynn Murrill.
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Squeak Carnwath Sincere, Oil and alkyd on canvas, 77" x 77" x 2 1/2", Squeak Carnwath - SqK 21 |
October 3 - December 19, 2005
Surface VII
Group contemporary show with a focus on surface - artists include Squeak Carnwath, Kris Cox, Cole Morgan, and Marcia Myers.
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Jun Kaneko Untitled, Triangle Dango, 2004 Handbuilt, glazed ceramics, 37" x 30 1/2" x 13 3/4", Jun Kaneko - JnK 53 |
October 3 - November 3, 2005
Jun Kaneko & Rana Rochat
Kaneko's internationally recognized ceramic dangos, platters, and wall slabs create a dynamic compliment to Rochat's visual dialogues of mark making and brilliant color fields in encaustic.
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Zoe Hersey Leaf II, 2005 Oil, acrylic on canvas, 16 1/4" x 16" x 3", Zoe Hersey - ZoH 04 |
October 3 - December 19, 2005
Zoe Hersey
Zoe Hersey's first solo exhibition with the gallery features her well known paintings on canvas, with imagery that marries her vision of nature poised against a romantic backdrop.
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Christopher Reilly/ Michelle Haglund Rubyleaf, Encaustic, mixed media on canvas over panel, 60" x 60", Christopher Reilly/Michelle Haglund - CrR/ MiH 02 |
August 30 - October 2, 2005
Christopher Reilly and Michelle Haglund "Fusion"
Reilly and Haglund, husband and wife, create encaustic and casein paintings concerned with stillness and being. Treating nature as divine and iconic, blossom branches, Japanese-maple leaves, swimming koi, and even dragonflies are depicted as silent, mystical objects. After years of working side by side on their individual work, the couple is collaborating for the first time on a number of paintings in the exhibition.
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Rana Rochat Untitled (S138), 2004 Encaustic on paper, 30" x 25" UF, Rana Rochat - RaR 42 |
August 30 - October 2, 2005
Rana Rochat "Recent Works"
By repeating the simple shapes of vessels, Rochat creates a visual dialog, a personal discourse of marks, lines, and forms. The forms are set off against brilliant color fields. Her process of painting with wax and pigment, applied one layer at a time, gives depth and luminosity to her language of mark making.
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Kris Cox Relative Timeline Series, WAL84.05, 2005 Mixed media on wood panel, 84" x 84" x 1 3/4", Kris Cox - KrC 77 |
August 30 - October 2, 2005
Kris Cox
The surfaces of Cox's paintings are tactile and subtle, which he creates through a labor-intensive process of carving away and then building up again with paint, wood putty, and wax. Cox's process and his use of the modernist grid are constructed symbols of the passage of time.
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Tony Berlant A Chance Encounter, Found and fabricated tin on panel with steel brads, 24" x 17" x 1", Tony Berlant - ToB 26 |
August 1 - August 29, 2005
Tony Berlant "Extended Ecstasy"
A major figure in contemporary art and pop art, Berlant more recently has been creating images of birds and flowers. Berlant creates elaborate collages with found and fabricated, hand-shaped pieces of printed tin. The tin is then nailed to wood panel with hundreds of steel brads. The assembled patterns and multiple layers of imagery invite the viewer to see multiple layers of meaning. The birds and flowers are representational visions that, while created from pieces of metal, are as fluid as oil on canvas.
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Gwynn Murrill Hawk III, Bronze, 14 1/2" x 18" x 21 1/2" Hawk 32 1/2" x 26" x 29 1/2" Total, Gwynn Murrill - GwM 89 |
August 1 - August 29, 2005
Gwynn Murrill "Birds"
Highly stylized and yet naturalistic, Murrill's cast bronze sculptures of birds combine a direct observation of hawks and eagles with her contemporary, reductive sense of line. Internationally recognized as one of the foremost American sculptors, Murrill is able to capture the essence of each bird of prey, coyotes, deer, and other animals in a graceful balance between abstraction and realism.
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Jack Spencer Magnolia, Mixed media, 45" x 44", Jack Spencer - JaS 151 - Sold |
July 31 - August 29, 2005
Jack Spencer "Flores"
Spencer's new series of mixed media, color photographs explores the dark, romantic nature of flowers.
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David Secrest Humus, 2005 Wrought Iron, 45" x 8 1/2" x 8 1/2", David Secrest - DaS 68 |
June 26 - August 29, 2005
David Secrest "In Search of Structure"
Secrest’s sculptures and benches show us a mastery of ancient, pan-cultural techniques of metalworking. A pure artisan, Secrest joins forged bronze and steel to create architectural forms whose surfaces are rich with intricate, geometric pattern.
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James Cook West Wind - Study #1, 2004 Oil on linen, 60" x 48", James Cook - JaC 380 - sold |
June 26 - July 31, 2005
James Cook "New Ground"
Cook’s paintings capture the energy of the natural environment. Thick and vigorous marks of paint create mountains, alpine lakes, forests, and rivers. Up close the canvases are abstract compositions, which, as the viewer steps back, focus into his renowned visually powerful landscapes.
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Allison Stewart Arabesque #7, Mixed media on canvas, 36" x 48", Allison Stewart - AlS 125 - sold |
June 26 - July 31, 2005
Allison Stewart "Arpent & Arabesque"
Underneath Stewart’s gestural mixed media paintings of botanicals lie hidden maps. With engaging, expressive brushstrokes she subtly juxtaposes the living quality of the flowers and plants against the linear design of the embedded charts and diagrams of land areas. Stewart creates paintings aware of the difference between artistic perception and scientific analysis.
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Morgan Brig A Chapter of Longing, 2004 Copper, enamel, resin, mixed media, 34" x 22" x 2", Morgan Brig - MoB 97 |
May 16 - June 25, 2005
Morgan Brig "Personal Alchemy"
Brig produces copper wall sculpture inspired by the poetics and mystery of day to day living. Fusing imagery and language onto the surfaces of her copper figures, she incorporates text with appropriated images and original illustrations. Brig’s art walks the line between insightful revelations and visual daydreams.
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Tony Berlant Climax, 2005 Found and fabricated painted tin on wood panel with steel brads, 18 1/2" x 15 3/4", Tony Berlant - ToB 15 |
May 16 - June 25, 2005
"The Eloquent Flower IX"
Group exhibition including David deVillier, Jim Dine, Michael Gregory, Zoe Hershey, Michelle Haglund, Lynda Lowe, Kenna Moser, Christopher Reilly, Brad Rude, Jack Spencer, Therman Statom, Allison Stewart, and Theodore Waddell
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Donald Campbell ROYGBP 3/25, 2003 Giclee, colored pencil, 29 1/4" x 41", Donald Campbell - DnC 27 |
May 16 - July 30, 2005
Donald Campbell "Fiori e Frutti"
Campbell, working from his home and studio in Florence, Italy, draws flowers, plants, and other objects found in the local street markets. Delicate use of graphite, colored pencil, and watercolor realistically portrays the straightforward still lifes.
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Bruce Park July Snow, 2005 Pastel, 9 3/4" x 10 1/4" UF, Bruce Park - BrP 840 |
May 16 - June 25, 2005
Bruce Park "Inner Light"
Through his use of pastels, Park creates atmospheric landscapes. He seems to place light on paper, letting it roll over walls of clouds, cliff sides, rivers and mountains.
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Tony Berlant Heads Up, 2003 Found and fabricated printed tin on panel with steel brads, 60" x 36" x 2 1/4", Tony Berlant - ToB 14 - Sold |
April 9 - May 15, 2005
Group Contemporary Painting & Sculpture
Victoria Adams, Tony Berlant, Kris Cox, Bean Finneran, Raphaelle Goethals, Michael Gregory, Jun Kaneko, James Lavadour, Cole Morgan, Marcia Myers, Gwynn Murrill, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Manolo Paz, Mario Reis, Rana Rochat, David Secrest, Therman Statom, Allison Stewart
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Connie Borup Abundance, 2004 Oil on canvas, 31" x 40 1/4", Connie Borup - CoB 76 |
March 6 - April 8, 2005
Connie Borup "Connections"
Connie Borup's tonal landscapes capture the magnificence of nature, the momentary stillness, and the quiet intimacy we experience alone among trees, water, and sky. One becomes absorbed by the spirituality and mood of Borup's soft brushstrokes in her atmospheric oils on canvas.
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James Lavadour The Blues, Oil on wood, 24" x 30" UF, James Lavadour - JmL 20 - sold |
March 6 - April 8, 2005
Group Contemporary Painting & Sculpture: Galleries I & II
Victoria Adams, Tony Berlant, Bean Finneran, Raphaelle Goethals, Michael Gregory, Jun Kaneko, James Lavadour, Cole Morgan, Marcia Myers, Gwynn Murrill, Louis Gonzalez Palma, Manolo Paz, Mario Reis, Rana Rochat, David Secrest, Therman Statom, Allison Stewart
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Gay Bawa Odmark Shah and Mumtaz I, 2004 Monotype, 19" x 17" UF, Gay Bawa Odmark - GyO 254 - sold |
March 6 - April 8, 2005
Gay Bawa Odmark "Roots of a Romantic Notion"
This new series of monotypes illustrates the ancient story of an Indian King and Queen and their return to the Taj Mahal. Born in India, local painter Odmark integrates the divine forms of sacred structures, birds, and the lotus flower. Her art has the resonance of a visual diary attempting to keep past memories intact.
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Victoria Adams From Silence, 2004 Oil on linen, 48" x 68", Victoria Adams - ViA 165 |
February 1 - March 1, 2005
Victoria Adams "The Still Point: Recent Landscapes"
Romantic, serene landscapes invite the viewer to experience a dreamlike world of sky and nature. Adams' oil paintings with wax on linen express element of the western European landscape tradition, with her meticulous focus on clouds, horizons, water, and atmosphere.
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Michael Gregory End of Maple, 2004 Oil on Panel, 45 1/2" x 65 1/2", Michael Gregory - MiG 164 |
February 1 - March 1, 2005
Michael Gregory "Revenants"
Gregory's bold oil paintings of mysterious structures draped in brightly striped material beckon us to ask what lies beneath them. This new series of covered structures are an extension of the artist's enthusiasm for American icons. Also featured in this exhibition are paintings of barns, buildings, hummingbirds, and tulips for which Gregory is internationally recognized.
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Kenna Moser Nasturtium, 2004 Beeswax, vintage text, oil on wood pannel, 17" x 12", Kenna Moser - KeM 175 |
February 1 - March 1, 2005
Kenna Moser "Of A Garden"
This new body of lively botanicals focuses on the intricate details of plant-life: leaves, ferns, and flowers. Moser's sophisticated mixed media paintings infuse techniques from various sources, including European icon painting and ancient Egyptian wax paintings. Her underlying collage incorporates old letters, pages from books, and wax seals from around the world.
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Ed Musante Merlin, 2004 Mixed media on panel, 12" x 11" x 3/4", Ed Musante - EdM 97 - Sold |
February 1 - March 1, 2005
Ed Musante "Inland"
Musante's small-scale paintings of birds and animals, painted on wood panel or his signature found cigar boxes, are intimate portraits of wildlife. These close-up paintings go beyond careful observation to capture the presence of each bird and other animals, while incorporating text and pattern from the cigar boxes.
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Cole Morgan H/G Scratchy, 2004 Mixed media on canvas, 26 1/2" x 56" F, Cole Morgan - CoM 63 |
December 29 - January 31, 2005
Cole Morgan "Senses"
Mixed media paintings and glass sculptures explore conceptual spaces of imagination. This internationally renowned artist combines his own spontaneous visual-language of bright colors, mysterious handwritten scrawl, scratches, glimpses of underpainting, and strange characters with formalist, abstract compositions. Order and meaning give way to curiosity and discovery. We will debut Morgan's beautiful, new book, "Thirty Years," a retrospective of his painting and sculpture.
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Jack Spencer Circus Tent 2/20, Gelatin silver print with mixed media glaze, 22" x 23", Jack Spencer - JaS 88 |
December 29 - January 31, 2005
Jack Spencer "This Land"
Hand painted silver gelatin photographs narrate the vastness and intrigue of the American landscape. In his images of abandoned houses, circus tents, statuesque buffalo, and wild horses Spencer captures the essence of America in its simultaneously raw and refined cultures. Also featured in this exhibition are numerous dynamic images from Spencer's "Mexico" series.
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Sheila Gardner Gentle Breeze (Silver Creek), 2004 Oil on canvas, 46" x 61 5/8" F, Sheila Gardner - ShG 464 - sold |
December 29 - January 31, 2005
Sheila Gardner "Wood and Waters"
Well known for painting en-plein-air, this series of regional landscape paintings ranges from large and small scale watercolors to oil paintings on canvas. Gardner focuses on scenes from Idaho's Wood River Valley, exploring the vivaciousness of changing seasons and capturing the spirit of mountains, rivers, and trees.
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David deVillier The Search For More Color, 2004 Acrylic, wax, steel, 32" x 32" F, David deVillier - DaD 362 - Sold |
December 28 - January 31, 2005
David deVillier "Desires Dressed as Dreams"
David deVillier’s new body of acrylic paintings are stages and settings where his imagery and narratives play out. On canvas or panels encased in wax with handmade-steel frames, deVillier’s scenes are playful compositions of unfolding drama. His distinct, vivid style captures singular figures with buildings, birds, forests, music, and symbols from his imagination.
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Donald Campbell Still Life with Floating Fennel 9/25, 2003 Giclee, colored pencil, 29 2/8" x 41", Donald Campbell - DnC 15 |
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