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U.S. Embassy Commission Romania

Robert McCauley recently finished a commission from the State Department, for the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania.  Robert was commissioned to do five, 4x3 foot oil on canvas paintings of animals indigenous or emblematic of the 5 geographical/political regions of Romania.  Romania is behind the Galapagos Islands and Australia for the number and diversity of animal life.

The Chief Curator and Acting Director of American Art in Foreign Embassies contacted Robert about the commission.  He was given a list of historical principalities of Romania, and the animals that have been used in the coat of arms of each.  The curator wrote to Robert, "Although some of these animals could be quite menacing....you're a master of creating a sense of calm regardless".

The animals included in the paintings are put together in unlikely situations. This is Robert's way of "softening" animals by dismissing their predator/prey relations. He has done this with all the paintings.

Robert chose for the principality of Dobrogen (which borders the Black Sea), the Bottle Nose Dolphin. In the painting, Robert included a Mackerel and a Black Crab.  Both are indigenous to the Black Sea.

The Auroch, the ancestor of domestic cattle, was chosen for the principality of Moldavia. It appears on the cave walls in Lascaux, France, and has been extinct since 1627. Robert included a Bee Eater, a colorful bird from the same region.

The Lion (now extinct) was chosen for the principality of Otenia.  The lion appears in Romanian Heraldry, which Robert reproduced as an emblem on the shells of Greek Tortoises.

For the principality of Transylvania, the Black Eagle.  He is perched high on a tree snag, and accompanied by a Green Woodpecker and a Green Tree Frog.

A Brown Bear (similar to our own North American Brown Bear) was chosen for the principality of Wallachia. A Peregrine Falcon is perched on his arm.

The US Embassy is currently producing a catalog of the New Permanent Collection of the Embassy in Bucharest, including these five new paintings. The collection includes well-known artists such as Jackson Pollock, William deKooning, Robert Motherwell, Milton Avery, Hans Hofmann, Lee Krasner, Richard Pousette-Dart among others.

• We are pleased to present, Necklaces by
  Barbara Natoli Witt
  
  July 22 through 26, 2011

Barbara Witt is a contemporary artist with the rare distinction of having created her own medium. Her unique necklaces blend tapestry techniques to form intricate webs of colored threads, ancient bead and gemstones which capture at their centers sculptured artifacts and heirloom treasures. The necklaces have a unity that extends from design to components and technique. The effect is simultaneously elegant and luxurious.

Witt's necklaces communicate: they are not silent pieces of metal, stone and thread, but mnemonic objects layered with meaning. We may initially be drawn to the necklaces through their obvious beauty, but what holds it all together is content. Ancient and traditional people crafted most of the artifacts that inspire Witt's work. Although these objects may today be viewed as independent works of art, she reminds us of their original context. The sources reside in the stories - wonderful stories, celebrating celestial beings, spirit creatures and goddesses. She has a marvelous ability to combine intellectualism with sensuality to create a highly original art form. In so doing, she has forged strong connections with distant realms, past artisans and those who wear her work.

• Inez Storer
• "Seven Days to Make the World" Installation
  
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• Squeak Carnwath
• 2011 Solo and Group Museum Shows

• Island Press - Three decades of Printmaking at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO       January 28 - April 18, 2011 www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu

  On View: New Work From Kala at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA  March 4 - July 2, 2011

  Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA  March 5 - 8, 2011 www.tritonmuseum.org

  American Printmaking Now at Shanghai Art Museum, China   March 8 - April 8, 2011 www.sh-artmuseum.org.cn

  The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama at San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX  March 12 - July 31, 2011 www.samuseum.org

"Squeak Carnwath has a distinctive and recognizable style which combines diaristic and personal elements with universal or eistential themes.  Her paintings combine text and images on abstract fields of color to express sociopolitical and spiritual concerns.

"The work for which Carnwath became widely known is characterized by simple, iconic images and words floating like astral bodies within monochromatic or bichromatic fields.  The images represent common things - chairs, vessels, bones, feet, genitalia, flowers, birds, houses and so on - using rudimentary forms and emphatic black outlines.  The words or passages of text, rendered in an ingenuous and expressive script, catalogue and comment on various aspects of existence, such as the affinities that unite seemingly unrelated objects and the essential differences that divide them.

"Simultaneously comic and grave in tenor, these pictures evoke the free-ranging ruminations of a daydreaming mind as it encounters the myriad phenomena of daily life and tries to make sense of them... engaging an ever-evolving constellation of preoccupations and investigations: how we know things, what we know, the nature of memory, perception, passion, time, and death."                                  -Triton Art Museum

• Hung Liu
• Recipient of the SGC International 2011 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the professional development of printmaking as a fine art. Your sustained and innovative exploration in print media is a remarkable achievement.

Recent winners of the Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking award include Chuck Close (2004), William Wiley (2005), Warrington Colescott (2006), Xu Bing (2007), Kerry James Marshall (2008), Leonard Lehrer (2009), and Judy Pfaff (2010).

SGC International, formerly the Southern Graphics Council, is a U.S. nonprofit membership organization that advances the field of original prints, drawings, books, and hand-made paper. The SGCI strives to increase public awareness of these arts through an annual conference that draws on average 1500 participants from across the U.S. and internationally. SGCI supports critical dialogue about issues in art and ideas as well as exchanges of technical information. Awards, publications, and exhibitions sponsored by SGCI promote greater understanding and scholarship.

• Michael Gregory
• "Western Construct" Museum show

"Michael Gregory is an artist, who, like Wallace Stegner, has been conditioned by the West.  His large-scale paintings of barns and farms evoke the vast expanse and emptiness that characterize the Western landscape.  At the same time his work seems to inhabit not only the West, but the agrarian culture of the entire nation.  Profoundly beautiful and haunting, these paintings speak to so much more than a building or landscape: they address matters of the soul."      -Marianne Lorenz, Executive Director, Fort Collins Museum of Art

Michael Gregory's exhibition will be showing at:

Fort Collins Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO                                                                    January 14 - March 25, 2011            www.fcmoca.org

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities,  Denver, CO                                               
June 9 - August 29, 2011                  arvadacenter.org

The Butler Institute of American Art    Youngstown, OH                                                     September 11 - November 6, 2011    butlerart.com

• Story Painters: Drawings, Paintings, Prints and Tapestries by Squeak Carnwath and Hung Liu at the Lesher Center for the Arts

February 16 - April 11, 2010

Story Painters provides people in the Bay area an opportunity to view a unique survey of three extraordinary artists living in the Bay Area. Squeak Carnwath, Hung Liu, and Inez Storer are exceedingly accomplished, known nation-wide, and have been profiled in major museum exhibitions. Utilizing the figure, personal symbols, and abstract elements, these artists employ a distinctive and highly individual approach to art making, with the fundamentals of story telling at the core of their work.

Squeak Carnwath combines personal symbolism with universal imagery to create a remarkable and salient world of stories and riddles on the surface of a canvas. When combined, her pictorial icons create a conversation—both visual and verbal.

Hung Liu utilizes story in her artwork to document the Chinese revolution. Liu is a storyteller whose art reflects the turmoil of her life that in turn paralleled the birth and evolution of Chinese communism.

• Brad Rude
• Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

"The Navigators" by Brad Rude was generously funded by the Scott and Betty Lukins family to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, WA for the outdoor sculpture collection. The piece is 184" x 78" x 78" and is made of cast bronze, wood and stone.

• Jane Rosen
• American Academy of Arts and Letters

Jane Rosen has been selected for the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts. March 11- April 11, 2010 in New York.

• Betsy Eby
• Art in Embassies Exhibition
  United States Embassy
  Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

1. Established by the United States Department of State in 1964, the ART In Embassies Program is a global museum that exhibits original works of art by U.S. citizens in the public rooms of approximately 180 American diplomatic residences worldwide. These exhibitions, with art loaned from galleries, museums, individual artists, and corporate and private collections, play an important role in our nation's public diplomacy. They provide international audiences with a sense of the quality, scope, and diversity of American art and culture through the accomplishments of some of our most important citizens, our artists.
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3. Betsy Eby loaned her piece, "Bliss" for this exhibition in June 2009.
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• Hung Liu
• "Deer Boy"

• Judith Kindler
• PONCHO Artist of the Year

1. PONCHO recently announced that their annual  Artist of the Year Award goes to Seattle artist and community activist Judith Kindler for the year 2009. Kindler is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, photography, and photo-based work embedded in encaustic.  Her past awards include serving as Master Artist at Pratt Fine Arts as well as a PONCHO Merit Award for Excellence. Her art can be found in many major collections, both public and private, and she exhibits her work through:  Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho.
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• Tony Foster
• Phoenix Art Museum
• Searching for a Bigger Subject
• July 11 - October 18, 2009

1. Traveling on foot, by raft or canoe, climbing mountains and weathering extreme climates, English artist Tony Foster creates watercolor diaries in the world’s great wildernesses. For more than 25 years, he has been painting large-scale works on what he calls “the edge of the world”. In this exhibition, Foster focuses his attention on two of the world’s most powerful subjects – Arizona’s Grand Canyon and Mount Everest in the Himalayas.

   Foster has worked extensively at remote locations on the North and South Rims of the Grand Canyon, and at Mount Everest on the North Face, where hikers generally approach, and the even more remote East Face. He is believed to be the only artist to ever create paintings of Everest from the Nepal and Tibet sides of the mountain. The exhibition is the culmination of Foster’s travels to these breathtaking sites and includes 32 recent studies and monumental paintings.

   Working in delicate watercolor, Foster blends the nineteenth-century traditions of British explorers, who made detailed notebook sketches of their travels, with a contemporary artist’s interest in working in a large-scale format. His largest watercolor paintings measure an astounding six feet wide, particularly impressive considering they were made on location. Appreciation for the difficulty of working on such a scale while on site, however, is secondary to the beauty of the paintings themselves.

   Foster writes, “All of my work is based on the philosophy that our planet is a gloriously beautiful but fragileplace, and that as an artist it is my role to deliver a testament to the fact that wild and pristine places still exist.”

   Born in Lincolnshire, England in 1946, Foster is a Fellow of London’s Royal Geographical Society, where he has been the recipient of the Cherry Kearton Memorial Medal “for his artistic portrayal of the world’s wilderness,” and the subject of the documentary “The Man Who Painted Everest” (2006).

   

• Will Robinson
• Bremerton Memorial Plaza

1. WET worked closely with the City of Bremerton to bring the elements of Puget Sound inland, blurring the boundary between land and sea. Bremerton Memorial Plaza is the fourth feature of the Waters of Bremerton Harborside—focal points designed to resonate with the regions natural features, reflect local history, and guide ferry passengers from the harbor to historic downtown Bremerton.

   At the south end of Bremerton Memorial Plaza, in honor of the U.S. Navy, monumental rock sculptures created by local artist Will Robinson are paired with dynamic water expressions. 

   

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• Julie Speidel 
• Central Oregon Community College

1. Julie Speidel was selected from three finalists for a sculpture commission for the new Campus Center Building for Central Oregon Community College. The sculpture and base will be 10 feet high and will be positioned next to the main entry. It will provide an identifying signature for the campus and will be an inviting entrance and gathering place.  The piece is titled 'Full Circle".
   
   The sculpture consists of five interlocking organic shapes. The shapes and their relationship reflect strength and support -- two important aspects of educational experience. Smaller cubic shapes are captured and supported by two geometric shapes that draw on the concept of the school environment, sheltering and cultivating while not restrictive. The sculpture juxtaposes organic shapes as a counterpoint to the rectangular elements of the building and courtyard. This creates interplay between the strong architectural design and the human element.
   
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• June 6, 2009 - August 2, 2009
• Robert McCauley  
• The Hallie Ford Museum 
• http://www.willamette.edu/news/library/2009/05/rapids_pools.html
  

The Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University is exhibiting Robert McCauley: Rapids and Pools. 
Robert McCauley is a Mt. Vernon, Washington artist who explores the 19th century notion of “Manifest Destiny” and its impact on the indigenous cultures and environment of the western United States through paintings, drawings, installations, and mixed media works. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition features 24 works from public and private collections in Washington, California, Idaho, and Illinois.
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• May 23, 2009 - October 4, 2009
• Lynda Lowe - 2009 Neddy Artist Fellowship Nominee 
• http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=3981
  

 The Neddy Artist Fellowship (“the Neddy”), established by the Behnke Family and the Behnke Foundation, is one of the few unrestricted cash awards granted to visual artists in the Northwest. The Foundation recently announced this year’s finalists. The artists nominated for painting are Tim Cross, Eric Elliott, Gary Faigin, and Lynda Lowe. The finalists for glass are Benjamin Moore, April Surgent, and the artist teams of Joey Kirkpatrick and Flora Mace; and Jenny Knowles and Sabrina Pohlman. The two Fellowship recipients—one in each category—will be announced at the Tacoma Art Museum Members’ Opening and Artist Party Saturday, June 6 at 6:30 pm. Admission to that event is free for all attendees.

This is the fifth year Tacoma Art Museum has collaborated with the Behnke Family and the Behnke Foundation to host the exhibition of finalists for this prestigious award. "We are delighted by our partnership with the Behnke Family and the Behnke Foundation. We share the common goal of highlighting exemplary artists working in the Northwest," said Tacoma Art Museum Director Stephanie Stebich. "The Neddy Artist Fellowship is one of only a handful of significant regional awards for visual artists offering substantial monetary support."   

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• James Cook  
• Roswell Museum
• http://roswellmuseum.org/press/releases07/23JUL07beyondagift.pdf
  

This beautiful painting "Velarde" by James Cook will be installed at the museum in June. The oil painting is 60" x 70." The Roswell Museum and Art Center inspires discovery, creativity, and cultural understanding of the art and history of the American Southwest and beyond.

• March 26 - May 20, 2009
• Victoria Adams: Lux Art Institute
• Lux Resident Artist
• http://www.luxartinstitute.org/Artist-Residency/Victoria-Adams/

Lux Art Institute is redefining the museum experience to make art more accessible and personally meaningful. At Lux, you don’t just see finished works of art; you see the artistic process firsthand, engaging with internationally recognized artists in a working studio environment.

Victoria Adams is a contemporary landscape painter who lives and works on a small Island outside of Washington State. She finds inspiration for her primary subject matter—the sky, the land, and deep atmospheric space—in the weather and views of the Pacific Northwest, yet her imagery transcends regionality. Her work combines her memories of places and paintings that suggest timeless views of the landscape.

The artist was born in Columbus, OH in 1950 and received a BA in English Literature from Ohio State University. In her twenties, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, initiated her training in the visual arts and received a BFA in Painting from the University of Washington, studying under the renowned painter Jacob Lawrence.

• April 25 - August 23, 2009
• Squeak Carnwath: Painting is no Ordinary Object
• Oakland Museum of California
• http://museumca.org/exhibit/exhi_carnwath.html

This presentation of Carnwath’s work—the first organized by a major West Coast museum—includes more than 40 paintings not seen collectively since the artist’s last major exhibition, in 1994.

“An in-depth examination of Squeak Carnwath’s work is timely, if not overdue,” says museum director Lori Fogarty. “This show confirms Carnwath’s groundbreaking artistry and stature as one of California’s leading contemporary artists.”

As the title indicates, a painting is “no ordinary object” for Carnwath (American, b. 1947). Her recurring motifs—among them numbers, rabbits, and lists—reflect personal and universal themes; each meticulously applied layer of paint carries meaning and inquiry.

“Painting is a philosophical enterprise,” Carnwath says, “a kind of alchemy . . . inert material becomes something else—a document of being, a repository of the human spirit.”

This exhibition will transform 5,600 square feet of the OMA's galleries into a visually dazzling environment of light and color. Visitors will take a journey, which will include a walk through a mirrored maze, panoramic murals, video projections and a blown glass sculpture. The journey will end in a room-size glass building filled with art works representing the artist's conception of a Fountain of Youth.

• January 10 - May 10, 2009
• Therman Statom: Stories of the New World
• Orlando Museum of Art
•  www.omart.org/exhibitions/therman-statom-stories-world

Stories of the New World will feature custom art installations by Therman Statom, a major figure in the Studio Glass movement. Throughout his career, Statom has pushed the boundaries of his medium - challenging his audience to look at glass in new and interesting ways. His interest in studio glass began as a student in the 1970s at the Rhode Island School of Design.  He studied with Dale Chihuly, who has remained a lifelong friend and mentor.  In 1971, Statom participated in the inaugural season of the Pilchuck Glass School and has been known as an innovator and a force in the Studio Glass movement ever since.

Statom is a pioneer in the use of glass as a material for sculpture and room-size installation art.  His work is distinguished from other glass artists of his generation in that he works with a wide variety of materials in addition to blown glass. His works are assembled from an inventory of objects he makes in the studio such as glass ladders, mirrored chairs, exotic blown glass vessels and painted images.  These forms, which seem to possess underlying symbolic meanings, are brought together in compositions imbued with mystery.  
 
Stories of the New World will be a large-scale, multi-part glass installation.  Statom will use Juan Ponce de Leon's 1513 search for the fabled Fountain of Youth as a point of departure to explore both historic and contemporary themes of hope, discovery, ambition and destiny.  Ponce de Leon intrigues Statom in part because of his historic association with Florida, but more so because of the broader implications, symbolic and real, societal and personal, of the explorer's quest for this elusive goal.   
"I want the gallery to have the atmosphere of having arrived at a place or destination that reflects the search, discovery and mysticism inherent in these ideas.  In essence, this installation will function as a conceptual Fountain of Youth." - Therman Statom.

This exhibition will transform 5,600 square feet of the OMA's galleries into a visually dazzling environment of light and color. Visitors will take a journey, which will include a walk through a mirrored maze, panoramic murals, video projections and a blown glass sculpture. The journey will end in a room-size glass building filled with art works representing the artist's conception of a Fountain of Youth.

• November 29, 2008 - February 8, 2009
• Jun Kaneko -Boise Art Museum
•  www.boiseartmuseum.org

This exhibition features an extensive representation of Jun Kaneko’s work in ceramic sculpture, drawings and paintings over the past two decades. Mainly identified as a sculptor, Jun Kaneko also works in glass, textiles, bronze, paper and canvas. Born in Japan and currently residing in Omaha, Nebraska, Kaneko is internationally recognized as being at the forefront of the ceramics movement. Known for the ambitious scale of his ceramics projects, his massive tapered forms called Dangos (meaning rounded form, or ma in Japanese), can measure 13 feet high and weigh 5,000 pounds or more. Kaneko is one of the few artists in modern history to attempt clay pieces of such size and weight. Kaneko’s work is engaged in serious explorations of order and disorder, simplicity and complexity deliberate action and spontaneity.

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• Tony Berlant - "Continuously Playing"
• 9' x 20" 

Tony Berlant's commissioned mural, "Continuously Playing" hangs in the lobby of the Broad Stage in Santa Monica. Tony Berlant is well known for his collages of found & fabricated hand-shaped pieces of printed tin.

• October 3, 2008 - January 3, 2009
• Connie Borup - Rocky Mountain Biennial
• Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art 
• http://www.fcmoca.org/see/rmb.html
  

Connie Borup will be exhibiting two paintings in the Rocky Mountain Biennial at the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art.

"Shadow Dance," 52" x 40," Oil on canvas

"Water's Edge," 40" x 52," Oil on canvas

• April 2008
• Shafer Vineyards - Julie Speidel Bronze Sculpture

After a year of planning by Julie Speidel, Gail Severn and John & Barbara Shafer, Shafer Vineyards is now the proud owner of a Julie Speidel bronze sculpture commissioned for the prominent entry to the winery. After visiting the space numerous times and designing the perfect piece, Julie and her crew installed it in April 2008.

• April 11, 2008 - August 16, 2008
• Therman Statom: Nascita

The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts is pleased to present Therman Statom's Nascita, an ambitious exhibition comprised of a multitude of site-specific glass and mixed-media sculptures. For over twenty-five years, Statom has revolutionized the glass medium, creating installations of an architectural scale that reward the viewer's imagination and sense of wonder.

Four elements dominate the visual terrain of Therman Statom's Nascita, or "Origin:" a 50-foot glass frieze, a freestanding glass room, a 30-foot mirror-scaled snake and multiple mirrorized architectural fixtures. Statom utilized commercial panes of glass, silicon, mirror and paint as his primary materials to create a stylized and expressive environment that sprawls throughout the gallery. His bold forms brim with symbols such as maps, vessels, foliage and snakes that are rooted in art history and personal references. The artist creates glass box "paintings" that house a myriad of painted images as well as eclectic objects suggesting an open-ended narrative filled with surprising juxtapositions. Although Statom precisely planned and prefabricated certain aspects of the exhibition, he also improvised throughout the installation process and will reconfigure the exhibition at multiple points during its run. Statom approaches the gallery space as a studio and laboratory and encourages viewers to join his process of discovery.

• 30 June - 20 July 2008
• Tony Foster at the Royal Watercolour Society

The Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London, will host Tony's next major solo exhibition "Searching for a Bigger Subject" from 30 June - 20 July 2008.

• January 2008
• Delos Van Earl Sculpture welcomes visitors!

Swooping in and out of the ground, "Jungle Red" is a serpentine-esque sculpture that now welcomes the public to the Warm Sands neighborhood in Palm Springs. It's named for the "Jungle Red" nail polish color made famous in the 1939 Joan Crawford film "The Women". Van Earl said he hopes the sculpture, which looks like a snake curling in and out of the gravel, will be something tourists will stop to take a picture with on the way to their Warm Sands hotels. "It will be a landmark piece," he said as his assistant David Hale applied brick red primer paint. Last summer, the City Council approved the sculpture. It's location in the center of a round-a-bout on Ramon Road and Warm Sands Drive means "Jungle Red" will have high visibility.

• Squeak Carnwath - Oakland Museum of California
• ARTISTS OF INVENTION: A CENTURY OF CCA

A portrait of Bay Area artists and art movements through the 20th century and celebration of the California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC) centennial. The survey includes the renegade plein-air painters known as the Society of Six; production ceramists Edith Heath and Jocomena Maybeck; artists of the Bay Area Figurative school Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, and Manuel Neri; Peter Voulkos, Robert Arneson, and Viola Frey, leaders of the studio ceramics movement; minimalist John McCracken and conceptualists David Ireland and Dennis Oppenheim; photorealists Robert Bechtle, Richard McLean, and Jack Mendenhall; and cultural commentators Squeak Carnwath and Raymond Saunders.

• September 7 - November 11, 2007
• Gwynn Murrill - Fresno Art Museum

Primal Form: The Sculpture of Gwynn Murrill
Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2007

Gwynn Murrill brings to her award as the Council of 100 Distinguished Woman Artist for 2007 a lifetime of compelling and powerful work – the exhibition presented is an overview of her command of disparate materials chosen for the expression of her sculptural language where pure abstract form transcends anthropomorphism. There are coyotes of laminated Koa wood, a cat hewn from grey Carrara marble, deer of bronze, an animal relief carved within ceramic tiles, along with soaring bronze eagles, each sculpture extends beyond the mimetic impulse to “follow nature. Murrill's sculptural sensibility, in the words of Peter Clothier, is an ecstatic apprehension of pure form in the environment of pure space.

• September 1, 2007 - June, 2008
• 2007 Idaho Triennial
• Theodore Waddell & David deVillier

Organized by the Boise Art Museum, the Idaho Triennial is a juried exhibition that has been a respected and treasured part of the museum's legacy since 1935. Held every three years, the Triennial is a statewide, juried art exhibition that reflects the quality and diversity of artwork being created in Idaho. To add a new twist, this year’s guest juror and curator is BAM’s associate curator of art, Amy Pence-Brown. In addition to the standard jurying of slides/digital images submitted by 249 artists, Pence-Brown spent the summer traveling Idaho to conduct 71 on-site studio visits, ultimately selecting 25 for the exhibition. We are happy to announce that the show is touring to two other Idaho venues this spring; it will be at the Prichard Art Gallery in Moscow February 20 - April 4, 2008, and from there go to the Sun Valley Center for the Arts April 18 - June 11, 2008.

• August 25, 2007 - January 13, 2008
• Laura McPhee: River of No Return

Boise Art Museum  

Acclaimed photographer Laura McPhee bases each of her photographic series on a dilemma. River of No Return is no exception, highlighting the juxtapositions of individualism versus community and development versus preservation in the American West. This powerful traveling exhibition of haunting, large-scale color photographs captures conflicting ideas of land use and landscape across remote areas of Central Idaho. McPhee spent two years in the Sawtooth Mountains photographing the region’s cinematic and picturesque landscapes and illustrating their coexistence with humanity and development. McPhee sees these images as a microcosm of America and the dilemmas that communities and people face nationwide. The exhibition is organized by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and works from this series focusing on Idaho are also included in a touring exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum. McPhee is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and is made possible through the generous collaboration of Alturas Foundation. The Boise Art Museum presentation is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Simplot and the J.R. Simplot Company.

• Theodore Waddell featured in Art in Embassies

Several paintings are out on loan to the American Embassy in Sweden. Much of the art on loan reflects the vast open space of the American West, but they have also included paintings of other scenes of extraordinary beauty - the monterey coast in California, harbor scenes from Cape Anne and Gloucester, Massachusetts, and a Venetian lagoon.

• March 18th, 2007
• Book Signing with Theodore Waddell

With the snow melting and temperatures warming up, we thought that it was time for a fun art event to usher in the new season. Gail Severn Gallery will host a book signing with our artist Theodore Waddell, illustrator of the newly released children’s book Tucker Gets Tuckered,
• Sunday, March 18th, 2007 at 3pm
After years of creating imaginative works on paper of his beloved Bernese Mountain Dogs, Tucker, Lilly, and Sam, the artwork has now been arranged with an entertaining narration by writer, Ted Beckstead. The book follows a full day of Tucker’s adventures golfing, snorkeling, going to the beach, and playing with friends. Ted’s artwork is delightful, and as a collector of Theodore’s work you will enjoy this facet of his works on paper. The afternoon at Gail Severn Gallery will be fun for adults and children alike. Hope to see you there. Copies of Tucker Gets Tuckered are available through the gallery, please feel free to call or email us – or, of course, visit us on Sunday for a personalized edition.

• March 2007
• Deborah Oropallo and The Magnolia Tapestry Project

Acclaimed as one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier painters, Deborah Oropallo has created much of her work in recent years using digital photos and inkjet prints. George, her 2007 tapestry with the Magnolia Tapestry Project, finds the artist broadening her exploration of digital media. In George, Oropallo juxtaposes different modes of portraiture, colliding two sets of signs into an image both alien and familiar.

• March 3 - September, 2007
• James Lavadour and The Smithsonian

Native Artists Challenge Landscape Traditions in "Off the Map." Five artists investigate the complex relationship between Native art and the landscape in “Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination,” opening at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center Saturday, March 3, 2007. The exhibition, which comprisesrecent workbyJeffrey Gibson, Carlos Jacanamijoy, James Lavadour, Erica Lord and Emmi Whitehorse, closes Monday, Sept. 3.
www.nmai.si.edu/press/releases/2007_01_03offthemap_pr_nmai.pdf

• Gwynn Murrill in public spaces...

Gwynn Murrill will be included in the "landmark exhibition," Mulitiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006
February 25 - April 15, 2007 at LA Municipal Art Gallery. Presented by The Southern California Women's Caucus for Art and the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
www.scwca.com/murrill

Gwynn is also pleased to have her Tigers included as installations in Toronto Airport's groundbreaking new wing, Pier F
www.thestar.com/pierf

• February 10- May 6 2007
• Victoria Adams and Tacoma Art Museum

Victoria Adams will have a number of paintings included at The 8th Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum, Feb. 10- May 6 2007. Curated by David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and by Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art at the Tacoma Art Museum. Out of a field of over 900 entrants from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana, 41 artists were selected. A catalog will accompany the exhibition.

• Join Us To Celebrate 30 Years, 1977-2007

The beginning of 2007 marks the start of our 30th year - and in celebration of the gallery's anniversary we will be having exhibitions and special events throughout the year to honor the artists we represent and to extend our appreciation for our collectors who have supported the arts and our gallery for the last three decades.

• November 2006
• Tony Foster's upcoming museum calendar:

November is a busy month for watercolorist Tony Foster:
11/02/06 - "Searching for a Bigger Subject" lecture; Tucson Museum, 6PM
11/08/06 - Tony will be present for the opening of "Yosemite – Art of an American Icon" Autry National Center Museum of the American West, Los Angeles
11/17/06 - "Painting the Grand Canyon," lecture; Denver Art Museum, 5PM

• September 2, 2006
• Gwynn Murrill at the DeCordova Museum

Gwynn Murrill is featured in the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Massacusetts. The new exhibition, "Going Ape: Confronting Animals in Contemporary Art" opens September 2, 2006.

www.decordova.com/exhibit/animals/murrill

• September 2006
• New film on Tony Foster

"The Man Who Painted Everest" is a 50-minute documentary on Tony Foster's art and expeditions. The film records his most recent journey to paint the world's highest mountain. In conjunction with his opening at the gallery on Friday, September 1st, the artist will be showing a special presentation of the film on Sunday, September 3rd at 7pm. Also of note, Phoenix Art Museum added Foster's "From Point Sublime Looking ESE" watercolor, 84" x 48" to their permanent collection. The Tucson Art Museum features, "From Walapai Point Looking ESE," 84" x 48" for their show on the Grand Canyon. As well, look out for the Autry Center for Western Art, Los Angeles' exhibition, "Yosemite - The Art of An Icon" featuring Foster's "Eight Days on Eagle Peak," 72" x 72".

• June 23 - 24, 2006
• Sun Valley Visual Arts Forum

The Sun Valley Gallery Association celebrated 25 Years with their first annual Collector's Forum. Keynote speakers were Francoise Gilot, artist and author of "Life with Picasso," and Steve Wynn, entrepreneur/ art collector. Also, Barbara Guggenheim, art consultant, gave a provocative lecture on her approach to collecting. To cap it all off the Gallery Association installed an Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition on Main Street. Please come view sculpture by Will Robinson, Julie Speidel, and Mark Stasz.

• June 2006
• Ed Musante in Village Voice and NY Sun

Musante's first NYC exhibition gets rave reviews.

Ed Musante Review in the New York Sun
Ed Musante Review in the Village Voice

• April 8 - June 18, 2006
• Deborah Oropallo's "Twice Removed" opens at BAM

Boise Art Museum's exhibition of Deborah Oropallo's recent and new digital paintings, "Twice Removed" Supported by an exhibition and publication grant from the Paul G. Allen Foundation and additional catalogue support from Gail Severn Gallery. Catalogues available.

View Exhibit Page the Boise Art Museum Website 

Oropallo, a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award recipient, will have a solo exhibition at Gail Severn Gallery opening August 4 - August 31, 2006