Lisa Kokin
Mallow Mixed media cowboy book covers, wire, thread 62" x 42" x 21"
Gwynn Murrill
Deer 6 Bronze  47" x 58"x 15"
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Bird in the Night  1944
Tempera on Paper
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artMRKT San Francisco Visit Gail Severn Gallery Booth # 213 May 16 - 19, 2013 We are excited to be exhibiting at artMRKT - San Francisco this weekend! The event dates are May 16 thru 19, Thursday-Sunday. The venue is at the Fort Mason Center-Festival Pavilion. Click on the link below to receive FREE complimentary VIP passes to this event. ![]()
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Jack Spencer’s Upcoming Frist Center Exhibition
Jack Spencer: Beyond the Surface
July 12 - October 13, 2013
Frist Center of Visual Arts - Nashville Tennessee
We are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition of Jack's work at The Frist Center For The Visual Arts. The exhibition has been in the planning stages for over 3 years and will open on July 12th of 2013 and run through mid October. Over 70 images from all bodies of Jack's work will be represented in the most comprehensive exh1bit1on of Jack's work to date. The exhibition is being curated by Mark Scala, the chief curator at the Frist. There will also be a monograph of the exhibition work published. Click here for link to Frist Center
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Legends, Myths and Truths: Jun Kaneko Public installation of thirteen of Mission Clay Pittsburg Project Dangos
Millennium Park Boeing Galleries
Chicago, Illinois
April 12 - November 4, 2013 Millennium Park is a state-of-the-art collection of architecture, landscape design and art that provide the backdrop for hundreds of free cultural programs including concerts, exhibitions, tours, and family activities where you will find a new kind of town square – a lively, spectacular gathering spot located in the heart of the city and popular destination. Millennium Park public art programming includes annual temporary exhibitions in the Boeing Galleries immediately east of Wrigley Square and Crown Fountain and flanking Cloud Gate. Jun Kaneko was selected for the third such installation from April 12th to November 4th, 2013 by a curatorial jury process comprised of members of the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park and the Art Institute of Chicago.
The North Boeing Gallery will feature 17 figurative sculptures interpreted from Japanese folklore characters called Tanuki. From ancient times, the Japanese have expressed the purported shape shifting Tanuki in a variety of ways, but modernly they are usually depicted as a large, stout racoon-dog. They are legendarily spirited beasts that take on tasks around human habitats, the most familiar incarnation of which is the "sake buying errand boy" made popular by the ceramic artists of the city of Shigaraki which has one of the oldest ceramic traditions in Japan and where the Tanuki has evolved into the town mascot and an important symbol of business. The South Boeing Gallery will exhibit 13 of the monumental works the artist created at his Mission Clay: Pittsburg project. Rarely does an artist have an industrial friendship that allows them to stretch the boundaries of a favorite medium. He worked at Mission Clay Products in California for two years in the mid-90ĘĽs to create twenty-four immense sculptures and at their Kansas facility for the majority of three years starting in 2005 to create 44 monumental ceramic sculptures. All sculptures are fabricated by hand stitching clay slabs into the walls of singular monolithic hollow artworks. These two largest sculptural undertakings in his 45 years as a studio artist were in cooperation with a family owned business that opened their kilns for an artist to build a dream. Jun Kaneko is represented by the Gail Severn Gallery |
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 Opening of the Bo Bartlett Center Opening of the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University is a big job for director David Houston By SANDRA OKAMOTO David Houston has a big job ahead of him. He was recently named the director of the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University. The center takes up the entire upstairs of the Corn Center for the Visual Arts and is simply an open space right now. It currently has a cube that is humidity- and temperature-controlled, holding many of Bartlett's paintings, drawings, journals, sketchbooks and other mementos of his life. Crystal Bridges, which opened in November 2011, is the largest American art museum to open since the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, Houston said. That museum, even though it's in northern Arkansas, attracted more than half a million people the first year it opened. He was expecting 300,000, but he says the large number of visitors is a good problem for a museum to have.
RIGHT  David Houston, the director of the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University, left, and artist Bo Bartlett are photographed in the large space inside the Corn Center for the Visual Arts that will house the Bartlett Center. Photograph by Mike Haskey In Columbus, the center is owned by CSU but will be privately funded. Houston has to raise money to keep the center open, he said. Besides being the archive for Bartlett's works and journals, he's hoping it will be an archive for other artists. Both Bartlett, a Columbus native, and Houston are hoping that the center will become a place for artists to come and study. Bartlett will hold his annual holistic art workshops, but he will not be the only artist to do that. This year's workshop, scheduled for next month, is sold out. Architect Tom Kundig of Seattle, Wash., has been hired to design the more than 18,000-square-foot space. It will feature skylights for natural light and "floating" walls to mount exhibitions. By late spring, Houston hopes to have a calendar of events, including the grand opening. Unlike the Ogden and Crystal Bridges, which were built, he said "at least we have a building already." He also said the building is in the right place -- on the Chattaoochee River, in downtown Columbus. Bartlett, 57, who has known Houston for about six years, feels that he's the right person for the job. "He understands my work in the scope of American art," Barlett said. "His creativity can take on a project of this scope. I could not have wished for anyone better." Houston said it's not usual to be able to work with a living artist in his prime like Bartlett, who is in the forefront of the new American realism art movement. "People seldom have a chance to meet an artist," Houston said. "This center will help humanize a person to let people see where he came from and how they evolved into the artist they are. It gives people a connection to the artwork." He's hoping to pull regional and national resources to fund the center as well as make it a place for a "wide range of artists" to come. But he doesn't want it to become just another artists' colony. Houston wants the community, which already supports Bartlett, to be part of the center. "I want to make it available to students and the public," Houston said. Bartlett joked that Houston will have to work with a smaller budget. Crystal Bridges is sponsored by Walmart and had an annual budget of about $50 million. The artist, who has homes in Washington state, Maine and here, said he and his wife, artist Betsy Eby, will be spending more time in Columbus because of the center. They are also planning on setting up studio space in Columbus. Both Bo Bartlett and Betsy Eby are represented by the Gail Severn Gallery  |
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Hung Liu
 Fans of the artist Hung Liu will be pleased to learn that the California based painter has two upcoming museum shows in Oakland California this winter.  “Summoning Ghosts: the Art of Hung Liu,” a career retrospective covering paintings and prints from the late 1960s to the present, opens at the Oakland Museum of California on March 16, 2013. Meanwhile “Offerings,” a complimentary exhibition of installation works by Liu, opened on January 23 at the Mills College Art Museum. “Offerings” will comprise the reinstallation of two iconic, large-scale works, “Old Gold Mountain” (a mound of 200,000 fortune cookies) and “Tai Cang—Great Granary.” Hung Liu recommends both shows, noting: “the paintings at the Oakland Museum will look great and the fortune cookies at the Mills Museum will smell good!” Please see the above links for reception/event details.  Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu Oakland Museum of California March 16, 2013 - June 30, 2013
Born in Changchun, China, in 1948, a year before the creation of the People’s Republic of China, Liu lived through Maoist China and experienced the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Trained as a social realist painter and muralist, she came to the United States in 1984 to attend the University of California, San Diego, where she received her MFA. One of the first people from mainland China to study abroad and pursue an art career, she moved to northern California to become a faculty member at Mills College in 1990. She has exhibited internationally at premier museums and galleries, and her work resides in prestigious private and institutional collections around the world. Hung Liu currently is a tenured professor in the art department at Mills College.  Mills College Art Museum January 23 2013 - March 17, 2013
Hung Liu: Offerings features Liu’s installations Jiu Jin Shan (Old Gold Mountain) (1994) and Tai Cang—Great Granary (2008). The exhibition examines themes of memory, history, and cultural identity through works that navigate the complex journey of immigration and returning home. Liu joined the Mills faculty in 1990 and serves as a tenured professor of art at Mills College, which, throughout its 160 years, has pushed the limits of social and cultural expression through art. Born and raised in China during the rule of Mao Zedong, Liu’s work incorporates both modern and historical themes. She is widely regarded for a body of work that includes highly evocative paintings, murals, drawings, mixed media, and printmaking. “Hung Liu has played an integral role in shaping the visual art offering at Mills College, which embraces intellectual rigor and bold creative practice,” said Stephanie Hanor, director of the Mills College Art Museum. “Hung Liu: Offerings epitomizes the innovative thinking and techniques that have made her one of the most prominent Chinese artists working in the United States today.” In Hung Liu: Offerings, Liu’s installations Jiu Jin Shan and Tai Cang serve as memorials to the past while acknowledging rapidly changing cultural dynamics in contemporary China.
Tai Cang—Great Granary contains two distinct components. The first, Music of the Great Earth II, examines Liu’s passage between past and present through a reinterpretation of a mural she painted while earning her master’s degree in Beijing. Music of the Great Earth II is not intended as a recreation of the original, which was demolished, but as Liu’s analysis of how moving through time and place shape her perspective. The second component of Tai Cang—Great Granary features 34 antique dou, a traditional Chinese food container and unit of measure arranged in a map of China and representing the country’s 34 provinces and special regions. With support from the Agnes Cowles Bourne Fund for Special Exhibitions and the Helzel Family Foundation, Hung Liu: Offerings is planned in conjunction with the Oakland Museum of California’s retrospective Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu.  Hung Liu: Offerings Related Events at Mills College Art Museum Haunting The Mills College Art Museum is located at 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613. Museum hours are Tuesdays–Sundays 11:00 am–4:00 pm The museum is closed on Mondays. Free parking is available on campus.
 San Jose Museum of Art June 6, 2013 - September 29, 2013
Hung Liu is one of the most beloved artists represented in SJMA’s collection. Liu is known primarily for her paintings, which are drawn right: Questions from the Sky in Chinese calligraphy courtesy Hung Liu.  To view Hung's work at Gali Severn Gallery, please click here.
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Art in Embassies-Senegal, West Africa
Gail Severn Gallery artist Jenny Honnert Abell traveled to Senegal, West Africa, as part of her commission with the Art in Embassies program. During this recent trip, she visited the new US Embassy in Dakar, and experienced the people and culture of the region. Honnert Abell amassed inspiration for her 10 new works that will be in the embassy’s permanent collection. Jenny Honnert Abell’s work is unmistakable. She enhances old, recycled book covers with extremely meticulous and detailed orientated imagery of birds with human attributes, mainly heads.
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On the Avenue Of the Stars, Century City We are proud to share the news that one of our fabulous sculptors, Gwynn Murrill, is featured in Century City, California’s first outdoor-sculpture project.  The project opened November 15th, 2012 with The Gwynn Murrill Exhibit, which will feature a retrospective of Gwynn’s bronze sculptures.  Murrill’s work invites an environmental art experience by juxtaposing statically imposing animals as urban architecture and the natural city landscape as backdrop. This wonderful outdoor exhibition will be on display until October 2013. We are so excited for Gwynn. We invite you to stop by the gallery any time to see her work locally. To view Gwynn's work at Gail Severn Gallery, please click here. Â
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Jane Rosen Gail Severn Gallery along with artist and friend Jane Rosen are showing their support of the reintroduction of the Gray Wolf in Idaho through Jane's Art.  Rosen, a wildlife enthusiast, derives her inspiration from the natural world she loves so deeply. Severn a fifth generation Idahoan is also and avid fan of wildlife and the amazing diversity of wildlife in Idaho. ![]() Rosen heard about the wolf hunts from Gail Severn while Gail was at Jane's studio selecting art for an upcoming exhibition.   Jane became excited about creating a painting featuring the Gray Wolf, and selling the prints of the painting with a portion of the proceeds going to the “Living with Wolves” a non-profit corporation based in Ketchum Idaho.
The prints are printed in two sizes – 42” x 52” and 30” x 37”, and are archival pigment on clay ground on German etching paper.  The larger size will all be Artist Proofs limited to 5 total prints. The smaller size will be limited to an edition of 20.  Rosen worked on the prints after they were created from the original painting to make them have even more definition and spirit.
Jane Rosen is an internationally renowned artist and her Drawing, Painting and Sculpture are featured in museums and collections throughout the world. Â Her work is included in the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY., Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA., Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT and in U.S. Embassies located in Bagdad and Tunisia to name a few. Gail Severn Gallery is honored to represent Rosen's work and to be involved with this project.
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   NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts) has announced Margaret Keelan’s work, “Bouquet“ has been chosen for Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics to be held in conjunction with the 45th General Assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The response to the call for entries for this exhibition was strong, with 1024 innovative works submitted from around the world. The jurors, Jane Sauer, Clark Baughan, James Marshall, and Linda Ganstrom have selected 38 works for the exhibition. The jurying process was based on the images submitted of actual work. Ecumene: Global Interface in American Ceramics is a national juried exhibition developed and sponsored by NCECA to run concurrently with the general assembly of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC). Composed of leading figures in ceramic art from throughout the world IAC members will be meeting in the US for the first time since 1984. This event is projected to draw hundreds of international artists, curators, writers and leaders in the ceramics field. Selected works will be seen by an international audience while insulating participating artists from the complexities and costs of international shipping. The exhibition runs August 29 - September 20, 2012 at the School of Arts and Design,Visual Arts Gallery at Santa Fe Community College and will be featured during the IAC general assembly meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. To view Margaret's sculptures at Gail Severn Gallery, please click here.  |
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Cole Morgan unveils monument designed for Landgoed Rhederoord in Holland. Landgoed Rhederoord (Estate Rhederoord) was built in 1746 as a county “getaway” for Arnhem notables. The mansion is now one of the most luxurious hotels in the region.  The estate is surrounded by a 12 hectare private park that is adjacent to Veluwe National Park. Cole Morgan was asked to design and construct a new fountain to replace the original destroyed during World War II. The 19th century architect Eduard Petzold designed the original fountain. Morgan has been working on this project for more than 2 years. The water emanating from the fountain is glacial, pure, ready to drink and is said to be over 10,000 years old. The estate owner wanted the fountain to serve as a functional monument, so people can drink directly from it, while also providing an accent to the imposing facade of the historical building. The black granite for the fountain came from China.  Local craftsmen constructed the monument,under the supervision of Morgan, an architect,  and the Rijksmonumenten Dienst (National Monuments Service). The glacial water will be bottled and offered for sale in the region sometime this year. Morgan devised the name for the water “aQaaQa" and is also designing the label for the bottle. To view Cole's work at Gail Severn Gallery, please click here.
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Th 44th annual art auction Cows standing in a snowstorm ruled the night at the Yellowstone Art Museum's 44th annual art auction. A $10,000 bid on Ted Waddell's work, "Motherwell's Angus #24," brought a roar of approval to the crowd Saturday night. At press time it was the highest bid of the evening, and it looked like the YAM's goal of raising $260,000 in one night would be met. Hours before that winning bid on Waddell's painting, artists and buyers said it felt like it was going to be a big night. The bid set a record price for a small piece of Theodore's. "Motherwell's Angus #24," measures 24"x30", and the bid of $10,000 is well above his gallery prices of a paintings this size. YAM executive director Robyn Peterson and her staff drew a standing ovation at the beginning of the live auction and Peterson thanked the standing-room-only crowd for supporting the arts. To view Theodore's work at Gail Severn Gallery, please click here. |
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Raphaëlle Goethals at BAM Raphaëlle Goethal's beautiful encaustic painting  'Inside/Outside' which was recently acquired by the Boise Art Museum, is currently hanging in the Museum’s new exhibition "Eastern Traditions Western Expressions" Click here for a detailed schedule of the exhibition.
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New and long-time collectors of Theodore Waddell’s work were invited to the artist’s studio to view his newest paintings in progress. The focal point of the tour was the herculean painting Theodore is completing for his Denver Art Museum exhibition “Abstract Angus,” opening May 17th. The painting measures 8 foot tall by 30 foot long and has consumed 15 gallons of white oil paint, 17 gallons of turpentine, gallons and gallons of colored oil paints and encaustic medium and it’s still in progress. We would like to thank Theodore for opening his studio doors and giving us a peek into his creative process. To view additional work by Theodore, please click here.
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Gregory Stocks Recent Acquisitions
Gail Severn Gallery artist Gregory Stocks is featured in the U.S. Department of State’s Art Bank Gallery exhibition Recent Acquisitions.
The exhibition highlights nineteen new acquisitions from the Art Bank collection and includes the two paintings, Still Waters and Soft Light at Dusk, by Gregory Stocks. Gregory’s paintings will be accompanied by work by artists such as Bruno Andrade, Mark Brosseau, Charles Hewitt, Bayard Hollins, Jeffery Keith, Kumi Korf, and Shaun O’Dell just to name a few. The exhibition is currently on display and will continue through the summer.
The Art Bank Gallery is located at 21st Street lobby, Mezzanine South, Marshall Wing, Harry S Truman Building in Washington, DC. |
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David deVillier The following information was published in the Idaho Mountain Express - January 4, 2012 Issue Acclaimed painter and sculptor David deVillier will set up at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts late this month for a five-day intensive course focused on advancing the way students think about creating art. |
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Theodore Waddell Gail Severn Gallery artist Theodore Waddell has been selected to have his art displayed in the new federal courthouse in downtown Billings when it opens late next year.
Waddell, who was born in Billings, will have five pieces on display. Four of the pieces are 2002 woodcuts titled, "Grey Cliff Angus I-IV," which were a gift to YAM from Donna Forbes, the museum's former director. The fifth Waddell piece is a 1986 oil on paper titled, "Black Angus in Snow," (Pictured Left) which was donated to the museum in memory of Jean R. and Bruce Anderson. |
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Laura McPhee We are proud to announce The Cleveland Museum of Art has recently acquired Laura McPhee's photograph "Early Spring, Peeling Bark in Rain Diptych 2/5". This diptych measures 60" x 150". There are additional prints available, please contact the gallery for more information.
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Theodore Waddell We are proude to announce Theodore Waddell's Abstract Angus organized by the Denver Art Museum. The exhibition is supported by the citizens who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and the generous donors to the Annual Fund Leadership Campaign. . Click here for the Denver Art Museum's Official Announcement |
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Excerpt for Art Ltd November/December 2011 Issue Sun Valley: A Cultured Holiday Retreat by Sabina Dana Plasse Gail Severn Gallery is among the most respected galleries in the West, and spans over 11,000 square feet. In November, Gail Severn Gallery will present "Marks and Conversations III," an exhibition of sculpture and paintings by such diverse and nationally recognized artists as Squeak Carnwath, Kris Cox, Raphaelle Goethals, Gary Komarin, Cole Morgan, Margaret Keelan, Julie Speidel, and Jun Kaneko. These artists use words and mark-making to create visual and intellectual complexity. Concurrently in the exhibition space with 24 foot ceilings, paintings by Victoria Adams, James Cook, Theodore Waddell and Laura McPhee will comprise "A Sense of Place XVI," which is a group show presenting the personal interpretations of each artist's relationship with the land. In addition, Gail Severn Gallery will also feature "Nature," a show with works by Morris Graves, Ed Musante, Christopher Reilly, Brad Rude, Allison Stewart and Jane Rosen. In December, Gail Severn Gallery will present "Past as Prologue--Preview 2012." Each of these nationally and internationally acclaimed artist will have solo exhibitions in 2012. Featured artists include Robert Polidori and Laura McPhee, Nicolas Africano, Marcia Myers, Hung Lui, Robert McCauley, Linda Christensen, Jonathon Hexner, Margaret Keelan, Jun Kaneko, Therman Statom, Jose Cobo, and Deborah Oropallo. Gail Severn will also feature an intimate exhibition of artist David deVillier's colorful narrative paintings, framed in bold steel frames sculpted by the artist. DeVillier's works are filled with whimsical images of women, birds, and musical influences with an underlying emotional messages. |
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Robert McCauley
Robert McCauley recently finished a commission from the State Department, for the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. Â 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. Â 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. Â He was given a list of historical principalities of Romania, and the animals that have been used in the coat of arms of each. Â 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. Â 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. Â The lion appears in Romanian Heraldry, which Robert reproduced as an emblem on the shells of Greek Tortoises.
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 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.  |
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Contragulations are in order to Gallery Artist, Inez Storer on the installation of her painting "Seven Days to Make the World" in the Contemporary Arts Wing of the de Young Museum. Storer created the tripartite canvas as her response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Tim Burgard, Curator of American Art at the de Young has said the piece, "functions like a devotional altar, and evokes poignant parallels to the memorial wall that were created in New York City" after September 11.
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"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    |
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. |
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"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                         The Butler Institute of American Art   Youngstown, OH                           September 11 - November 6, 2011   butlerart.com |
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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.
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"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. |
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Jane Rosen has been selected for the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts. March 11- April 11, 2010 in New York. |
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"Deer Boy" a new artist's book by Hung Liu and Michael McClure. This book is published by Magnolia Press. Hung Liu's "Deer Boy," an artist's book combining images by Hung Liu with poetry by Michael McClure, was inspired by the artist's encounters with two fallen deer. In November of 2008, Liu was taking a morning walk in the Oakland hills when she saw a prone deer. The artist stopped and borrowed her husband's cell phone to capture the image. She walked around the animal, photographing it from various angles. Later, while making drawings based on these photographs, the artist says she had the same sense that the deer was flying or dancing, as if caught in the performance of a sequence of ethereal movements. |
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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.  |
 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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This beautiful painting "Velarde" by James Cook will be installed at the museum in June. The oil painting is 60" x 70."Â The Roswell Museum and Art Center inspires discovery, creativity, and cultural understanding of the art and history of the American Southwest and beyond. |
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.  |
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.  |
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.   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. |
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.  |
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. |
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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Primal Form: The Sculpture of Gwynn Murrill |
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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. |
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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. |
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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, |
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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. |
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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. |
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Gwynn Murrill will be included in the "landmark exhibition," Mulitiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006 |
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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. |
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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. |
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November is a busy month for watercolorist Tony Foster: |
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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. |
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"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". |
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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. |
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Musante's first NYC exhibition gets rave reviews. Ed Musante Review in the New York Sun |
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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 |



Houston, 56, is used to this kind of job, though. He was the curator for the openings of the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and the Walmart-backed Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark.

Continuing its legacy of innovation in the arts, Mills College showcases a rare presentation of large-scale installations by artist and Mills Professor of Art Hung Liu in Hung Liu: Offerings at the Mills College Art Museum, January 23, 2013–March 17, 2013. The exhibition also includes related paintings and prints by Liu.
Jiu Jin Shan (Old Gold Mountain), which was originally commissioned in 1994 by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, features more than 200,000 fortune cookies in a symbolic gold mountain engulfing a crossroads of railroad tracks beneath it. The junction of the tracks represents the cultural intersection of East and West as well as the shattered dreams of Chinese immigrants who perished during the building of the Sierra Nevada stage of the transcontinental railroad.
from Chinese historical photography. She has recently been working on a three-screen video installation based on digital snapshots that she takes with her iPhone. Liu meditates on death and memory in the video through five seemingly simple sets of images: burning candles; dead birds and deer; Buddha’s hand fruits; and cloud formations in the sky. For Liu, the images provoke questions of how we remember those who have passed and how images or moments in daily life give us notice of their presence. 
















































































