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April 30 - May 3, 2010 Gail Severn Gallery is very excited to participate in this year's Art Chicago.
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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.Â
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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.  |
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 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. |
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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.  |
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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.  |
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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. |
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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'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. |
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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 |
