Beached #2
I’m showing new charcoal drawings at The Art Spirit Gallery, in a show that opens Friday, November 10. The works range in size and subject matter…from a series of small whale vignettes (Beached) to a life-sized tree. I will join enamel artist Sheila Evans at an opening for our show, from 5-8.
Tree Revisited
The show will be up through November 25 at The Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave, Coeur d”Alene, Idaho. Open Tuesday-Saturday, 9-6.
“St. Maggie”, charcoal and gold leaf on canvas, 5″ x 7″ x 2″
This exhibit features four other artists whose work is focused on the discipline of drawing – Debra Beers, April Coppini, Megan Vossler and Samantha Wall.
“Drawing Deeper” will run from Nov. 4 to Dec. 4 in the Gretchen Schuette gallery, located on the first floor of Building 3 on the Salem campus. The gallery is open from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays, or by appointment.
“Balanced #2″ (detail), charcoal on paper, 65″ x 17”
I’ve chosen four wildly different pieces for this show, which opens November 20— a book, mezzotint print, stitching, and a drawing on canvas. They are all exploratory experiments, which is one reason they’re small.
Mezzotint “Blue Moon”, 4″ x 4″
Page from accordion book “Cyclops”
I’ve switched to less toxic media with these printmaking projects. The hand-bound book with intaglio print illustrations is my first collaborative project with author (and partner) Gregory Newell Smith. It uses ferric chloride rather than nitric acid to etch the copper plates. The mezzotint print also uses a copper plate as the printing matrix. I switched to water-based inks from Akua (less toxic and easier clean up). The color is built up by printing layer after layer of transparent ink.
Stitched and waxed print ” Amorphous #7″, 7″ x 3″
With Amorphous #7 I was looking for a way to attach a small print to a larger paper, using something besides glue. Stitches worked, and to a calligrapher, they looked like Neuland letterforms. With this piece, I’d stumbled into a way of combining image and text that was integral to the form.
Charcoal on canvas “Doug is Good”, 5″x 7″ x 2″
I’m currently working in the studio with charcoal on canvas. This drawing, life-size though small, is an experiment with going frame-less. A local artist, Jana Johnson, generously shared with me her method for frameless pastel drawings, building up layers of charcoal and PVA size on canvas.
“If art is a journey, the gallery is the ship.” *
The Prichard Art Gallery Benefit Exhibition will come to a close Saturday night, February 8th, with a live auction that begins at 7:00 pm. As a contributing artist, I appreciate how the Prichard manages their benefit exhibits:
It’s always an honor to be invited to contribute your work to an art auction, but I am not inclined to participate without the stipulations listed above. They indicate respect for the artists and their work, while offering some level of access to all community members.
Tickets for the live auction are $15, and available at the Prichard, One World Cafe, and Book People.
Field Burn #4
I have two charcoal drawings and a “moon” print in the auction. You can view all available work at the Online Auction Gallery.
Bill
1440 Main, view from the front doorway, 1968
My hometown of St. Maries Idaho is having it’s centennial celebration this year, and in the nostalgic spirit of remembering the past, I drew seven images of places and events…from memory. As I tried to remember specifics…was it four windows or five in a classroom…I found some details were clear while others were hazy.
Highway 3 near Golf Course Road, Halloween wreck, 1969
These charcoal drawings of places and events, circa 1967-69, contain a degree of unreliability. I cannot claim they are completely truthful representations since they are based on memories that after more than four decades, are prone to exaggeration, misinterpretation and alteration.
Six of the drawings are hanging as pairs in storefront windows on St. Maries’ Main Street, between 8th and 10th streets. They will be up through Labor Day and the Paul Bunyan Days Celebration. Thank you Les Schwab, American Title Company, and Pizza Factory for displaying the work.
This week I’ve been drawing at the Jundt Art Museum on the Gonzaga campus, in Spokane. I joined four other artists, Margot Casstevens, Kurt Madison, Carl Richardson, and Roger Ralston in an invitational exhibition, Drawn to the Wall V. We each have a museum wall, about 8 by 12 feet, as our drawing surface, and two weeks to complete our work. I don’t want to be a spoiler so I’ll show just a few photos now, and more pics after the opening.
Day #1
The exhibition opens September 6, with a reception September 12, 6-8 pm. The following morning we will join the Jundt Director/Curator for a museum walk-through, September 13, at 10:30 am. The show closes October 12.
Day #2
Unhomelike #10, Her Head
A fabulous show just opened, Making a Mark: Drawing in Oregon, and three of my drawings from the Unhomelike Series are included. There will be a reception April 12, 5:30-7:30 at the Arts Center, and two special lectures are scheduled. April 18th, Andrew Myers will talk about his work and the significance of drawing. Clint Brown, OSU Professor Emeritus will give an historical overview with images from art history on May 3rd.
The Arts Center • 700 SW Madison Ave. Corvallis, OR • 12-5, Tue-Sat
Unhomelike #5, Bent
Clint Brown is the juror for this year’s annual exhibit Au Naturel:The Nude in the 21st Century. He’s a professor Emeritus at Oregon State University and the author of two books on art, and my neighbor…we recently met and I discovered he lives just over the hill.
I’ve participated in Au Naturel in the past (first place award and solo show, 2007) and am happy to be included again this year. Clint chose two of my drawings, Balanced and Three Chairs.
Balanced
In 2007 while living in Idaho, my husband and I strapped my over-sized drawing to our car roof for the drive to Astoria. That’s not an option I consider anymore- bubble wrap can chafe plexiglass, even inside a box, at 60 mph in a headwind.
The exhibit runs from February 21st – March 28, 2013. An opening reception is Thursday, March 7 at 6:00 pm.
Clatsop Community College, The Art Center Gallery, 1799 Lexington Ave. Astoria, Oregon.
Click here more information and images at the Au Naturel Exhibit.
I’m heading to Idaho with new work for a show that opens Friday, August 10. Carey Weigand and I will be joining forces- her sculptures and my drawings- for a clay and charcoal synergy!
The opening reception is part of Coeur d’Alene’s ArtWalk, from 5-8. I will give a drawing demonstration in the gallery from 1-4 on Saturday, August 11.
The show will be up through September 8, at The Art Spirit Gallery, 415 Sherman Ave, open every day from 11-6.
I’m delivering a drawing to Portland’s Froelick Gallery this week for an exhibition of contemporary nudes, entitled Undressing Room. There are numerous receptions -I’ll be at the preview reception Wednesday, June 6, from 5 to 8- and the show will be up for the June and July 1st Thursday events.
Click on the Undressing Room link above to see more work from the show, or visit the Froelick facebook page. The gallery is in Portland’s Pearl District, 714 NW Davis St. Tuesday – Saturday, 10:30-5:30.
Black Thumb Tales 
