Ruby Wind
- Title
- Ruby Wind
- LC Subject
- Painting Acrylic painting Art, Abstract painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) acrylic paintings (visual works)
- Creator
- French, Kay
- Description
- The color choice and order of application in this abstract painting suggest a landscape scene. Thick brush strokes describe dark blue that gives way to an aqua tone, which then gives way to ochres and browns. Ruby Wind; Acrylic on wood; (18 x 20 inches); [no.] 5 Kay French grew up in the Midwest which perhaps explains her fascination with storms and flat land. She moved to Portland in 1977. Kay has a degree in art history from Kent State University and a degree in painting from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in various shows in regional galleries and museums. She was awarded a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists in Painting in 1994. She has also been represented by the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland, OR. (Oregon Arts Commission) The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
- Location
- The Valley Library >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Street Address
- 121 The Valley Library, Corvallis Oregon
- Date
- 1975/2012
- Identifier
- 1995_osu_valley-library_20_a01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_20_a01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- French, Kay
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 18 x 20 inches
- Material
- Painting; acrylic on wood
- Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Primary Set
- Oregon Percent for Art
- Relation
- 1995 - 1997 Biiennium Valley Library Oregon State University, Corvallis Oregon 1995_osu_valley-library
- Has Version
- slide; color
- Institution
- Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
- Note
- To view a map of the artwork location in context to Oregon State University, see http://oregonstate.edu/cw_tools/campusmap/locations.php
- Color Space
- RGB
- Biographical Information
- Ruby Wind is part of a series of paintings which focused on weather and the land. I painted clouds, dust, smoke, storms and clearings in enormous expanses of sky over flat land and water. Using weather imagery allowed me to explore a wide range of conflicting emotions and meanings to describe worlds of impending dangers, harsh beauty and safe havens. I was not interested in describing a particular placer or time but rather in creating a world where fiction can portray truth. I searched for the heart of my paintings through forming and reforming images, accepting the accidents of painting that can happen along the way much as weather can disrupt and change the land and sky. I used imagery drawn from art history, the newspaper, weather books, my surrounding and my memories.
