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Title: Untitled
LC Subject: Painting Acrylic painting Still-life painting Eggs painting (image-making) paintings (visual works)
Creator: Haley, Sally
Description: An acrylic painting of canvas that is divided down the middle. The left side of the painting is primarily white, with eggs stacked in a glass, next to two green apples on a white marble-like table, against a white wall. The right side of the painting features thick vertical rectangles of the colors of gold, blue, and dark red. Untitled (interior with eggs and apples); acrylic on canvas; (47 x 51 inches); 1994; HalS98012104 The paintings of Sally Haley are much loved in the Northwest, partly at least because she often (but not always) has painted familiar domestic objects-bread, eggs, bottles, fruit, dishes, the simple, reassuring, eternal things. And she paints them with mastery so admirable that our response is a combination of delight and awe. They appear in a variety of settings and con-formations: a loaf of bread may almost fill its small canvas; a stemmed glass containing, quite surprisingly, five eggs, and standing alone, with mysterious iconic overtones, in a vast dark space; or a group assembled on a table in Haley's own subtle version of the still life. But there is a great deal more to her art than the masterly rendition of familiar objects. Many of her canvases, entirely bare of objects, are seen from, as one might say, a much wider angle; they are interiors divided into austere geometric shapes which suggest corridors, walls, windows, doors. This artist is certainly drawn by the basic architectural features of interiors, and to their meanings: the universal vertical and horizontal planes of wall and floor, the advance of corridors, the promise of doorways, the rectangles of sky disclosed by windows. She makes her own perspective, often puzzling, sometimes disquieting. In most of her painting there is…a sense of something, withheld or barely suggested, of questions unanswered, though: everything in the painting exists under the most unequivocally revealing light. Yet the surreal hovers near, is waiting in the wings, so to speak, and is sometimes evoked. At any rate, on feels 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, OR
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1995_osu_valley-library_27_a01
Accession Number: 1995_osu_valley-library_27_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Haley, Sally
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 42 x 51 inches
Material: Painting; acrylic on canvas
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
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Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: I have always painted. What I paint is taken from the life I live. I am effected by the environment that surrounds me. And over time, as my environments have changed, my paintings have changed. What I paint has to stand on its own. I don't choose to run up against it by describing it. I am very attached to each painting. I am not prethoughtful but paint out of need.