Sweet Delicata

Title: Sweet Delicata
LC Subject: Painting Still-life painting Flowers in art painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) oil paintings (visual works)
Creator: Jordan, Shelley
Description: Still life oil painting that includes a large glass vase with a handle, holding multiple red flowers and stems. Surrounding the vase are pumpkins and gourds, some on a plate. There are also four green apples located near the bottom of the painting. Sweet Delicata; o/c '96; (48 x 60 inches) Shelly Jordon, a native New Yorker, moved to Oregon in 1986 to accept a teaching position in the Art Department at Oregon State University where she is currently an Associate Professor of Art. A recent recipient of an Oregon Art's Commission "Individual Artist Fellowship in Painting" award, she was chosen to be a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome in 1994, where she spent three months living and painting. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country including the Adam Baumgold Gallery in New York City, the William Sawyer Gallery in San Francisco, the Maryhill Museum of Art in Goldendale, WA, the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, WA and the Augen Gallery in Portland. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections nationally. She is currently working towards a one-person exhibition at the Frye Museum of Art in Seattle, WA and at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana. 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_34_a01
Accession Number: 1995_osu_valley-library_34_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Jordan, Shelley
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Measurements: 48 x 60 inches
Material: Painting; oil 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: My paintings celebrate the power and beauty of domestic spaces and objects. I paint directly from life, in natural light, still life objects which communicate through a window with a landscape, urban or natural. The objects, culled from daily life and painted larger than life, take on a monumental quality as viewed against the landscape, challenging established hierarchies between traditionally male and female spaces. Light is the force which brings to life my otherwise still objects. The same light that describes the form simultaneously destroys it, turning the still life objects into abstract shapes of color and pattern. Gestural brushwork and rich surfaces record the urgency of trying to capture a brief moment in time dictated by the short life span of the flowers and the ephemeral quality of the light. A "sense of place" is a unifying theme of my work painted in situ in locations as diverse as New York City, Rome, and Maine. Most recently the particular space and diffused Northwest light which illuminates my studio and informs my paintings have begun to assert themselves on my work. The still life objects are now juxtaposed against forested land, shipyards on the Willamette River and the distant vista of the Cascade Mountains. The broader skies and simpler compositions have altered the balance, scale and palette in my paintings making my otherwise universal images, specific to the Northwest. "Sweet Delicata", named for the yellow and green striped squash in the painting, was included in the 1997 "Oregon Biennial", curated by Katherine Kanjo, curator of contemporary art at the Portland Art Museum. The exhibition traveled from Portland Art Museum to the Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland, Oregon, University of Oregon Museum of Art in Eugene, Oregon, and the Willamette University Art Museum in Salem, Oregon. This painting was also chosen for inclusion in both the "Pacific Northwest Annual" at the Bellevue Art Museum in Bellevue, Washington and "True Art; Northwest Biennial" at the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Washington.