Simply Ravenous
- Title
- Simply Ravenous
- LC Subject
- Painting painting (image-making) paintings (visual works) oil paintings (visual works)
- Creator
- Thorsnes, Melinda
- Description
- An oil painting depicting a ravenous restaurant scene. Simply Ravenous; (32 x 76 inches); 1994; oil 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_62_b01
- Accession Number
- 1995_osu_valley-library_62_b01
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Dc Rights Holder
- Thorsnes, Melinda
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Measurements
- 32 x 76 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
- 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
- I work from personal photographs and images from popular culture. My paintings are autobiographical and have a strong narrative thread. In a sense they are mid-chapter stories with an elusive beginning and no predictable end. I find it difficult to write about specific work. If I were to give parameters to paintings in the Valley Library Art Collection, they would fall somewhere between Gary Larson, Subaran, Carl Hiassen and Alice Munro. Simply Ravenous was a reaction to a rather bizarre wedding reception I attended. I work using very wet oil paint on fairly smooth canvas, which lends a certain excitement to the process. (Sort of like riding a headstrong horse - sometimes you get where you're going and sometimes you fall off, but it's always an adventure.)
