Flourescent pink, blue, green, yellow, and orange create a backdrop for five large butterfly forms whose wings display geometric patterning and mosaic inlay., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A mostly green background supports three irregularly shaped black objects that are stacked one on top of the other in the center of this piece. Additional irregular shapes in blues and oranges float around the three main shapes along with several squiggly lines. The number two occupies the left-hand side of the picture plane in dark green.Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Oil on canvas; 72 x 48 inches, http://www.blackfish.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=24, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at: http://www.racc.org/
A long beige hat-shaped piece of wood with an orange rectangle on the right side, with an open book in the middle. The right side of the orange rectangle is a shape painted in black., Judy Cooke; Hawthorne/Book; 1994; Alkyd, wax, oil, wood; 10x31x2 inches; Elizabeth Leach Gallery; 207 S.W. Pine Street Portland Oregon 97204; 503-224-0521, http://www.elizabethleach.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=21, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture
An abstract mixed media art piece of different shapes and patterns in a collage set on a white background., Margot voorhies Thompson; Personal Letter; drawing, print collage; 35 1/2x46 inches; 1993; ThoM93110108, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/v_thompson.html, margot@margotvoorhiesthompson.com, http://www.margotvoorhiesthompson.com/html/home.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
This painting depicts a woman with red hair, looking off to the left of the picture plane and wearing a blue sweater that appears to be pieced together over or with areas of blue sky. A total of nine colorful birds share the picture plane with her., September-The Call; Alkyd (oil); (34 x 46 inches ); from the series Saint Eve Book of Days, Katherine Ace was born in Chicago and received a degree in ceramics from Knox College in 1975. She is a self taught painter working in alkyd/oil on canvas. Her work hangs in private, corporate and public collections. Katherine has participated in numerous regional and national individual and group shows. (Unknown, 1995), kat@katherineace.com, http://www.katherineace.com/, 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/
A brightly colored, impressionistic landscape that exposes city dwellings in the middle ground., View of Roseburg; oil on c (sic), janette.hopper@uncp.edu, http://www.uncp.edu/art/hopper/index.htm, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A gray monochrome expression of linear pattern. Shown in context at the State Capitol., Untited diptych; Bill Hoppe; portland, whoppe@cocc.edu, http://whoppe.cocc.edu/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A concrete and ceramic plaque that presents a bee surrounded by several other insect forms and the sun., The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
An oil painting featuring a flower pot viewed from above. The flowers are white with a little bit of red in the middle. The flower pot is sitting on a beige table, with shadows from the flowers and green leaves to the left of the painting., Susan Lindsey; Opalescene; #6; oil; 23x30x3/4 inches; 7/93, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
An acrylic painting of a yellow wicker basket accompanied by three yellow lemons on a tan background., 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 , http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/haley.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/