A geometric abstraction done in monochromatic blue. A piece used in the work was caked with clay and found around an abandoned mine near Juneau, Alaska., N. Cushwa Blake; acrylic and found object on paper; 26x33 inches; alaska mine piece, 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 realistic rendering of what appears to be the underside of a bridge structure. The background contains an additional architectural structure that also appears to be a bridge of some sort., 1980, 3'x3'; Acrylic on Canvas, 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 mixed media investigation into the transfer of energy through light and media application techniques., Bloedel, Joan Ross; shimmer stacks; paint pastel pencil; 30x44 inches; 1980; collection Oregon State Printing Plant; Salem Oregon, At the time of this award, Joan Stuart Ross was known as Joan Ross Bloedel. She has been a full-time faculty member at North Seattle Community College since 1996. Her primary love is printmaking. She is well known for her monotypes but is well versed in all other print media. Ross has a BFA and an MFA in painting. She has shown frequently in the Seattle and Portland galleries and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Ross has taught many workshops in printmaking, encaustic painting, as well as other creative techniques. She is an active member of several art organizations and is also known for her poetry., jross@sccd.ctc.edu, http://www.seattleprintarts.org/memberspgs/jsr/index.html, 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 very bold and colorfol acrylic painting of people walking down a street with shops on the left side, and a street with cars on the right side. The people seem to be all grouped together, sort of in the middle of the art piece as if they are waiting to cross the street., Acrylic on canvas; 20 x 27 inches; replacement for stolen piece, http://www.juliaoreilly.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
This abstract painting consists of sections of mauve, red, orange, blue, and green that are applied with thick brush strokes and detailed with thin scratchings in the surface., Lloyd Blakley; A Glimpse; acrylic; 39 x 48 inches; 1985, http://www.lloydblakley.com/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: Mid-Valley Arts. You may visit their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
An acrylic painting of a autumn landscape. The deciduous trees vary in colors of red, orange, and green against a light blue sky. The grass in the foreground is light brown with orange and yellow tints., Mark Clarke; Landscape; justice, http://zeekgallery.com/exhibits/clarke.htm, 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
This painting depicts two geometrically composed human figures with white, faceless heads. The figures also appear to wear large, white boots. The figure on the left extends one arm and kicks on leg behind while the figure on the right appears to be striding in the same direction as the other figure. The background is split in half, white on top and gray on the bottom., Michele Russo; Something to Say; U of O Science Complex, Michele Russo was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1909. In 1930, he enrolled at Yale University and received a B.F.A. degree in painting in 1934. During the depression years he was employed at a muralist through a Works Progress Administration project and in this capacity executed murals in several Connecticut schools. In 1937, Russo left Connecticut to accept a fellowship to study with Boardman Robinson and George Biddle at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado for one year. During the next ten years he was a social activist and worked for the Federal Education project in Connecticut. In the fall of 1947, Russo moved to Portland and was hired by the Museum Art School the following year to teach painting and art history, remaining on the staff until he retired in 1974. During his tenure at the Museum Art School he became known as Portland's most articulate voice of artists' political, social and artistic rights. In the 1950's, along with friends, he started a co-op op professional artists called Artists Equity. In recent years Russo has been active in various organizations to make art a more visible part of the cultural life in the Northwest; he was one of the original founders of the Portland Center for the Visual Arts. In 1975, he was Chairman of the Oregon Committee for Art in Public Places. In 1977, he was appointed to the Metropolitan Arts Commission; the first artists so honored. (Unknown, 1995), http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/russo83.htm; http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/russo.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
This view presents context for George Green's painted construction that employs paint to dimensionally break the confines of a rectangular frame. Thick swirls of blue, white, and pink define an interior, geometric space rendered in gold, dark blue, red, and yellow as well as thin, black lines., George Green; Some Old Forest Blues; U. of OR Sci. Complex II, http://www.bernarduccimeisel.com/artistImages.php?id_artist=8, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
This abstract and thickly painted piece relies on a division of space created by the defintion of a square within a square to frame the view of two stretched oval forms, presented one above the other on the diagonal of the inner square. The one on the top is bright yellow, the other is white, and both are outlined with thick black strokes. The outer square forms a border around the inner one with various linear, geometric patterning., Passism; Lucinda Parker; acrylic on canvas; 24 x 24 inches; 1988; $650, Lucinda Parker received her M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute in New York in 1968 and started work as a professor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland in 1974. Her work has been exhibited in numerous one-person shows throughout the west as well as several exhibitions nationally, including the David Findly Gallery and Sue Ellen Haber Gallery in New York, the Seattle Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery in D.C., and the First Western States Biennial, that traveled to San Francisco, Denver, and Washington D.C. Lucinda Parker's public commissions can be seen in Portland: "Riversong" for the Oregon Convention Center, "Talking Leaves" for the Multnomah Co. Midland Library, and "City Rose & Rose City" for the renovated Portland City Hall. The Portland Art Museum honored her with a mid-career retrospective in 1995.<br>http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/18/embodying-exuberance, http://www.arcticrefugeart.org/parker/par_vita.html, 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
