An abstract black and white piece. The majority of the background appears to be composed of human faces that are repeated throughout the entire piece. There looks to be some sort of colosseum on the left and a very long snake--perhaps a rattlesnake--on the bottom of the print., Pierrot's Tapestry; 26x36 inches; M. Izquierdo; corrections print project, Manuel Izquierdo was born in Madrid, Spain, and fled to the United States settling in Portland, Oregon in 1943. While he was in high school Manuel was encouraged to pursue wood-cuts by Lloyd Reynolds, the well-known calligrapher. In 1951 Manuel graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and soon after became a professor there. Manuel Izquierdo received the Oregon Governor's Award in 1991 and has exhibited work both in the Northwest and nationally, including a ten-year retrospective at the Portland Art Museum in 1967. Having completed many commissions his sculpture can be seen in a variety of Portland public spaces such as Pettygrove Square. His work is in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum in Pennsylvania, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Portland Art Museum., http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/izquierdo.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
This black print on neutral paper presents a repetative, geometric pattern that becomes increasingly complex with the addition of a grayscale within the defined pattern, which ascends from the bottom left toward the top right., Unclassified Reflections C, 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/
This is one of two images of the same piece. Irregularities between the pieces may reflect a difference in the source material. <br><br>A color rendering of what appears to be the repeated mirroring and fragmentation of a beach scene reflected in the water. The piece is formally divided in near-half. Below the meridian of the piece is a blue section with what appears to be the sihouette of the mirrored beach scene. Above the meridian of the piece is a skyscape with clouds and a pink line running through six rectangles of varying sizes and orientations that contain ghosted fragments of the same beach scene in the lower portion of the piece., Seal Beach; Lyle Matoush; litho; Pendelton State Office Building, Internet resources on Lyle Matoush: Mail Tribune Online (4/28/00 issue) http://archive.mailtribune.com/archive/2000/april/042800n4.htm <br>Southern Oregon University: http://emeritus.sou.edu/News.asp?NewsID=26, http://emeritus.sou.edu/News.asp?NewsID=26; http://archive.mailtribune.com/archive/2000/april/042800n4.htm, The Oregon Arts Commission has nine Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Eastern Oregon Regional Arts. You may view their website at http://www.artseast.org/
Neutrally toned shapes imply a landscape that is intersected by a strip of text near the bottom of the picture plane. The sections of text are divided into alternating yellow and blue blocks., John Rock; corvallis; landscape composition graphics, John Rock (1919–1993) taught art at Oregon State University from 1957 to 1989 and was widely regarded as a master printmaker., 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 piece is comprised of a blue and pink checkerboard background. Three nautilus shapes line up vertically in the right half of the picture plane. The top one is a white silhouette. The middle one attempts realistic rendering. The bottom one encloses a black and red variation of the checkerboard pattern used in the background., Ocean Floor; Duane Cox; State Capitol, http://www.dartmouth.org/classes/61/Duane%20and%20DeVona%20Cox.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
Subtle gradations in tonal value separate space in this geometrically composed print. The background shifts from light gray to dark gray and back to light gray. The central square shape is also divided by tonal variation in mauve, both horizontally and vertically., John Whitehill-Ward; obelus; state capital, 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
Linear separation of mauves, blues, browns, and whites create a segmented illusion of the letter "n.", John Whitehill-Ward; offset; state capital, 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 print presents a vibrantly abstracted view of a lumber mill near a body of water with numerous logs floating on the surface., Monoprint; 30 x 36 inches 1991, Nelson Sandgren (1918-2006) was born in Manitoba, Canada. Sandgren moved to Portland with his parents during the Great Depression, and taught art/painting at Oregon State College for thirty-nine years., 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 piece appears to mimic the framing of a postal stamp, and it states at the bottom of the piece, "Stamp World Chart." Six different icons are presented in a circle connected by arrows., C.T. Chew; Stamp World Life Cycle; OSU - Elec&Computer, http://ctchew.com/pages/galleries/chewgal.html, 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/
This black print on neutral paper presents a repetative, geometric pattern that becomes increasing complex with the addition of a grayscale within the defined pattern. Different, irregular shapes begin to emerge from the pattern, which are connected through line., Unclassified Reflections B, 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/