A watercolor painting featuring a vast array of kitchenware and silverware laid out on a white table. All the handles of the silverware seem to either be wooden or yellow plastic...or perhaps ivory or bone., Sherrie Wolf, SWo 178; Antique Market I, 1994; watercolor; 24x30 inches; Elizabeth Leach Gallery; 207 S.W. Pine Street Portland Oregon 97204; 503-224-0521, A native of Portland, OR, Sherrie Wolf received her BFA in 1974 from Pacific Northwest College of Art in printmaking and then furthered her studies at the Chelsea College of Art in London where she received her MA degree. During her time at PNCA she studied etching and worked in this medium through the 80's. She had a brief tenure of teaching at PNCA through 1986. Since the late 80"s, the focus of Sherrie Wolf's art has been painting and drawing. Many local and national corporations as well as many private collectors have collected her rich, elegant superrealistic works on canvas and paper. (Oregon Arts Commission, 1995), info@sherriewolfstudio.com, http://www.sherriewolfstudio.com/, 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 concrete lizard inlaid with ceramic mosaic pieces that occupies the underside of a metal stairway., 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/
Tones of blue and yellow depict what appears to be a farm house and several outbuildings amongst a stand of deciduous as well as coniferous trees., Hugh Caton; watercolor; our golden years; veteran's affairs, A member of the air force in the second world war, Hugh returned home to work in agriculture as an extension agent. Following his retirement he began to paint the buildings he had come to know and admire around Hillsboro. In his expressions of nature he sought to simplify forms and capture the essence of place., 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 brightly colored and ornately patterned painting that calls attention to color and form. Red, yellow, blue, and black combined with neutral brown tones define a matrix of circles, squares, and squiggles., Jack Portland; psu school of bus. ad; pisagna, Jack Portland graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1971 and has worked in a variety of media, most recently fresco. His interest in fresco comes from frequent trips to Italy and a summer fresco project he worked on at the Academic Caerit, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/portland.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 coastal landscape scene in exaggerated tones of blue, turquoise, and ochre. Gentle waves moving toward the shore are outlined with white and thin lines of red., Fog Bank; oil; (24 x 36 inches), http://www.ramsterevents.com/PaulGunn.htm, 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 pair of paintings is united by elements of line, color, and design. They share a light yellow background that, in both paintings, supports bold black shapes and thin, energetic black lines. The piece on the left contains a large, black "C" with a bright yellow halo in the middle that is flanked on the top by a thick, horizontal black line with a blue halo and on the bottom by a horizontal row of black dots. Another shorter thick, vertical black line with a pink halo occupies the lower right hand corner. The piece on the right contains four thick, vertical black lines. The fattest of the four sits on the left side of the painting. Two slightly skinnier ones sit side by side toward the right. The skinniest one sits even farther to the right, and it is broken up by swatches of gray. Above the the vertical lines on the right, in the upper right corner, sits a grid of nine black dots. Linear washes of orange and green create contrast with the painting on the left while a small square of pink in the painting on the right unifies them., Symbiosis 1& 2; (29 x 35.5 x .5 ea.); 8-96; dry pigment, enamel, gold leaf, varnish on aluminum, Tom Anderson was born in 1951 in Salt Lake City, the son of a jazz musician. By the time the family settled in Vancouver, Washington, Anderson's formative years has been shaped by syncopated rhythm and life on the road (39 states by the age of four). He earned an Associate of Arts degree from Clark College in 1971. part of his education included three months of travel in Europe, where he studied firsthand the works of the great masters. In the autumn of 1971, he enrolled at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. There, in addition to his Asian art and Philosophy studies, Anderson made some meaningful contributions to the first years of the experimental college's development. He initiated the use of the 16mm animation facilities, helped to establish the FM Radio station KAOS, co-created the four-story library mural, and worked as an assistant graphic designer, developing the College's catalogs and visual identities. He graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. That same year, Anderson co-founded Mansion Glass Studios in Olympia. This collaboration won recognition locally and nationally for their design and fabrication of Architectural Art Glass commissions, as well as for their restoration projects. Anderson first attended the highly esteemed Pilchuck Glass School in 1986, as a teaching assistant to Henry Halem. He returned in 1987, on a scholarship with Susan Stinsmuhlen-Amend, and again in 1988 and 1989 as a teaching assistant in the advanced graduate program, specializing on glass casting and enamel kiln firing. In 1990, Anderson established his own studio in Olympia. Over the past eight years he has continued his work painting, metal fabrication, mixed media constructions, and printmaking. He is represented by galleries in Oregon, Washington, Florida, New Mexico, and California. In addition to commissions, Anderson exhibits regularly and his work can be found in over 400 public and private collections including the Oregon Arts Commission, the Washington State Arts Commission, Delta Airlines, the city of Olympia, Hewlett Packard, and US Bank. (Uknown, 1995), artist402@comcast.net, http://www.thomasandersonart.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/
An oil painting of half a moon, against a light colored background. The moon is in shades of yellow and brown, with the curved end facing down., Pam Baker; Super Lunar; oil on canvas; 28x48 inches; 9-94, 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
Orange deciduous trees and dark green coniferous trees divide the foreground from the background, comprised of a rendering of Mount Hood in this watercolor landscape piece., (1970) Phil Tyler was born in Alabama. Eventually he moved west and settled on a small ranch at the base of Mt. Hood. A painter of the cowboy life, his subjects come from personal experience with that life. HORSEMAN focuses on a lone horsemen cantering across a pale green, light-washed space. The background is simply a wash of color which modulates from soft green to soft brown. The horse and rider are carefully and lovingly delineated from curb bit, to girth, to chaps. The acquisition of this work was made possible by Oregon's Percent for Art in Public Places program which is administered by the Oregon Arts Commission., 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 presents an intricate mixture of dots of color that work together to comprise an abstract, geometric picture plane. Colors used include pink, red, orange, green, blue, and white., Jack Portland; Sally; U of O Science Complex, Jack Portland graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1971 and has worked in a variety of media, most recently fresco. His interest in fresco comes from frequent trips to Italy and a summer fresco project he worked on at the Academic Caerit, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/portland.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/
An abstracted landscape scene depicting a rocky cavern in bright yellow with bright blue accents that match the shade of the sky above. The silhouettes of several bushes and what appear to be large rocks occupy the foreground., August Rimrock Field; D. Campbell Smith; oil/canvas; 80 x 60 inches; 1985, http://www.campbellsmiths.com/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