A blue, black and white print of a multi-windowed hotel as viewed from the dock. The roofline of the building exhibits two very angular peaks, with a white chimney shown on the right-side roof. The dock on the lower right corner is colored brown, along with three benches on the side of the hotel. There is an American flag to the right of the hotel and two boats floating in the water., Dyann Alkire; River Place; justice, I like etching because I like to draw. Things such as deep sea life, insects, birds, fish, and architectural structures appeal to me, and I combine them in my compositions. Each piece has a certain theme that just evolves as I work on the plate, rather than having a set idea from the beginning. (Alkire, 1987), 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 landscape scene depicts an outcropping of rocks in the middle of still, reflective water. A single tree grows up through the center of the piece, and the water is surrounded by other bushes. Angular rock formations and dotted hills provide a backdrop., Red Rocks; Gordon Mortensen; reduction woodcut; 26.25 x 39 inches; $475, http://www.gordonmortensen.com/, 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 black and white print featuring a vortex of fish and lobsters. Insets in the print present human presence., Spring Chinook #1; Dennis Cunningham; lino-cut print; 32 x 32 inches; 1989, 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 resembles some sort of official seal. The picture plane is defined by a circle with a textured border that appears to be some sort of marble pattern. The interior of the circle is divided into three sections. The outer two sections repeat the marble-like pattern in yellow on the left and in orange on the right. The middle section appears to be the silhouette of a building that looks over a natural landscape., Pavilion; Jon Jay Cruson; lithograph; 18 inches in diameter, Jon Jay Cruson is a N.W. artist who grinds, draws, etches, and pulls his own prints from the lithographic stone - on a hand cranked late 1800's press. He is one of the few lithographic printmakers that has his own studio - and does the complete printing process by himself. He is also noted on the West Coast for his paintings. (Unknown, 1987), http://www.wlotus.com/JonJayCruson/default.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
A black/blue, white and brown hued art piece with two themes. First, there is a sea life theme, exhibiting two very large fish, along with some other sea creatures and seaweed. The other theme is a residential type theme showing two brown apartment buildings set against a sky with clouds, a triangle, multiple circles, and birds., Dyann Alkire; etching; handcolored with watercolor; sea air; 20x25 inches; 1986, I like etching because I like to draw. Things such as deep sea life, insects, birds, fish, and architectural structures appeal to me, and I combine them in my compositions. Each piece has a certain theme that just evolves as I work on the plate, rather than having a set idea from the beginning. (Alkire, 1987), 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
This brightly colored print depicts a street scene where the street recedes into the background from the foreground, bearing a bike lane, various graffitti markings, and three manhole covers. The tree-lined boulevard gives way to store fronts and housing. A shilhouette of a mountain under a pinkish sky swallows up the street in the background., Pearl at 13th; M.L. McCorkle; reduction linoleum cut; (in collaboration with Bill Bradish); 1988; 16 x 21 inches, http://www.zerodegreesart.com/zeroArtists.php?artist=mmccorkle, 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 nighttime landscape piece depicts a view from what appears to be the silhouette of a screened-in porch entrance. It opens up onto a tree- and ridge-lined lake. In a separate section above the landscape scene is cloud and moon scene, offset with stylized lines., Gate: Secret Journey; Valerie Willson; intaglio/relief; 22 x 30 inches, http://valeriewillson.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 view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
An abstract landscape print with a very vivid sky. The sky seems to be the main focus, with the numerous amounts of clouds going off into the distance and a yellow/orange coloring to the horizon., Cie Goulet; warm sky; 1987; monoprint; 26x33 inches; dot materials lab, Cie Goulet is well known for her energetic paintings of the Oregon landscape. Her dramatic color and light is further enhanced by the use of black as a base color (monotypes on black paper). Cie Goulet attended San Francisco Art Institute, Parsons School of Design and graduated from the University of Oregon in 1965, where she studied under the late Jack Wilkinson. In the last twenty years the artist has exhibited in various areas of the U.S. including: Tamasulo Gallery, Cranford, NJ; Louis Meisel Gallery, NY; Artists Space, NY as well as one person exhibitions at Lynn McAllister Gallery, Seattle, WA; Salishan Lodge, Gen Eden, OR; River Run Gallery, Ketchum, ID and the Laura Russo Gallery, Portland, OR. Cie Goulet exhibited her work in the exhibition "First Impressions: Northwest Monotypes" at the Seattle Art Museum, WA which then traveled to the Marylhurst College, Art Gym Gallery. (Unknown, 1991), http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/goulet.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
An abstract art piece primarily composed of different shaded green brush strokes. There are brush strokes of yellow, black, two of blue, and one of red. The top and bottom of the piece are blue rectangles with some strokes from the middle stretching along the length of the canvas., Myrna Burks; landscape without words; gouache on paper; 29x20.5 inches; materials lab, myrnaburks@earthlink.net, http://www.myrnaburksfineart.com/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: Mid-Valley Arts. You may visit their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
This painting depicts what appears to be crowded items on exhibition in a museum or gallery space. Items in the painting include a sculptural representation of a human head adorned with jewelry and a headdress as well as three vases that appear to be Classic Mediterranean in nature., Monotype; 24x32; 1991, 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/