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1. Desperate Doubles

Description: This abstract piece consists of two separate paintings whose geometric subject matter converges when placed together. The painting on the left occupies a vertically oriented, rectangular canvas, while the one on the right occupies a horizontally oriented, rectangular canvas. They are presented flush together. The warm color palette on the left offsets the black and gray tones used on the right. Thin accent lines in bright colors connect the two., Desperate Doubles; S.T. Sonniksen; 79 x 55 inches; 1982; acrylic on canvas, http://www.alysiaducklergallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=388, 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

2. August Rimrock Field

Description: 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

3. Desperate Doubles

Description: Detail view of the left canvas in the pairing of paintings by Scott Sonniksen, entitled Desperate Doubles., Desperate Doubles (left); S.T. Sonniksen; 79 x 55 inches; 1982; acrylic on canvas, http://www.alysiaducklergallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=388, 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

4. Lots of Dimensions

Description: This painting depicts a two-dimensional, aerial view of what appears to be an urban environment. Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Lots of Dimensions; Craig Holmes; watercolor; 38 x 28.5 inches, Craig Holmes is a 1970 graduate of Western Oregon State College. ("A Collection of Art," Oregon Art Commission, 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

5. Three Hearts

Description: Three hearts, presented at skewed angles with differing patterns occupy the center, white space in this piece. The peripheral is filled with layers of pattern and color., Three Hearts; James T. Mattingly; 2 acrylic on taveck; 32.75 x 42.75 inches; 7/88, http://www.zeekgallery.com/dynamic/exhibit_artist.asp?ExhibitID=11, 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

6. Untitled (Nordgren)

Description: A watercolor painting constructed with patches of earth tones that convey a gravel road or wide trail winding through a green forest., Watercolor; C. Nordgren; 17 x 25 inches, 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

7. Bulltrout

Description: Two subtley rendered male forms emerge as well as an axe emerge from dark blocks of layered color., Bull Trout; Don Gray; acrylic on paper; 18.25 x 31 inches; © 1985, http://www.dongraystudio.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

8. Study in Red

Description: Three square glass panels viewed in context, each with a blue background, red strokes located in the lower right of the panel and a red wavy border on the left and top. The pieces are unevenly stagered, and the second panel is slightly covering a bit of the left panel. None of the panels are on the same horizontal line., wosc union; elizabeth mapelli; 6/87 duplicate photocraft, http://www.palmdesertartistregistry.com/liz_mapelli.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

9. Valley Images

Description: A complex composite painting that combines color, texture and pattern to construct narrative meaning., Jack Portland; Valley Images; Werner Center WOU; 2000, 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: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html

10. Passim

Description: 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

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1. Desperate Doubles

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