A varied, neutral background supports a series of purple, pink, and black rectangles that occupy the middle of the piece toward the top third of the picture plane. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., 1st floor, http://www.elizabethleach.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=21, 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/
An acrylic painting of a green and blue seascape, below a sky in various shades of brown., Kay French; Sea Change; acrylic on wood; 14x27 inches, Kay French grew up in the Midwest which perhaps explains her fascination with storms and flat land. She moved to Portland in 1977. Kay has a degree in art history from Kent State University and a degree in painting from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in various shows in regional galleries and museums. She was awarded a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists in Painting in 1994. She has also been represented by the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland, OR. (Oregon Arts Commission), http://pulliamdeffenbaugh.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=162, 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
An abstract rendering with a blue background and loosely representational forms rendered in brown, gray, blue, and green., http://www.askart.com/AskART/H/robert_hanson/robert_hanson.aspx, 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 highly ornate and complex painting that combines color and pattern to construct narrative meaning.Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Mixed media on paper; 32 x 24 inches, 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/
Several black shapes on a variegated white background. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Oil on canvas; 60 x 48 inches; July 1978, 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/
An abstract rendering presented on a deep yellow background. A blue, horseshoe-shaped form encompasses a mysterious pink form. A white rectangle and a blue, bean-shaped form occupy space in the upper third of the composition. The piece presents various sections of black outlining as well. This is one of two view of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Mixed media on paper, "Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suzanne Duryea graduated in art history from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and continued to study painting at the University of California, Berkeley and Portland State University. Duryea has had one-person exhibitions at the Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle; Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College; Mayer Gallery, Marylhurst College as well several exhibitions at the Fountain Gallery, Portland. The artist has also been included in group exhibitions such as: The Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum; "Northwest '87", Seattle Art Museum and most recently the traveling exhibition, "Northhwest X Southwest: Painted Fictions" curated by the Palm Springs Deesert Museum. Suzanne Duryea has become known to Northwest art viewers for her rich oil paintings of animated objects personified in a narrative atmosphere of glowing color. Romantic yet humorous, these paintings emphasize a vigorous nature that is immortalized in pain, creating a symbolic tone. The glossy surfaces of the paintings on paper (22" x 30") become more textural on canvas as the actual working surface expands (7' x 5'). (Unknown, 1991), http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/duryea.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 consists of a 4 x 4 grid pattern rendered mostly in cool tones and accented with a peachy color. The sections of the grid contain repetative, concentric elements of squares. When viewed as a whole, the grid also conveys an additional blue, diagonal pattern., C.J. Cole; Blue-violet Log Cabin Pattern; 28x28 inches; acrylic on paper; ohsu medical records, (1986) Carolyn Cole is a painter and sculptor originally from Portland, Oregon, now residing in New yrok City. She worked extensively on handmade, cast paper paintings from 1978 to 1985. This painting, from 1984, is from her American Quilt series., 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 circular, painted composition that plays with the allocation of color and space within the circle, in quadrants, and in the negative space surrounding the circle, defined by the picture itself. The composition is constructed through thick, painted lines in bold colors such as blue, green, red, yellow, and black., Lucinda Parker; Exekial's wheel; psu prof school, 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: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
A geometric composition of rectangular blocks of color. A horizontally oriented, green rectangle covers the bottom fourth of the picture plane. A vertically oriented, black rectangle occupies the left third of the picture plane. A yellow and green line separates the black rectangle from the remaining three sections, which consist of a vertically oriented, purple rectangle as well as a purple-pink rectangle. These two sections are capped off by a horizontally oriented, blue rectangle. Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Oil on canvas; 70x60; 1979, http://www.alysiaducklergallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=374; http://www.searspeyton.com/html/artistresults.asp?artist=364&testing=true, 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
A mostly green background supports three irregularly shaped black objects that are stacked one on top of the other in the center of this piece. Additional irregular shapes in blues and oranges float around the three main shapes along with several squiggly lines. The number two occupies the left-hand side of the picture plane in dark green.Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Oil on canvas; 72 x 48 inches, http://www.blackfish.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=24, 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/