A vibrant colored print depicting an abstract landscape. There is a red, purple and orange dotted sky with long fluffy clouds above a dark green forest. In front of the forest are six red spiky, flame-shaped plants amongst numerous small blue bushes on an orange and yellow ground., Near Bend; woodcut, 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
What appears to be a floral still life comes to life with the activity of a number of small figures and a ship disguised among the flowers. Red, orange, yellow, and green add color to the otherwise black-and-white composition., The Boquet; S. Funkhouser; 24 x 18 inches, http://www.luciadouglas.com/artists/artists_list/funkhouser.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
Two men in hats flank the frame of this woodcut piece that presents a scene from a rodeo. A bullrider occupies the central focal point while other performers and revelers pepper the background. The audience is kept at bay by a band of black, and a rooster and a dog prowl the foreground. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Woodcut; 1978, 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: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
This piece appears to allude to the children's game, "Operation." A human skeleton is presented in pink over the top of a pinkish landscape scene, and various icons representing non-human entities are connected to areas of the skeleton., C.T. Chew; Fig. 34; 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/
A woodcut print in primary tones of black, white and brown, featuring a brick wall with geckos climbing up the wall and monkeys playing on the ground in front of the wall. Behind the wall are human-like figures with brown and white lines for hair and a happy sun in the upper right corner of the piece., An-Ka-Gnogon-Demen-Demen (Across the Wall); Baba Wague Diakite; Woodcut; 16 x 24 inches; '92; DiaB92070751; (inv. 1435), Baba Wague Diakité is a West African artist; he was born in Bamako, Mali., ronnawague@juno.com, http://www.africancraft.com/artist.php?sid=42132141658580101321960056855383&id=wague&pg=portfolio, 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
Two men in hats flank the frame of this woodcut piece that presents a scene from a rodeo. A bullrider occupies the central focal point while other performers and revelers pepper the background. The audience is kept at bay by a band of black, and a rooster and a dog prowl the foreground. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Woodcut; 1978, 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: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
An abstract rectangular print that examines forms and layers of shapes. There are two similar shapes, one featuring gray/blue coloring and the other in a gray white shade. The background of the piece is red with mottled black coloring. There is a slice of a green/black form and two gray/black forms, one on top of a white/gray form. In the left bottom corner is a orange/green form., Alter Ego; 21 x 42 inches; monotype; 1989, 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 view their website at http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
This piece is composed in black and white, with the addition of a few minor red accents and a neutrally toned square shape at the upper left corner of the piece. The central focus of the piece lies with the two triangles stacked along the left side of the piece that are next to a large, irregualarly shaped form in the middle of the piece. The background is orchestrated with choppy, black lines and the red accent. Variation between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Etching & chine colle; 20 x16 inches; 1977, http://www.luciadouglas.com/artists/artists_list/funkhouser.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/
The sections of this piece form a four-section grid. Starting in the upper left, an irregularly shaped black mark occupies the space of a white rectangle. Moving to the right, the upper right corner is a red square. Below it, in the lower right corner is another red square that contains a black apple with a screen pattern overlaid on top of it. Finally, in the lower left, a white rectanlgle bears an embossed, linear pattern., George Johanson; Apple and Curtain; intaglio; 1970; 22 x 26 inches framed, George Johanson attended and taught at the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon. He divides his time between painting and printmaking. In 1992, he received the Governor's Award for the Arts. (Data provided at http://www.kpchr.org/public/sawardart/apps/Johanson.htm. Reviewed on 04/07/07., http://www.kpchr.org/public/sawardart/apps/Johanson.htm; http://www.hareinthegate.com/portfolio_pages/equivalents.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 print depicts interaction between a fish form and a bird form, rendered in print with the appearance of scratchings through deep black space., Frank Boyden; Changes IV; 9.5 x 11 inches; lithograph, Frank Boyden was born 1942, in Portland, OR. He attended Yale University, School of Art, achieving a M.F.A. and B.F.A., in Painting, 1968. In 1965, he attended Colorado College, where he received a B.A. in Art., http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/boyden.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/