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11. [Votive slip folio 14 verso 1]
[Votive slip folio 14 verso 1]
Description
Four-unit votive slip with decorative black and gold border. Image of two men hunting creature. Red seals in lower left corner.
12. [Votive slip folio 10 recto 5]
[Votive slip folio 10 recto 5]
Description
Single-unit votive slip with black border. Image of snake above black text.
13. Tree of Life
Tree of Life
Description
This view details the top portion of Jere and Ray Grimm's brick-relief mural, Tree of Life. Two birds fly past a coniferous tree while a cat clings to a branch in the tree., R&J Grimm; Tree of Life; OSU Vet Med addition, 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/
14. Tree of Life
Tree of Life
Description
This brick-relief mural depicts a dog expectantly looking up at a cat clinging to a branch of a coniferous tree. Two birds fly past the top of the tree, and a group of flowers stands in the foreground., R&J Grimm; Tree of Life; OSU Vet Med addition, 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/
15. Pisces
Pisces
Description
Two fish forms are presented along with a coiled snake form over the top of what appears to be collaged shreds of hand-written documents. The written text reads, " The two fishes are one not two and all three things are contained in them. Cook these together and they will become a vast ocean.", Pisces #2; 15.5 x 15.25 inches; mixed media; 1998, My recent works on paper are inspired by alchemical manuscripts. The alchemists documented their labors in enigmatic texts in which chemical procedures, cosmology and myths are woven together into fantastic allegories. Similarly in my paintings I use imagery of birds, beasts, plants and minerals as symbols of the process of transformation, As an artist I view alchemy as a metaphor for the creative process in which there is progressive transformation and refinement of materials, imagery and ultimately consciousness. In alchemy and art alike the creative imagination is the vital agent of change. The alchemists described their labors as an "art". Like the alchemist I attempt to use physical processes as a mirror of inner experience. The materials become "transmuted" from their initially inert state through creative and chaotic struggle into a new synthesis. In my painting I use physical processes of dissolution, evaporation, heat and gravity which remind me of the alchemist's use of the elements of water, air, fire and earth. Humor is an important element of my work. Likewise humor and paradox were not unknown to the alchemist. The texts abound with cryptic riddles meant to befuddle the literal-minded and catalyze intuitive insight. Hermes, the Greek god of wisdom, was the patron of alchemists and also the trickster who could lead his followers on a search to find "fools gold". Anyone who embarks on a potentially quixotic search to find the elixir of immortality should have plenty of humor and humility to sustain themselves! The homunculus, a human-like creature nurtured in a glass vessel was reputed to have been created in the alchemical laboratory. In the novel "Frankenstein" the renegade doctor studies the writings of Paracelsus, the swiss alchemist, before creating his monster. I see the homunculus as a metaphor for modem technology with all its wonders and potential horrors. The series of "Homunculus" sculptures which utilize remnants of household appliances and found objects explores this theme in a whimsical fashion. The alchemist searched for the "gold of the philosophers"-philosophical wisdom. In their pursuit of nature's secrets they combined scientific experimentation with a mystical quest for illumination. Their holistic view of the universe viewed matter and consciousness as a continuum, anticipating recent developments in physics. Alchemy is the ancestor of modem science; perhaps there is something that can be learned from its legacy? I am inspired artistically by the beauty of the texts and their insights into the mysteries of creation. Hopefully my own fanciful creations convey something of the spirit of that tradition. (Nez, 1998), http://www.augengallery.com/Artists/nez.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
16. Tree of Life
Tree of Life
Description
This brick-relief mural depicts a dog expectantly looking up at a cat clinging to a branch of a coniferous tree. Two birds fly past the top of the tree, and a group of flowers stands in the foreground., R&J Grimm; Tree of Life; OSU Vet Med addition, 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/
17. Brazen Serpent
Brazen Serpent
Description
An oil painting of a primarily yellow, black and white large spiral set next to a black spiral outlined in yellow. Below the larger spiral are the words "brazen serpent.", 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.laurarusso.com/artists/parker.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
18. PH014_b082_011 Gertrude Bass Warner photographs
PH014_b082_011 Gertrude Bass Warner photographs
Description
[Glass lantern slide]
19. PH014_b085_013 Gertrude Bass Warner photographs
PH014_b085_013 Gertrude Bass Warner photographs
Description
[Glass lantern slide]
20. A woman without mercy!
A woman without mercy!
Description
Silverstein Gallery, NYC, October 15-November 15, 1997; Collection of drawings all by differnt artists; Each drawing is of a snake and lists the artist's name, age and occupation; A letter is written at the end of the book, A gift in memory of Peter Ward Britton
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