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1. Bright Garden
Bright Garden
Description
A woven tapestry that presents red blossoms with dark green stems on a dark blue background. The red blossoms appear to undulate due to the squiggly pattern they are woven in, and they also appear to diminish in size and developmental stage as the they move across the piece from left to right. Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Marg Johanson; bright garden; tapestry 4x8 feet; eugene state office buildings, 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/
2. Bright Garden
Bright Garden
Description
A woven tapestry that presents red blossoms with dark green stems on a dark blue background. The red blossoms appear to undulate due to the squiggly pattern they are woven in, and they also appear to diminish in size and developmental stage as the they move across the piece from left to right. Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Marg Johanson; bright garden; tapestry 4x8 feet; eugene state office buildings, 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/
3. Twist and Shout
Twist and Shout
Description
This quilted wall piece presents an interlocking square pattern with intricate geometric layers in blue, purple, yellow, pink, green, and red., Julie Berner; Twist and Shout; copyright 1989; 40 x 64 inches; quilted cotton; photo: Sergio Ortiz, 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/
4. Chronicle: Tuscan Light
Chronicle: Tuscan Light
Description
This tapestry piece is organized in a tight grid pattern rendered in light neutral tones that are interrupted by randomly placed gray and white rectangles. The neutral tones are subltely inflected with light aqua tones near the top right of the piece., Tapestry; linen& cotton; 17.5 x 20 inches; 1980, bpickett@uoregon.edu, http://www.wlotus.com/BookArts/WLG/Pickett.htm, 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/
5. Twist and Shout
Twist and Shout
Description
This quilted wall piece presents an interlocking square pattern with intricate geometric layers in blue, purple, yellow, pink, green, and red., Julie Berner; Twist and Shout; U of O Science Complex II, 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/
6. Temple Waterslide and Marina
Temple Waterslide and Marina
Description
This tapestry piece, rendered in blues, greens, and earthtones, depicts what appear to be architectural elevations in relationship to water., J. Poxson Fawkes; Temple Waterslide and Marina; 50 x 72 inches; 1989; linen tapestry, Judith Poxson Fawkes, a resident of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught weaving at four institutions of higher education, most recently at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Her fifty-six commissions hang in such diverse locations as a Federal courthouse, hospitals, university and school buildings, corporations and businesses, a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, residences in Saudi Arabia and Paris, and in a jail lobby. Sixty-three tapestries are in public collections. She is a recipient of a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists, an Individual Artists' Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission and a Crafts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She has written a book entitled "Weaving a Chronicle," described as a visual and written catalog by a working tapestry weaver. Forty-six tapestries, pictured in color, are accompanied by adjacent text describing the reasons for each work's creation. Stories of the tapestries revisit commissions and exhibitions. Each tapestry represents seminal ideas in one of six series. The tapestries contribute to the chronicle of how ideas are conceived and executed-- adding to the history of American art and craft, and to the definition of contemporary tapestry. (details provided by artist, 2008), jpfawkes@earthlink.net, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/fawkes_jp.html <br>For additional information about the artist, see http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/artists/poxson_fawkes.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/
7. Anti-Chaos Scholium
Anti-Chaos Scholium
Description
This tapestry presents a series of undulating shapes that resemble rolling hills., Glen Metolius Povey; anti chaos scholium; college of education; u of o 1980; 57.5x43.5 inches; tapestry weaving, 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/
8. Seminole Daylight
Seminole Daylight
Description
This tapestry piece combines interlocking, triangular patterning and bright colors., Judith Poxson Fawkes, a resident of Portland, Oregon, is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art. She taught weaving at four institutions of higher education, most recently at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Her fifty-six commissions hang in such diverse locations as a Federal courthouse, hospitals, university and school buildings, corporations and businesses, a Royal Caribbean Cruise ship, residences in Saudi Arabia and Paris, and in a jail lobby. Sixty-three tapestries are in public collections. She is a recipient of a WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship for Visual Artists, an Individual Artists' Fellowship from the Oregon Art Commission and a Crafts Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. She has written a book entitled "Weaving a Chronicle," described as a visual and written catalog by a working tapestry weaver. Forty-six tapestries, pictured in color, are accompanied by adjacent text describing the reasons for each work's creation. Stories of the tapestries revisit commissions and exhibitions. Each tapestry represents seminal ideas in one of six series. The tapestries contribute to the chronicle of how ideas are conceived and executed-- adding to the history of American art and craft, and to the definition of contemporary tapestry. (details provided by artist, 2008), jpfawkes@earthlink.net, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/fawkes_jp.html <br>For additional information about the artist, see http://www.lindahodgesgallery.com/artists/poxson_fawkes.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/
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