A three-dimensional composition of a floral form utilizing a mixture of materials, such as feathers, clay and glaze on a mirror surface. The piece is housed in what appears to be a plexiglas box., Ken Shores; fetish #13; capital building h-2; portland, See http://www.broderickgallery.com/KenShores.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
This piece is comprised of four distinct sections. The left third of the picture plane is contained by a rectangle with a bottom portion that implies perspective and leads the viewer into the rest of the picture plane. It contains a decorative pattern reminiscent of Gustav Klimt. The remaining two-thirds of the picture plane are further broken down into the three remaining sections. A horizontal rectangular area across the top contains three separate squares containing three circles depicting three different views of a house. Beneath this section is the main rectangular area depicting a clump of trees reflected in water next to a checkboard-pattern floor. This section is subdivided by the fourth rectangular section that contains tapetry-like patterns., View from the Studio; Jon Jay Cruson; State Capitol, Jon Jay Cruson is a N.W. artist who grinds, draws, etches, and pulls his own prints from the lithographic stone - on a hand cranked late 1800's press. He is one of the few lithographic printmakers that has his own studio - and does the complete printing process by himself. He is also noted on the West Coast for his paintings. (Unknown, 1987), http://www.wlotus.com/JonJayCruson/default.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
A black-and-white photograph depicting continuous strands of plant matter submerged just below the surface of still-standing water., http://www.okartinst.org/gallery/quartzmountain/index.cfm?a_id=17&im_id=40&imx=1, 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
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
A patinaed bronze disc supports a similarly patinaed, vertical bronze rectangle that contains a relief pattern of three horizontal lines on top of three vertical lines., State capital; Mel Schuler; round form 1977, 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
A black and white rendering of a man with his back to the viewer mid-stride. The background is comprised of modulated tonal values, and several deliberate black lines intersect the picture plane. The first in a series of three., 1 of 3; Jay Backstrand; Capitol, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/backstrand.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 visit their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A diagonally oriented composition. Starting in the top left-hand corner, there is a yellow section followed by a free-form section that apperas to have a metallic texture and is outlined in heavy black. The middle section appears to reveal the paper the work is created on, and it is followed by another free-form section that again appears to have a metallic texture and is outlined in heavy black. The remaining bottom right-hand corner is a block of greenish-gray intersected with a small smudge of heavy black from the right-hand side of the piece., Stephen Hazel; mind reader; state capital II, studioblu@cablespeed.com, http://www.studioblu.org/frame.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
A portrait of a Native American woman rendered in black and white., James Mattingly; dallas oregon; lummi lady; graphics; h-1, Jim Mattingly took his formal education, both undergraduate and graduate levels, at San Jose State University (then College) in San Jose California. Upon leaving graduate school, he took a position at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Later in 1968, he took a position at Western Oregon University (then Oregon College of Education) in Monmouth, Oregon. During his years at Western he developed the printmaking program in the art department, was Art Department Head from 1977-1986, was the first studio instructor at Western to be promoted to Full Professor in 1980 and received the campus-wide Faculty Honors Award in 1985. Mattingly enjoyed teaching a great deal. "Much more important than my teaching were my students-the many wonderful people I came to know throughout my teaching career. I am very proud of the many achievements they have since accomplished in their own right." Mattingly retired from WOU in December 1994., 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
Flamboyant colors and patterns as well as human silhouettes converge toward the center of this painting., Jack McLarty; tracking; state capital v II, Jack McLarty has lived most of his life in Portland, Oregon. His family moved to Portland from Seattle in 1921. After attending the Museum Art School, he left Portland in 1940 to study at the American Artists School in New York. At the end of two years, McLarty decided New York did not suit him as a permanent home and returned to Portland. By 1945 he had reconnected with the Museum Art School accepting a teaching fellowship in lithography. He joined the regular faculty in 1947. McLarty and his wife, Barbara, opened the Image Gallery in 1961. (online biography obtained from Preservation of Oregon's Artistic Heritage–A Production of the Salem Art Association.) Other biography information available at http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/139/jack-mclarty-40, http://www.poahonline.org/bio_mclarty.html <br>http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/139/jack-mclarty-40, 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
Grainy and overexposed BW photograph of painting by Charles Heaney. The painting exhibits a road or pathway leading to a settlement of dwellings, set at the base of a mountain., Charles Heaney; The Settlement; Capitol, http://www.askart.com/askart/h/charles_edward_heaney/charles_edward_heaney.aspx, 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