1 p. John Casey's 1989 biography., 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 abstract and thickly painted piece relies on a division of space created by the defintion of a square within a square to frame the view of two stretched oval forms, presented one above the other on the diagonal of the inner square. The one on the top is bright yellow, the other is white, and both are outlined with thick black strokes. The outer square forms a border around the inner one with various linear, geometric patterning., Passism; Lucinda Parker; acrylic on canvas; 24 x 24 inches; 1988; $650, 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: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
A profile view of a large, red fish occupies the right side of this piece. A bundle of yellow wheat hovers above rocks and water on the left side., Oregon Vignette; Suzanne Duryea; oil/canvas; 4 x 3 feet; 1988, "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: Mid-Valley Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.oregonlink.com/arts/index.html
1 p. Sherrie Wolf's 1989 exhibition list., A native of Portland, OR, Sherrie Wolf received her BFA in 1974 from Pacific Northwest College of Art in printmaking and then furthered her studies at the Chelsea College of Art in London where she received her MA degree. During her time at PNCA she studied etching and worked in this medium through the 80's. She had a brief tenure of teaching at PNCA through 1986. Since the late 80"s, the focus of Sherrie Wolf's art has been painting and drawing. Many local and national corporations as well as many private collectors have collected her rich, elegant superrealistic works on canvas and paper. (Oregon Arts Commission, 1995), 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 print presents a view of the beach in three layers of color. The beach occupies about three quarters of the picture plane, and it is rendered in a bright ochre color. The water and two rocks protruding from it comprise the second section, presented in black. The sky is the remaining seciton, presented in a gradated pink. Some plant-like forms and the arm of a crab or crawfish creep onto the beach from the left side, and some sort of skeletal remain occupies park of the pink sky., Watermark; Rathbun; screenprint; 9 x 15 inches, http://www.waterstonegallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?artistid=20, 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 painting depicts a two-dimensional, aerial view of what appears to be an urban environment. Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Lots of Dimensions; Craig Holmes; watercolor; 38 x 28.5 inches, Craig Holmes is a 1970 graduate of Western Oregon State College. ("A Collection of Art," Oregon Art Commission, 1989), 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 still-life scene that depicts three glass inkwells holding a hodge podge of blooms, including a rose, a daffodil, several purple buds, and a white one with an orange center. They sit on a striped lilac tablecloth against a black background., Glass Garden; Carol Riley; lithograph with handcoloring; 17 x 17 inches; 1988, http://www.carolriley.com/, 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
3 p. James (Jim) Mattingly's 1989 resume and exhibition list., 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
1 p. Mery Lynn McCorkle's 1989 exhibition list., 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
1 p. Mery Lynn McCorkle's 1989 letter to selection committee., 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