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61. Passim
Passim
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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
62. River Frontage
River Frontage
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Detail of an oil painting composed of hundreds of dots formed together to make visual objects. The dots vary in color such as orange, red, yellow, black, white, and blue., Jack Portland; river frontage detail; materials lab, Jack Portland graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1971 and has worked in a variety of media, most recently fresco. His interest in fresco comes from frequent trips to Italy and a summer fresco project he worked on at the Academic Caerit, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/portland.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
63. River Frontage
River Frontage
Description
Detail of an oil painting of hundreds of dots formed together to make visual objects. The dots vary in color such as orange, red, yellow, black, white, and blue., Jack Portland; river frontage detail; materials lab, Jack Portland graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1971 and has worked in a variety of media, most recently fresco. His interest in fresco comes from frequent trips to Italy and a summer fresco project he worked on at the Academic Caerit, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/portland.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
64. Kimberly Fields
Kimberly Fields
Description
A brightly colored landscaped rendering, composed in levels of yellow, green, and blue that define what may be a meadow or agricultural land in the foreground, a mountain range in the middle-ground, and a blue sky in the background., Kimberly Fields; D.C. Smith; 48 x 79 inches; Pendelton State Office Building, http://www.campbellsmiths.com/index.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has nine Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Eastern Oregon Regional Arts. You may view their website at http://www.artseast.org/
65. O Just Eating Rogert
O Just Eating Rogert
Description
A highly ornate and complex painting that combines color and pattern to construct narrative meaning.Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., Mixed media on paper; 32 x 24 inches, Jack Portland graduated from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 1971 and has worked in a variety of media, most recently fresco. His interest in fresco comes from frequent trips to Italy and a summer fresco project he worked on at the Academic Caerit, http://www.laurarusso.com/artists/portland.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/
66. Nubian
Nubian
Description
Several black shapes on a variegated white background. This is one of two views of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Oil on canvas; 60 x 48 inches; July 1978, 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/
67. Building
Building
Description
A colorful rendering of what appears to be an architecture-inspired composition. Varying shades of blue and purple as well as reddish-orange, green, and yellow define geometric shapes that comprise the piece. Variations between duplicate images directly relate to original source materials., 36"x48"; acrylic on canvas, http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=228, 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
68. Predicting the Weather
Predicting the Weather
Description
An abstract rendering presented on a deep yellow background. A blue, horseshoe-shaped form encompasses a mysterious pink form. A white rectangle and a blue, bean-shaped form occupy space in the upper third of the composition. The piece presents various sections of black outlining as well. This is one of two view of this artwork. Variations between duplicate images relate directly to original source materials., Mixed media on paper, "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: Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
69. Future Lives
Future Lives
Description
This mural is composed of at least five distinct sections. When read from left to right, the piece repeats a circular motif whose form oscillates between the representation of natural settings and abstract, possibly psychological spaces., Future Lives; acrylic on board; 7ft6in x 28ft1.5in; central mural; © 1990 Don Gray, http://www.dongraystudio.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Eastern Oregon Regional Arts. You may view their website at http://www.artseast.org/
70. Blue-Violet Log Cabin
Blue-Violet Log Cabin
Description
This painting consists of a 4 x 4 grid pattern rendered mostly in cool tones and accented with a peachy color. The sections of the grid contain repetative, concentric elements of squares. When viewed as a whole, the grid also conveys an additional blue, diagonal pattern., C.J. Cole; Blue-violet Log Cabin Pattern; 28x28 inches; acrylic on paper; ohsu medical records, (1986) Carolyn Cole is a painter and sculptor originally from Portland, Oregon, now residing in New yrok City. She worked extensively on handmade, cast paper paintings from 1978 to 1985. This painting, from 1984, is from her American Quilt series., 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/