An abstract acylic painting utilizing various brush strokes in multiple colors, mostly warm toned colors, with cool colors near the bottom of the piece. The only defined object seems to be a blue teacup with a handle on top of a black abstract object., Barbara Black; acrylic on canvas; 30x30 inches; ritual vessel with instructions, I am drawn to painting to try to make discoveries about the reconcilliation of opposities on a variety of levels: representation and abstraction; light and dark; matter and spirit, etc. At present elements such as vessels, cloth, water, islands interest me for their metaphorical possibilities when placed in a context of a more abstract expressionist emphasis of surface, color and gesture. My works frequently contain a rather precisely painted image (still life or landscape) placed in surroundings that become more abstract, as if the images had coalesced out of the matrix of color and brushwork. This juxtaposition calls attention to the way in which the brushstrokes, so full of their own identity and movement in the more abstract passages, can cohere and combine to call up an image or specific presensce, creating a precarious balance between these two functions of the paint. (Black, 1987), 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
An abstract art piece primarily composed of different shaded green brush strokes. There are brush strokes of yellow, black, two of blue, and one of red. The top and bottom of the piece are blue rectangles with some strokes from the middle stretching along the length of the canvas., Myrna Burks; landscape without words; gouache on paper; 29x20.5 inches; materials lab, myrnaburks@earthlink.net, http://www.myrnaburksfineart.com/home.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
An abstract rectangular print that examines forms and layers of shapes. There are two similar shapes, one featuring gray/blue coloring and the other in a gray white shade. The background of the piece is red with mottled black coloring. There is a slice of a green/black form and two gray/black forms, one on top of a white/gray form. In the left bottom corner is a orange/green form., Alter Ego; 21 x 42 inches; monotype; 1989, myrnaburks@earthlink.net, http://www.myrnaburksfineart.com/home.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 very abstract piece that is symmetrical on both sides. The middle of the piece has a faint light line with red and white zig-zags a few inches away from the middle. The extreme right and left side of the piece are light colored and have various thin lines going in different directions., Karen Guzak; dream dancer; lithograph; 40x50 inches; materials lab; 1985, karen@angelarmsworks.com, http://www.angelarmsworks.com/karen/index.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
An abstract rectangular print utilizing black, brown hues and off-white colors. There is an orange fishlike shape in the center, with a diagonal piece cut out of the middle. Black zig-zag lines surround the orange shape and linear lines dissect the form., Breaking the Impasse & Loving the Devil; 21 x 42 inches; monotype; 1989., myrnaburks@earthlink.net, http://www.myrnaburksfineart.com/home.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
An abstract metal art piece painted with acrylics. The bottom of the piece has a blue shape with three triangular shapes pointing upwards, which interlocks with a brown piece in the middle. The top of the piece is black with a small blue triangle., Bonnie Bronson; 1983; jackson II; steel; enamel and paint 14x15 inches; materials lab, Bonnie Bronson was born in Portland, Oregon in 1940. She attended the University of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in 1978. She was one of the first artists to develop an industrial enamelling process for the arts. Her work is widely collected in Oregon and Washington, and can be seen at the Wy 'East Day Lodge at Timberline, the Justice Center in Portland, Southern Oregon State College, the Oregon Department of Transportation in Salem, as well as numerous private collections. Bonnie died August 4, 1990 on Mazama Glacier in the Mt. Adams Wilderness Area., 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