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 acrylic painting of Fernridge Lake, located at the outskirts of Eugene, Oregon, showing a white lake with bits of light blue surrounded by green landscape. There are surrounding hills in the background, and trees and other plant life in the foreground., Markley C Clarke; Fernridge Lake; 30x40 inches; acrylic; dot materials lab, Clarke has been recording his gentle impressions of Willamette Valley vistas for several years. This work was painted the summer of 1987 at Fernridge Lake about eight miles west of Eugene. It was painted from a park at the west end of the lake looking across the lake toward the hills around the city of Eugene. (Oregon Arts Commission, 1987), http://zeekgallery.com/exhibits/clarke.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
An acrylic painting of a autumn landscape. The deciduous trees vary in colors of red, orange, and green against a light blue sky. The grass in the foreground is light brown with orange and yellow tints., Mark Clarke; Landscape; justice, http://zeekgallery.com/exhibits/clarke.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 painting is divided into three sections. The foreground is comprised of a red rectangular form that enters the picture plane from the lower right-hand corner, and it contains several enigmatic items. The middleground is composed of a section of alternating light and dark stripes, reminiscent of strip-farmed land, and it contains what appears to be a floral form and a pair of scissors. The background is divided into left and right by two sections of red and blue alternating stripes, separated in the middle by a black abyss., George Johanson; Striped Table Mountain; oil 1982; 60x51 inches, George Johanson attended and taught at the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon. He divides his time between painting and printmaking. In 1992, he received the Governor's Award for the Arts. (Data provided at http://www.kpchr.org/public/sawardart/apps/Johanson.htm. Reviewed on 04/07/07., http://www.kpchr.org/public/sawardart/apps/Johanson.htm; http://www.hareinthegate.com/portfolio_pages/equivalents.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