This long, rectangular painting, horizontally oriented, presents a succession of rectangular color blocks, including black, blue, and red. Several color blocks also present what appear to be floral arrangements. The blue section farthest to the right contains an inset of alternating blue and green stripes., Cody Bustamante; F-89 Two Lips; 1989; oil on plywood; 15x92 3/4 inches; ohsu movable, 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/
An abstract painting rendered mostly in dots of varying shades of green, blue, pink, and brown. Dominant shapes in the piece include a vertical horn form; linear, rectuangular forms intersected by decorative swatches of color; and circular shapes., Jack Portland; 1989; Four Games; oil on canvas; 27x21 inches; ohsu movable, 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, For more images by this artist, please visit: 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/
An oil painting of a blue bird sitting on a brown branch with four red berries on it's left and two leaves on it's right. Below the bird is a very large orange/brown rose. The edges of the painting has orange/brown brushstrokes along each side., Suzanne Duryea; 1989; A Whiff of Spring; oil on paper 27x22 inches; ohsu movable, "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/