Two distict, rectangular sections comprise this piece that presents white marks on a black background, which begin to suggest shapes and action, but render nothing definitively., The Beekeeper, 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/
A brightly colored, patchwork rendering of a road cutting through a group of white houses with red roofs., Summer Day; Watercolor; 1989; 17x21 inches, Ruza Erceg In 1961, Ruza Erceg said to her daughter, Helen, "If I have paint brush, I start to make painting." Helen relayed this message to her brother Joseph, a graphic designer, who, that same day, bought her watercolors, brushes and paper. She immediately began to produce delightful, colorful images. Ruza was born in the fanning village of Imotski, Yugoslavia in 1898 and came to this country in 1922. She and her husband first settled in Pennsylvania then moved to Oregon. Ruza Erceg paints images of her past in Yugoslavia. They are soft and colorful images of rural scenes (farms, fields and farm houses), villages, white buildings with red tile roofs and an occasional painting of a sailboat or of a larger city. Her images are of no particular site but rather of a collective spirit of the land she left so long ago. Numerous paintings are surrounded with delightful painted borders which suggest a painted frame to contain the image., 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/
A black-and-white linocut rendering of six men with different symols floating above their heads. From left to right, the items above the men's heads include a fish, a light bulb, a linear graph, a crown, another fish, and some sort of curly-cue. Below the men, there are three distinct areas that present three different scenes that all relate to fishing. The left area depicts a lighthouse along the coast, along with two smaller areas that depict a woman and a cup of steaming beverage. The middle area depicts a fishing boat and a map. The right area depicts a pile of fish and an area that contains what appears to be a fishing lure with a circle and slash over the top of it., Fishing for the Halibut; 42 inches by 40 inches; linocut print, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_11_88/ai_66888284, 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 assemblage of geometric shapes in neutral tones, broken up by a green vessel shape in the middle., #151 Untitled; 3 7/8 x 3 inches; 1989, 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/
A color photograph depicting a view from behind a red bench, in front of a concrete wall that separates it from the beach., Tonic for the Soul; color photograph, Deborah DeWit was born in 1956 in Portland. Oregon. Four weeks after her birth, her mother returned with her to South America to re-join the rest of the family. She grew up traveling with her family and living in such places as the Philippines, New York, Minnesota, South Carolina, Florida, El Salvador, Colorado, Scotland and finally ended up in Portland in 1979. Photography was never a career choice and she entered Cornell University as an Agronomy major. After two years she decided to give her hobby, photography, more serious attention and moved to Colorado where her parents were living at the time. In order to finance her endeavors, she cheffed in restaurants for two years and in her spare time roamed the mountains outside Denver looking and experimenting with her camera. In 1978 she left for Scotland, where she worked on a farm, driving tractors, hoeing turnips and moving cattle from field to field. It was here that her real passion developed. The skies and the hills and the wildnes, Deborahdewitmarchant@verizon.net, http://www.dewit-marchant.com/, 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/