This painting depicts a woman with red hair, looking off to the left of the picture plane and wearing a blue sweater that appears to be pieced together over or with areas of blue sky. A total of nine colorful birds share the picture plane with her., September-The Call; Alkyd (oil); (34 x 46 inches ); from the series Saint Eve Book of Days, Katherine Ace was born in Chicago and received a degree in ceramics from Knox College in 1975. She is a self taught painter working in alkyd/oil on canvas. Her work hangs in private, corporate and public collections. Katherine has participated in numerous regional and national individual and group shows. (Unknown, 1995), kat@katherineace.com, http://www.katherineace.com/, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
A mixed media construction that organizes discarded materials within a black grid pattern., Fence; Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, (206) 782-0355; 36-323; mixed media; 1995; unfr.: 51 x 51 in., http://www.sedersgallery.com/Artists/036/36-000.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
This view represents a detailed section of the mixed media construction, Fence 36-323, that organizes discarded materials within a black grid pattern., detail #1 Fence; Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, (206) 782-0355; 36-323; fabric & mixed media; 1995, http://www.sedersgallery.com/Artists/036/36-000.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
This view represents a detailed section of the mixed media construction, Fence 36-323, that organizes discarded materials within a black grid pattern., detail #2 Fence; Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, (206) 782-0355; 36-323, det. 2; fabric & mixed media; 1995, http://www.sedersgallery.com/Artists/036/36-000.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is: Linn-Benton Arts. You may view their website at: http://www.artcentric.org/
A transformational image: color rendering of what appears to be a human with a buck's head., For Lillian/Frank; pastel and graphite on paper; 40 x 26, The frailty of life on this planet and the need to recognize the interconnectedness of all species are common threads that weave through Bartow's work. His Yurok Indian heritage and his experiences in Vietnam are the source of these feelings and nurture his imagery. Crow/raven and a pantheon of other animals, including man, figure prominently in his work. He reanimates the ancient myths of Northwest peoples into his visual language. Once the symbol of rebirth and the spirit of all life, crow is a ghost-like figure in this monotype who knows "he" is no longer central to our lives. (OAC documentation, 1990). A Vietnam veteran and a Yurok tribal member, he addresses grief and fear in his work as means to dismantling them. His work is represented by Froelick Gallery and Stonington Gallery. (Data provided at http://www.npr.org/programs/talkingplants/features/2003/bartow/index.html. Reviewed on 04/09/07.), http://www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=227, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org
Three women are connected through the action of red lines extending from their mouths. One woman holds a snake wrapped around a stick while another holds a sprig of flowers., Yuji Hiratsuka was born in Osaka, Japan. In 1985 he moved to the United States. He started teaching printmaking at Oregon State University in 1992. His graphic work has been exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia and has received numerous awards in national and international competitions. Some of his works are exhibited in The British Museum, Tokyo Central Museum, Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the New York Public Library., http://www.artelino.com/articles/yuji_hiratsuka.asp, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org
A religious man is pictured concocting what appears to be some sort of experiment or ritual over the top of what appears to be collaged shreds of hand-written documents. The written text reads: "Through the struggle of dissolution and coagulation, illuminated by the progressive and retrograde movement of the stars a new cosmos is created from the old one.", Solve et Coagula; mixed media; 1998, My recent works on paper are inspired by alchemical manuscripts. The alchemists documented their labors in enigmatic texts in which chemical procedures, cosmology and myths are woven together into fantastic allegories. Similarly in my paintings I use imagery of birds, beasts, plants and minerals as symbols of the process of transformation, As an artist I view alchemy as a metaphor for the creative process in which there is progressive transformation and refinement of materials, imagery and ultimately consciousness. In alchemy and art alike the creative imagination is the vital agent of change. The alchemists described their labors as an "art". Like the alchemist I attempt to use physical processes as a mirror of inner experience. The materials become "transmuted" from their initially inert state through creative and chaotic struggle into a new synthesis. In my painting I use physical processes of dissolution, evaporation, heat and gravity which remind me of the alchemist's use of the elements of water, air, fire and earth. Humor is an important element of my work. Likewise humor and paradox were not unknown to the alchemist. The texts abound with cryptic riddles meant to befuddle the literal-minded and catalyze intuitive insight. Hermes, the Greek god of wisdom, was the patron of alchemists and also the trickster who could lead his followers on a search to find "fools gold". Anyone who embarks on a potentially quixotic search to find the elixir of immortality should have plenty of humor and humility to sustain themselves! The homunculus, a human-like creature nurtured in a glass vessel was reputed to have been created in the alchemical laboratory. In the novel "Frankenstein" the renegade doctor studies the writings of Paracelsus, the swiss alchemist, before creating his monster. I see the homunculus as a metaphor for modem technology with all its wonders and potential horrors. The series of "Homunculus" sculptures which utilize remnants of household appliances and found objects explores this theme in a whimsical fashion. The alchemist searched for the "gold of the philosophers"-philosophical wisdom. In their pursuit of nature's secrets they combined scientific experimentation with a mystical quest for illumination. Their holistic view of the universe viewed matter and consciousness as a continuum, anticipating recent developments in physics. Alchemy is the ancestor of modem science; perhaps there is something that can be learned from its legacy? I am inspired artistically by the beauty of the texts and their insights into the mysteries of creation. Hopefully my own fanciful creations convey something of the spirit of that tradition. (Nez, 1998), http://www.augengallery.com/Artists/nez.html, The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org
