A contextual view of sandcarved glass mounted on a wooden door that presents wavy blue and brown vertical lines with thin, short black lines moving horizontally through them., Lonnie Feather; ""At Water's Edge""; 1998; 12""x12""; Conf. Room Door; sandcarved glass; mixed media, Lonie Feather has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited her art since 1982. She received her Baccalaureate from Portland State University with Honors in 1987 and was recognized with the 1983 Corning Award as outstanding student while studying at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. She has received significant awards including Outstanding Woman Artist of Solano County, in 1989 among others. Numerous public and private art commissions also span her career utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques which include painting on glass, glass sandcarving, cast glass, murals, mixed media with glass, wood carving and stone sculpture., lfeather@lonniefeather.com, http://www.lonniefeather.com/, 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/
This view depicts a detail of the right panel in the triptych, Constructing Layers of Time. It presents a group of stick figures on the top of a triangular form that bisects the rest of the picture plane in sections of red and yellow. Thin, black lines comprise several other peripheral forms., http://www.uoregon.edu/~prentice/, 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/
This triptych presents a series of human forms, rendered in black line and complimented with red, green, blue, and yellow., http://www.uoregon.edu/~prentice/, 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/
This piece presents an intricate mixture of dots of color that work together to comprise an abstract, geometric picture plane. Colors used include pink, red, orange, green, blue, and white., Jack Portland; Sally; U of O Science Complex, 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, 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: Lane Arts. You may view their website at http://www.lanearts.org/
This view presents a detail of a sandcarved glass pane that depicts several interconnected spiral forms., Lonnie Feather; at water's edge; 1998; each 12x12 inches; conf. Room doors; sandcarved glass; mixed media, Lonie Feather has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited her art since 1982. She received her Baccalaureate from Portland State University with Honors in 1987 and was recognized with the 1983 Corning Award as outstanding student while studying at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. She has received significant awards including Outstanding Woman Artist of Solano County, in 1989 among others. Numerous public and private art commissions also span her career utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques which include painting on glass, glass sandcarving, cast glass, murals, mixed media with glass, wood carving and stone sculpture., lfeather@lonniefeather.com, http://www.lonniefeather.com/, 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/
Sandcarved glass mounted on a wooden door that presents a black and silver design that implies concentric ripples in water., Lonnie Feather; ""At Water's Edge""; 1998; 12""x12""; Conf. Room Door; sandcarved glass; mixed media, Lonie Feather has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited her art since 1982. She received her Baccalaureate from Portland State University with Honors in 1987 and was recognized with the 1983 Corning Award as outstanding student while studying at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. She has received significant awards including Outstanding Woman Artist of Solano County, in 1989 among others. Numerous public and private art commissions also span her career utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques which include painting on glass, glass sandcarving, cast glass, murals, mixed media with glass, wood carving and stone sculpture., lfeather@lonniefeather.com, http://www.lonniefeather.com/, 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/
Six square glass pieces that present abstract designs mounted into a green wall., Lonnie Feather; ""At Water's Edge""; 1998; Each 12 inchesx12 inches; Coffee House-sandcarved glass; mixed media, Lonie Feather has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited her art since 1982. She received her Baccalaureate from Portland State University with Honors in 1987 and was recognized with the 1983 Corning Award as outstanding student while studying at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. She has received significant awards including Outstanding Woman Artist of Solano County, in 1989 among others. Numerous public and private art commissions also span her career utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques which include painting on glass, glass sandcarving, cast glass, murals, mixed media with glass, wood carving and stone sculpture., lfeather@lonniefeather.com, http://www.lonniefeather.com/, 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 man with wings interacts with different lifeforms contained in what appear to be beakers over the top of what appear to be collaged shreds of hand-written documents. The written text reads, "The philosopher's compare their secret stone to the salamander. It is fed by fire, lives in fire and is perfected by fire as the salamander is.", Salamander; 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
This view presents a detail of a sandcarved glass pane that depicts neutral-tone, organic forms., Lonnie Feather; at water's edge; 1998; each 12x12 inches; conf. Room doors; sandcarved glass; mixed media, Lonie Feather has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited her art since 1982. She received her Baccalaureate from Portland State University with Honors in 1987 and was recognized with the 1983 Corning Award as outstanding student while studying at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. She has received significant awards including Outstanding Woman Artist of Solano County, in 1989 among others. Numerous public and private art commissions also span her career utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques which include painting on glass, glass sandcarving, cast glass, murals, mixed media with glass, wood carving and stone sculpture., lfeather@lonniefeather.com, http://www.lonniefeather.com/, 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/
This view presents context for two of Lonnie Feather's sandcarved glass panes., Lonnie Feather; at water's edge; 1998; each 12x12 inches; conf. Room doors; sandcarved glass; mixed media, Lonie Feather has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, and has exhibited her art since 1982. She received her Baccalaureate from Portland State University with Honors in 1987 and was recognized with the 1983 Corning Award as outstanding student while studying at the internationally renowned Pilchuck Glass School. She has received significant awards including Outstanding Woman Artist of Solano County, in 1989 among others. Numerous public and private art commissions also span her career utilizing a variety of mediums and techniques which include painting on glass, glass sandcarving, cast glass, murals, mixed media with glass, wood carving and stone sculpture., lfeather@lonniefeather.com, http://www.lonniefeather.com/, 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/
