Ashland Galleries June 2019 Exhibits

Ashland Gallery Association Art Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions

First Friday Art Walk, June 7th, from 5 to 8 PM

Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District.  Enjoy this free year-round community event, filled with a diverse array of artwork, live music, artist demonstrations, refreshments and lively conversation!

For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the June Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com  

AGA June Spotlight Galleries

Ashland Art Works

Jewelry, Clay, and Garden Art for the Summer

Cheryl Kempner is one of our featured artists throughout the month of June. Come view her new multi-media canvases painted with acrylics, embellished with clay figures, and encased in clear resin. New horizontal metal screens with powder-coated flowers offer another option for garden art. Of course, her signature “Crazy Birds and Friends” will include clay vases, bowls, trays, birdhouses, and 3D birds on steel legs. Enjoy this whimsical work in your home and garden.

Our second featured artist is Elizabeth Ellingson. Elizabeth’s designs are all focused around her own custom-cut stones. She takes interesting rough material to create unique cabochons. Elizabeth hand fabricates all of her jewelry in sterling silver using traditional silversmithing techniques. The jewelry she creates is one of a kind with an earthy and enduring quality.

Come meet the artists and enjoy the music at the First Friday Art Walk on June 7th, provided by Kelly Gordon and Victoria Johnson, members of the “Women with Wings Choir.”

Cheryl Kempner, “3 Welcome Birds”, ceramic

Gallerie Karon

Safari!

Part II – Deeper Into Africa

You’ll see artifacts from Ashanti to Yuruba and from areas from Benin to Nigeria in this show. Exotic pieces include masks for ceremonies including face, helmet and shoulder types. (The wearer was host to a sacred being and not to be seen)

Furniture, hand carved and handprinted, some with hammered metal embellishments, are not to be missed! These include stools of all kinds and a carved wood cabinet for sacred herbs and medicines. Our centerpiece is a rare handmade leopard bench made for a very prominent King or Chief. (the leopard is a sign of power and this one is munching on a crocodile )

We love our leopards and have several in bronze from Benin (one is life size!); these are complimented with photographs by Judy Benson LeNeir. Pegi Smith has contributed a striking portrait of an African woman. The late Vernon Lawhorn and his wife Jane, show more portraits and versions of textiles in paintings.

All these exotic pieces will be on display for purchase in our main gallery and in our new special African room in the “The Feathered Wing.”

“Dog” artifact

Art & Soul Gallery

“Nature’s Spirit” watercolor and mixed media by Linda Boutacoff

Expressions and Impressions, Up Close & Personal; Exploring Nature’s Hidden Treasures.

Linda’s paintings reflect her love of nature and the Northwest, as well as her background in graphic design.  Her work is recognized for mastery in creating delicate visual statements through bold use of color and design.

“Nature is my sanctuary. It is a source of discovery and inspiration that stimulates my creativity and brings joy to my spirit. These feelings I try to capture in my paintings. I enjoy developing intriguing designs with rich patterns, textures and colors while leaving a bit of mystery to be interpreted by the viewer.”

“Whether walking through the woods or climbing on boulders along a river, I am always observing; fascinated, just taking it all in … nature’s magic.”

Linda works in watercolor, acrylic, collage and mixed media.

First Friday reception June 7 from 5 – 8 pm

With live music by “Sidewalk Cafe” Beth Martin – violin, Craig Martin – guitar & Todd Ragland – bass

Linda Boutacoff, “Lakeside Dreams,” watercolor

Photographers’ Gallery

“Flower Portrait” featuring Julie Bonney

Julie Bonney’s new show, Flower Portrait, is a collection of flower photography at The Photographers’ Gallery At The Ashland Art Center, which opens at the First Friday Art Walk on June 7, 2019.

Favorite photography subjects for many people are flowers.  They touch us in ways that open us to the natural world.  The photographer is actually creating floral portraits and the challenge is to showcase them in ways that are new and fresh and creates a desire in the viewer to stop and take them in.  Julie use a variety of techniques to create her look including tulle, lace, optic choices, shallow depth of field, multiple exposures and more unusual angles of perspective helps to emphasize the ways in which flowers speak to our hearts as well as showcase them.  Please stop by the Ashland Art Center and immerse yourself in the joy of flower photography.

Julie Bonney, “Creamsicle,” photograph

Shepherd’s Dream

Fowler Handwovens

Cindy Fowler is a 30-year “veteran” in the world of weaving.  Her mother worked in a trading post near their Southwest Colorado home, and spent weekends in search of Native American art.  Cindy witnessed (first hand) the Navajo women spinning, dying and preparing yarns to weave incredible, functional, rugs.  Those early years formed her love of cloth design for jackets and/or the dying of yarn for wall hangings.  She is mixing the balance between function, art and the appreciation of the environment’s bounty.  With the addition of the scroll saw and exotic woods, her weavings are hung with a look of puzzle pieces that flow with the yarn.

Cindy Fowler, “Tablerock Spring,” hand-dyed cotton yarn weaving

Enclāve Studios

Spring Exhibition 2019

First Friday, June 7th, 5-8 pm

1661 Siskiyou Blvd (above the Ashland Street Shopping Center)

Enclāve Studios & Galleries presents our annual spring exhibition with new works and works-in-progress by our resident artists:

Jay Gordon: origami paintings

Corey Kahn: architectural landscapes

Inger Nova Jorgensen: painting and sculpture

Nicole Wasgatt: abstracted seascapes

Gabriel Mark Lipper: Rogue Valley landscapes

Join us for a glass of wine!

Image caption: Enclave Studios

Please see attached “Spotlight Exhibits” and June Gallery Tour Map.

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Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!