Ashland’s First Friday Art Walk
Ashland Gallery Association Art Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
April 5th, 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!
A Taste of Ashland, Art Food & Wine Festival is April 27th & 28th. Also featuring a “Pop-up” Art Show at Ashland Springs Hotel Crystal Room. Please see attached information & visit: www.atasteofashland.com
For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the April Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
A Taste Of Ashland Pop-up Art Show
Ashland Springs Hotel – Crystal Room
Art Sales during “A Taste of Ashland,” April 27 & 28, 12:00–4:00 PM
As an added attraction to A Taste of Ashland wine, food, and art festival, we will have a group of Ashland Gallery Association artist members participating in a special “Pop-up Art Show!” On display will be paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, printmaking and pastels.
Jeanne LaRae Lagano, “Chef’s Love of the Flame,” oil painting
“A Taste of Ashland” Food, Wine, and Art Festival
Celebrating its 30th Year Anniversary!
The Ashland Gallery Association’s signature fund-raising event, A Taste of Ashland takes place Saturday and Sunday, April 27th and 28th from noon to 4 PM.
Participants follow a map to 17 galleries discovering Ashland’s culinary delights and regional wines while enjoying the local visual arts. AllAboard Trolley will offer rides to all galleries, but most are within walking distance.
For tickets and more information about A Taste of Ashland 2019 a complete list of pairings go to: www.atasteofashland.com or call 541-951.9442.
LOCAL TICKET OUTLET: Ashland Art Center, 357 East Main St., Ashland. Tickets can also be purchased (dependent on availability) and wine glasses picked up prior to A Taste weekend at the Ashland Plaza Kiosk from 12 Noon to 2 PM April 20th – April 26th. The Kiosk will open at 11 AM on the days of the event, April 27th and 28th.
Hanson Howard Gallery
Deborah Oropallo, Dark Landscapes for a White House, video and photomontage
In conjunction with The Ashland Independent Film Festival and The Schneider Museum of Art we will be featuring Deborah Oropallo, Dark Landscapes for a White House, video and photomontages on paper.
Show runs April 5-23
Opening reception during the Ashland First Friday Art Walk April 5th, 5-8 pm.
Artist talk and reception Thursday, April 11th, 5:30-7:30. *This event is free to the public.
Dark Landscapes for a White House critiques our cultural habituation to political and ecological traumas. Oropallo employs photomontage as a strategy for visualizing how media-based images accumulate and overwhelm our collective consciousness.
DEBORAH OROPALLO was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University, and a joint Master of Arts/Master of Fine Arts from The University of California, Berkeley. Although originally trained in painting, Oropallo’s practice incorporates mixed media including photomontage, computer editing, print technique and paint. Her composite works use layered visual sources to produce a dense interplay between time, place, form and content. The resulting works bear traces of the distortions that evolve or remain from digital manipulation and removal.
Deborah Oropallo, Video Frame: Pirates, Paris, photomontage on paper. *image courtesy of the Catharine Clark Gallery.
Gallerie Karon
Artist as Poet
Gallerie Karon’s annual show, “Artist as Poet” showcases artists who are poets and poets who are artists.
It’s interesting to unveil the backgrounds and current talents of our artists that few know about! Who knew that Judy Benson Le Nier wrote an occasional (and stunning) poem to go with her wildlife photography? Horst Wolf has limericks, paintings and books. Jesse Widener has his photography with us but also writes poetry and music. Ken Deveney contributes poetry, paintings (several mediums) photography and music.
New this year – a whole family of artistic people! Dan Felman, our popular guitarist, writes original music and lyrics. HIs two children have contributed photography and poetry (Abigail) and line drawing and poetry (Reuben).
We’re also proud to showcase new work by Rebecca Gabriel and Jonah Bernstein.
Not to be missed, The Taste of Ashland here at Gallerie Karon on April 27 & 28 with Callahans’s Mountain Lodge and Cuckoo’s Nest Cellars!
photo by Jesse Widener
Shepherd’s Dream
PNW Wonderland
Jessica Johnson is a contemporary landscape oil painter born in San Francisco and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Passionate about the outdoors since her earliest backpacking trip, just 3 years old, she works to capture and communicate the inspiring beauty of the landscapes that surround her home and permeate her adventures.
Jessica creates vibrant oil paintings through bold brushstrokes, color, and movement, and invites the viewer to feel more connected to this beautiful planet, “to revel in her landscapes.” Mastering her impressionist styling silently communicates that message.
Jessica Johnson, “Still Mind,” oil painting
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