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People’s Choice Award for Best Gallery – 2012 A Taste of Ashland
Transitions: Paintings by Robert Beckmann & Clifford Wilton Scultpure by Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller
Clifford Wilton’s recent work sees a departure from his lush figurative abstracts to simpler graphic compositions of urban skyscapes. Mostly monochromatic, these paintings add a new dimension to a familiar, yet mostly ignored landscape.
Robert Beckmann has been creating art his entire life. His recent paintings explore new materials and procedures while grappling with questions such as: How does the microcosm mirror the macrocosm? When does a simplification of empirical reality become abstract? How do we find a balance between order and chance and, acknowledging that our consciousness is fragmented (by our pace and media disjunction), how can we become whole again and possibly heal our world?
Beckmann’s work has been exhibited throughout the world; from New York to Russia, Miami to Canada, San Francisco and Japan. He has completed over 250 mural projects nationwide, including the Shakespeare portrait on the Bard’s Inn here in Ashland. His work adorns numerous hotels and casinos in Las Vegas as well as the “D” gates in McCarran International Airport. His last public commission — six, large-scale (7’ x 12’) murals of the world’s most economically important plants — was installed at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, DC in 2005.
Opening reception August 3rd
Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller
Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller works in an organic way — mirroring the materials she employs such as silk, oxidized metal and felt. Her progression as an artist has involved a variety of over-lapping disciplines: design, painting, collage, fiber and installation. In recent years her art has evolved into sculptural forms.
Recently featured at SOU’s Schneider Museum, Wishnetsky-Mueller creates unique forms of metal and fiber that express the paradox of simultaneous opposition and unification, resulting in work that is both personal and global — rooted in consciousness and the mystery of nature.
Robert Beckmann’s work has been exhibited throughout the world: from New York to New Haven (Yale), Finland to Russia, Miami to Canada, San Francisco and Japan. This summer we welcome him home to Ashland.Opening reception July 6th, 5 – 8 PMFeatured sculpture artist this month is Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller, fresh off her exhibit at SOU’s Schneider Museum. Ellen’s work with metal and fiber expresses the paradox of simultaneous opposition and unification.
Three
2011, Aluminum and Kibiso silk, 11″h x 12″w x 14″d
Beckmann’s work has been exhibited throughout the world: from New York to New Haven (Yale), Finland to Russia, Miami to Canada, San Francisco and Japan. This summer we welcome him home to Ashland.Opening reception July 6th, 5 – 8 PMFeatured sculpture artist this month is Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller, fresh off her exhibit at SOU’s Schneider Museum. Ellen’s work with metal and fiber expresses the paradox of simultaneous opposition and unification.
Three
2011, Aluminum and Kibiso silk, 11″h x 12″w x 14″d
Continental Divide is an exhibit of 30 large canvas photo prints that depict the land, wildlife and people of the borderlands of the United States and Mexico, and the impact that a border wall is having on them. The images in the exhibit were taken primarily during a three and a half week expedition with the International League of Conservation Photographers along the 2000-mile border between the United States and Mexico. The expedition included 13 photographers who documented a diverse range of borderlands flora, fauna and cultures.
Neighbors by Cristina Mittermeier
Much of the American public is unaware of the devastation being caused by harmful U.S border and trade policies. The most symbolic and destructive infrastructure resulting from these bad policies is the newly-constructed US – Mexico border wall. Over 600 miles of border walls and barriers have been built from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, fragmenting endangered species habitat, causing erosion and flooding, and tearing apart fragile ecosystems found within Wilderness Areas and Wildlife Refuges; National Monuments and National Forests; and other protected lands, both public and private.
The exhibit debuted at the US House of Representatives in April, 2009 and has been traveling the country since.
Support the cause by purchasing a print
Proceeds help fund travel costs for the exhibit. Click here for a list of available images, sizes and styles.
May 18 – 20th
Ashland Merchants Sidewalk Sale.
Loose prints, posters and small framed photos up to 50% off plus ready-made mat kits, frames and glass in popular sizes on sale.
June
Photography showcase featuring work by: Sean Bagshaw, Peter Stanley, Ann-Britt Malden, David Lorenz Winston and Zach Ehlert.
Join us for a special opening reception this Friday from 5 – 8 pm featuring complimentary wine from Roxy Ann Winery and appetizers from Buttercloud Bakery.
Continental Divide is an exhibit of 30 large canvas photo prints that depict the land, wildlife and people of the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. The images in the exhibit were taken primarily during a three and a half week expedition with the International League of Conservation Photographers along the 2000-mile border between the United States and Mexico. The expedition included 13 photographers who documented a diverse range of borderlands flora, fauna and cultures.
The exhibit, which has been traveling the country since its debut at the US House of Representatives in April, 2009, provides a glimpse of the environmental destruction and humanitarian crisis that is occurring in the name of national security on our southern border. Over 600 miles of border walls and barriers have been built from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, fragmenting endangered species habitat, causing erosion and flooding, and tearing apart fragile ecosystems.
Support the cause: Purchase a print and help fund travel costs for the show. Prints are available in a variety of sizes and styles; contact the gallery for more information.
Featured Sculpture Artist: Jack M. Coehlo
Jack Coelho has been a ceramic artist for over 40 years and a fine arts educator for 26. His current work (which he describes as three-dimensional paintings) combines deeply personal, revelatory content with images rendered in an almost whimsical, cartoon like fashion. His work is also influenced by the time he’s spent in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, leading accredited ceramics and art history workshops. He currently resides in Joseph, Oregon.
Treat Your Mother to Something Special
Mother’s Day is fast approaching, show her you care with art!
We can help you create a unique, one-of-a-kind, custom framing project specifically for your mother.
We also have a wide variety of photographic prints showcasing the beauty of southern Oregon, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, wonderful ceramic animal masks by Hilarey Walker and exquisite porcelain vessels by Jack Coelho.
Nationally acclaimed photographer, Robert Jaffe, will be exhibiting his “Flowers” series at Bohemia Gallery throughout the month of April. On First Friday, April 6th, the gallery will be hosting a reception for the artist from 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Jaffe’s large-scale prints will be presented on canvas, printed, signed and numbered by the artist.
As a consummate photographer, Jaffe has a way of transforming what he sees into the extraordinary, informing the viewer not only with understanding, but also with a sense of amazement. “Flowers” is a stunning example of Jaffe’s vision and prowess both technically and expressively. The work explores the power of the blow-up and cropping, which has a tradition in contemporary art and photography, including such antecedents as the black and white photographs of Edward Weston, and the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe and photorealist, Ben Schonzeit. However, Jaffe explores his own sensibility not only in color and form; but also by creating the series in monumental giclee prints on stretched canvas.
In the context of much contemporary art, Jaffe addresses the two-dimensionality of the picture plane. He investigates the construction of the flower by drawing the viewer into the depths of the imagery, while simultaneously pushing its forms back onto the surface of the canvas.
Jaffe explores the flower with the curiosity of a botanist and the passion of a visionary. The nuances of hue, shadow and delicate structure are combined with grandiosity, intertwining the viewer and subject in a fresh exchange of magnified discovery. A flower will never look quite the same after experiencing the craft and rhapsody of Jaffe’s work – and just in time for spring.
-by Rebecca Gabriel
For more images and information about the artist, visit here.
This month, we’re proud to display a selection of vintage photogravures and etchings. These are the real deal, created by modern masters from the 17th century through the 20th. Featured artists include: Eduard J. Steichen, Roelant Savery, JMW Turner, Clarence White and more.
Renowned local artist Robert Beckmann has pulled these from his own personal collection and offered them up to the public for viewing and purchase.
etching by Allart Van Everdingen
Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph. – wikipedia
This month, we’re proud to display a selection of vintage photogravures and etchings. These are the real deal, created by modern masters from the 17th century through the 20th. Featured artists include: Eduard J. Steichen, Roelant Savery, JMW Turner, Clarence White and more.
Renowned local artist Robert Beckmann has pulled these from his own personal collection and offered them up to the public for viewing and purchase.
etching by Allart Van Everdingen
Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph. – wikipedia
