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By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1650 contributed posts
View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
The Ashland Gallery Association has canceled the April First Friday Art Walk to meet the guidelines of social distancing and protect our community’s health.
We will notify you of the May Art Walk’s status as we approach this date, but at this time, it seems unlikely to take place.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1650 contributed posts
View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
AGA March 2020 Exhibits
Join us for the First Friday Art Walk festivities!
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
First Friday Art Walk, March 6th from 5 to 8 pm
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights of the AGA March 2020 exhibits in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore out-skirting galleries! 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 March Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!
March Spotlight Exhibits
Sedona, Thunder Mountain, image by John Christer Petersen
Photographers’ Gallery
Sedona Red Rocks
Photographer John Christer Petersen’s new show, “Sedona Red Rocks”, opens for the First Friday Art Walk, March 6, in the Photographer’s Gallery at the Ashland Art Center, and continues through the end of April.
Petersen is a local fine art photographer. In 2019 he was fortunate to visit Sedona, Arizona and fell in love with the mystical red rocks surrounding the city.
Sedona is in northern Arizona and part of the Sonoran Desert. The reddish-orange sandstone apparently was deposited during the Permian Period more than 250 million years ago. I was able to visit the area after a reunion in Phoenix; however, the weather was not cooperative and I was not blessed with much time for photography. The Thunder Mountain Trail was near my hotel and is a popular hike about 3 miles long and was easily accessible.
The red sandstone formations change color tones depending on the time of day and the weather. I sensed a spiritual connection to this area and certainly considered their beauty to be the fingerprints of God.
Image caption: Gallerie Karon, samples of exhibited pieces
Gallerie Karon East Meets East Part III
Let’s celebrate! Gallerie Karon’s “Grand Re-opening” is March 6th, First Friday Art Walk!
Our remodel is complete and we want to show it off. It’s also our 18th Anniversary. Added to that, it’s the Oregon Chocolate Festival and as always we are participating with fabulous fudge from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. To add to the festivities, the first 25 adults to attend will receive a special gift bag with an Asian surprise inside!
It is the Chinese New Year of the Rat. Let the foremost attribute of this symbol reign – Prosperity!
“Sun Signs 2,” painting
Ashland Art Works Student Art Exhibit
The Gallery is pleased to host a special exhibit from the Ashland High School art department. We’ve reserved space to show off the talents of our local younger artists. In addition to this exhibit we still have our full showing of all our local artists.
AGA Annual Student Art Show Featuring Ashland High School Student Artwork
Join us for a special First Friday in March when Ashland High School students display their artwork. Please visit the following participating galleries and show your support of these young artists:
“Janis Joplin,” painting by Reuben Fellmenn, AHS student
Art & Soul Gallery: Gail Schmidt, Jessica Hitchcock, Avery Sayre
Student artists will be present to discuss their works. There will be a variety of media on display by these creative young artists including paintings, drawings, mixed media, and jewelry.
By Southern Oregon Artists Resource, 1650 contributed posts
View all Southern Oregon Artists Resource's posts. About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.
Join us for the February 2020 Ashland First Friday ArtWalk festivities!
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
First Friday ArtWalk, February 7th from 5 to 8 pm
The Ashland First Friday ArtWalk is an amazing way to explore the artists of southern Oregon and the city of Ashland at the same time! Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore out-skirting galleries! 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 February Ashland First Friday ArtWalk map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Please see the “Spotlight Exhibits”and a downloadable February Gallery Tour Map below.
Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!
February Spotlight Exhibits
Ashland Art Center
Acrylic, Mixed Media and more… Featured Studio Artist: Gayle Erbe-Hamlin Show: Communion with the Cave
Lucille Burke, acrylic painting
Somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, our ancestors went deep into caves and began leaving their marks on the walls and painting extraordinary images of animals. The why will always remain mysterious as they left no written explanation. We remain only to conjecture and be amazed. This show is a reflection of my communion with those people and the expressions and impressions they left behind. A question to ponder is: when the 6th Extinction is over who will remain and what will they paint on the walls of the cave.
Featured Gallery Artist: Lucille Burke
Show: Visiting France
We often go to Paris to visit my sister-in-law. When there we make day trips to the countryside. These acrylic paintings on canvas are of sights that appealed to me.
Featured Photographer: Kate Geary Show: Into the Woods
Kate Geary’s new show, “In the Woods”, opens on Friday, January 3, 2020, at The Photographer’s Gallery at the Ashland Art Center and runs through the end of February. Kate’s focus in this show is on the amazing beauty and even humor in the small details of the natural world in the forest. So often the small is obscured by the magnificence of the scene, the towering redwood or roaring waterfall. To pause, to look downward and notice the patterns in decaying bark, the sensuous texture of exposed wood,. the beauty of seed pods lying in verdant ground cover, reflections of fall color in a meandering stream, brings a new appreciation to the beauty of detail.
Musical Guests: Jennifer Davis and Jim Abdo
Hanson Howard Gallery Betty LaDuke :: Original Paintings from the Archives
Betty LaDuke, “Chile: Homage to the Disappeared”
Betty LaDuke’s six decade career as an artist has spanned continents focusing on concerns of the human condition. Informed and inspired by Mexican muralists, LaDuke’s panels stand on their own in style and purpose. While often speaking to the trials that humans face, there is also a celebration of spirit present in each painting.
In February we have rarely available original paintings created during LaDuke’s mid career era whilst visiting South America and Africa. We are excited to make these available to the public.
Opening Reception: February 7th, 5-8 pm.
Show runs February 5th – March 2nd
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Art & Soul Gallery The Language of Trees – Featuring the Art & Soul Gallery Artists
Pam Haunschild, “The Language of Trees,” mixed water media
In February 2020 the Art & Soul Gallery features all 27 of our member artists who have each created a mini-masterpiece inspired by the majesty and grandeur of a tree. The gallery’s First Friday event also features wine, light refreshments and live music by Sidewalk Café. The show will be on display from February 4 – March 1.
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” John Muir
Trees are very special mystical beings; almost as diverse as the artists of the Art & Soul Gallery. How does an artist who only paints the human form paint a tree? How does an abstract artist paint a tree? How does anyone try to capture the grandeur and majesty of a tree on a 9” x 12” canvas?
Come to the Art & Soul Gallery in February to find the answers to these questions and maybe even a few more …
Live Music by “Sidewalk Café” – The trio comprised of Beth Martin, violinist and singer, Craig Martin, guitarist, and Todd Ragland, fretless bassist plays a fun selection of swing, Gypsy jazz and bossa nova.
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*New Associate Member! Spativa Wellness Boutique Featuring local photography, artisanal jewelry, glass art, and textiles
Artisanal jewelry, Spativa Wellness Boutique
Unwind with us at Spativa Wellness Boutique, for First Friday Art Walk. Sample local CBD wellness products and enjoy local photography, artisanal jewelry, glass art and textiles.
This evening we are offering sampling and education from two artisanal local companies: Hater Proof Medicinals, and Rohlas. Hater Proof Medicinals blends Ayuevedic healing with CBD and creates nourishing products like CBD~Ayurvedic Vape Pens & Soaking Salts. They will be available all evening to answer your CBD & Vaping questions.
Locally sourced Rohlas full spectrum CBD smokes pairs cannabinoids found in hemp with unique herbal blends to make a truly medicinal smoke. They will be available to answer any questions you have regarding the different blends they’ve created.
Relax on the couch and decompress with art and healing at Spativa Wellness Boutique. Come and be your highest self.
260 N. First St. Right across the street from Ashland Co-Op
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Join us for the January First Friday Art Walk festivities!
January 3rd from 5 to 8 pm
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore out-skirting galleries! Enjoy this free year-round community event, filled with a diverse array of artwork, live music, artist demonstrations, refreshments and lively conversation!
January Spotlight Exhibits
Art & Soul Gallery
What a Difference a Frame Makes!
The gallery’s First Friday show also features wine and light refreshments; live music by pianist Anthony Bock, and will be on display from December 31 – February 2.
Peter Stone has been a professional picture framer for more than twenty-three years. He owned the popular Arrowhead Framing shop in Half Moon Bay, CA before moving to Ashland and Art & Soul Gallery.He has long enjoyed the interpretive creative process and the constant creative problem solving which are custom picture framing. Peter loves the unique design opportunity that comes with each new artistic challenge.
“Every custom picture framing project comes with a story,” Peter has discovered. People only choose custom framing when the artwork has special meaning, he said. “And what is more special than our family memories!”
Pianist, Anthony Bock, a senior at SOU and a student of Dr. Tutunov, returns to Art & Soul for the third time. He effortlessly combines classical and non-classical piano music in a free and bright style, which captivates everyone listening.
Peter Stone, “sivo’ham, sivo’ham” (I am Shiva, I am Shiva)
Schneider Museum of Art
TWO GENERATIONS: JOE FEDDERSEN & WENDY RED STAR
On View: January 16 – March 14, 2020
Opening Reception: January 16th, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
This exhibition presents the work of two Northwest Indigenous artists who work across media and whose work responds, on their own terms, to historic and contemporary misrepresentations of Native Americans. Joe Feddersen, born in 1953, is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and has exhibited internationally since the early 1980’s. As a printmaker, basket maker, ceramicist and glass artist, Feddersen combines contemporary materials with Native iconography to create powerful and evocative works that explore the interrelationships between urban symbols and Indigenous landscapes.
Wendy Red Star, born in 1981, was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star incorporates and recasts her research through photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance, offering new and unexpected perspectives on past, present, and future life. Her work is humorous, surreal, and often abrasive, yet deeply rooted in a celebration for Crow life.
JOE FEDDERSEN BIO:
Joe Feddersen, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, lives and works in Omak, WA and was a faculty member at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA from 1989 until his retirement in 2009. His work was included in Weaving Past into Present: Experiments in Contemporary Native American Printmaking at the International Print Center, New York, Autumn 2015. He has been featured in numerous national exhibitions, including Continuum 12 Artists: Joe Feddersen, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution at the George Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY, curated by Truman Lowe; Land Mark, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, WA; and was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition and monograph, Vital Signs, organized in conjunction with Froelick Gallery and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, OR
WENDY RED STAR BIO:
Artist Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that is at once inquisitive, witty and unsettling. Intergenerational collaborative work is integral to her practice, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art.
Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier pour l’ Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Portland Art Museum, Hood Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She served a visiting lecturer at institutions including Yale University, the Figge Art Museum, the Banff Centre, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Dartmouth College, CalArts, Flagler College, and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs. In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. In 2019 Red Star will have her first career survey exhibition at the Newark Museum in Newark New Jersey.
Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Portland, OR.
CURATOR MACK MCFARLAND BIO:
Mack McFarland is a cultural producer and has worked as Curator for Pacific Northwest College of Art since 2006. Currently McFarland is the Director of the Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at PNCA. His exhibitions at PNCA have included commissioned projects of new works from tactical media practitioners Critical Art Ensemble, Eva and Franco Mattes, and Disorientalism. He has also curated a review of Luc Tuymans’s printed works, a group exhibit marking the centennial of John Cage’s birth, and a comprehensive look at the process of the comic journalist Joe Sacco. McFarland’s current question is how exhibitions and artworks can meaningfully link to our shared experience of existing together within the ongoing process of history.
Wendy Red Star, “Winter”, from “The Four Seasons”, Archival pigment print on Museo silver rag, 35.5 X 40 inches, Courtesy of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Photographers’ Gallery (Ashland Art Center)
Kate Geary – “In the Woods”
Kate Geary’s new show, “In the Woods”, opens on Friday, January 3, 2020, at The Photographer’s Gallery at the Ashland Art Center and runs through the end of February.
Kate’s focus in this show is on the amazing beauty and even humor in the small details of the natural world in the forest. So often the small is obscured by the magnificence of the scene, the towering redwood or roaring waterfall. To pause, to look downward and notice the patterns in decaying bark, the sensuous texture of exposed wood; the beauty of seed pods lying in verdant ground cover, reflections of fall color in a meandering stream, brings a new appreciation to the beauty of detail.
Kate Geary, “Reflections of Season Past,” photograph
Creekside Pizza
Featuring Justin Gordon
Justin Gordon is an artist and musician living in Ashland Oregon who enjoys traditional processes that harken back to the twentieth century before the digital world inundated us with images and sounds and facsimiles of real objects. He can be found driving around in a yellow seventies pick up snapping photos or playing his original songs with his band The Holy Mackerels around town when he is not at work as a carpenter and painter.
Show runs December through January.
Justin Gordon, photograph
For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the January Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Please see “Spotlight Exhibits” and the January Gallery Tour Map.
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Join us for the First Friday Art Walk festivities!
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
First Friday Art Walk, December 6th from 5 to 8 pm
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore out-skirting galleries! Enjoy this free year-round community event, filled with a diverse array of artwork, live music, artist demonstrations, refreshments and lively conversation!
December Spotlight Exhibits
Ashland Art Center
Art with a Heart
Ashland Art Center, December’s Spotlight Gallery will be featuring Susanne Petermann, Collage Artist, Marcy Greene, Mixed Media Art and Jo Ann Manzone, Fiber Artist. Musical guest is Jennifer Davis and Darcy Sternenberg with be featured in the photographers co-op.
Ashland Art Center is the number one spot where the community comes together to meet our local artists, shop in our gallery and studio’s, take classes and enjoy wine and music. This month we are partnering with CASA and will have a giving tree in the center to help families in need. Stop by and sponsor a child with a donation or purchase of a gift.
We will also have a Holiday Show in the Classroom, so you can buy local artisan made gifts. Gift-wrapping is available.
Marcy Greene, mixed media
Shepherd’s Dream
Rogue Valley and Beyond
Pat Moore has been an avid photographer for 35+ years, and brings his keen eye for the processes of nature to his craft. His approach reflects two essential aspects of his personal history: early exposure to urban cultures and architecture, together with two decades as an organic farmer. This appreciation led him to wilderness areas at home and abroad. These elements are apparent in the works that Pat shares with the world.
Pat Moore, “Deadfall Lake Reflection,” photograph
Studio 151
Featuring Kaho Koinuma – Mandala art
First Friday in December at the studio features a joint show of mixed media figures and wall art by Elizabeth York and works by guest artist, Kaho Koinuma. Kaho is a Mandala artist who draws directly from the heart. Her sacred mandalas are expressions of love filled with prayers for each and every being to awaken to the essence of the heart and for all experiences to be pathways home to love. Many have found inner guidance and healing through meditating and contemplating her mandalas.
Prior to 2006, Kaho had no experience in fine art, but with a sudden inspiration from the universe through a Japanese artist, the mandalas started to appear as answers to her heart’s calling.
Before becoming a mandala artist, Kaho was a competitive figure skater and coach for 30 years. This experience prepared her for the focus and discipline it takes to infuse the dots and shapes that appear in each mandala with universal love.
Her work has been the subject of several articles, including a feature article in Hado magazine in which Kaho was interviewed by Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of the best-selling book “The Hidden Messages in Water.”
Since early 2007, Kaho has been exhibiting her mandalas and offering meditations, workshops and retreats in support of all beings to discover peace, love and true happiness, within the core of his/her own heart.
The studio will be open on First Friday, 12/6 from 5-8.
Artist David William Terry has been a professional artist since 1981. He specializes in oil paintings, particularly portraits. He has won awards for his paintings in a number of national and international juried exhibits.
David’s paintings portray his simple desire to share what he considers beautiful.
He is less concerned with originality or style, than with capturing the essential character of his subjects, whether they are people or waterfalls.
Originally from Texas, David and his partner Francesca came to the Rogue Valley in 2015. They currently live in Jacksonville.
David’s paintings will be on display through the end of January
David William Terry, “Gabija,” oil on linen
New AGA Member
Trace West
Trace West Announces New Furniture Series “STATERA”
Grand Opening Reception: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 7:00 -10:00 pm
Design Lab Talk: January 18, 2020 11:00 am -1:00 pm
Andrew Golish, a member of the American Craft Council, is the principle designer and founder of TRACE WEST, a new boutique furniture gallery located in Ashland, Oregon. The showroom will be hosting within the gallery scape a revolving series of contemporary craft guest artisans working in a range of various mediums including textiles, lighting, ceramics and other applied media. The grand opening for TRACE WEST will be held on Thursday, December 5th, 2019.
STATERA SERIES
The opening of the TRACE WEST showroom coincides with the debut of the STATERA series. STATERA, which is Latin for “balance,” is a new contemporary furniture design series featuring fine finish solid walnut custom coffee tables, consoles, benches, and end tables for living spaces and the work environment.
Golish states that the search for “perfect balance” motivates him to create cutting-edge, contemporary designs by integrating traditional hand craft techniques with new technological applications. The STATERA signature series offers clean, sleek lines with intersecting geometric shapes. The sculptural dimension of cascading, rich wood textures are central of these exquisite pieces and elevate them to a high level of quality and design. “Complex simplicity” aptly defines the STATERA series, an elegant balance of functional design and contemporary aesthetic.
DESIGN LAB TALKS
Additionally, TRACE WEST will host and present DESIGN LAB TALKS, an educational guest speaker series featuring contemporary design influencers. Future topics will include the impact of new cutting-edge technology has on design, the convergence of contemporary craft, and the role of contemporary art in the creative marketplace. Join us January 18, 2020 as Golish kicks off the first Design Lab Talk event.
ABOUT TRACE WEST
The TRACE WEST name originated when Golish journeyed from the midwest. Golish states that he “was seeking a more creative, open minded environment and community.” Ashland, Oregon, a cultural hub of the Pacific Northwest, represented the perfect location to bring his creative spirit to fruition. TRACE WEST has been well received by the local community, in no small part due to the company’s focus on locally sourced materials and creating environmentally conscience, sustainable furniture and decor.
Golish has taken a unique approach to the marketing challenge. In what is ever becoming a more and more competitive e-commerce retail environment, Golish has elected to open a brick and mortar gallery which will allow him to interact personally with clients on a daily basis. Simultaneously, TRACE WEST maintains and is growing its own online presence, through its website tracewest.com, as well as industry related associations and community organizations.
Please contact us directly to learn more about TRACE WEST and the debut of STATERA, the perfect balance.
For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the December Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Please see attached “Spotlight Exhibits.”
The Ashland Gallery Association is a collection of over thirty galleries and dozens of artists, offering remarkably diverse and high quality works of art.
Ashland has been designated as one of the “Best Small Arts Towns in America.” And while our most famous arts organization is the award winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival, you really haven’t seen Ashland until you’ve seen the Ashland Galleries.
We’re remarkably user-friendly. Most of our galleries are located within just a few blocks of each other, and every gallery welcomes all comers. We’re proud of the work we produce and offer, and we look forward to showing you what we’re all about.
Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!
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Join us for the First Friday Art Walk festivities!
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
First Friday Art Walk, November 1st from 5 to 8 pm
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore out-skirting galleries! Enjoy this free year-round community event, filled with a diverse array of artwork, live music, artist demonstrations, refreshments and lively conversation!
November Spotlight Exhibits
Art & Soul Gallery
“Color Notes” oil painting on linen by Jenay Elder
Artist Jenay Elder resides in Southern Oregon. Her impressionistic oil paintings are known for their textured notes of color, representational quality and their sensitive subject matter. Jenay sold her first Monet inspired, impressionistic landscape online at the age of fifteen in 2001 and has been making and selling art ever since. Her artwork can be found in regional gallery shows and plein air events as well as in private collections around the world. She is a recent recipient of the Haines Foundation grant and has participated in numerous paint outs and shows, including the UVAA 30 under 30 exhibit. Jenay is also an artist member of Oil Painters of America and Laguna Beach Plein Air Painters associations.
Live music of First Friday will be provided by “Sidewalk Café.” The trio – Beth Martin, violinist and singer, Craig Martin, guitarist, and Todd Ragland, fretless bassist play swing, Gypsy jazz and bossa nova.
Jenay Elder, “Reset on Harris Beach” oil on linen
Ashland Natural Medicine
“Dream Garden” paintings by Linda Kehoe
Lindy Kehoe paints from a pure place of imagination. Nothing obstructs her vision. She weaves in magical themes of storytelling about nature, animals, Mother Earth, music, dance, childhood, mystical, unconsciousness, joy, divinity, feminine, masculine, peace and prayer just to name a few…
Lindy writes, “My work is inspired by serendipity, a momentary feeling of interconnected magic, that often feels like a dream. I am motivated to create images that bring peaceful energy to the viewer, a place of remembrance, a place of innocence. The Oracular tendency keeps me fascinated by the mystical process.”
Lindy Kehoe, “Durgalina,” mixed media painting
Studio 151
Guest Artist Rob Jaffe, photography
November’s First Friday at the studio features a joint show of mixed media figures and wall art by Elizabeth York and works by guest artist, photographer, Rob Jaffe.
In the words of one of his admirers: “Robert Jaffe’s lens and eye are a gateway to a realm of transcendence. The scope of his work ranges from the close-up to expansive vistas. Whether his photographs are the astonishing insides of a raspberry or a full moon over Mount Shasta, you feel that perhaps you are experiencing these worldly wonders for the first time. Jaffe combines his consummate technical skill with the poetry of his vision. The camera captures reality, but Jaffe transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. His work takes you to unforgettable moments and locations – a dove ascending from a monastery’s ledge in Assisi, Italy, or the Oregon Coast – filled with luminous rock and the calligraphic underbelly of driftwood.
Jaffe’s photographs remind me of a line from Rumi: “We are tasting the taste, this minute of eternity.” The viewer will leave Jaffe’s exhibition, with that experience.” ~Rebecca Gabriel
The studio will be open on First Friday from 5-8.www.robjaffe.com
Ashland Property Management
“Aileron Flares” New & recent works by Jarrett Rex Davidson
Jarrett Rex Davidson is a Southern Oregonian who has returned to paint and teach art practices.His works are amalgamations of memory and folklore that result in grand depictions of cultural iconography.Standing before his paintings, the viewer senses an accumulated vocabulary of imagery reflected by life encounters in the Northwest, as well as travels in Mexico and Italy.Informed by traditions of biological illustration, religious art and pop culture, Davidson navigates depictions of intersecting myths and symbolic narratives.
With a vita that includes a Bachelors of Studio Art from Southern Oregon University, Davidson was the Art Technician for the Portland Art Museum, Oregon Historical Society, Laura Russo Gallery in Portland and Art Handler for Connect Art International in San Francisco. In addition to painting, Davidson is currently gaining his Master of Arts in Teaching at Southern.He is presently working with Ashland Middle School students on an exhibit of artwork that will be displayed at the Ashland Public Library for a Dia de los Muertos celebration from October 28th into November.
Selected pieces of the First Friday Reception at Ashland Property Management will be on sale with 100% proceeds going to The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights.
Jarrett Rex Davidson, “Aileron Flares” watercolor on paper
For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the November Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!
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Ashland Gallery Association
2020 A Taste of Ashland Poster Art Competition
The Ashland Gallery Association is seeking artwork for its 2020 A TASTE OF ASHLAND event. All southern Oregon artists are encouraged to submit images of their work. AGA Gallery, Associate, and Neighboring Arts Organization members may also submit images for artists they represent. Artists are not required to be AGA Members to submit artwork.
The winner will be publicized in the 2020 Ashland Gallery Guide, the ‘Taste’ Event Guide, on the AGA website, and on ‘Taste’ promotional materials including the poster, postcard, and social media. The Ashland Gallery Guide is distributed to about10,000 patrons of the arts each year. The Event Guide is distributed to about 1,000.
The winning poster artist will receive 2 weekend tickets to 2020 A Taste of Ashland.
Submission deadline: December 5, 2019. The poster art will be selected at the December 10, 2019 AGA General Membership meeting at Ashland Art Center. The meeting will begin at 6:30 and members will vote on the submissions. Winners will be notified shortly after this meeting.
Submission address: Routing: send by email to AGA Administrator, Kim Olson:[email protected]
Important: The ATOA committee is seeking strong, colorful and broadly appealing images – ones that convey a feeling of joy and fun with friends, and the feelingof “Come to Ashland for great food, wine and art”. The submissions don’t have to be literal depictions of food and wine, although they can!
· Submit by email in one of the following files types: JPG (preferred), GIF, TIFF, or PDF (Files not in one of these formats will not be guaranteed to be part of the selection)
· Submissions must be medium-to-high resolution, and must include the artist’s name, phone number, mailing address, and email address.
· Images should be in color and no more than 10MB in size (anything larger will be rejected by the mail server).
· Artwork may be existing or created specifically for the “Taste”.
· Any art medium that can be photographed and printed is eligible.
· The winning artist will be responsible for providing a high-quality image for the printer.
· Any artist who has already been honored becomes eligible to submit again after an interval of five years.
The winning poster artist grants the AGA the right to reproduce his/her artwork for the poster and for publicity of A Taste of Ashland. All proceeds from the promotional use of the image will benefit A Taste of Ashland. The Artist will be credited, where possible, on promotional materials using his/her image.
Thanks so much for submitting your work. A Taste of Ashland is the Ashland Gallery Association’s annual fundraising effort and a themed image is important for marketing the event.
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Join us for the First Friday Art Walk festivities!
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
First Friday Art Walk, October 4th from 5 to 8 pm
For more information about all of our exhibits and to download the October Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Ashland Gallery Association
October Spotlight Exhibits
Ashland Art Center
Autumn Art in Multiple Mediums
Our theme for October is autumn and all it brings with color, texture, warmth in layering and the merging of foliage with art. Our featured artists include Jeanne La Rae in our main gallery. Her show, ” Color Reflected,” showcases Jeanne’s favorite subjects, water and autumn color. Katherine Dron will be showing her work in the upstairs lounge. Her show, ” Fragmenting Flowers explores our local, natural environment by marking paper with ink and watercolor. In our Photographers Co-op, Diana Standing is featured. Her show, “Autumn Impressions,” is a tribute both to her favorite season, Autumn, and to some of her favorite painters of the impressionist and expressionist traditions. She uses a slow shutter speed, camera motion, rare light, and in some cases an occasional breeze to achieve the desired affect.
Finally The Cascade Bonsai Society and local Ikebana artists will be exhibiting a collection of bonsai and art representing nature and the changing of the seasons in their show, “Living Sculpture, Connecting to nature through the art of bonsai.” The show is in the main classroom at Ashland Art Center. The exhibit is a collection of Bonsai Society member’s finest trees, and is timed to celebrate the fall colors.
To enhance the viewers’ experience, Art Center painters’ and photographers’ work has been paired with the trees to complete each display. From rocky hillsides and mossy forest floors, to urban environments, each respective display tells its own story.
A collection of Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements), created by local ceramic and Ikebana artists will also be on display. These seasonal works of art will be for sale, with all proceeds going to the Art Center.
This is a rare opportunity to view living bonsai sculptures and celebrate the changing seasons.
Jeanne La Rae, “Mirrored Duck” painting
Photographers’ Gallery
Featuring Diana Standing
“Autumn Impressions,” Ashland photographer Diana Standing’s exhibit at the Photographers Gallery at the Ashland Art Center opens on October 4th, the First Friday Art Walk, and continues for the month. Her exhibit is a tribute both to her favorite season, autumn, and to some of her favorite painters of the impressionist and expressionist traditions. She uses a slow shutter speed, camera motion, rare light, and in some cases an occasional breeze to achieve the desired affect.
To Diana, there’s a unique quality to the light of autumn, one that adds a profound depth and vibrancy to nature. It’s a season of many moods and constant motion, with bursts of color and abstract patterns, some bright, some brooding. It’s nature’s final gasp in all its glory as it fades into winter. She hopes to have captured this layered atmosphere in her images, with its correspondences to our deeper senses.
Diana traveled to an exhibition in Barcelona, Spain, in 2017 where her series of four still life images were finalists in the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. She exhibited along with 77 other women photographers from 15 different countries. She felt very fortunate to be among such a diverse, creative, and caring group of women. The trip was a reminder of the gifts the world and its people have to offer.
Diana Standing, “Standing Tall,” photograph
Art & Soul Gallery
The Joy of Color
“The Joy of Color” is born of the joy of drawing and painting outdoors. Throughout the spring and summer the Bennetts, husband and wife, have been converting these studies into larger studio paintings. They have been highly energized by new studio spaces adding a spark of color and creativity to their work. Sue Bennett debuts a new path of charmingly colorful and illustrative acrylic paintings designed to bring a smile and lift the heart. In June, 2019, Steve Bennett was awarded Signature membership in the Pastel Society of the West Coast.
“We hope our show will bring a smile and a spark of joy to our viewers.” – The Bennetts
Live music of First Friday will be provided by “Sidewalk Café.” The trio – Beth Martin, violinist and singer, Craig Martin, guitarist, and Todd Ragland, fretless bassist play swing, Gypsy jazz and bossa nova.
On display at Art & Soul Gallery from October 1 – 27.
Meet the artists at our First Friday Reception, Oct. 4th from 5 – 8 pm!
For the month of October, Ashland Artworks will be featuring paintings by Michael Gibson and wire sculptures by George Popa. Meet the artists at the First Friday Artwalk Oct. 4th from 5:00 to 8:00pm.
Michael has a passion for art, travel and photography that is reflected in his art. He is prolific, and works in many mediums, which can be viewed at Ashland Art Works. Michael will also be on the Studio Tour in October.
George’s work expresses a childhood fascination with moving things that he’s never lost. He creates his sculptures using stainless steel wire and silver solder from sketches. His work ranges from airplanes to sharks.
Michael Gibson, painting
Shepherd’s Dream
In the Moment
Mixed Media by Pamela Ourshalimian
Pamela Ourshalimian has explored a myriad of mediums, but has expanded into Mixed Media. Pamela is fascinated by perceptions of self image, and the value placed on the physical form, especially that of women, and explores the driving force behind these perceptions. Her art is an abstracted expression of personal experiences, using distortion and exaggeration of the feminine form, and to evoke a personal connection between the painting and the viewer. Her hope is that her fascination is contagious and intoxicating to the viewers of her work. Pamela is constantly reminded that there is no separation between art and her life. She says of her art, “it leads me to “being in the moment” when it’s all to easy to be thinking about what’s in the future or the past, and reminds me how grateful I am to be an artist.”
Pamela has lived throughout the country in places as varied as Santa Barbara, Michigan and Hawaii, after attending the Flint Institute of Arts in Michigan in the 1960’s. She currently resides in southern Oregon, where she has learned and worked with many of the talented and skilled artisans.Pamela continues to attend workshops in the Pacific NW, continuing to study her craft with nationally acclaimed artists.
“I’m Considering” mixed media by by Pamela Ourshalimian
6th Annual Ashland Open Studio Tour Come Into Our Studios… October 19th & 20th 11 am – 4 pm Free to public
During a weekend in October a group of local artists will open their private studio doors to the public for the Sixth Annual Ashland Open Studio Tour!
The Ashland Open Studio Tour is an inspiring self-guided arts tour, brought to you by the Ashland Gallery Association. The Tour will guide visitors to a variety of artist studios in Ashland and the surrounding communities of Talent and Phoenix, while journeying through the beauty of the fall season.
We invite you to come see the creative processes behind our incredible and diverse arts community. There will be a variety of mediums, as well as demonstrations, presentations, and screenings to reveal each individual’s unique methods.
Pick up a map to the studios at Ashland Art Works on Oak Street or download off the Studio Tour website:
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Join us for the First Friday Art Walk festivities!
Ashland Gallery Association Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
First Friday Art Walk, September 6th from 5 to 8 pm
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore out-skirting galleries! 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 September Gallery Tour map, please visit: www.ashlandgalleries.com
Thank you for your support of the Visual Arts in our communities!
AGA September Spotlight Exhibits
Ashland Art Works
From the Ground Up – Clay and Wood Artistry
Featuring Bonnie Morgan & John Weston
Our Featured Artists this month are Bonnie Morgan and John Weston, highlighting Bonnie’s beautiful functional and decorative ceramics with John’s luscious wood furniture and cutting boards.
Bonnie has been working in clay for many years. Currently along with her functional work she is exploring Terra Sigillata and smoke patterns that are created during the post firing process. Creating decorative and functional pottery has been the cornerstone of her work. Bonnie enjoys making a full range of functional work including mugs, bowls, serving platters, trays, vases and teapots. Bonnie’s goal is to create pottery that can enrich and celebrate our lives.
John Weston will present his latest custom furniture pieces and assorted craft items utilizing primarily local hardwoods. John has been a member of Ashland Art Works for twelve years. Becoming a part of a cooperative of artists has inspired John to stretch his woodworking and to combine form with function. His work highlights the natural beauty found in wood and is of a quality to provide generations of use and enjoyment.
Meet the artists at First Friday Art Walk Sept 6th – 5:00 to 8:00 pm.
Bonnie Morgan, Teapot – Functional ceramics
Hanson Howard
Robert Schlegel, painting & Penelope Dews, ceramic sculpture
September 6th – October 1st
Artist Reception: September 6th, 5-8 pm
Bob Schlegel creates images that possess tension between the representational and the abstract. He paints in the studio and plein aire from preliminary sketches in charcoal, pencil and oil pastel and takes reference photographs as necessary. Drawing is the foundation for his work, he is tenacious with the sketch whether it be life-drawing session or in the field. Through line, contrast, texture, color and composition he explores form and shape where things in the natural world and things that are made by man collide.
Penelope Dews graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1984 with a BFA in Ceramic Sculpture. She works in her studio in Ashland, OR and produces work to fire in a large Anagama wood fire kiln in the Umpqua Valley. An ancient technique, the Anagama kiln produces ash and volatile salts which settle on the pieces and create a natural ash glaze. Penelope uses the tone and texture unique to this process to create richly earth toned characters and objects. This gives the pieces an ancient, stone like surface. Ranging from realistic to whimsical, these animals exude peaceful, playful expressions with a touch of the mysterious.
Robert Schlegel, Houses on Water, acrylic on canvas
Photographers’ Gallery (Ashland Art Center)
The Sentinel of the Forest – Photography by Dan Elster
Local photographer Dan Elster’s new show, The Sentinel of the Forest, opens at The Photographer’s Gallery at the Ashland Art Center on Friday, September 6 for the First Friday Art Walk and continues through the month of September.
Northern Spotted Owls are perhaps the Pacific Northwest’s best-known wildlife species. In the early 1990’s they were listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Logging operations were suddenly curtailed and many even shut down. To the logging communities, the owl became a symbol for government overreach and economic hardship. To the environmentalist, spotted owls represented man’s irresponsible stewardship of the environment. Northern Spotted Owl populations continue to decline and the long-term survival of the species is questionable.
In July of 2019, I accompanied a wildlife biologist in southern Oregon. I was rewarded with a couple of the most memorable encounters to date with Strix occidentalis caurina. I hope these images will help you see Northern Spotted Owls for what they are, (fascinating, beautiful, majestic creatures), not a symbol of a bitter political argument that has gone on for decades.
Dan Elster is a wildlife photographer based in Ashland, Oregon. He hopes his images serve as reminders that we don’t own the earth, we share it.
Dan Elster, Owl photograph
Oak Leaf Studio
The Importance of Water, pastel paintings by Leif Trygg
Water, with its reflective light properties, can be a major influence in landscape art and especially so in the pastel paintings of Ashland artist Leif Trygg at Oak Leaf Studio. Trygg’s new work Stone Bridge San Francisco is featured this month along with pictures of rivers, streams, waterfalls and the ocean. The new pastel is of Stowe Lake in Golden Gate Park.
Also on view is a small collection of dramatic Pacific Northwest photographs from Bend photographer Bob Trygg that feature water as well.
Fall Print Sale September is Oak Leaf Studio’s annual Fall print sale with all Leif Trygg prints 25% off their original price. This includes framed and loose prints.
Trygg, “Lagoon” pastel painting
Please see attached “Spotlight Exhibits” and the September Gallery Tour Map.
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AGA August Art Exhibit Openings & Artist Receptions
Join us for the First Friday Art Walk festivities!
Ashland First Friday Art Walk, August 2nd, from 5 to 8 pm
Stroll the galleries and take in the visual delights in downtown Ashland and the Historic Railroad District. Venture further to explore our out-skirting galleries. Enjoy this free year-round community event, filled with a diverse array of artwork, live music, artist demonstrations, refreshments and lively conversation!
Hanson Howard Gallery Sara Swink, ceramic sculpture Alison O’Donoghue, paintings
Alison O’Donoghue, “Odds & Ends” acrylic on panel
Sara Swink creates self possessed, colorful figures embedded with clues that they exist in a playfully subconscious world. Be they human or creature, there is often the element of the dreamy or the bizarre in their gestures, expressions and adornments. For Swink, art and dream worlds are interconnected. Both invite the unconscious to become conscious; both rely on a language of symbols open to interpretation; both contain clues about psychological patterns. Most often she builds using gritty, sculpture clay, adding color with layered oxides, underglazes and glazes, and fires to mid range temperature giving a matte quality to the saturated colors.
The artwork of Alison O’Donoghue can be described as contemporary folk art; partly naïve, sometimes illustrative, at times cartoony, with some of her pieces being heavily patterned. Her paintings are mostly playful with creatures and people that are quite often glowing with life… awash in dimensional color and shade in a mostly two-dimensional world. In many of her paintings, she combines everyday objects such as; cups of coffee, fruit, plants, humans, birds and odd, made up animals, into a fluid motion of interaction of intertwined shapes. The playful next to the sinister, give the paintings a sense of humor and the complexity of an unfolding story.
August 2 – September 3, 2019 Opening reception August 2, 5-8 pm
Gallerie Karon The Female of the Species – Part I
Pegi Smith, “Seeing You Seeing Me” mixed media painting
Our traditional invitational all women artists show opens August 2nd. Over 20 artists are represented in our biggest show of the year. Art mediums range from photography to pastels, acrylics, water colors and mixed media.
We have earrings by California jeweler Denise Hazleton. Others include Raina Bradshaw, Sharon Moore, Karen Wasser and our latest jewelry artist, Eileen Rouse. We are looking forward to having a special trunk show with Denise some time in August or September – we’ll keep you posted!
Special right now is a tribute to the release of the Downton Abbey movie. The movie will be released in September and we’ll have a little area devoted to the look of the Abbey including a fantastic portrait of Maggie Smith in porcelain by Jerri Cook. Another setting will showcase an exquisite bronze figure of Lakshmi, the goddess of abundance. She will be joined by Quan Yins, other female deities and a rare antique female ancestor figure.
Art & Soul Gallery “Land of My Heart” Oil Paintings by Silvia Trujillo
Silvia Trujillo, “Hill Song,” Oil on Canvas
“Land of My Heart” is one artist’s discovery of homeland. To Silvia Trujillo, it’s a place that is both physical and spiritual, a connection found in land, sky, water and light. In masterful impressionistic style, Trujillo captures scenes from across Southern Oregon and Northern California that are both familiar and otherworldly; scenes that help us examine our own concept of “home”.
“It’s my goal to honor land, water, and sky in my paintings and to create a need for preserving an area’s natural beauty.” – Silvia Trujillo
First Friday reception August 2, 5 – 8 pm Music by Douglass Ross, dulcimer
Shepherd’s Dream The Sound and the Fury
Michele Sabatier, “Sound Fury” 10 X 10 Encaustic on panel
Michele Sabatier’s birthplace was Virginia with origins in the rice fields of Cajun SW Louisiana and currently lives in Portland, OR. She holds a BFA from the School of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MA in curriculum design, University of Mississippi. Michele’s encaustic work, is created from memory rather than using photographic references. She has described them as “intuitive and sense-memory based.” They reflect the vast flatness and the alluvia planes of the Mississippi Delta, as well as, the enveloping intimacy of the Pacific Northwest forests. The work is both abstract and object landscapes, capture and record the internal or external context of experience. This particular series of work, is very deliberately based on memories of the South, and their titles are quotes from a William Faulkner’s novel which references…Macbeth’s Tomorrow upon Lady Macbeth’s death…
