Yesterday was the third and final tour. We viewed work in three galleries, all exhibiting group shows. At the Adams and Ollman gallery, I found a piece called “Pulled Thin” by Austin Eddy the most interesting. At each gallery, instructor Amy Bay selects a piece to discuss in detail, and the Eddy piece happened to […]
Archives for April 2015
Art Gallery Tour Week 2
Last weekend we viewed work by Nancy Lorenz in a show called “Polished Ground” at PDX Contemporary. The first thing I noticed when I entered the gallery was the reflection of metal on all four walls. But after my initial reaction, I was struck by the contrast between precious and utilitarian in her work. Backgrounds […]
Art Gallery Tours
For the past two weeks I’ve toured galleries in an area of Portland called the Pearl with painter, curator, and Portland Community College instructor, Amy Bay. Each week one artist has stood out for me. The first week it was Ben Buswell who has a show at the Upfor Gallery called No One Above or […]
Water Garden
Water Lily Trio
Life in a Pond
Quilt Judging–Umpqua Valley Quilters
I spent Thursday, April 9th, judging for the Umpqua Valley Quilters Guild in Roseburg, Oregon. Shows often have special exhibits. Among them, I found one called Strands of Jewels fresh and unique, having never seen one like it before. Sixty members created pieces 6″ wide of similar lengths in any style they wished. The “strands” […]
