Art Exhibits this month – August
High Desert Frameworks!
61 NW Oregon Avenue Suite 101
High Desert Frameworks! is pleased to feature “Small Greetings” with tiny works of art, greeting cards and more by Kay Baker, Roslyn Kliot, Paul Bennett, Kathy Deggendorfer and Monnette Wilcox at our downtown Bend location, 61 NW Oregon Avenue, suite 101. The exhibit and sale will run August 1 through August 31, 2010.
Greeting cards and one-of-a-kind creations are intimate in scale, small enough to hold in your hand. With bits of colored paper, colored pencils, paints and inks, found objects and stamps, Find that perfect card to send “Greetings” to someone you love – or frame one up and display these delightful paper creations in your own home.
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High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford
August 2010 Exhibition: “A Nurturing Environment” – Paul Alan Bennett
Please celebrate Nationally known Central Oregon artist, Paul Alan Bennett
Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul’s imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. This exhibit and sale runs from August 5 through August 29, 2010, with a Special Preview Artist Reception on Thursday, August 5, from 5 to 8pm, and the First Friday Gallery Walk Artist Reception on Friday, August 6, from 5 to 9pm. Join us for refreshments, live music by Erin Cole-Baker, and an opportunity to meet Paul Alan Bennett.
Special Preview Artist Reception: Thursday August 5, from 5 to 8pm. Meet the artist and be the first to see new work!
First Friday Artist Reception: August 6, from 5 to 9pm.
Exhibit and sale runs August 5 through August 29
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Mockingbird Gallery
869 Wall Street #100
Mockingbird Gallery presents “The Power of Suggestion”, a four person show featuring Steven Lee Adams, Joseph Alleman, Rodd Ambroson and H. Shane Ross. Steven Lee Adams, Joseph Alleman and H. Shane Ross will be in attendance at the opening. The show opens First Friday, August 6th from 5-9 pm and will run through August 31st and Steven Lee Adams, Joseph Alleman and H. Shane Ross will be in attendance. Rich Hurdle and Friends will be playing their beautiful jazz music throughout the evening.
Rodd Ambroson will have a separate show before the First Friday opening on Saturday, July 31st from 1-5 pm.
Steven Lee Adams’s oil paintings are introspective. His paintings are tactile and seemingly chiseled from bits of sky, earth and fauna with a delicate and subtle color palette.
Watercolorist Joseph Alleman paints visionary subjects of the rural West such as weathered barns, red-roofed farmhouses, a stand of horses and wind-swept fields of alfalfa. He uses shades of brown, gray and steely blue color that is distilled, and becomes the primary mode to describe his painting’s reflective mood.
Rodd Ambroson’s finely crafted bronzes speak for themselves in beauty and intelligence. His works draw primarily on the female figure for its innate beauty in line and form. They represent universal ideals and emotions.
Through H. Shane Ross’s landscape paintings, he strives to create art which builds and edifies the viewer. He paints with a limited palette using the painterly medium of gouache.
For more information, contact Jim Peterson or Victoria Miller at 541-388-2107 or email: mbg@mockingbird-gallery.com.
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Red Chair Gallery
103 NW Oregon Avenue
Red Chair Gallery is celebrating their Grand Opening! Red Chair is a gallery run by artists with 30 members participating. The unique forms of art, along with such talent makes this a wonderful venue. Please stop by and say hi this Friday August 6th from 5-9 pm.
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River Bend Fine Art Gallery
844 Bond Street
LOCAL COLOR
Original paintings by Bend artists Cindy Briggs, Vicki Shuck and Carla Spence
August 6 through September 2
Artist Reception Friday, August 6
with painting demonstrations by Cindy Briggs (watercolor) and Vicki Shuck (oils)
Cindy Briggs NWS
Overlooking the Cascades from her studio, Cindy finds the interplay of sunlight and shadow a constant inspiration for her award-winning ethereal watercolors. Painting both en plein air and in the studio, she loves exploring Europe and the US to discover soul-inspiring locations for her work.
Vicki Shuck
Shuck captures singular moments of life: most of what goes unnoticed throughout a normal day is filled with someone’s cares and joys. Isolating these moments through the process of painting allows Shuck to be present to the people in her paintings in a special way, even when she doesn’t know them.
Carla Spence
Geometric restraints from her architect father’s influence often hold Spence’s intuitive work together. As an emerging artist, she has been influenced and encouraged by a rich array of instructors and fellow artists, finding the freedom to paint with her right brain, expressing a new way of seeing.
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Thump Coffee
25 NW Minnesota Avenue
NEW EXHIBITS: Annie Johnston Mosaic Mandalas & Jason Darling Tattoo-Inspired Drawings
Two local artists share the bill during August at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. Annie Johnston’s mosaic mandalas and Jason Darlings’ tattoo-inspired watercolor and ink drawings are on exhibit throughout the month. Thump Coffee will be open until 9pm for First Friday Art Walk, August 6.
Johnston explains that mandalas are contemplative tools for moving between the inner and outer experience. “When you look at or make a mandala you resonate with the essence of your deepest self and the collective spirit. Mandalas help to restore a feeling of peace and calm, while imparting an innate understanding of the mysteries of the universe.”
Mandalas, Johnston says, are typically circular and are frequently associated with Celtic and Tibetan art, but there are examples of them in nearly every culture. Over the centuries, they have attained great symbolic value combining the properties of science, art, and nature.
“While working in my garden, I decided to create a series of mandalas using different materials — tile, stone, glass, metal,” says Johnston. “The patterns and rhythms of nature find their way into these mosaic mandalas.”
Darling is an apprentice tattoo artist at 932 Tattoo in Bend. His watercolor and ink works reflect tattoo art and design, he says. For more about Jason Darling, visit his MySpace page at www.myspace.com/darlingtattoos .