Archive of Past Shows: 2007
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NOVEMBER 3 - DECEMBER 31, 2007
Cindy
Kassab
Northwest artist Cindy Kassab will exhibit a collection of landscape photographs and digitally enhanced prints. Kassab's spectacular images are often mistaken for oil paintings or watercolors. The landscapes she captures have a dreamy, fantasy-world artistic quality uniquely her own.
Kassab has won numerous awards from the Professional Photographers of America, California, Oregon, Washington and Fujifilm of America for her fine photographic landscape imagery.
"The one element I use most consistently in my photography is light itself. I get emotionally charged by light. That strange, familiar, indefinable, and infinite chameleon. Red and violet, orange and yellow, green and blue, white. Always in flux, now bold and striking, now soft and yielding. Always moving, yet somehow never moving on."
Cindy
Kassab Northwest artist Cindy Kassab will exhibit a collection of landscape photographs and digitally enhanced prints. Kassab's spectacular images are often mistaken for oil paintings or watercolors. The landscapes she captures have a dreamy, fantasy-world artistic quality uniquely her own.
Kassab has won numerous awards from the Professional Photographers of America, California, Oregon, Washington and Fujifilm of America for her fine photographic landscape imagery.
"The one element I use most consistently in my photography is light itself. I get emotionally charged by light. That strange, familiar, indefinable, and infinite chameleon. Red and violet, orange and yellow, green and blue, white. Always in flux, now bold and striking, now soft and yielding. Always moving, yet somehow never moving on."
OCTOBER 6 - OCTOBER 31, 2007
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Lloyd
Kimeldorf
Drawn to the Surrealist movement at an early age, Lloyd Kimeldorf developed a visual curiosity which still influences his way of seeing. While taking classes in film making, he became intrigued with his current medium, still photography. Lloyd creates and captures singular frames, each describing a fully formed moment within a story ... explicit, but leaving the rest up to the viewer to decide. His body of work consists of three collections: portraits, nudes, and concept pieces. Sometimes surreal, or comical, and often dramatic, Lloyd's work is inspired by a cast of ground-breaking photographers, such as Man Ray and Helmut Newton.
PHOTOGRAPHY BY
Lloyd
Kimeldorf Drawn to the Surrealist movement at an early age, Lloyd Kimeldorf developed a visual curiosity which still influences his way of seeing. While taking classes in film making, he became intrigued with his current medium, still photography. Lloyd creates and captures singular frames, each describing a fully formed moment within a story ... explicit, but leaving the rest up to the viewer to decide. His body of work consists of three collections: portraits, nudes, and concept pieces. Sometimes surreal, or comical, and often dramatic, Lloyd's work is inspired by a cast of ground-breaking photographers, such as Man Ray and Helmut Newton.
SEPTEMBER 1 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2007
IRISH RIVER SERIES
Innana McGraw
Portland artist Inanna McGraw paints in a variety of media - acrylic, oil, pastel, and encaustic. She often combines paint or pastel with metallic leaf, mirror fragments, and collage - anything from scraps of posters to her own monotypes - to create paintings based on myths, travels and personal experiences. Inanna's Irish River collection of encaustic paintings is inspired by the Irish myth of Cattle Raid of Cooley, and will be on display at Shearwater Gallery during the month of September.
IRISH RIVER SERIES
Innana McGraw
Portland artist Inanna McGraw paints in a variety of media - acrylic, oil, pastel, and encaustic. She often combines paint or pastel with metallic leaf, mirror fragments, and collage - anything from scraps of posters to her own monotypes - to create paintings based on myths, travels and personal experiences. Inanna's Irish River collection of encaustic paintings is inspired by the Irish myth of Cattle Raid of Cooley, and will be on display at Shearwater Gallery during the month of September.
AUGUST 4 - AUGUST 31, 2007
HOMECOMING
Zan Danforth
Born into a family of artists in La Grande, Oregon and raised in the Pendleton area, Zan has now lived in Seaside for the past 24 years. Her young life was spent near the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and her passion for the Native American and cowboy lifestyle is often reflected in her artwork. Zan holds an ASG degree with emphasis in fine art through Clatsop Community College. In 1999 she produced the first digital art show in the Pacific Northwest at the Seaside Convention Center. The purpose of this show was to educate the public on digital art at a time when the digital medium was shunned by most fine art galleries. Besides her interest in the arts, Zan contributes much time and energy in helping in non-profit functions that benefit the Seaside area in order to give back to the community.
LOVE FILES
Innana McGraw
Portland artist Inanna McGraw paints in a variety of media - acrylic, oil, pastel, and encaustic. She often combines paint or pastel with metallic leaf, mirror fragments, and collage - anything from scraps of posters to her own monotypes - to create paintings based on myths, travels and personal experiences. Inanna's Love Files series is a collection of colorful oil pastel & collage works. This collection will be on display at Shearwater Gallery during the month of August.
HOMECOMING Zan Danforth
Born into a family of artists in La Grande, Oregon and raised in the Pendleton area, Zan has now lived in Seaside for the past 24 years. Her young life was spent near the Umatilla Indian Reservation, and her passion for the Native American and cowboy lifestyle is often reflected in her artwork. Zan holds an ASG degree with emphasis in fine art through Clatsop Community College. In 1999 she produced the first digital art show in the Pacific Northwest at the Seaside Convention Center. The purpose of this show was to educate the public on digital art at a time when the digital medium was shunned by most fine art galleries. Besides her interest in the arts, Zan contributes much time and energy in helping in non-profit functions that benefit the Seaside area in order to give back to the community.
LOVE FILES
Innana McGraw
Portland artist Inanna McGraw paints in a variety of media - acrylic, oil, pastel, and encaustic. She often combines paint or pastel with metallic leaf, mirror fragments, and collage - anything from scraps of posters to her own monotypes - to create paintings based on myths, travels and personal experiences. Inanna's Love Files series is a collection of colorful oil pastel & collage works. This collection will be on display at Shearwater Gallery during the month of August.
JULY 7 - JULY 31, 2007
UNDULATING
LANDSCAPES
Charles Sites
Oil and encaustic paintings
"Over the lifetime of my work you see a representation of my many moods. Humorous, expressive, sensual, organic, and erotic. I paint landscapes whose forms ebb and flow into each other. The viewer senses the sensuality and a familiarity about these places. Somewhere in the back of their minds they are sure they have been there. And, just when the viewer thinks they have me figured out I throw them a loop with a chair that is dancing, a house or city block swaying, or a potato in high heels peeling herself in front of a tub of sour cream! There is one unifying character to all my work. It is color. Rich, saturated, color. I love color, I love the movement you get when a cool color is placed next to a warm color. Or the contrast of a light color wrapped in between a dark color. Sometimes the images can be exploding from the canvas because of the contrast in color and value.
A blank canvas is always exciting. The possibilities endless. Who or what emerging from the tip of a brush sometimes surprises me as much as anyone. Art is my joy, my escape, and my life."
UNDULATING
LANDSCAPES Charles Sites
Oil and encaustic paintings
"Over the lifetime of my work you see a representation of my many moods. Humorous, expressive, sensual, organic, and erotic. I paint landscapes whose forms ebb and flow into each other. The viewer senses the sensuality and a familiarity about these places. Somewhere in the back of their minds they are sure they have been there. And, just when the viewer thinks they have me figured out I throw them a loop with a chair that is dancing, a house or city block swaying, or a potato in high heels peeling herself in front of a tub of sour cream! There is one unifying character to all my work. It is color. Rich, saturated, color. I love color, I love the movement you get when a cool color is placed next to a warm color. Or the contrast of a light color wrapped in between a dark color. Sometimes the images can be exploding from the canvas because of the contrast in color and value.
A blank canvas is always exciting. The possibilities endless. Who or what emerging from the tip of a brush sometimes surprises me as much as anyone. Art is my joy, my escape, and my life."
JUNE 2 - JUNE 30, 2007
Vicky Wilson
Each piece of jewelry is a miniature sculpture, very unique, and no two pieces are alike. Vicky designs and creates out of her heart and soul and each piece is done completely by hand. Vicky Wilson has been juried and accepted into several art shows and was accepted into the Creative Metal Arts Guild in Portland, Oregon. Recently she participated in the Spring Creative Metal Arts Guild Show at the Convention Center in Portland.
Vicky Wilson
Each piece of jewelry is a miniature sculpture, very unique, and no two pieces are alike. Vicky designs and creates out of her heart and soul and each piece is done completely by hand. Vicky Wilson has been juried and accepted into several art shows and was accepted into the Creative Metal Arts Guild in Portland, Oregon. Recently she participated in the Spring Creative Metal Arts Guild Show at the Convention Center in Portland.
MAY 5 - MAY 31, 2007Rita de Kelaita
Portland artist Rita de Kelaita will be featuring a collection of stitcheries, dreamcatchers and mandala drawings on wood panel. "My art is rooted in history and cultures of the past while looking towards the future. My work tries to find the commonality between cultures and how they blend. I am interested in ancestry, family, and community. Native American themes are prevalent in my work. I find spirituality from feeling connected to Nature and feel a kinship to the Native American. I am interested in expressing a singular sense of humanity."
~ Rita de Kelaita
Joan Masat
Local artist Joan Masat exhibits a collection of landscape paintings. Now retired, Masat moved to Astoria, Oregon eight years ago and began pursuing her life-long passion for art. Her artistic endeavors are now a large and joyous part of her life. She exhibits her work at local galleries and businesses, and hopes to continue creating art for many years to come.
APRIL 7 - APRIL 30, 2007
Kim Hamblin
Portland mixed media artist Kim Hamblin currently shows at Guardino Gallery and teaches art at p:ear with homeless youth.
Earl Hamilton
Also showing will be a brand new collection of work by Earl Hamilton.
Earl's
work is full of life and moods ... calming and whimsical ... soft and bright
colors. The element of collage is added to his paintings, often as an expression
of his Japanese heritage.
Earl is currently a full-time professional artist, fulfilling his lifelong dreams, and doing what he truly enjoys ... painting. He has received many awards and honors for his contributions to the art world.
Kim Hamblin
Portland mixed media artist Kim Hamblin currently shows at Guardino Gallery and teaches art at p:ear with homeless youth.
Earl Hamilton
Also showing will be a brand new collection of work by Earl Hamilton.
Earl's
work is full of life and moods ... calming and whimsical ... soft and bright
colors. The element of collage is added to his paintings, often as an expression
of his Japanese heritage. Earl is currently a full-time professional artist, fulfilling his lifelong dreams, and doing what he truly enjoys ... painting. He has received many awards and honors for his contributions to the art world.
MARCH 3 - MARCH 31, 2007
OUT OF THE DARKNESS
Kim McCarthy
Kim McCarthy was born and raised in Washington State. Growing up in the sticks and later living in the city she developed a taste for urban street art such as wheat pasted posters and flyers, stickers, stencils, murals and spray painted graffiti. Meeting new friends and seeing many bands, the "underground" and "outsider" art became part of her life.
OUT OF THE DARKNESS Kim McCarthy
Kim McCarthy was born and raised in Washington State. Growing up in the sticks and later living in the city she developed a taste for urban street art such as wheat pasted posters and flyers, stickers, stencils, murals and spray painted graffiti. Meeting new friends and seeing many bands, the "underground" and "outsider" art became part of her life.
FEBRUARY 3 - FEBRUARY 28, 2007
Nho Nguyen
For Vietnamese artist and new American Nho Nguyen, color is life. Living means color. "Color is my language; with this I create art." Nguyen's abstracts in oil and acrylics incorporate intense use of color, texture, motion and emotion. While he was a political prisoner, color gave him the inspiration and desire to live through punishment, torture, hunger and misery. "Playing with color gave me happiness in the midst of great misfortune. I paint with gratitude, with openheartedness. I paint with all my heart."
Dennis Shaffner
Shaffner specializes in exquisitely woven textile forms. A variety of natural materials are used to create Shaffner's organic, basket and nest-like sculptures. Some of Shaffner's pieces are embellished with vintage button detailing. Working out of Louisville, Kentucky, Shaffner's work is included in permanent collections at several universities, museums and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
Nho Nguyen
For Vietnamese artist and new American Nho Nguyen, color is life. Living means color. "Color is my language; with this I create art." Nguyen's abstracts in oil and acrylics incorporate intense use of color, texture, motion and emotion. While he was a political prisoner, color gave him the inspiration and desire to live through punishment, torture, hunger and misery. "Playing with color gave me happiness in the midst of great misfortune. I paint with gratitude, with openheartedness. I paint with all my heart."
Dennis Shaffner Shaffner specializes in exquisitely woven textile forms. A variety of natural materials are used to create Shaffner's organic, basket and nest-like sculptures. Some of Shaffner's pieces are embellished with vintage button detailing. Working out of Louisville, Kentucky, Shaffner's work is included in permanent collections at several universities, museums and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
JANUARY 6 - JANUARY 31, 2007
Carol Thompson
A master of seascapes, Carol Thompson skillfully depicts Pacific Northwest landscapes and subjects with a sensibility that reflects her firsthand knowledge of the area. Lighthouses, rocky coastlines, crashing waves, seabirds and garden & floral scenes are among her varied subjects. Her work is featured in private collections around the world, and having achieved recognition in several art publications, her artwork is considered a very desirable investment.
Kim Spence
Kim’s interest in the spiritual, ceremony and tribal symbolism lead to her unique mixed media paintings. “Dreams, visions and symbols” ... blending the traditional, contemporary and personal interpretation of the spirit of man and nature. Currently, her paintings reflect her intense fascination with the mystical powers of the sea, its surroundings and inhabitants.
Carol Thompson
A master of seascapes, Carol Thompson skillfully depicts Pacific Northwest landscapes and subjects with a sensibility that reflects her firsthand knowledge of the area. Lighthouses, rocky coastlines, crashing waves, seabirds and garden & floral scenes are among her varied subjects. Her work is featured in private collections around the world, and having achieved recognition in several art publications, her artwork is considered a very desirable investment.
Kim Spence Kim’s interest in the spiritual, ceremony and tribal symbolism lead to her unique mixed media paintings. “Dreams, visions and symbols” ... blending the traditional, contemporary and personal interpretation of the spirit of man and nature. Currently, her paintings reflect her intense fascination with the mystical powers of the sea, its surroundings and inhabitants.