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Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Saturday Noon - 4:00 pm
The East Oregonian Gallery at the Pendleton Center for the Arts is a beautiful space for viewing a wide range of artwork. Funded by the East Oregonian, publisher of the local daily paper since 1875, the gallery is flanked by large windows original to the building, bamboo floor and more than 1800 square feet of display area.
YOUR Artwork….It’s time to start thinking about what you’re going to enter in this year’s Open Regional Exhibit, May 2-June 28. We accept ALL MEDIUMS except photography (the Photography Open will be in 2014) and this year we’re partnering with the Crazy Horse Quilters to sponsor a special fiber arts award. See the call for entry HERE. |
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You can view more highlights of our past exhibits and read about the artists here. |
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Selected past exhibitions….. |
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Exhibits at PCA |
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Keiko Hara Clay Invitational Don Gray Peter Bryan The Art of the Gift: Fine Craft Exhibit |
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July 5 – July 26, 2013 August 1-30, 2013 September 5-27, 2013 October 3 - 25, 2013 November 21 - December 31, 2013 |
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Upcoming exhibits….. |
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GENERATIONS: Betty Feves August 9 - September 29, 2012 |
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View a selection from the Museum of Contemporary Craft’s retrospective exhibit, curated by Namita Gupta Wiggers. This portion of the first museum retrospective of work by Betty Whiteman Feves (1918-1985) includes ceramic work spanning her groundbreaking career. |
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Jessica Plattner: BABYSCAPES October 4-27, 2012 |
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In Babyscapes, Jessica Plattner’s infant daughter plays the starring role. Each work is a paper collage that juxtaposes photographs of the baby girl with found images from a variety of printed materials. The result is a fantastic and whimsical scene.
From the artist’s statement: [she] appears in a variety of unexpected settings such as a lake of milk, a shiny field of pennies, or a garden of eels. In each scene the baby radiates peacefulness as she quietly explores the world and engages with its strange creatures. She is undaunted by flying fish, winged people, and floating eyeballs. She is not afraid of bears or alligators, who display their teeth for her to examine freely. In these visions, my child is brave, intrepid and seemingly immune to danger; self-contained but protected by benevolent guardians.
Plattner is Associate Professor of Art at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande. During her 2011-12 sabbatical from EOU, she was invited to be visiting artist-in-residence at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada, as well as Studio Art Centers International (SACI) in Florence, Italy. The work in this exhibition is the result of her year-long sabbatical project. |
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The works were created as part of Crow's Shadow's "Golden Spot" residency program, made possible through the support of the Ford Family Foundation. Golden Spot Award artists include Pat Boas, Arnold J. Kemp, Eva Lake, Susan Murrell, Jenene Nagy, Storm Tharp. The exhibit is traveling from a recent showing at PDX Contemporary Art in Portland, one of the west coast's premier galleries and one that represents the work of Crow's Shadow founder James Lavadour. In 2010 Crow's Shadow was one of three Oregon nonprofit organizations to receive a Golden Spot grant from the Ford Family Foundation, so named because each institution is located in a scenic region of the state. Under the Golden Spot residency Crow's Shadow provides a series of two-week printmaking residencies for Oregon mid-career visual artists guided by Tamarind Master Printer Frank Janzen. |
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Oregon Artists in collaboration with |
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RIGHT NOW... |
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He has long made works based on landscape. Growing up in eastern Oregon, the dry and rocky geology of the Great Basin was a strong influence. That reductive landscape continues to be an important source of inspiration, but Wyckoff is now generating more complex compositions suggested by slash piles of discarded trunks and limbs left behind by lumbering operations or jumbles of rocks and smashed trees rolled downhill by avalanches.
Recent compositions reveal a new approach to his entangled subject matter. He has mimicked the interlaced limbs and branches found in the natural world by weaving together strips from the discarded margins of his prints.
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Christy Wyckoff has been a working visual artist for over 40 years. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1968 and earned an MFA in Printmaking at the University of Washington. From 1979 to his 2012 retirement, Wyckoff taught at the Pacific NW College of Art. |
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CHRISTY WYCKOFF: New Works |
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Visitors to the East Oregonian Gallery at the Pendleton Center for the Arts in April were greeted by a sea of portraits that vibrate with brilliant color and lend tender insights to the inner lives of the characters portrayed. The paintings – more than 40 in all – by Hermiston artist Arlen Clark.
Clark has been painting for the past 35 years. He took one art class with northwest painter Sandra Campbell when first became interested in painting. “She didn’t teach us how to paint, she just told us we could paint anything we wanted, any way we wanted,” says Clark. “I spent the next several years trying to figure out what I DID want to paint, and how I wanted to paint it.”
Like many successful artists, he started out his exploration of painting by making copies of paintings by the old masters. He made several paintings after Vermeer’s iconic works, but didn’t connect with the style. Shortly after, he made a trip to St. Thomas and was struck by the vibrant colors and lush foliage. He also was interested in painting portraits of his wife, Linda, from old photographs. At the same time, he was voraciously studying art history and the work of all the icons of modern art. This deep exploration has giving his work a rich collection of associations. Viewers might recognize references to everything from Picasso and Gauguin to Australian aboriginal work.
Clark says he thinks about the paintings all the time, usually working on one painting at a time until the character and surroundings are fully fleshed out. He works as a janitor at the Hinkle rail station west of Hermiston. “I don’t have to think much at my job, it’s mainly just repetitive tasks, so as I do my work I think about the compositions.” |
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ARLEN CLARK Made possible through the generous support of Alerita Burns |
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2013 Open Regional Exhibition Through June 29 |
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Judge Susan Murrell awarded this year’s Best of Show to Marna Auclair’s untitled sculpture, citing the great scale and technical skill used in the pairing of found materials and ceramic work. Murrell also gave out several other awards and provided a crowd of almost 200 people with an informative and insightful look at her thought process in choosing the winners. Murrell considered 170 works submitted by 110 individual artists from around the region.
Banner Bank provided the bulk of the awards for both adults and teens ($1000 in all) and Krazy Horse Quilters provided additional funds to recognize textile entries. Visitors to the exhibit can vote for their favorite work and that artist will be awarded $200 on June 29.
BEST OF SHOW - Marna Auclair, Untitled
ADULT:
FIRST - Brian Purnell, Salt Remembers its True Name
SECOND - Chris Krolick, Engagement
THIRD - Lauri Borer, Summer Burn
TEEN:
FIRST - Emily Bradley, Lotus Flower
SECOND - Dusti Leetch, Split Ends
THIRD - Ann Mendoza, Pandas
SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR FIBER ARTS:
Deborah Bernasconi, Wool Dress & Jacket
Becky Johnson, Wish You Were Here
HONORABLE MENTION: Arlen Clark, Anne Haley, Sarah Lynn Havens, Roy Anderson, Margaret Jamison, Amy Rogers, Henrik Soerensen, Bob Ewen. |