Opening Reception April 22, 2016: 5-7:00 pm
DOWNSTAIRS GALLERIES: APRIL 22 – JUNE 25
Expressions West 2016
This juried exhibition presents sixty-one recent paintings by fifty-four artists residing in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington.
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WINNERS ANNOUNCED:
1st PLACE: Dark Exposure, Acrylic by Claire Duncan, Ashland, OR
2nd PLACE: Circlet, Oil by Georgiana Nehl, Portland, OR
3rd PLACE: Four Studies of Coal-Fired Power Plant, Boardman, OR, Oil by David Carmack Lewis, Portland, OR
HONORABLE MENTION: The Life of Plants, Watercolors by Ellery J. Akers, San Francisco, CA
HONORABLE MENTION: Johnson Creek Mist, Pastel by Patricia Cink, Bandon, OR
HONORABLE MENTION: Wash Closet Club, Acrylic by Katlyn Hubner, Olalla, WA
HONORABLE MENTION: Fragments, Geometry, & Change #218, Gouache by Annell Livingston, El Prado, NM
MABEL HANSEN GALLERY: APRIL 22 – JUNE 25
Leslie Kenneth Price: Garden Conversation
Juror of Expressions West 2016, Leslie Kenneth Price is known for abstract and elegant paintings inspired by nature, Zen Buddhism and jazz music. A professor at Humboldt State University for 30 years, Price received his MFA from Mills College in Oakland and his BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. “My aim is to make a painting that is dynamic and meditative simultaneously, which is similar to my experience of the source material.”
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UNO E RICHTER ATRIUM GALLERY: APRIL 22 – JUNE 25
Jesse Reno: Before Time Began
Inspired by primitive art, mythology, and process, self-taught Portland artist Jesse Reno creates large and compelling mixed media paintings. “We are more likely to move with feeling when we are not afraid….Over time creating images and ideas beyond our own imaginations. Something new and of ourselves. Something unexpected magical and original.”
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CLARE WEHRLE COMMUNITY GALLERY: APRIL 22 – OCTOBER 1
50th Anniversary Exhibition
Coos Art Museum was dedicated on September 17, 1966. Now in our fiftieth, year this exhibition explores the Museum’s past exhibitions, programs, and accomplishments through its publications and historic photographs.
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