Wonderful Art Coming Your Way

by DENI PORTER

Exciting things are happening at the Artists’ Gallery in the Village at Sunriver! New fiber artist Stacey Colgan has joined the Gallery, and you can meet her, view her pieces and have a great time experiencing art by all Gallery artists. Saturday June 10 from 4-6pm guests are invited to enjoy “nibbles and wine” and converse with all the featured artists for the month of June. This month the Gallery artists are inspired by wildflowers — beautiful, fierce and free.

Stacey Colgan is a fiber artist working in the technique of Nuno felting. The technique employs the use of wool fiber, other lustrous fibers, soap and water. Colgan then applies what she describes as “copious amounts of hand agitation” to create each unique finished fiber. (We will have to check out her arm muscles!) The result is a oneof-a-kind piece of wearable art. Nature is the artist’s best inspiration, and Colgan uses it to create scarves, hats, bags, and tapestries.

Laura Jo Sherman has been supplying beautiful pastel paintings to the Gallery for years. She says that she has been an artist forever and is happy to share the joy of her evolving passions as the subjects of her pieces. Sherman’s pastel technique is as unique as the artist herself. Colors, shapes, and textures are intense and imbue a sense of movement. Horses are galloping right out of the canvas. Flowers are catching the afternoon breeze. The artist likes for her paintings “to say something,” and they certainly do.

Sunriver Exhibits

Artists’ Gallery Sunriver Village

57100 Beaver Dr., Bldg. 19

541-593-4382 • artistsgallerysunriver.com

Featuring new fiber artist Stacey Colgan, pastel paintings by Laura Jo Sherman, multi-media sculptor Jesse Pemberton and printmaker Wade Womack. Stop by on Second Saturday, June 10 from 4-6pm for nibbles, wine and art demonstrations

Nancy McGrath Green Gallery at Sunriver Christian Fellowship

18139 Cottonwood Road

541-593-1183 • sunriverchristianfellowship.org

Continuing at the Nancy McGrath Green (NMG) Gallery at Sunriver Christian Fellowship is their show, Art From Home, featuring work from ten talented fine artists and photographers from the Sunriver Village gallery, Artists’ Gallery Sunriver, created with watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastels, woodblock, mixed media and photography. On display will be art by Marjorie Cossairt, Bonnie Junell, Diane Lay, Kelly Lish, Kenneth Marunowski, Christian Murillo, Lori Orlando, Carolyn Waissman, Judy Wilson and Wade Womack.

The exhibit is available for viewing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and

Multi-media sculptor Jesse Pemberton takes his inspiration from nature’s geometric rules and textural cues. Primarily working with metal, Pemberton incorporates found objects and local materials that inspire him. The artist produces a wide variety of art sculptures ranging from smaller tabletop pieces to large public displays.

Printmaker Wade Womack works primarily with the reduction wood block printing technique. Relief printing (or wood block) is the oldest method of print making. In its essence, you carve away what you do not want and ink the remaining raised surfaces. Next you place paper over the inked image and hand rub with a hard surface. Repeat the process for each new color that you wish to add to the paper. What appears to be a simple process is actually highly complicated! At the Gallery, Womack provided a visual display of the process. It is located directly beneath the wall the displays some highly complicated pieces that are simply beautiful.

The Artists’ Gallery is in Building 19 in the Village at Sunriver. ArtistsGallerySunriver.com 541-593-4382

Friday from 2-4pm, and Sundays following worship service from 121:30pm. All are welcome. Maybe visit the gallery during the First Friday Art Walk. Make a stop before exploring Bend galleries.

The NMG Gallery plans to host various artists and groups of artists, with shows rotating quarterly. If you are an artist (painter, photographer, quilter or other two dimensional medium) and are interested in participating in the Gallery, please send an email to McGrath.Green.Gallery@gmail.com.

Sunriver Resort Lodge - Betty Gray Gallery

17600 Center Dr. 503-780-2828

As we head into summer in Central Oregon, the Betty Gray Gallery in the Sunriver Lodge is continuing one exhibit and welcoming another. In the upstairs gallery, photographer Christian Murillo recently finished an exhibit in Italy featuring the Cascade Mountain Range and its unique landscapes. The exhibit will be in the upstairs gallery through June and into July.

Downstairs, Alisa Looney’s inventive ReEnamelware series, titled Interdependence, will be exhibiting this June through August.

Both exhibits will be featured in a special Second Saturday art reception on Saturday, June 10. This will be an additional artwalk space to complement the normal summer receptions at the Artists’ Gallery Sunriver, Sunriver Music Festival Office and Cascade Sotheby’s, as well as other participants. The reception will run from 4-6pm along with all the other locations.

Sisters Exhibits

Hood Avenue Art hoodavenueart.com • info@hoodavenueart.com • 541-719-1800

357 W Hood Ave.

Featured at Hood Avenue Art for the month of June is Ruth Carroll, Kathleen Keliher and Alisa Looney.

Ruth has been drawing and painting most of her life. Her paintings have been purchased by art collectors all over the USA and abroad. She is committed to paint what inspires her emotionally and spiritually. Favorite subjects include landscape, still life and figurative works. Kathleen began her career as a working artist after moving from Seattle, Washington to Bend in 1998. Working primarily in pastels, she focused her attention on her surrounding landscape, working plein air in the summer months and retreating to her studio for the cold winters.

The focus of Alisa’s work is not only to appreciate the beauty and rhythms of nature, and our connection to it but also to inspire the care and healing of our natural world and each other. Alisa creates original images in glass by fusing kiln-fired layers of enamel to steel sculptures, panels and jewelry. Come by and watch her demonstrate her enameling process during Fourth Friday Art Stroll in Sisters on June 23!

Raven Makes Gallery

182 E Hood Ave.

541-719-1182 • ravenmakesgallery.com

Our gallery offers first market Native American and Indigenous artists’ works, spanning the Arctic to Northern Mexico. Contemporary, meaningful and diverse mediums, including hand-crafted Navajo, Hopi and Zuni jewelry. New and original pieces this spring include unique acquisitions directly acquired from Pacific Northwest and South Western U.S. Native artists.

Stitchin’ Post Gallery

311 W Cascade Ave., Sisters

541-549-6061 • stitchinpost.com

Now showing in Stitchin’ Post’s Fiber Art Gallery thru June 20 — In The MIX, an exhibit by Portland’s MIX art group. Our new exhibit opens during the Sisters 4th Friday Art Stroll from 4-6pm on June 23 — Ink & Stone, featuring the works of Valori and Jean Wells. Recurring themes with both of these textile artists have to do with natural configurations: rocks, trees, grasses, flowers and the land, as well as travel. Printmaking is Valori’s passion! She enjoys the entire process from sketching imagery to carving the blocks and printing them on fabric. Jean is a contemporary quiltmaker known for teaching as well as her art. The natural Central Oregon beauty surrounding this mother-daughter artist duo is constant inspiration as they work intuitively in their chosen fields.

Toriizaka Art

222 West Hood Ave.

541-595 8285 • toriizakaart.com

Toriizaka Art will be featuring the unique work of Ngo Van Sac (Vietnam) this month. His mixed media 2 dimensional works include wood burning, collage, and paints on natural wood. Years ago, when the French occupied Vietnam, they insisted that all the old manuscripts using the original Chinese characters ( ) be burned. This was a part of their “modernization” effort when changing the Vietnamese written language to the Latin or Roman alphabet. Ngo Van Sac’s grandfather was a poet, philosopher and professor and instead of burning his manuscripts, he buried them. Today, Van Sac often incorporates these formerly forbidden manuscripts into his mixed media works. We hope you can join us to experience his unique multigenerational work.