INTERNATIONALPRINTPROJECT PRINT ARTS NORTHWESTOPUS 39 GALLERY
PORTLANDNICOSIA PRINTEXHIBITION 2008 NICOSIACYPRUS DECEMBER2008
Dear Visitor, Given the opportunity to add something to this event, I would like to express my thanks to the “International Print Project” and Print Arts Northwest for choosing my gallery to host this cultural exchange and exhibition, hoping many other institutions and galleries may follow in this example. This is a wonderful opportunity for all artists to show their work globally and make it possible to communicate through art. The gallery aims to promote quality art through its exhibitions. It does not specialize in any specific style/movement of art hosting various mediums, whether it be ceramics, painting, jewellery, sculpture, installations and photography, thus providing the viewer with the opportunity to appreciate different approaches to art. Some of the artists exhibited are very young and unknown, as the gallery feels “obliged” to help/encourage these newcomers. Opus 39 is unafraid to “take a chance” as well as dare. It believes “selling” is not its sole purpose, “educating” is just as important (often exhibitions are visited by school groups of all ages). Lectures are sometimes held concerning the exhibited subject.
This exhibition in Nicosia is the fourth in our cross cultural “International Print Project”. The project started very simply as an email from printmaker Barbara Mason, Director of Print Arts Northwest in Portland, Oregon, USA, to a printmaking Internet friend, Dr Arafat Al-Naim in Amman, Jordan. Prints have now traveled across the ocean to and from Jordan and to and from Cyprus. It was my great pleasure to handle the work personally for both exhibitions in our gallery in Portland. I feel a real connection to artists I have never met but whose work I admire and through our work we are truly the same. We are using the same processes, the same paper, the same ink, and sometimes even similar imagery. Printmaking is language we understand, allowing us to talk to each other even though we might not speak the same verbal language.
Of course, a special note of thanks to Dr Arafat Al-Naim and Barbara Mason who through good networking, effort and coordination made this possible for all. What a concept! Travelling Art... Technology has made it easy for imagery and information to travel across the world, but exhibitions and venues such as these “connect”.
As an educational venue the exhibitions were a huge success. In Portland we printed out maps of the Middle East and the Mediterranean encouraging visitors and members alike to get a sense of the geographical locations of both Jordan and Cyprus. We also brought in books about the culture and history of both countries and enjoyed food catered by restaurants that specialized in Middle Eastern and Greek food. The work from Cyprus traveled to a gallery in Vancouver, Washington so was exhibited twice while in the USA. Oregon probably seems as mysterious and far away to the citizens of Nicosia as the Mediterranean does to most of us, yet we have this strong connection. We are more alike than we realize and the language of ink added to paper by artists is a universal one.
Maro Marangos
Barbara Mason
Director Opus 39 Gallery Nicosia, Cyprus
Executive Director Print Arts Northwest Portland, Oregon, USA
We live in difficult times for humanity and it seems that the arts are the only resource of pleasure and hope accessible to all. It is amazing to me how through art all boundaries “disappear” - whether it be religion, race or language. Special thanks to our supporters and sponsors, the American Embassy in Cyprus.
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portland - nicosia print exhibition 2008 original fine art printmaking exhibition and exchange 10 december 2008 - 15 january 2009 nicosia . cyprus
sue allen
Sue has been designing and screenprinting for many years. The cards and original limited-edition screenprints that she makes are distinctive and colorful, inspired by tradition, nature and imagination. She grew up in Queens, New York and spent many happy childhood summers at camp in New Hampshire. Since receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree from The Cooper Union in New York City, printmaking has been her main focus and livelihood. After working in New York City and Stowe, Vermont, she moved to Oregon in 1975, and has sue@sueallenstudio.com
lived in the foothills of Mount Hood since 1981, where she enjoys nature in all her seasons and can be creative and productive. Artistic directions range from nature and organic order to some abstraction and geometry and veers repeatedly toward the Japanese aesthetic and beauty. Recent studies in the book arts has led to a new passion, one that brings her back to a design and construction format. Her work is distinguished, refined, elegant and unusual.
A recent project- “Around Mount Hood: 12 Months - 12 Directions�, was awarded a grant from the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition and the Oregon Cultural Trust. The inaugural exhibition was at the Mount Hood Cultural Center and Museum in Government Camp in 2006 - 2007, and it has been on exhibit around Oregon since. Her work is shown in many shops and galleries in Oregon and beyond, and she exhibits extensively and has won many awards. autumn equinox, screenprint
mt hood june, screenprint
winter wonderland, screenprint
shoji winter, screenprint
dennis cady
Dennis Cady was born Portland, Oregon, November 10, 1944.
The Brooklyn Museum Art School (with Reuben Tam) State University of New York, Empire State College Pratt Graphics Art Center
Education Portland State University (with Robert Colescott) highland view, woodcut
approaching storm, woodcut
patricia cheyne
Ms. Patricia Cheyne is a Professor at Pacific University teaching drawing, design, papermaking, art education, and printmaking. Patricia received a B.F.A. from the University of Hartford, a M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University, and a M.F.A. from the University of Colorado. The areas of concentration of her studies were drawing, printmaking, art history, art education, and women studies. She has taught at all levels of education from pre-school through university.
Patricia has an extensive exhibit record. She has shown her work nationally and internationally. She has had many one-person shows. She has also presented papers at the Denver Art Museum, Pacific University, and the College Art Association, and has curated many ongoing exhibitions in the Forest Grove and Portland, Oregon communities. She is a member of the Print Arts Northwest, LosAngelus Printmakers Association, Handpapermaking Association, National Art Education Association,
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the College Art Association. Patricia says in her artist statement, “I am also influenced by my immediate visual experiences-such as the forests and valleys of the Pacific Northwest, subjective states such as the cuts and scars of the emotional life. But most recently, I have been making artwork investigating the states of mind that all humans create for themselves. Thoughts,
memories, and even secrets have been the inspiration for my new prints containing both text and image. With all these sources, my work focuses less on realistic representation and more on expressive images. In my art I hope to capture the motion and force alive in both the source of inspiration and the process of artistic creation. My art is a mix of landscapes, soulscapes, and mythscapes.
interior landscape, monotype
elizabeth dove
Elizabeth Dove is a printmaker and photographer currently residing in Missoula, Montana, where she teaches in the Art Department at the University of Montana. Her work continues to be based in traditional printmaking practices (concerns with repetition, imprinting, and the matrix) but has www.elizabethdove.com
expanded in media to include earthworks, site specific sculpture and installation. Elizabeth's main interests are investigating the passage of time, subjective scientific methods, and how one's body can register and can communicate history and memories.
Elizabeth has conducted extensive research into non-toxic printmaking processes, taught dozens of workshops at colleges and universities, received funding to study the integration of digital technology and traditional printmaking practices, and has published her research in the books “The
Contemporary Printmaker” and “Non-toxic Intaglio Printmaking”, and the British journal “Printmaking Today”. Elizabeth received her BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, and her MFA from Vermont College.
nature, nuture, sense, experience, etching
tallmadge doyle Born in New York City, Tallmadge Doyle resides in Eugene, Oregon where she has lived and worked since 1989. She received her BFA in drawing from the Cleveland Art Institute and her MFA in printmaking from the University of Oregon where she taught Printmaking as an Adjunct Professor 1997 - 2004. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections including the Seattle Portable Works Collection, Portland Art Museum’s Gilkey Print Collection, and Chicago’s Loyola University Print Collection. She is represented by the Davidson Gallery in Seattle and the Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery as well as in Portland at the Augen Gallery and the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery. Education - Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking 1993, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon - Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing 1979, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio tallmadgedoyle.com
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2008 Augen Gallery, Celestial Menagerie, Portland, OR 2007 Eugene Downtown Public Library, Eugene, OR 2006 Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA 2005 Augen Gallery, Mysterium Cosmographicum, Portland, OR 2004 Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, OR 2003 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR 2003 Newport Visual Arts Gallery, Newport, OR 2002 Lane Community College, Eugene, OR 2002 John and Betty Gray Gallery, NWPC, Portland, OR Public Collections - Loyola University Permanent Collection, Chicago, IL - University of Amman Applied Sciences Collection, Amman Jordan - City of Seattle Portable Works Collection - Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
- University of Hawaii at Hilo Permanent Collection - Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, OR - University of Oregon Erb Memorial Union Permanent Collection - Oregon State University College of Agriculture Science, Corvallis , OR - The Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, Ohio - University of Alaska, Anchorage, Print Collection Recent Juried Exhibitions 2007 Loyola National Works on Paper - Crown Center Gallery, Chicago, IL Purchase Award 2007 Printmaking Currents - Pacific Northwest College of Art, Atrium Gallery, Portland, OR 2007 Art About Agriculture - Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Purchase Award 2006 35th Brand Library Printmaking Exhibition, Glendale, CA 2006 Printmaking Currents - Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 2006 Seeing God - Dadian Gallery, Henry Luce Center for the Arts & Religion, Washington DC
2005 Los Angeles Print Society 18th National Armory Art Center, Pasadena - Juror’s Award 2005 Works on Paper from Seattle Print Arts Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China 2005 Imprinted-Contemporary Printmaking El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 2005 Ink And Clay 31 - Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona,CA 2005 North American Print Biennial - Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA 2004 New Prints 2004 - International Print Center, New York, NY 2004 Loyola University of Chicago Print Biennial Crown Center Gallery 2004 Janet Turner 5th National Exhibition - Turner Print Museum, Cal Chico 2004 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition - University of Hawaii, Hilo 2004 4th Minnesota Print Biennial - Wiesman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Purchase Award
evolving angles, monoprint
ellen emerson
Education - BFA with Honors, Graphic Design, 1973, Rhode Island School of Design Related Experience Graphic Designer with a broad range of experience including museum graphics, signage, identity programs, book and publication design. Solo Exhibitions 2005 Ellen Emerson: New Monotypes, Janovec Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2004 Ellen Emerson: Monotypes and Collage, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon 1990 Ellen Emerson: New Monoprints, Mitchell Earth Sciences Building, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Group Exhibitions 2008 Prints from Guenda - Oaxcan Women Artists, Josepha Kate Gallery, Portland, Oregon eemerson5@comcast.net
2008 Monothon PDX, Print Arts Northwest Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2008 Northwest Visions in Printmaking, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, Washington 2008 Art for Life, Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Portland Convention Center, Portland, Oregon 2008 Contemporay Prints, Pacific Northwest College of Art Library, Portland, Oregon 2007 15 Printmakers, Print Arts Northwest Gallery, Portland, Oregon 2006 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural Sensibilities III, Kyungpook National University Gallery, Daegu, South Korea, Portland, Oregon 2006 Going to Korea, Janovec Gallery, Portland, OR 2005 The Art of Surviving, YWCA Gallery and The Elizabeth Building, Portland, Oregon 2004 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural Sensibilities II, Littman Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 2003 Waking Dream, Women Tree Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2003 Art for Life, Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Weiden & Kennedy, Portland, Oregon 2002 City of Gresham Juried Art Exhibit, Juror: Margo Jacobsen, City Hall Visual Arts Center, Gresham, Oregon 2001 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural Sensibilities, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, South Korea 2001 Portland Open Studios Group Show, Littman and White Galleries, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 2000 Audubon Society Wild Arts Festival, Portland, Oregon 1999 Bush Barn Art Center, Juried Group Show, Salem, Oregon 1999 Portland Open Studios Group Show, Omni Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1991 Avenue of the Arts: Monotype/Monoprint Exhibition, Juror: Nathan Oliviera, Belmont, California 1990 Ford Aerospace Corporation, San Jose, CA
1990 Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, California 1990 Works on Paper ‘90, Koret Gallery, Albert L. Schultz, Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto, California 1989 Altered Dreams: The Compelling Figure, Student Union Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 1989 New Members’ Show, Valentines, Summer in the City, Impressions: New Prints from the Graphic Arts Workshop, The Graphic Arts Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, California
postage due, lithograph
games for a rainy day, lithograph
not made in china, lithograph
little puzzle, lithograph
sheryl funkhouser
Education 1967-68 California College of the Arts, Oakland, California, USA 1968-71 BFA Painting, Pacific Northwest College of the Arts, USA Collections - Gilkey Collection, Portland Art Museum - State of Oregon - Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, Oregon - University of Oregon Libraries - Museo de Gravura, Rio de Janiero, Brazil - Beijing, PRC Selected Exhibitions 2007 Print Arts Northwest 2007 Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham WA
2006 Printmaking Currents, National Juried Exhibition, PNCA 2006 12 x 16 Gallery, 12 etchings, Portland, OR 2005 Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR 2005 Honoring Ray Trayle, Mt. Hood College, Gresham, OR 2004 Pacific Prints 2004, Palo Alto, California 2003 Ray Trayle Print Prize & exhibition, PAM & PAN 2002 Canon Beach Gallery 2001 Northwest Printmakers, Davidson Gallery, Seattle WA 1999 Blackfish Gallery Founders Exhibit 1998 Prints Across the Pacific, China National Academy, PRC 1997 Postcards from the Edge, Oregon College of Art & Craft 1996 Margo Jacobsen Gallery
1996 Doll Gardner Gallery 1996 Museo da Gravura, Museo de Curitaibo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1995 Oregon Historical Society, PAN exhibit 1994 Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA 1993 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 1992 20 Oregon Printmakers, Corvallis Arts Center 1991 Northwest Print Council, Portland Art Museum 1989 10th Anniversary Invitational, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR 1988 Inkling Exhibition, Littman Gallery, Portland State University 1988 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR 1987 Coos Bay Art Museum 1986 Northwest Print Council Exchange, Beijing, PRC 1985 Western States Print Invitational, Gordon Gilkey, Curator
1983 Lane Community College, Eugene, OR (exhibit & lecture) 1981 “Four Oregon Artists”, Portland Center for Visual Arts 1980 The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Lake Oswego, OR 1979 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR 1978 Original Editions Graphic Competition Traveling Exhibit, U of Oregon 1975 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Center 1974 Twenty Fourth Avenue Gallery, Portland, OR
aphordite and athena, etching, chine colle
paul gentry
Paul Gentry is a printmaker, painter, and mixed media artist who is also an owner/partner of the River Gallery in Independence, Oregon. He has specialized in wood engraving since 2001, concentrating mostly on depicting the rural landscape around where he lives. Mr. Gentry has exhibited in shows throughout the United States, most recently in Washington DC at National Small Works where he was awarded a purchase prize. He is represented in Portland, Oregon by Print Arts Northwest Gallery and the Portland Art Museum Rental/Sales Gallery and in Seattle, Washington by Fine Impressions Gallery. He currently lives and works as a full-time artist in Independence, Oregon. watering place, wood engraving
in the pasture, wood engraving
beneath the bridge, wood engraving
willamette country, wood engraving
margaret e. graham
"My creative methods mainly reflect my constant attempt to integrate temporal existence with that of inner experience and transition. The conceptual aspect centers on the never-ending, natural cycles of life and growth. As new experiences unfold, this center expands with further introspection. Everyday, life offers me new information, feelings and realizations to work with. To combine these different levels of awareness and create my own visual interpretations is a challenge grahamcrkr.tripod.com
as well as a much needed and welcomed discipline." Margaret Graham was born and raised in upstate NY and completed her undergraduate work at Nazareth College of Rochester. It is at Nazareth that she discovered printmaking. This quickly became a passion and continues to be her main artistic vehicle to this day. Margaret completed her Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking and a teaching fellowship at the University of Oregon in 2000.
As a Professional Artist, Margaret actively exhibits her artwork in the States and abroad. She is an active member of the Northwest Print Council and is represented by the Pan Gallery in Portland Oregon.
Creative Arts area and stayed a second year to create a Printmaking studio and curriculum. It is said to be one of the first printmaking studios of its kind in Saudi Arabia.
After four years of teaching fine art in Oregon, Margaret taught at one of the first colleges for women's higher education, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In the 2004-2006 school years, she chose to travel to Jeddah for the opportunity to help establish a strong Foundations program in the
"I feel it is important to share my creative abilities and time with the global community in which we live. It gives me great pleasure and I think that if everyone shared his or her creative abilities and perceptions, this world would be a very different place."
icon 1, woodblock
bernard r. kliks Memberships - Watercolor Society of Oregon (Life Member) - Petite Critique Group (8 artists) - Print Arts Northwest (PAN) - Board Member (2003-4) - Artist Member (since Nov ‘05) - Portland Art Museum Contemporary Art Council Art Education - Watercolor Workshops/Classes: Harry Widman, Rene Rickabaugh, Carol Riley, Michael Schlicting, Susan McKinnon, Mike Svob, Pat Lambrecht, Pat San Soucie and Margot Voorhies Thompson - Printmaking: Monotype: Tom Prochaska, PNCA (3 terms), William Park, Ron Pokrasso / Solar Plate: Dan Weldon & Barbara Mason Juried Shows - Watercolor Society of Oregon (Fall ‘95 and Spring ‘96 Shows) - Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) Auctions (‘06, ‘07, ‘08) Exhibitions - “Natural States” - Two Person Show (with Cathe Gill) - PAN (Jun ‘08)
- “Deck the Walls ”- PAN Group Show (Dec ‘07) - “8X8 s on the 8th”- Petite Critique Group Show Art Home Company (Sept 8, ‘07) - “Deck The Walls”- PAN Group Show (Dec ‘06) - Albina Community Bank (NW 10th & Glisan) (Jul ‘06) - New Artist Member Show at Print Arts NW (PAN) (Jul ‘06) - Fife Restaurant (NE 44th & Fremont) (Dec ‘05-Jan ’06) - Brooklyn to Sellwood Art Walk (Nov ‘05) - Solo Monotype Print Show - Art Home Company (Nov ‘05) - PNCA Alumni Open Hanging Salon - Landscapes (Nov ‘03) - PNCA Student Monotype Show (Oct ‘03) - Art on Alberta - Galaxy Bakery (Apr ‘00) - Petite Critique Group Shows - 6 artists (Apr ‘96 and Aug ‘97) Invitational - “Art in the Heart” in Lake Oswego (Feb ‘07) - Lake Oswego Chronicle Visual Arts Show (Jun ‘06) - CAP Auction (May ‘06) - “Prints in the Pearl” - fundraiser for PAN ( Sep ‘05)
- Chehalem Winery Annual Summer Art Show (Aug ‘05) - Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) Auction (May ‘05) - Kows for Kids - “In the Moood” (Jun ‘02) - On permanent display at the Schnitzer Auditorium (in collaboration with Susan McKinnon) Collections Of - Applied Sciences University in Aman, Jordan (in association with PAN) - Vavrosky, MacColl, & Olson, Attys (Portland, OR) - Kathy Calcagno, Private Client Services, Wells Fargo Bank (Portland, OR) - Wrenn Ferguson, UBS Financial Services (Portland, OR) - Emanuel Hospital-Day surgery (Portland, OR) - Good Samaritan Hospital-Administrative Offices (Portland, OR) - Gary Eichman, CEO Oregon Transfer Co. (Portland, OR) - Claudia Brown, Publisher, Portrait of Portland (Portland, OR) - Drs. R. Bastian and Barbara Wagner - Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Trelstad - Drs. Robert Florek and Kathy Grewe
- Carolyn Dewey, artist - Dr. Richard Shepherd - Peggy and Terry Crawford - Carol and Byron Ferris - Patty and John Bentley, and other Private collections Personal - Retired Interventional Cardiologist, Pacific Heart Association (‘76-’99) - Fellow of American College of Cardiology - BA - Willamette University; Salem, OR (‘63) - BS/MD - University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN (‘67) - Internal Medicine Residency - Presbyterian Med. Ctr.; Denver, CO (‘67-’71) - Cardiology Fellowship - University of Utah; Salt Lake City, UT (‘71-’73) - Served in the USAF at Clark Air Base, The Phillipines (‘73-’76) Rank: Lt. Colonel - Medals: Meritorious Service Medal (USAF), Order of Million Elephants with White Parasol (Laos)
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marilyn maricle
Color and shape have had a powerful influence on me. They are a strong force in ritual, give meaning to religious ceremony and symbolic form to dreams. In endless combinations, colors and shapes have appeared on the costumes of dolls, puppets, storytellers, actors, dancers, priests and shamans. Tapestries, scrolls, quilts, murals and mosaics have recorded events and expressed emotions. Complex and intricate works are meditative both for the maker and the viewer. As I travel, watch dance, listen to music, experience
woman with diver and dancers, monotype
theater and study the art of many religions and cultures, I am informed as an artist. My work includes figures, architecture, landscapes and language. - Human and animal figures appear in an atmosphere of intense color, hard-edged shapes and free-flowing energetic lines to express music and dance. - Elements of architecture in the world, in the theater and in places of worship define and enclose spaces within which interactions and events occur.
- Landscapes symbolize places people journey to for meditation and spiritual refreshment. - Words and characters from other languages are clues to content. Figures sometimes form words from American Sign Language with their hands to emphasize the expressive power of gesture. I want my work to be a place where one lingers and moves about slowly. I invite the viewer into a place of light, color and energy where I try to speak about human experience. woman with birds, monotype
woman with bottle, monotype
woman and heron, monotype
woman with dog and dancer, monotype
on the go no. 1, monotype
woman with dog and jay, monotype
barbara mason Barbara Mason is an artist/printmaker working in her own printmaking studio in Aloha, 15 miles west of Portland, Oregon. A lifelong artist, she began studying printmaking in the early 80's and was immediately enamored with the medium. Barbara made viscosity monotypes almost exclusively for 20 years until she discovered Solarplate etching. She has been an enthusiast of this process since 2001 and has taught the process in workshops since 2002. Barbara is an arts advocate and active in the community. She has been a resource person for the Beaverton School District since 1976. Serving 8 years on the board of the Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum, she was also a founding board member of the 12 year old Art in the Pearl, an outdoor community arts fair taking place on Labor Day Weekend. She has been on the board of Crow's Shadow Institute of Art on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, is a past President of the Board of Print Arts Northwest the gallery and studio of the Northwest Print Council. She is the currently the education chair at Print Arts Northwest. She is past director and an active artist of Waterstone Gallery, an artist owned gallery, in Portland, OR. barbaramason45@yahoo.com
She currently serves on the board of the Washington County Arts, Heritage and Humanities Collation, which distributes money from the Oregon Cultural Trust to nonprofits in Washington County, OR. She is on the board of “The Right Brain Initiative”, a coalition of cultural organizations that are bringing art, music and drama back to local schools on a weekly basis. Barbara spends many hours each year as a volunteer teaching printmaking in local schools for Print Arts Northwest. She also teaches classes at Atelier Meridian. Her enthusiasm for printmaking is translated into wonderful works by students ages 8-80 who thought they couldn't draw and therefore couldn't make art. They were mistaken, Barbara is sure anyone can make art and everyone should be doing so. Barbara’s has shown her work nationally and internationally for the last 25 years, her works are in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Intel Corporation, Crow’s Shadow Art Institute, the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, the New York Public Library Collection, the Halle Ford
Museum, the National Museum of Kampala Uganda, the Applied Sciences University of Amman, Jordan, the Jordon Schnitzer Collection, the American Print Alliance Memorial Collection and numerous private individuals and corporations. Education - University of Washington - Oregon College of Arts and Crafts - Portland State University - Pacific Northwest College of Art - Marylhurst University Printmaking workshops from: Lise Drost, Kim Fink, Myrna Burk, Jim Hibbard, Christy Wycoff, Tom Porchaska, Brian Shannon, Non Toxic Printmaking with Raymon Murilla and Dan Welden and traditional water-soluble woodblock with Graham Scholes, David Bull and Richard Steiner Gallery Representation - Waterstone Gallery, Portland, Oregon - Print Arts Northwest, Portland, Oregon - Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA - Cholke Fine Art, Rockford, IL
deceptive, solarplate etching
persistence, solarplate etching
undaunted, solarplate etching
potential, solarplate etching
chi meredith
Education 1976 BFA: Printmaking and Painting, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 1972 Secondary Teaching Credential, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, California 1971 MS: Materials Sciences, Stanford University, California 1967 BA: Physics, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin Gallery Affiliations - Opus6ix, Eugene, Oregon - PAN Gallery, Portland, Oregon - Pegasus Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon - Portland Art Museum Rental Gallery, Portland, Oregon Professional affiliations - Northwest Print Council, Portland, Oregon
Selected collections - Bank of Detroit - College of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University - The Gordon and Vivien Gilkey Print Collection, Portland Art Museum - IBM Corporation - Mt. Hood Community College - Oregon State University Foundation - Oregon State University Art about Agriculture Permanent Collection - Family Services Unit, Portland, Oregon - University of El Paso - XEROX Corporation, Chicago Exhibitions Solo, juried, group and invitational exhibitions worldwide sea ice 3, lithograph
sea ice 1, lithograph
sea ice 2, lithograph
danuta muszy ska Danuta Muszy ska is a native of Poland, where she graduated from the State College of Fine Arts and then received her M.A. degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Pozna . For many years, her primary media were painting drawing and photography. In 1998 she moved to Maine, where she discovered her new passion: printmaking. In 1999-2004 she was studying non-toxic printmaking techniques with Elizabeth Dove and Susan Groce; bookmaking with Siri Beckman; and art of metal working with Heiki Seppa. Her works have been featured in more than 80 exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as in Denmark, Poland, Germany, Jordan, and in Northern Ireland. Awards 2008 1st Prize, 29th Mini-works on Paper, JSU, Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville, AL 2004 Award of Excellence for Outstanding Achievement in Printmaking, by Art Department, University of Maine 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 Awards in Hand-Pulled Print and Mixed Media: Annual Juried Show, BAS, Bangor, ME; 2004, 2002, 2001 Awards in Other Media, (prints) Annual Open Juried Maine Art Show, Waterville Art Society, ME dmu@att.net
2003 3rd Prize, The Little Prints Show National Juried Exhibition, BCC Central Fine Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL 2002/2003 Honors Center Award and Exhibition, Art Department, University of Maine, Orono, ME 2002 1st Prize in Prints and Graphics, (print), 74th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA 2001 Honorable Mention: New England Exhibition, (prints), Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA 2001/2002 Dean’s Exhibition Award, awarded by Faculty Department of Art, University of Maine, Orono, ME 2001 Stebbins/Schildknecht Art Fund, Haystack Experience Award, by Department of Art, UMaine, Orono, ME Selected Exhibitions 2000-2008 2008 29th Mini-works on Paper, JSU, Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville AL (award) 2008 2nd International Miniature Print Exhibition, The Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON, Canada 2008, 2007 Oregon Ink Spot Print Exchange, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR 2008 International Print Project Nicosia, CyprusPortland, OR, PAN Gallery, Portland, OR
2008, 2007, 2006 Cascade Print Exchange, West Gallery Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 2008 Naestved International Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Prints, Arts and Culture Center, Naestved, Denmark 2008 International Print Project, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan 2007, 2006 International Digital Miniprint Exhibition, Lieu de diffusion BRAVO-Est, Ottawa, Canada 2007, 2006, 5th & 4th Print Zero Studios Print Exchange 2007 20th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI 2006 Deck the Walls, Print Arts Northwest Group Show, Portland, OR 2006 New Prints - New Artist Group Show, Print Arts Northwest Gallery, Portland, OR 2006, 2004, 2001 Annual National Small Print Exhibition, (prints), Creede Arts Council, Creede, CO 2006, 2004, 2000 Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2006 Americas 2000, Paper Works Competition, (print), Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND 2005 Prints USA 2005, Springfield Fine Art Museum, Springfield, MO
2004 Five Artists Invitational Show, (print), Art Association of Harrisburg Invitational Exhibition, Harrisburg, PA 2004 The Print Show, Gallery 402, New York, NY 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 Bangor Annual Open Juried Show (prints), BAS, Bangor, ME (awards) 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 Annual Student Art Exhibition, (prints), University of Maine, Orono, ME (awards) 2004, 2002, 2001 Annual Open Juried Maine Art Show, (prints), Waterville Area Art Society, ME (awards) 2004, 2003 Southern Graphic Council Annual Conferences Exchange Portfolios (Boston, MA, New Brunswick, NJ) 2004 National Juried 4th Annual Small Works Exhibition, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD 2003 Cool brass, solo exhibition, Thomson Honors Center, (prints), University of Maine, Orono, ME 2003 Next Generation III Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, (prints), Rockport, ME 2003, 2001 Realism 13th & 15th National Competition, (print), Parkersburg, WV
2003 The Little Prints Show National Juried Exhibition, BCC Central Fine Art Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL (award) 2003 From Bangor to Baxter, (prints), Maine Art Commission, Augusta, ME 2002 74th Annual Juried Exhibition, (print), Art Association of Harrisburg, PA 2002 15th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, (print), Lake Charles, LA 2002 8th Annual National Juried Show at Prallsville Mills, (print), Lambertsville, NJ 2002 LaGrange National XXII Biennial, (print), Chattahooche Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA 2002, 2001 All Media Invitational, (prints), Period Gallery, Omaha, NE 2001 Dry Autumn Martini with e.e., (prints, photographs and collages), solo exhibition in CafĂŠ Nouveau, Bangor, ME 2001 Wanted Alive, or My Secret Conversations with Albrecht, (prints), solo exhibition at Borders, Bangor, ME 2001 14th National Juried Art Exhibition, (prints), South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mableton, GA 2001 14th Annual Northern National Art Competition, (print), Nicolet College Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
2001 New England Exhibition, (prints), Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA (honorable mention) 2001 Works on Paper, (print), San Jacinto College South, Houston, TX 2001 Words & Images, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME 2000 My New Vocabulary, (prints and drawings), solo exhibition, University of Maine, Orono, ME 2000 Bangor to Bangor, Bangor Heritage Center, (print), Northern Ireland 2000 20th Annual Print Exhibition, (print), Fort Wayne, IN
phoenix II, etching
walt padgett
Walt Padgett was born in North Carolina, grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, studied architecture at Clemson University, then pursued fine arts studies at Florida State University, earning Bachelors and Masters of Fine Arts degrees in the field of sculpture. He taught art for a junior high school in Florida, and at Florida A & M University before moving to the west coast. In 1971 he was hired onto the opening faculty of the new institution Rogue Community College, in Southern Oregon, where he was the department head for eleven years, and taught fulltime for over thirty years, developing the Art Department as it grew in both Josephine and Jackson Counties.
Over the many years of teaching a wide range of art disciplines he continued to produce his own work in sculpture, painting, and increasingly, focused his attention on printmaking. In 1983, he took a two year leave of absence to pursue studies in Japanese woodblock printmaking, including study and travel in Japan. A pivotal point in his career during this time was an adventurous two-month bicycle trip across Japan, documenting the famous Tokaido highway, and the associated prints of Hiroshige and Sekino. Padgett continues to this day to produce prints inspired by this travel, augmented by further research and travel in Japan.
In 2004, Padgett was selected to teach Oregon community college students from all over the State, for a term in London, England, through the International Studies Consortium of Community Colleges. During extended travel abroad he also painted watercolors in Scotland, France, and Italy, and collected imagery for future prints. In 2008 he traveled with his family to the Southern region of the United States, and to Hawaii, and is planning a painting campaign to Italy in 2009, to further his artwork. Padgett’s oil and watercolor paintings, sculptures, and prints have received many awards; he is truly
a Pacific Rim artist, inspired by the landscapes and cultures of both sides of the Pacific Ocean. In September of 2008, he was awarded the Takanabe Town Mayor’s Prize for a woodblock print exhibited at the Takanabe Museum (Japan), in a traveling exhibition of prints from the prestigious Kyoto International Woodprint Association’s permanent collection of prints from around the world. Museums, universities and colleges, institutions, corporations, and private collectors have acquired Padgett’s work, both nationally and internationally. His work is becoming increasingly recognized for its’ quality of vision, and versatility in both style and skill.
yellowstone bison, woodcut
jo siddens
2008 Professor of Art Emeritus, Art Department, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa 1989 Guest Professor, Guangxi Arts College, Nanning, Guangxi, Peoples Republic of China Exhibitions 2008 National Juried Print Exhibition, Forge Art Center, Kansas
2007 IAPMA Members Exhibition, Wadham College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK 2006 Invitational Group Exhibition, Joenju Arts Center, Joenju, Korea 1977-2008 Over twenty international juried exhibitions Collections (selected) - Biennial Documentation Center, Cabo Frio, Brazil;
- Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Lodz, Poland; - University of Castilla la Mancha, Kuenca, Spain; - Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador, Brazil; - Shaanxi University, Xian, China; - Museum of Paper History, Joenju, Korea
book of ancient chants, etching
wendy thon
Wendy Thon studied etching at the Ruth Leaf Workshop from 1975-1979 after completing a BFA in painting and sculpture at the University of Michigan. She has lectured and taught workshops around the US and Canada including Pacific Lutheran University, Washington state, Montana State University, and the www.liaharrisgallery.com
Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington D.C.
Medical Center and the Library of Congress.
Thon has work in a number of collections including the Gordon and Vivien Gilkey Print Collection at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon state, the Queensborough College, New York state, Washington State University, the University of Washington
Her work has also been represented in scores of invitational, juried and group exhibitions including: the Queens Museum, NY, the Bellevue Art Museum, WA, Pratt Graphics, NY, Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Spain, WPW Invitational, Kobe, Japan, the Sixth
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, WA and the Central Print Council Invitational, Wanganui, New Zealand. Thon has had solo exhibitions from Ghent, Belgium to St. Louis, MO to Ashland, OR. She is represented by the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle, WA.
gabrina canyon, etching
andrew totman My work is essentially, figurative, telling stories of the human condition of vulnerability, frailty, success and failure. The characters that inhabit my art work are a part of my personal experience and reflect on the universal themes of tragedy and comedy, disaster and good future, strength and weakness. The drawings are intentionally childlike, simplistic and honest, deliberately chosen to foil a more complex and darker layer beneath. This is anchored by the multi-plate colored etchings which build up color through textures and surfaces of the print medium. Much of iconography comes from my inner world derived from childhood memories and thoughts. These images are playful fun and innocent yet reveal an underlying sense of disquiet or threat… rather like a child who is scared of monsters under the bed. I start with an idea that is just for me, a memory or event and that begins as a small drawing that I might add simple related words which may later become part of the title. These may provide a brief glimpse of or insight into the story. This make-believe andrewtotman@hotmail.com
reality is contrived as I become a story teller with images. Rather as a director controls a movie. Often the final title of the image is deliberately specific or particular in directing the audience response through moralistic prescription.
Education - M.F.A. Wichita State University, Kansas, 1986 Major: Printmaking - Minor: Drawing, Painting - B.A. University of San Diego, California, 1983 Major: Printmaking
This first inspiration stage is very quick the print process is much slower, requiring much greater planning and meticulous care. This is quite noticeable in the triptych Act 1, 2, and 3 which depict an old fashioned “Puppet” theater in which the jester performs tricks with juggling balls, hoop and crystal ball. The colors in these images are vibrant; glowing with the intensity of a stained glass window, both the imagery and title carries the conviction and surety of a church sermon and can be explained by a strong religious background. Being inspired by childhood memories of sitting in church being fascinated by colorful alters or much like the thrill of opening a Christmas gift. You have done it before but it is different every time. This image was also recreated in mural form for the Physiotherapy Ward of Sydney Children’s Hospital 2002 (10 x 30 feet each).
Professional experience 1996-Present Printmaking Lecturer National Art School, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia 2002-Present Printmaking Lecturer Sydney Gallery School, Northern Sydney Institute, Australia 1991-1995 Lecturer of Art Artsreach Program of UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles, California, USA 1988-1989 Artistic Coordinator Artists in Residence Program, Foundation Beychevelle d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France 1987-1991 Assistant Professor of Art University of Alaska, Head of Printmaking Department/ Director-University Art Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, USA Visiting Artist - Workshops/Lecturer - Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
- International Della Graphica, Venice, Italy - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia - College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Australia - Daniel Smith Ink, Seattle, Washington, USA - Alaska Artist in Schools, Alaska, USA - Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, California, USA - La Universidad de Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela - Centro Internationale Della Grafica, Venice, Italy Commissions - Sydney Children Hospital, Randwick, NSW, Australia - Gemini Print Workshop, Los Angeles, California - Center of the Performing Arts, Anchorage, Alaska - 1992 Academy Award Recipients, Los Angeles, California - Northwest Print Council, Portland, Oregon, USA - Christofle, Paris, France Solo Exhibitions 2007 Two Lines Gallery, Beijing, China 2006 PAN Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA 2005 Ground floor Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2004 Toby’s, San Francisco, California, USA 2003 Bellas Artes Maracaibo, Venezuela 2004 Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, California, USA 2001 Firestation Print Workshop, Armadale, Victoria, Australia 1999 Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakvile, California, USA 1997 Olsen/Carr Gallery Sydney, Australia 1994 Pence Gallery, Davis, California, USA 1993 Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Galleries - Two-Lines Gallery, Beijing, China - Kokoro Fine Arts, Paris, France - Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia - Australia Centre for Australian Printmaking, Melbourne, Australia - Gallery Aterier Gressvik, Oslo, Norway - Print Arts Northwest, Portland, Oregon, USA - Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, California, USA
Selected Exhibitions 2007 Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia 2006 Works on Paper Margin Art Gallery, Beijing, China 2005 The Capitals Project Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2004 Exchange Exhibition Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea 2003 Scratch Pull Grind & Press Mosman Art Gallery, NSW 2002 Camberwell College of Art, London, England
Fellowships/Grants - Partners of the Americas, NYC, New York, USA - United States Information Agency, Washington DC - Fred Meyers Corporation, Seattle, Washington, USA - Alaska State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, Alaska, USA - National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC - National Association for the Visual Arts, Sydney, Australia
likeness, etching
renée a. ugrin
Renée's work is inspired by the natural world and a strong relationship with the garden. Wonderful rints, drawings, and paintings. “I grew up on a windy rural Oregon hilltop, surrounded by orchards and farms. I gained a great appreciation for Nature's grand cyclical play; the seasons. In summer there are peaceful walks, grassy fields and shady lawns. But Winter brought cold and confinement with visits from asthma, this resulted in days in bed with my drawings, stories and books with Great Art. This created a deep appreciation for the arts which continues today-sometimes as a 'life raft' still.” reneeaugrin@aol.com
Education - Portland State University, Bachelor of Science 1989, Drawing and Printmaking, Art History Major - Drawing and Painting with Dean Richard (19141984) Royal Academies of London and Paris - Alliance Francaise, Paris, France - Sacred Heart Academy, Albany, New York Affiliations 1985-Present Northwest Print Council 1985-Present Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA 1998-Present Arts Action Alliance 1985-1990 Inkling Studio, Portland, Oregon
Public Collections - Oregon Arts Commission, Limited Edition 1991 - Visual Chronicle of Portland, Regional Arts and Culture Council - Percent for the Arts, City of Portland, Oregon - Wells Fargo Bank Selected Solo Exhibitions 1998 Carnegie Center, Oregon City, Oregon 1991 University Friends Meeting Center, Seattle, Washington 1986 Multnomah Art Center Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Selected Group Exhibits - Black Fish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2004 - Print Arts Northwest, Monotype Exhibit, Portland, OR, 2003 - 20 Oregon Printmakers Maveet Gallery, Shalishan, Oregon - Northwest Print Council, 10th Anniversary Exhibit, Oregon, Art Institute, Portland, Oregon
grace, reductive woodcut
nicosia - portland print project 5-30 March 2008 CYPRUS AT PRINT ARTS NORTHWEST, PORTLAND, OREGON In late December 2007, works of eight distinguished Cypriot printmakers was shipped off to Portland, Oregon, to take part in the first exchange of its kind between Cyprus and the USA. Coming from various generations, stylistic orientations, aesthetic and philosophical conceptions, illustrating a range of techniques and subject fields, a beautiful exhibit was set up at the Print Arts Northwest Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
telemachos kanthos . rhea bailey . christos christou . stella lantsia . efklides papadopoulos . evgenia vasiloudi . evripides zantides . aspasia papadema
Opus 39 Gallery 21 kimonos street . strovolos . nicosia . cyprus . tel/fax +357 22 424 983
mango2@cablenet.com.cy
Print Arts Northwest 416 NW 12th avenue . portland . oregon 97209 . usa . tel +001 503 525 9259
printartsnw.org
elena marangosdesign christos avraamidesphotography
portland - nicosia print project The “Portland - Nicosia Print Project” is an initiative of the ongoing “International Print Project” launched in 2007 by Dr Arafat Al-Naim and Barbara Mason in collaboration with International Art Institutes, Associations, Galleries and Artists from all over the world to celebrate global culture and widen intercultural dialogue while demonstrating the richness of printmaking medium. The ambitious International Original Fine Art Print Exhibition and Exchange of work between Cyprus and USA aims to enhance, support, promote, and present the new tendencies in the art of engraving and to place printmaking within the wider context of contemporary art. Through centuries, Original Fine Art Prints have had a noble, distinguished, and often infamous history as they informed. They have a prominent and influential place in art world and they are capable of creating links of their own between different cultures and people. “Portland - Nicosia Print Project” is an exhibition and exchange consists of the fine art print works
and engravings by twenty seven distinguished American and Cypriot artists from different generations, stylistic orientations, aesthetic and philosophical conceptions, illustrating a range of techniques and subject fields. Through developed personal vocabularies and use of different creative approaches in their artistic works they present their national identity. The selected works of Renée Ugrin, Dennis Cady, Sheryl Funkhouser, Danuta Muszy ska, Walt Padgett, Elizabeth Dove, Chi Meredith, Andrew Totman, Wendy Thon, Tallmadge Doyle, Margaret Graham, Sue Allen, Paul Gentry, Ellen Emerson, Patricia Cheyne, Bernard Kliks, Marilyn Maricle, Barbara Mason, Jo Siddens, Telemachos Kanthos, Rhea Bailey, Christos Christou, Evgenia Vasiloudi, Efklides Papadopoulos, Stella Lantsia, Evripides Zantides and Aspasia Papadema explores the breadth and vitality of contemporary printmaking. It is in the unification of this creativity that “International Print Project”, Print Arts Northwest and OPUS 39 Gallery with the support of the American Embassy in Nicosia see the opportunity for an active dialogue between countries and
reconsidering of values, which is one of the challenges we all have to face. Such international projects reflect the impulse for outreach, promote cultural understanding and continue to engage new generation of emergent printmakers with these values. We wish to thank Print Arts Northwest, Barbara Mason, Maro Marangos Director of Opus 39 Gallery, and Artists for co-operation and support without which this exhibition could not have been presented. Dr Arafat Al-Naim PHD, MFA, BFA in Graphic Arts & Printmaking, MST in Art Teaching
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