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City of Lost Angels
» Karen DuvallHere's a sample of my virtual world photography with Photoshop. Shoots like this help me come up with new story ideas, which I have to do this weekend. I'm very visual with my writing, so inventing a setting like this inspires my creativity. The image tells a story all on its own.
Do you see a story in this picture?
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First Friday (Feb 2012)
» Hack BendIt’s First Friday and Art Walk in Downtown Bend and the Old Mill District tomorrow: art galleries and other businesses stay open late to showcase art and often live music, and many also offer complimentary food and wine. The festivities run from 5 until 9pm and with the weather we’ve been having lately, I can’t help but think it’s going to be super busy tomorrow night.
The Downtown Bend link has a great list of the participating downtown businesses, and if you want to travel between downtown and the Old Mill you can hop aboard the GETIT shuttle: it runs a free service between destinations from 5 to 9:30 so you can get back and forth without having to worry about driving and finding parking (especially if you’ve had a few glasses of wine!).
And, if you have kids ages 3 through 12 there is childcare offered at the Pottery Lounge from 5 to 8pm, presented by the School of Enrichment. For $20 it run from 5 to 8pm and includes Pizza Mondo for dinner.
So who’s heading downtown for Art Walk?
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Zombie Bear takes a Field Trip
» Karen DuvallI just may make Zombie Bear my official mascot. Ha! I had fun with him this week and took him on a field trip with on one of my other characters. This is like a story in pictures. The two visit the local clinic and find a few surprises while they're there. This was an experiment in lighting techniques done in a 3D environment.
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More Art: The Original Zombie Bear
» Karen Duvall
I just finished making this teddy bear in a 3D graphics program, so I took a snapshot of him. You've heard of Chucky, that evil doll that stars in those horror movies? Well, move over, Chuck, because here comes Zombie Bear! A cheerful stuffed toy that any child would love to play with, right? Other than his crazy eyes and bloody stuffing, he's a happy little guy who just wants to cuddle. But don't get too close or those fangs could take a bite out of you. Bwahahaha!
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Sharing my Art
» Karen Duvall
I thought I'd share with all of you some of my other creative projects. As much as I wish I could write all day every day, I also have other outlets to express myself. I've been a professional artist for over 30 years, and though most of that has been commercial art like ads and brochures and corporate identities, I also illustrate and do 3D photography for computer gaming.
I would love, and I do mean LOVE, to design more book covers. I haven't done a lot because the need hasn't been so great until recently with this whole self-publishing trend going on. If you need a book cover designed, or if you know someone who does, please have them get in touch. My rates are a lot less than you might think. Seriously.
On another note, I thought I might add that I'm a guest at Urban Fantasy Reviews today, and I talk about the great subgenre mash-up. Please stop by to say hello and leave a comment about what kind of genre crossing you'd like to see.
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First Friday (Oct. 7)
» Hack BendTonight is First Friday downtown, but it’s not just the usual monthly Art Walk, it’s also the Fall Art Hop—many other businesses than just the galleries will be open late, featuring artists’ works and very often free wine, snacks, and live music.
As usual the Downtown Bend site has a comprehensive list of participants, with the Art Hop lasting from 5 until 9pm. Over at Deschutes Brewery, they are featuring their last First Friday event of the season in conjunction with the downtown festivities, from 5 until 10pm—with art, music, BBQ and beer in the lot behind the pub.
And the First Friday fun extends to the Old Mill District too with many of the galleries down there participating.
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Jeffery Brown Represented by High Desert Gallery: Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
High Desert Gallery is excited to announce representation of Pacific Northwest artist, Jeffery Brown. Brown's bronze, aluminum and metal sculptures are now featured at High Desert Gallery, located at 10 NW Minnesota Ave, in downtown Bend, Oregon. Jeffrey Brown is a self taught artist and metal smith, and has been working with fire and metal for over 35 years. Originally a studio jeweler producing one of a kind pieces inspired by nature and artisans encountered in his many world travels. Over time his work has evolved to carry the shapes, surfaces and sense of nature into functional sculpture.
The pieces are fabricated beginning with large sheets of bronze, steel copper and aluminum. Shapes are cut from the sheets, formed, welded, polished, and, finally, finished with a variety of patinization techniques. Jeffery does not use molds or patterns, so no two pieces
are ever exactly alike. The shift from jewelry to working on a larger scale with heavier metals and industrial tools created a challenge of keeping the pieces both intimate and elegant. About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks! High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. Click on the following links to download your free iTunes or Android app to follow High Desert Gallery on your mobile device. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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First Friday (July 2011)
» Hack BendHard to believe but July is already here tomorrow and that hits on First Friday—which should be a great way to kick off the holiday weekend (especially with the great weather we’ve been having).
First Friday is, of course, the monthly art-music-wine event Downtown and in the Old Mill with galleries (and other venues) open late showcasing special art exhibits, and offering (in many places) live music and free refreshments (very often wine). Downtown Bend’s site has a good list of venues, the Old Mill has details include the Free Shuttle, and Deschutes Brewery lists their BBQ event.
It all runs from 5 to 9pm. Who’s going?
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Renee Hartig Represented by High Desert Gallery: Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
High Desert Gallery is excited to announce representation of Oregon artist, Renee Hartig. Hartig's landscape oil paintings are now featured at High Desert Gallery, located at 10 NW Minnesota Ave, in downtown Bend, Oregon. Renee Hartig is a landscape painter. Hartig paints alla-prima, completing each work in just one session by building colors while the paint is wet. This “wet on wet” technique requires a fast way of working because the painting must be finished before the first layer of paint is dry. Hartig has adapted to these time constraints with loose brush stokes which allow her to move and manipulate the paint quickly and effectively. This also allows for the signature burnt orange stain of the canvas which peek through the paint in less worked areas, creating depth and texture.
“In my work, I strive to show the process of the land and its interconnection with man’s influence. We have all contributed to the landscapes of today. My inspirations stretch from traditional painters like William Turner and Edward Hopper to non-traditional artists such as Giorgio De Chirico and Christo & Jeanne Claude. I am constantly inspired by their diverse use of color and their unique perspectives on how land may be perceived.”
Hartig has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Kendall College of Art and Design and has she studied at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence Italy. Her work is in private collections nationally.
To view more work please visit: Renee Hartig
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks! High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit:http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. Click on the following links to download your free iTunes or Android app to follow High Desert Gallery on your mobile device. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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First Friday (May 2011)
» Hack Bend
Right on the heels of Cinco de Mayo, Friday night is First Friday in Downtown Bend and the Old Mill District (I don’t know if NorthWest Crossing is doing First Fridays anymore, as I can never find info on their website, and there’s nothing (as of this writing) on their Facebook page).
Art galleries and businesses will be open late Friday, from 5 until 9, with special art exhibits and many also offering live music and free food and wine samples—it’s a lively time and with the weather getting nicer, I expect it will be packed. If you need childcare while you’re downtown, the Pottery Lounge is offering “Drop ‘n Hop” from 5 until 8.
In addition to all of the participating downtown businesses listed on the Downtown Bend page, the Old Mill has several and also lists the free shuttle:
Take the Free Artwalk Shuttle offering a continuous loop approximately every 50-60 minutes. Service from 5-9pm. Station 3 is located in the Old Mill District between Lahaina Galleries and REI and picks up at 5:40pm+/- and heads to Atelier 6000 and then downtown.
Make sure to stop in at Atelier 6000, Lahaina Galleries, Lubbesmeyer Studio & Gallery and Tumalo Art Co. for new works of art on view.
And, (since you know I’m all about the beer scene), Deschutes Brewery and Bend Brewing Company each have First Friday events too. At Deschutes:
First Friday Art Walk & BBQ
Deschutes is back on board for the popular downtown Bend First Friday Art Walk! Join the fun pub crew for barbeque, art, live music and, of course, beer, just behind the pub in downtown Bend.
On Tap: Horseridge IPA & Prima Chela plus House Made Sangria
Food: Pulled Pork Spicy Mustard Sliders and Tofu Curry Sliders
Bands: Under the Covers and Greg Botsford
Local (Employee) Artist: Kaylee BrownFirst Friday Artwalk-May 6th! Our Artist in Residence program features Mike Putnam’s work to be displayed upstairs in the brewery. Check out www.mikeputnamphoto.com. His amazing Ponderosa photo was chosen for our Outback X label. Friday marks the official bottle release party for the award-winning Outback X! We have a limited number of bottles, so don’t miss this opportunity to have them signed by both Mike Putnam and Tonya Cornett!
Not only is it the first bottled release of Outback X at BBC, but they’ll also be serving chocolate truffles made from Outback X for First Friday (I called them today and learned that).
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Spring Art Hop
» Hack Bend
Tonight (April 1st) is not only First Friday—whereupon art galleries and businesses downtown (as well as in the Old Mill) stay open late with special art exhibits, live music, and refreshments—it’s also the Spring Art Hop: the semi-annual event that’s essentially First Friday on steroids.
The Downtown Bend page says over 60 businesses will be open late (which I think is quite a bit more that the usual FF numbers). And of course the Old Mill has their First Friday going on, with the shuttle service running between there and downtown:
Take the Free Artwalk Shuttle offering a continuous loop approximately every 50-60 minutes. Service from 5-9pm. Station 3 is located in the Old Mill District between Lahaina Galleries and REI and picks up at 5:40pm+/- and heads to Atelier 6000 and then downtown.
Everything’s going on from 5 until 9pm tonight, and with the beautiful weather we’re having I’m quite sure it’s going to be incredibly busy downtown: so drive and stay safe.
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First Friday (March 2011)
» Hack Bend
This Friday (the 4th of March) is the monthly First Friday Art Walk: galleries and businesses are open late for the Art Walk, with special art exhibits and often live music and free refreshments (and wine). It all takes place Downtown as well as the Old Mill and Northwest Crossing from 5 until 9pm.
Last month the GETIT Shuttle was offering free service between the Old Mill and Downtown; I haven’t seen official word if it would doing so again, but I wouldn’t be surprised if so.
Friday’s weather is forecast to be 46° with a low of 27°.
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PUSH Skatedeck Art Show Tonight to Benefit Division Street Skatepark
» The Blender
Skateboards are rad. Local, regional and national artists are rad. Take those things and combine them and you have something so rad, it must been seen to be believed. Or something like that.The PUSH Skatedeck Art Show and Auction is tonight at the old Boomtown location (9...
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PUSH Skatedeck Art Show Tonight to Benefit Division Street Skatepark
» The BlenderSkateboards are rad. Local, regional and national artists are rad. Take those things and combine them and you have something so rad, it must been seen to be believed. Or something like that.The PUSH Skatedeck Art Show and Auction is tonight at the old Boomtown location (9...
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New Original Paintings by Donald Yatomi at High Desert Gallery -- Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonGood News -- Several new original paintings have arrived into our Frame Shop (High Desert Frameworks!) for framing and exhibition at High Desert Gallery. You can visit the new work on line at Donald's online store or better yet -- Stop by High Desert Gallery and inquire about the new work! The gallery is open daily 10am to 6pm and Sunday 11am to 5pm.
Donald and his family reside in Central Oregon. He is an accomplished contemporary painter and artist and both Donald and his wife are Art Center graduates. Please welcome Donald to the gallery!
We have a show coming up for Donald so make sure you subscribe to our newsletter (or follow us ) to get all the info and dates! It's the best way to stay in touch with the gallery and our artists!
About Donald Yatomi: Donald Yatomi’s wide-angled compositions originated in the early 1990s as a sarcastic attempt to capture the then trend of cropped, panoramic photography and film developing. The panoramic format stuck as he continued his interest for urbanscape paintings, in which it eventually and suitably evoked the subject of population sprawl and mass-communities that he was after. Yatomi’s work is about the industrial mundane, the urbanized deserts and the
metropolis serenity. He finds witnessing the ironies of mobilization and stillness interlaced within highly developed and overcrowded cities very interesting. His ideas are implications and hints of alienation vs. congregation that occurs at a particular point in time, in very specific locations. It is not urban development itself that he is inevitably drawn to, but rather the paradoxes of every human meeting and isolation in the midst of urban development. It is about transportation. It is about transactions. It is about emotional epiphanies. These negative spaces and cultural icons evoke so much activity within his memory, becoming abstractions and reminiscences that are so intriguing to Yatomi. He names his greatest influences as Willem de Kooning, Chuck Close and Antonio Tapies.
High Desert Gallery is honored to represent Donald's work in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit:http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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New Original Paintings by Donald Yatomi at High Desert Gallery -- Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonDonald and his family reside in Central Oregon. He is an accomplished contemporary painter and artist and both Donald and his wife are Art Center graduates. Please welcome Donald to the gallery!
We have a show coming up for Donald so make sure you subscribe to our newsletter (or follow us ) to get all the info and dates! It's the best way to stay in touch with the gallery and our artists!
About Donald Yatomi: Donald Yatomi’s wide-angled compositions originated in the early 1990s as a sarcastic attempt to capture the then trend of cropped, panoramic photography and film developing. The panoramic format stuck as he continued his interest for urbanscape paintings, in which it eventually and suitably evoked the subject of population sprawl and mass-communities that he was after. Yatomi’s work is about the industrial mundane, the urbanized deserts and the
High Desert Gallery is honored to represent Donald's work in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit:http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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First Friday tonight (Feb. 2011)
» Hack Bend
It’s First Friday tonight, which means Art Walk downtown (as well as the Old Mill and Northwest Crossing). From 5 until 9pm the galleries, shops, and some restaurants will be open with featured art exhibits and many featuring refreshments and live music. The Downtown Bend site has their usual guide to most of the downtown happenings.
And, the GETIT Shuttle will be offering free rides between downtown and the Old Mill from 5 to 9: pickup and drop-off will be at 900 Wall downtown, and Lahaina Gallery in the Old Mill. It will be a 30-minute loop.
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Hand Drawn Wednesday Tonight at Common Table
» The Blender
Check out Common Table tonight for Hand Drawn Wednesdays, a weekly event in collaboration with CADA/CASA. Hand Drawn Wednesdays invite local artists and us common folk who just like to draw things on paper to paint, draw or sketch for the evening. One piece will be chosen to be auctioned off and the proceeds wi... -
Hand Drawn Wednesday Tonight at Common Table
» The BlenderCheck out Common Table tonight for Hand Drawn Wednesdays, a weekly event in collaboration with CADA/CASA. Hand Drawn Wednesdays invite local artists and us common folk who just like to draw things on paper to paint, draw or sketch for the evening. One piece will be chosen to be auctioned off and the proceeds wi...
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First Friday (Jan. 2011)
» Hack Bend
It’s First Friday Art Walk tonight in Downtown Bend, as well as the Old Mill District and Northwest Crossing, where the various galleries and other businesses stay open late featuring art exhibits, live music, and (often) free wine and refreshments.
And as usual the Downtown Bend site has a nice summary of participating businesses for tonight’s Art Walk.
Be downtown from 5 to 9pm, and enjoy!
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Dude, grab your White Russians!
» Hack Bend
The Dude is coming to the Tower Theatre and by The Dude, I mean The Coen’s Brothers The Big Lewbowski.
From the Tower’s website:
Tickets: General Admission $10
Rated R
When “The Dude” Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
I heard via 92/9FM drinks will be available (my guess, White Russians) and viewers are encouraged to dress like the movie’s character. I wonder if I can pull off the Jesus look?
Who’s your favorite Lewbowski character?
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January art at Thump Coffee
» Hack Bend
I don’t get downtown to Thump Coffee nearly enough, but it is my favorite of the various coffee shops I’ve visited—I love the brick and open beam atmosphere (it reminds me, in fact, of Café Paradiso of days gone by). That atmosphere is also helped by the monthly art installations they feature, and for this month of January they are featuring an exhibit named “Sent from my iPhone.” Read on for the full press release.
(Bend, OR) “Sent From My iPhone,” an exhibit of cell phone photography, or “iPhonography,” by Carlos A. Perez will be on exhibit throughout January at Thump Coffee in downtown Bend. The coffeehouse will also host an exclusive sneak preview of “Push” skateboard decks customized by dozens of local, regional and national artists. The skateboard artworks will be auctioned off to benefit the Division Street Skatepark Project.“Sent From My iPhone” is a series of images captured on my iPhone and ‘processed’ on the iPhone, with no trips to a film lab or launching any professional digital photo editing software from my desktop computer,” explains Perez.
“Before my iPhone, I would snap photos with my Nokia or one of other countless camera equipped mobile phones I’ve had over the years. This low-fi, disposable digital imagery captures fleeting, and sometimes drab moments.”
A total of 180 images printed on postcards will be displayed approximately 60 at a time, and Perez will rotate them throughout the month.
Perez is “El Jefe” at Perez design, the graphic design studio that developed Thump Coffee’s logo and branding. He is a graduate of The Pennsylvania State University – School of Visual Arts with a degree in design and a minor in photography.
For more, visit http://carlosaperez.com
According to organizers, Push is modeled after a similar community skatepark project in Montana and inspired by Portland’s famed Burnside skatepark and similar DIY parks. “Though we have lots of sun here in Central Oregon, a covered skatepark designed, built, and maintained by skaters without the help of the parks dept, or the city is the goal,” say organizers.
Situated on Division Street under the Bend Parkway, the land is currently vacant and strewn with large boulders. The project crew, comprised of volunteers who have dreamt of such an opportunity for years, formed a 501(c)3 nonprofit in order to secure grants and funds for building the park, which has already won the support of the Oregon Department of Transportation. For more information on the skatepark project, go to divisionstreetskatepark.org.
Thump Coffee is located in downtown Bend at 25 NW Minnesota Ave. For details, visit www.ThumpCoffee.com or call 541-388-0226.
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Great last minute holiday gift idea - limited edition sculpture by Andrew Wachs
» Ad HOC : Words + Ideas
Limited edition original Gift/Art sculpture by Bend artist Andrew Wachs, $99, available exclusively at Furnish in Bend. Contact Andy at 541.279.1230 or visit www.andrewwachs.com for purchasing info. Happy Holidays!
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Artcrank Tonight in Bend
» The BlenderYou should probably know this: The Cyclocross National Championships are going on all week.
Along with that is an enormous explosion of arts and culture throughout downtown and the Old Mill District going on tonight. It's called Cross Culture and I wrote about it in this week's issue.
One of the main events you should check out tonight is Artcrank, a bicycle-oriented poster party popular in other cities and will showcase some of the most beloved artists in Bend. Artcrank is toni...
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The Cross-Kultural Carnival
» Hack Bend
Coinciding with this week’s Cyclocross Nationals, Paul Arney writes in to tell us about an event taking place this Saturday, the 11th: The Cross-Kultural Carnival:
Along with Boneyard Brewery, I am organizing a very eccentric evening of music, performance art/acting, and words that will take place at the Century Center. 2 bands and one acting troupe with video, spoken word, and other weirdness. The event is ‘The Cross-Kultural Carnival’.
This is going to be a glimpse into Bend and Seattle’s underground.I also found some more detail about it posted here:
Sponsored by Boneyard Brewery! Beer will be available.
2 sets from Corespondents, a Seattle-based trio that somehow manages to meld the music from old Westerns, Greek weddings, surf riffs, and Hawaiian warmth as well as sounds from other space. Their use of a pedal steel guitar, a Greek bazouki, a Vietnamese Don Bao along with a handmade acoustic guitar and a classic Danelectro create an atmosphere that can transport you to the future just as easily as to the past.
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Spoken word performance of ‘The Sun Wolf’ and ‘The Cowboy and the Gorilla’ by local poet Paul Arney with ambient sounds by Corespondents and Fixin’ Hot Silver Magma.
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First Friday tonight (and a chilly one, too)
» Hack Bend
It’s First Friday in Bend tonight, where the various art galleries downtown (as well as in the Old Mill District and Northwest Crossing) open up their doors late, featuring special exhibits and often live music and refreshments. As usual, the Downtown Bend website has a good post detailing the downtown participants and what they have going on tonight; plus being December, I’d hope for some holiday fun too.
The Art Walk hours are officially 5pm until 9pm, though some places likely will be open later.
And dress warm if you go out! The weather report has it in the mid-20s during the Art Walk hours.
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Cross Culture Arts Festival
» Hack Bend
Bend is hosting the Cyclocross National Championships next week, and in conjunction with that Visit Bend and Cross Culture are sponsoring the Cross Culture Arts Festival, celebrating bike art and culture, taking place December 9th through 11th.
Cross Culture: Bike + Art Love 2010 is an arts celebration created to coincide with ‘Cross Nats with an expanded effort that includes local businesses, Oregon artists, and collaborative multi-media experiences for all cycling enthusiasts.
The Cross Culture art walk pairs bike-centric artists with Bend businesses inviting opportunities to meet the artist while enjoying a festive atmosphere from 5-9pm Friday, December 10th.
Artwalk plans include:
- ArtCrank (a bike poster art show): We are thrilled to bring this nationally recognized event to Bend during Cyclocross Nationals! Charles Youel is the art director and curator. Check out their Bend event page at [www.artcrankpostershow.com]
- Spoke-N-Word Series: a storytelling event with participation opportunities for everyone. We will have two event offerings including portello in NorthWest crossing on Thursday and The Oxford Hotel on Friday. Elise Bartow and Jamie Houghton (Nature of Words) are leading this effort.
- A Community Art Walk on December 10th will include the following special exhibits
- Welcome to Bend Zine project (Bike Edition!) will be launched by Laura Walker in a joint exhibit with local photographer Bridget McGinn at Common Table
- PDX Cross + Handmade Bike Exhibit in the Liberty Theatre building downtown (next to Foot Zone).
- Thump Coffee is planning on going big with Vanilla + Cielo Handmade Bicycles, Art by Central Oregon Cycling Race Photography by Paul Carew and Biomorphic Cyclocross Bicycle Paintings by Jo Lundberg
- The PoetHouse Art collective is also planning a special exhibit.
- Mockingbird Gallery will have a special exhibit featuring Ken Roth and Nate Praska
- Hot Box Betty will feature the art of photographer Tambi Lane and painter Nikki Hoke Horner
- Commute Options is curating a youth and commuter art exhibit at Bellatazza. Brian Potwin is spearheading this effort.
- Indie Craft Loft will offer an array of renegade craft arts, including one-of-a-kind contemporary creations by local artists. 10a – 7p on Saturday and 10a – 5p Sunday at Gossamer Knitting in the Mill Quarter.
- Additional Youth Activities
- Arts Central and René Mitchell are offering Paint + Pedal at Art Station on Friday, December 10 from 10 a.m. – 2p.m.. Activities that will include cowbell painting, flag making and poster decorating which may all be used to cheer on their favorite racers competing in cyclocross championships. Cost is $5 per family.
- Bend Endurance Academy is a planning a youth Bike Rodeo for Saturday, location is tbd.
- Yoga for Cyclists: Uma Kleppinger will be offering Free and Premium Classes in a variety of locations during Cyclocross nationals.
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Paul Alan Bennett: Stars Over the High Desert New Original and Limited Edition Print, Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery is pleased to announce the release of a new original painting by Oregon artist Paul Alan Bennett. "Stars Over the High Desert" will also be available as a signed, limited edition fine art giclee.
"Color is such a curious thing," says Bennett. "We have so little of it in the high desert. Yet, when we see Indian Paintbrush or other colorful wildflowers, or notice the striation of geologic earth tones in areas like the Painted Hills, our eye goes straight to it. The intensity of the color sings in such a landscape. With that thought in mind, I wanted to work with the most intense colors I have in my palette- the cadmiums."
The artist combines his color sense with a familiar image - the road in the landscape underneath the stars. “The heightened color gives a visceral feel to the whole scene, adding a warm glow as the eye travels along the line of the road into the night sky. Overall, my goal is to achieve a kind of musical pitch through this combination of line, color and light, plus to give some delight to the eye in such details as the patterns of trees, the house and my 'knit' style."
"The musical analogy comes naturally to me," the artist says. "Both my parents were music teachers at one point so I was raised in a very musical household. There are many similarities between music and the visual arts- the same language is often used, for example. Such terms as balance, accents, movement, rhythms, even such visual terms as texture and color are found in music. So, you might say that I listen to my painting as much as I see it. I often do feel that I am striving to strike a particular chord that resonates with something inside of me. That same chord is something I often see (or hear) while driving in the landscape or walking around in the woods and by rivers in particular. I just think that if I can strike that chord in my work, it will also resonate with others who view my work."
Stars Over the High Desert original gouache on paper (image size 30" x 22") is available in our Bend gallery. It has been beautifully framed by our award winning framing studio, High Desert Frameworks! To view and inquire click, HERE. ** Update: 11/17/2010 - Original painting is sold but the print is available .. See below.
Stars Over the High Desert giclee prints will be available at $295 per print (unframed) in a signed and numbered edition of 195. Print size is 25" x 19". Please note we have special pricing and free shipping available online. To view and inquire click, HERE. If the link does not work that means the limited time special and free shipping is not available. Order now and save!
For information or to order visit: Stars Over the High Desert, call High Desert Gallery toll free at 1-866-549-6250 or visit any of our galleries located in Bend or Sisters.
High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford
Bend, OR 97701
541-388-8964 or 866-549-6250
www.highdesertgallery.com
Open Daily 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pmAbout Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. Honors graduate of Maryland Institute of Art and Master of Arts from The University of La Verne (Athens Greece), Paul has excelled in the field of watercolor and most recently in the release of a select group of Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee Prints and worked closely with Pendleton Woolen Mills to release limited edition tapestry blankets. Paul's work has been reproduced for two Sisters Folk Festival Posters and the 2008 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show poster. His style and perspective originate from memories, life experiences and travels that sparks many of the themes found in this Sisters artist's work. Paul Alan Bennett's artwork is represented by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery & High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with two High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, and Sisters Oregon and High Desert Frameworks! located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information about High Desert Gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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On The Way to Somewhere Wonderful: Lisa Kaser at High Desert Gallery, Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonThis season, we’re filling the gallery with wonderful art for everyone's desire, temptation and budget, and we’d like to introduce you to Oregon artist Lisa Kaser. Lisa is a contemporary mixed media and print artist who draws on her successful illustration background to create mixed media sculpture and prints. "I am an optimist," the artist explains. "I like communicating sentiments of connection and possibility and I think a lot of folks like that. Also, my characters have an oddness to them. This sets them apart from our world enough to allow for greater interpretation from the viewer. Humor also helps to dissolve a too serious overtone, so the ideas remain playful and accessible." High Desert Gallery is honored to represent Lisa Kaser at our downtown Bend gallery location, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
Image left: Leaving Without Socks or Shoes, Lisa Kaser, Mixed Media Sculpture
HDG: Can you describe your studio - where is it, what it looks like?
Lisa Kaser: I have a little 2 bedroom house in SE Portland and my studio is a bit all over the house. In the basement I have a workbench in one corner where I create all my sculptures-set up with work stations for waxing, carving, sanding, sewing and assembling. The other side of the basement is designated for all my fiber work and storage of fleece, cloth and felt scraps and yardage. Two long tables and upright thick corrugated panels lean against the walls to provide work surfaces where I can lay out or pin up felts and large sewing projects.
HDG: What are your favorite materials to work with?
Lisa Kaser: For my sculptures, I favor oak galls for heads and bodies, the steel tines from street sweeper brushes for building armatures, my handmade felt cloth, and beeswax. For my illustrations, I draw in recycled kraft paper sketchbooks and layout my finished collages on heavy cotton pulp taupe colored paper from France and finish with water color, ink and graphite.
HDG: Where do your materials come from?
Lisa Kaser: I gather the oak galls in the Fall when they are exposed in the oak trees or fall to the ground, and the sweeper bristles I pick up on the street when I go for daily walks. In addition to constantly gathering on my own, I have many friends who supply me with the bristles and galls year round along with a myriad of found objects and cast-offs, so I am well stocked. When I make felts, I usually make yards from different natural fleeces and dye lots so I have a plentiful collection of colors to cut from throughout the year. The beeswax I use either comes from reused candle stubs or natural beeswax pastilles from local beekeepers.
HDG: Is there any meaning behind your choices?
Lisa Kaser: Over the years, through trial and error, I have found materials that I like working with and that stir my aesthetic sensibilities. I had carved in different hard and soft woods for heads and bodies until a friend gave me some oak galls. The galls, once dried and cured, made a perfect material for my little creatures. It was easy to carve and embed materials into and I loved the natural roundish/oblong forms which worked beautifully with the beeswax.
I prefer materials that I can salvage, reuse or make. For instance, the street sweeper bristles I have been collecting for years-most everyone would not even notice them or not recognize them for having any use. For me, they have become the primary material for all my armatures. They are the perfect material! Made out of steel they develop a rich patina, they are malleable but incredibly strong so I can bend them by hand and they are flat so I can stitch them onto cloth or wrap them together with waxed linen thread to build bigger shapes. This has great meaning to me from the standpoint of recognizing value in something discarded and what simple ingenuity can produce.
Image Left: On The Way to Somewhere Wonderful, Lisa Kaser, original illustration.
HDG: Do you remember when you first realized this was the direction you wanted to pursue?
Lisa Kaser: Hmmm. I made a definitive switch from theater and dance to visual arts in fibers in my third year of college. My father and brother were artists and though I had loved drawing and sewing at an early age, I really wanted to forge my own path. I made the decision when I discovered felt making in an off-loom class at University of Oregon and never looked back. My drawing and painting was something I completely took for granted and never marketed until I started illustrating blank canvas book/grocery bags 10 years ago. I had always used canvas bags for my own groceries and starting decorating them with my drawings and text. I started getting requests for them when I shopped, but then people would cut out the images from the bags to frame, so that prompted the start of my print business and working full-time on illustrations.
HDG: What comes first - the story or the image? Or do they work together?
Lisa Kaser: I love to write and collect interesting words and names. I also draw constantly, so I think the images and titles are floating around in my head simultaneously. Sometimes the characters find their way to the page first and a title is then developed, but I have so many interesting words that I want to use in titles that sometimes that is what spurs the little scenario and how the characters will relate to one another.
HDG: How important are your collaborations to your overall direction?
Lisa Kaser: Sometimes very significantly. The latest collaboration I did with friend and photographer, Grace Weston for the Art in the Pearl Collaboration Show, lead us to consider doing a children's book together and also giving consideration to starting a business together for commercial work.
HDG: What do you enjoy most about creating?
Lisa Kaser: Just the constant learning of how and what I want to communicate and because the creative process is a combination of the known and unknown- it always remains a mystery until you reveal it. It is the unexpected element that occurs that is most enjoyable and compelling.
We invite you into our downtown Bend gallery location, at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford, to see Lisa’s work.
High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford
Bend, OR 97701
541-388-8964
www.highdesertgallery.comOpen Daily 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail gallery locations in downtown Bend, Oregon and Sisters Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio for the gallery, is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Shannon Weber: "Dock Side" Opens at High Desert Gallery, Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonShannon Weber has lived most of her life along the water – either a river, or lake, or the ocean. Growing up on the Southern Oregon Coast, she always found sanctuary in the simple life, working in and with nature, listening to what the open spaces and solitude have to tell her. Woven basket forms in bright colors, or the earth works – sculptures fashioned out of found materials – all seek to invite us into her world, to see life from her perspective. The artist’s new show, "Dock Side", opens Thursday, November 4, at High Desert Gallery’s downtown Bend location at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford, and will feature new work inspired by the magical, hidden influences of those that exist on or around the water.
"I began weaving 25 years ago, using local grasses, willow, roots and bark," the artist explains, adding that she and her husband managed a fishing lodge and there was a lot of down time in the off season. She works primarily outside, in all kinds of weather. If she's not in her studio you'll find her standing in a ditch or a puddle gathering materials, carefully recording where each item was discovered and what story might be associated with it.
Growing up in nature, Shannon has always been a collector, harvesting grasses, roots, bark, willows, beaver-chewed sticks and sea kelp. "Sea kelp is a difficult material to work with. You take the piece to 'finish' and then wait. 65% turn out, the other 35% end up as compost. It’s like doing a little dance together – you think you’re in control but really aren’t." But once a piece is successfully finished it will last forever, Shannon adds. "I have pieces from 20 years ago that look as if I completed them yesterday."
The sculptures featured in "Dock Side" depict a strong boat theme, which the artist explains evolves from places and people she knows in the commercial fishing industry, as well as ancient boat analogies and ideas inspired by nature. Chewed beaver sticks, willows, pebbles and bark are woven together to suggest ancient canoes and the relationships between men and nature. Colorful woven baskets with lids invite curiosity about what’s inside while reminding us how everything is interconnected.
The artist’s favorite materials to use in her work right now are chewed beaver sticks and sea kelp. She keeps a journal chronicling the origin of her materials; beaver sticks come from a variety of rivers, including those gathered along the Deschutes River during a recent trip to Bend, Oregon. But she always goes back home to the South Oregon Coast. She describes this area as a rural, ancient space, the "gathering grounds" that she has been going to since she started her career. "I feel like those plants, those rivers, those areas – we have secrets together. I can go in and we have these chats. The beaver sticks – they’re being created by an ancient animal making a home that basically looks like a basket – it’s fascinating to me how all of that works."
The psychological connection of Shannon Weber’s work is best described in a recent Podcast hosted by High Desert Gallery, where the artist talks in depth about her work, her studio, and her inspirations. Weber notes that her work is about a sense of place. “It may not be a place you know, or have been, but on an ancient ancestral level - no matter what your ancestry - it’s a gut kick. It’s interesting how strongly people connect. You’re connecting to nature. You’re connecting to a life force that’s beyond us, that’s old and creates mythologies. And I’m asking you to take these walks with me, because that’s what I do a lot of the time. I don’t have TV, I don’t have a cell phone, I don’t spend time on the computer. I live my whole life that way. Now, being forced to live in an urban area, I really am conscious of shutting it down and paying attention to my work.”
The show, "Dock Side" opens on Thursday November 4, with an Artist Reception from 5 to 8pm, followed by a more spirited First Friday Artist Reception on Friday November 5, from 5 to 9pm, with live music by Erin Cole-Baker from 5:30 to 8:30 during the First Friday Gallery Walk. Meet the artist, enjoy refreshments and see the new work!
Listen to Shannon's podcast with High Desert Gallery HERE or
We hope you will join us to celebrate "Dock Side" with Shannon Weber, an exhibition of intricate woven pieces that runs from Thursday, November 4 through Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Be sure to mark your calendars with these important dates:
Exhibition: “Dock Side” featuring new work by Shannon Weber, runs from Thursday November 4 through Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at High Desert Gallery in downtown Bend, Oregon gallery, located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
Special Thursday Preview Artist Reception: Thursday, November 4, from 5 to 8pm. Meet the artist and be the first to see new work!
First Friday Hours: November 5, 2010 from 10 to 9 pm.
First Friday Artist Reception: November 5, from 5 to 9pm. Meet the artist, refreshments, and live music by Erin Cole-Baker, from 5:30 to 8:30pm during First Friday Gallery Walk
High Desert Gallery
10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford
Bend, OR 97701
541-388-8964
www.highdesertgallery.comOpen Daily 10am-6pm, Sunday 11am-5pm
About High Desert Gallery & High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with two High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, and Sisters Oregon and High Desert Frameworks! located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition, Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition, and Top Honors and "Best Use of Fabric" in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2009-2010 International Print Framing Competition. Numerous PPFA Regional Chapter awards have been earned by High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks including two first place awards in 2010-2011 Print and Open Framing Competitions.
For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Fall Art Hop: Lisa Copenhagen Wachs at Thump Coffee
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Thump Coffee will stay open late for the Fall Art Hop tonight, featuring the work of local artist Lisa Copenhagen Wachs, and delicious fall themed desserts from The Bittersweet Kitchen.
Tumalo artist Lisa Copenhagen Wachs returns to Thump Coffee this month with an exhibit of new oil paintings. The area’s surrounding abundance of wildlife and nature continue to inspire her artwork, which has been described as “Northwest Mystic” in style.
“‘Moment, Place, and Interaction’ is the heart of my visceral and studied glimpses of surrounding landscape, whether it’s still for the moment, moving, or I am moving or still enough to capture it,” says Copenhagen Wachs. “The inherent mystery and essential abstractness of nature will always fascinate me as a human and artist.”
Copenhagen Wachs has been a fixture on the local art scene for more than a decade. She works as a self-employed graphic designer and fine artist and has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, San Francisco and Taos, New Mexico before settling in the Bend area in 1992. She paints primarily in oils and also works in mixed media collage/assemblage. She works in her Tumalo studio, which overlooks the high desert landscape.
see more at thump coffee's thumpology blog
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Art Hop Takes Over Downtown Bend
» The Blender
Not only is it First Friday today, but it's the bi-annual Art Hop -- which is essentially a super-sized First Friday.According to the website for the Downtown Bend Business Association, the organization that's orchestrating, there are more than 30 downtown businesses opening their doorRead More...
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Sue Favinger Smith Accepted into Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery and Central Oregon's own, Sue Favinger Smith’s oil painting, Grasslands in Winter, has been accepted into the Oil Painters of America’s Western Regional Exhibition. Included paintings were selected from hundreds of entries and represent some of the finest work being produced in the western half of the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The OPA Western Regional Exhibition will be held at Mountain Trails Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming, from October 6 through November 20, 2010.
“I work hard at learning what I need to know,” Sue Smith explains. Her process usually begins with repeated visits to the locations that interest her visually, looking for the details that best capture moments of transition. “Grasslands in Winter depicts one of my favorite elements in the high desert – storms that sweep across the grasslands in early Spring and then again in the Fall, clearing the air and marking the changing seasons. Feeling the force of the cold wind, the bite of the rain, seeing the quality of the light dip and change – it’s a very powerful experience.” The painting was inspired by several visits to an area east of Maupin, in Central Oregon, where the only sign of human habitation is the paved road and the telephone poles. “One could almost imagine being in another century if it weren’t for those poles.”
Painted with a Tonalist palette but an Impressionist sensibility, Smith combined impasto palette knife work with smoother brush strokes to create a visual sense of what she wanted to communicate – a sense of immediacy in the imagery. “It’s when the ordinary-ness of life transforms into that instant of pure awareness of what it feels like to be alive.”
Sue Favinger Smith has been creating art since childhood, but her serious efforts began twelve years ago when she took classes at Oregon State University – Cascades. “I realized I’d been waiting my entire life to do this and I haven’t looked back.”
After graduating with the Distinguished Student – Department of Art Award, Smith set out to explore the idea of landscape, pushing traditional approaches with contemporary ideas. A brief study in Italy convinced the artist of the value in getting out and studying nature. To find subjects to paint, Smith returned to the high desert, where the fugitive qualities of the light, the isolation and changing weather has traditionally inspired artists such as American Impressionist Childe Hassam. “The landscape invites me to explore – where does this road lead, what does that storm feel like, who lived here hundreds or thousands of years ago - in a way these ghosts of landscapes past are my best friends – my muse.”
Sue Favinger Smith is a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists, an associate member of Women Artists of the West, and an associate Member of Oil Painters of America. She is represented by High Desert Gallery in Bend, Oregon.
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First Friday this week
» Hack BendThis Friday, July 2nd, is the monthly Art Walk and First Friday celebration in downtown Bend, as well as the Old Mill District and Northwest Crossing (usually; it’s not in their own site’s calendar however). As usual the Downtown Bend website has a good listing of participating galleries and events, and Deschutes Brewery will be participating this month too:
Deschutes Brewery will be participating in First Friday with an outdoor BBQ and several special beers being served. A Deschutes Brewery employee, Sarah Cook, will be displaying her photographs during the event, and there will also be live music.
It’s kicking off a fairly busy three-day holiday weekend.
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Sue Favinger Smith - A Perfect Respite
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery is pleased to feature several new works by Oregon artist Sue Favinger Smith at our Sisters Oregon Art Gallery, located at 281 W Cascade Avenue at Oak. We asked Sue to write down some thoughts on three of her new works so we could share it with our online readers. The original paintings look stunning online and even better viewed in the gallery. Stop by High Desert Gallery in downtown Sisters Oregon -- We are open daily 10am to 5pm. To view larger images, please click on the images they will open in a new tab/window.
Please contact us at 866-549-6250 or Email to inquire about Sue's new work. We look forward to hearing from you.
Rimrock Springs: I like to paint places of solitude. Rimrock Springs is located
between Madras and Prineville, in the Crooked River National Grasslands. Historically, this was once a homestead for an early Prineville pioneer, but it has since been turned into a national wildlife preserve. The springs create a marsh and feed Willow Creek, and the area supports numerous species of songbirds, waterfowl, aquatic mammals, raptors, deer, antelope and coyote. One winter day as we walked the path we came across animal tracks that were large enough to be a mountain lion, and we decided to cut short our hike and get back to the car and save the exploring for another day. Oil on linen on panel 12" x 16"
Along the Deschutes: This painting is very much in the tradition of the
Impressionists, with the emphasis on capturing the movement of light through the willows along the riverbank. "Along the Deschutes" celebrates the quiet mood of the river as it flows through Cline Falls State Park. Oil on canvas on panel 8" x 16"
Linden Trees and Water: Some of my work is heavily influenced by the Hudson
River School painters, their concepts about man (or woman) as the explorer, and the sublime effect of light on hidden landscapes. I came across this scene one hot afternoon when I was hiking with my dogs at Smith Rock State Park. We were exploring a back trail, and the dogs - always ready for a cool drink and a nap - found this spot before I did. After the heat of the day, finding this little stream flowing down toward the river below was a perfect respite. Oil on canvas on panel 20" x 16"
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About Sue Favinger Smith: Working mostly in oils, Sue Smith is interested in discovering a sense of place and capturing that unique essence. Her work ranges from abstract to realism, but remains centered on the landscape. Influenced by the ideas of modern master Quang Ho, each painting makes a unique visual statement. “Whether abstract or realism, it is first, the relationship created as light flows across a form or through a space that excites me, and second, discovering what poetic secrets the natural world holds. I want to be surprised by what I'm seeing, and I try to find a single visual statement that communicates the energy of a particular time and place – and that can be either in reality or the imagination. They all tell stories.” Sue Smith began her award-winning career at the age of 50. She received a degree in art from Oregon State University, where she was honored with the Distinguished Student-Department of Art award. Over the years Sue has participated in national and regional exhibitions, solo and three-person shows. She is an associate member of Women Artists of the West and Oil Painters of America, and a peer-juried member in the prestigious National Association of Women Artists, the oldest professional arts organization for women in the country. Her work is in private collections across the country.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail gallery locations in Bend, Oregon and Sisters Oregon. High Desert Frameworks! the award-winning framing studio for the gallery is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Trisha Hassler - Thoughts on her new show: Dissimilar Elements
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonWe asked Nationally known Oregon artist, Trisha Hassler to provide some insight and thoughts on her upcoming Exhibition and Sale titled: Dissimilar Elements and specifically about her new work (images below) that will premier at High Desert Gallery in Bend Oregon on June 3, 2010. To read more about Dissimilar Elements, times and location visit: Trisha Hassler.
In this perfect community we all live on a street where all the homes face east to greet the morning sun.
In this perfect village we all live on a street where unconditional love is offered freely to all.
In this perfect village we all live in harmony with plentiful flora to provide nourishment and balance the air we breathe. And in this perfect place our nights are spent under a canopy of stars above allowing us the safety to dream.
The Domain series offers choices for living harmoniously with our families and surroundings allowing us to ask for what we need. The work was inspired by the need for us all to embrace an authentic life experience. Each domain is assigned it's own address so we can find our way home.
By using strong industrial grade steel for the dwellings, the fragility of our hopes and dreams are protected and nurtured inside. And just as an extra safety net, the explosion of fringe around the edges is responsible for tangling and confusing negativity keeping the dreams safe and sound for each of us.
Trisha Hassler - June 2010
About Trisha Hassler: Lifetime quilter and award winning Oregon Artist, Trisha has enjoyed numerous group and one woman exhibits throughout the United States and New Zealand. Her work has been published internationally in books and magazines highlighting contemporary fiber work. As a current board member of Art In The Pearl Fine Arts & Crafts Festival and former board member of L.O.C.A.L. 14 she is very involved in the local arts community in her home town of Portland. Trisha embraces both torch-cut steel and improvisational quilt construction and through her artistic abilities combines the two mediums into one art form even though the two parts are considered at opposite ends of the artistic spectrum. Her work is known for it's intricacy and surface detail and the use of the dissimilar elements has become her trademark. Trisha Hassler's artwork is available exclusively in Central Oregon at High Desert Gallery in Bend and Sisters, Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, and Sisters, Oregon, and High Desert Frameworks! located at 431 NW Franklin Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition.
For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Acclaimed Oregon Glass Artist, Morgan Madison at High Desert Gallery Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
High Desert Gallery is proud to welcome acclaimed Oregon kiln-formed glass artist Morgan Madison to the gallery. Morgan's glass creations, inspired by sources as divergent as urban design and the Northwest landscape, are available for sale at our downtown Bend Oregon gallery location, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford."For as long as I can remember, my imagination has been a constant companion. Some of my most cherished childhood memories are of the times I spent in the garden or the garage creating things out of the detritus I found buried there... At heart I think I am still that same kid searching for something more out of what seems to be ordinary."
As an artist, Morgan Madison quickly found his niche in drawing and sculpture, but a chance encounter with the process of kiln formed glass opened the door to experimentation. Drawing on his background in fine arts, Morgan developed his ideas technically and conceptually, earning the respect of the Pacific Northwest glass community and gaining national recognition. Morgan Madison's work reveals an eye for the unique and a creative curiosity that has evolved into compelling and beautifully ethereal glass art that ranges from functional pieces to mixed media sculptures and wall panels. His work is exhibited throughout the Americas and is in numerous private collections and public spaces.
Works: Left to right. To inquire or purchase call 866-549-6250 or visit High Desert Gallery in Bend Oregon at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
"Shade" Kiln formed /cold worked glass sculpture with steel base, 12” x 5.75” x 0.5”, 2010
"Shift #12" Kiln formed / cold worked glass, 10” x 15” x 0.5” , 2010
"Drift #3" Kiln formed / cold worked glass sculpture with steel base, 19” x 8.5” x 0.5” , 2010
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail gallery locations in Bend, Oregon and Sisters Oregon. High Desert Frameworks! the award-winning framing studio for the gallery is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes app visit: High Desert Gallery iPhone App at the App Store.The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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Mixed Media - Contemporary Fiber Design Artist, Shannon Weber at High Desert Gallery Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery is proud to welcome nationally acclaimed Oregon mixed media – contemporary fiber design artist Shannon Weber to the gallery. Shannon Weber's unique vessels and assembled collages are available for sale at our downtown Bend Oregon gallery location, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
A native Oregonian, Shannon Weber's first love as a child was archeology, digging up sticks, rocks, and rusty items and taking them home to study. As an adult she has channeled this fascination into one-of-a-kind woven vessels and mixed media collage pieces using found and reclaimed items such as chewed beaver sticks, sea kelp, willow and native grasses.
A self-taught artist, Shannon uses her own techniques to create vivid and haunting works of art. Her intricate woven pieces are worked in layers, as the artist first weaves, then paints each section. Embellishments are added, including but not limited to encaustic, threads, twigs, feathers, small pebbles and polished stone. The artist explains, “I employ primitive forms of weaving and tweak them into 'new' aboriginal forms for the current millennium.”
Shannon Weber's award-winning work has been written about in numerous national publications, and is in private and public collections across the US and overseas. High Desert Gallery is honored to represent her work exclusively in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail gallery locations in Bend, Oregon and Sisters Oregon. High Desert Frameworks! the award-winning framing studio for the gallery is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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New Work of the Oregon Outback Series - Sue Favinger Smith
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery of Central Oregon is pleased to introduce two new Oregon landscapes by Sue Smith, from her Paintings From The Oregon Outback Series.
Spring Aspens, 18 x 24, oil on canvas. "Where I live in Oregon I'm 20 minutes away from wilderness - snow capped mountains, alpine meadows, streams and aspen groves. I love this environment, the idea that you can find a place that still feels empty and pristine. Spring Aspens is such a place."
Stone Fence, 16 x 20, oil on linen on board. "Several years ago I discovered this fence and an old blue house behind it. There was a beautiful azure blue gate between stone pillars which had initially attracted my attention. But time passed. I forgot about this spot. Then recently, I returned to the site and was dismayed to discover that the house had burned down and the gate had disappeared. Still, there was a sense of what had been, and I wanted to capture that resilient dignity on this gray winter day."
Sue Favinger Smith, Redmond Oregon 2010
About Sue Favinger Smith: Sue Smith began her award-winning career at the age of 50,earning an art degree from Oregon State University in 2005. Since then she has focused on oil painting, exploring the techniques and color used by painters who inspire her. Sue has participated in national and regional exhibitions, solo and three-person shows, and is a member of Women Artists of the West, Oil Painters of America, and the prestigious National Association of Women Artists, the oldest professional arts organization for women in the country. Her work is in private collections across the country.
For more information on Sue Favinger Smith, to view more work and purchase please visit High Desert Gallery in Bend Oregon or call 541-388-8964 or 866-549-6250. You can also contact by email.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Jacob Norris Paints the Birds of Central Oregon - Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonDuring a year on the coast, Jacob Norris spent much of his time studying A Field Guide to Western Birds by Roger Paterson. The painted images lead Jacob toward the goal of one day completing his own book of bird illustrations. High Desert Gallery, at our downtown Bend Oregon gallery location, 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford, is pleased to present Four new oil on board paintings by Jacob Norris as he paints the birds of Central Oregon.
“The Wood Duck inspires me. How can I pass up a chance to paint a bird that is already a painted masterpiece of nature? If I had the chance to use the tools God used in creating the quilted design of the wood duck I would take it.
Drake Park...full of Mallards, a forest of green bobbing heads, a community of familiar floaters racing to the water's edge. They meet their benefactors and dance like jesters in the midst of the common folk, a wood duck and his lover, a patchwork of many places. One may wonder if he is a vulnerable feathered friend, so bright and lacking in the brown and green camouflage. But alas, he knows nothing of differences. He is a duck, he swims, he flies, he eats bread, and in these ordinary actions the onlookers smile at his beauty.”
“Blue Bird and Chickadee – on walks in the urban Juniper forests on the east side of Bend, a flock of blue birds scuffle ruffle the branches eating seeds, insects, and drinking water from melted snow on lava rocks. Their companion chickadee sprinkles cheerful bits of notes...chick-chick a dee-a-dee – hence the name. These birds flow with a truth that mirrors a feeling in my soul, a timeless resonance, fearless, nameless – carefree; whim here, whim there. When I hear them and see them my heart bursts with horns and strings symphonic. Their images are iconic, etched in my mind, bringing back memories of walks in magical, haunted damp forests. Emotion, coming of age newness, freshness, the Nature Moment, survival Grace...to be continued...”
“Quail - early in the morning – eight or nine o'clock, a covey of quail shuffle into the soft sunlight of our winter gypsy home. They peck away like chickens, but with the slightest motion...a scurry, and they have joined the quiet family of deer hidden in the bushes. One hundred eyes staring out behind the twigs of winter, ears perked, a feather ready. Like sweet damsels, a feather pinned to their hat, they scurry around the town learning the news and gossip of the day, taking tea, nibbling on bits of ground and disappearing for their afternoon nap.”
Jacob Norris, Bend Oregon, February 2010
About Jacob Norris: As a young boy, Jacob Norris was inspired by his grandfather, Walter Joseph Norris II, an oil painter and artist. Jacob's first art experience was also influenced by his grandfather, when he copied a painting of Mt. Jefferson in pencil, before moving on to charcoal, which Jacob describes as "an extension of my fingers." During a year on the coast, Jacob spent much of his time studying A Field Guide to Western Birds by Roger Paterson. The illustrations of birds, painted by the author, lead Jacob toward painting his own images of birds, in oil on panel, and toward the goal of one day printing his own book of painted birds of the area. In high school, Jacob met Ken Roth, a respected art teacher and successful artist in his own right. Jacob says, “Meeting Ken was a turning point in my art career – he gave me a voice in my artwork – he let me sing.” While Ken Roth was Jacob's mentor in high school, he now sees his former student as a contemporary, and often paints with Jacob and Portland based artist Nathaniel Praska en plein air. Jacob has exhibited regionally and is represented in Central Oregon by High Desert Gallery. He touches the soul of those he meets and continues to paint, dream, and live the romance of the artist.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, Redmond and Sisters Oregon and High Desert Frameworks! located at 431 NW Franklin Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition.
For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes app visit: High Desert Gallery iPhone App at the App Store.The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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New Books out NOW!!!
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New Books out NOW!!!
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I've got a photography and graphic design book out now!Check it out Here!Also The McFadden Series is available as an eBook!It's been published around the internet! here are the sites to find the print... -
New Books out NOW!!!
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New Books out NOW!!!
» StephanieBelieverTags: Art and Photography [edit]
I've got a photography and graphic design book out now!Check it out Here!Also The McFadden Series is available as an eBook!It's been published around the internet! here are the sites to find the print...
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January Art @ Thump Coffee: “Push” Division Street Skatepark Project Skateboard Deck Art, Plus Lloyd McMullen’s 2D/3D Mixed Media
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Throughout January, Thump Coffee in downtown Bend hosts an exclusive sneak preview of “Push” skateboard decks customized by dozens of local, regional and national artists, including Adam Haynes, Mark Rada, Aaron Draplin, and T-Fly. The skateboard artworks will be auctioned in mid-February to benefit the Division Street Skatepark Project. Complimenting the Push showing are mixed media works in two- and three-dimensions by Bend artist and educator, Lloyd McMullen.
McMullen works extensively with found and recycled materials. “Everyday settings and homely objects inspire my art,” she explains. “Snatches of conversation overheard and cast-off items discovered underfoot serve as raw material and metaphor.”
McMullen’s two- and three-dimensional acrylic paintings are layered with deep transparent glazes to
embed objects and color within the work. “My work is about time, seeking glimpses of history revealed in simple objects,” she says. “Discarded and broken detritus; random words from fortunes cookies, the daily news, found scraps of paper, classic works of literature ‘paint’ and reveal from the inside out. Currently my work explores figurative/abstract themes as story and symbol.”
McMullen is a Print Associate at Atelier 6000, a fine art prints studio and artists’ workshop in Bend; one of the founding members of Artists Local 101, a Central Oregon-based contemporary art group; Visual Arts Program Director at Young Musicians & Artists, a Willamette University-based program.
McMullen’s work is currently on display in the “On the Cutting Edge” exhibit at the Coos Art Museum. In Bend, work is on display in the “Paper Rock Scissors” show at Atelier 6000, and includes an outdoor installation, “Enlightenment”, at Gossamer, the Knitting Place. Recent invitational/juried exhibits include Atelier 6000, the 135 UP! gallery, and Central Oregon Community College in Bend, OR; the Art House Gallery, Atlanta, GA.; Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR; the Firehouse Gallery, Del Rio Council for the Arts, TX; and includes outdoor installations in Central Oregon.
For more about McMullen and her work, visit her website.
According to organizers, Push is modeled after a similar community skatepark project in Montana and inspired by Portland’s famed Burnside skatepark and similar DIY parks. “Though we have lots of sun here in Central Oregon, a covered skatepark designed, built, and maintained by skaters without the help of the parks dept, or the city is the goal,” say organizers.
Situated on Division Street under the Bend Parkway, the land is currently vacant and strewn with large boulders. The project crew, comprised of volunteers who have dreamt of such an opportunity for years, has already formed a 501(c)3 nonprofit in order to secure grants and funds for building the park, which has already won the support of the Oregon Department of Transportation.
For more information on the skatepark project, go to divisionstreetskatepark.org.
Thump Coffee is located in downtown Bend at 25 NW Minnesota Ave. For details, visit www.ThumpCoffee.com or call 541-388-0226.
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Wildlife Sculptor, Dayton Lanphear at High Desert Gallery Bend Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery is proud to announce nationally acclaimed Central Oregon sculptor, Dayton
Lanphear to the gallery. Dayton's work is exhibited for sale at High Desert Gallery's Bend, Oregon fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue in downtown Bend, Oregon.
As a wildlife sculptor, Dayton relies on his connection with nature as a guide and which inspires his creativity. His childhood was spent in Vermont’s Green Mountains which gave him his lifelong love of the outdoors and admiration of nature and wildlife. Dayton earliest inspiration in art came from an elder friend's collection of wildlife paintings and sculpture. With his new found curiosity, Dayton went in search of creativity traveling throughout the United States and Canada, and the Far East, China, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma. And the extraordinary artisans that he met enriched Dayton's life and art. He found his passion for woodcarving.
In the late 1970s, Dayton discovered the Pacific Northwest with its abundant wildlife, vast wilderness landscapes and made Sisters his home. Dayton cherishes the profound influence that the natural splendor of the Northwest has on his work. He strives to bring nature's
wilderness to life in his work. Dayton see wildlife sculpture as an expressive language. With the unique nature of wood, it has a great deal of influence on each of Dayton's sculptures, giving movement, direction, identity and life to his work. He lets the sculpture emerge from the wood and as he sculpts this once living medium, the spirit of the tree comes alive. Nature's full circle. Dayton endless inspiration.
"Working with wood is another way I invite nature to unfold in my art. Hardwoods are my medium of choice for their organic properties and stability, and I can think of no better material for representing wildlife. The unique nature of the wood has a great deal of influence on each sculpture, giving movement, direction, identity and life to my creations. Remaining ever open to possibility, I let the form emerge with the wood’s inherent strength and integrity. As I sculpt this once living medium, the spirit of the tree is reborn in the piece." -- Dayton Lanphear
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, 2008 & 2009). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing competition and Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing competition. In October 2009, High Desert Frameworks earned First Place, Top Honors and Peoples choice in the Pacific Northwest Professional Picture Framing Association 2009-2010 Print Framing competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Bend Independent Contemporary Art (BICA): Salon Style Reception 12/4
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Art Walk(s)
» Hack BendThis Friday is the First Friday Art Walk in Downtown Bend (also the Old Mill District and Northwest Crossing). In addition to the usual activities going on from 5pm until 9pm (galleries open late, often with live music and/or refreshments), I have some details on extra things happening that were sent in.
- At Paradigm Artist suites (upstairs from Local Joes), there will be featured Portland filmmaker Phil Davis (who will be there in person) and his documentary "Living in Community", about a community working hard to live sustainably away from modern society. It takes place at 7pm.
- They'll also be "featuring Artwork by Karen Eland and Coffee Creations (coffee-art.com) and Photography from Native American Artist Forest James forestjames.com".
- There's going to be a second Art Walk on Friday, December 11th:
The Downtown Bend Business Association invites bicycle fans to enjoy a special Bicycle Art Walk on Friday, December 11. Downtown business will display bicycle-themed art and other fun bike-related events will take place in conjunction with the 2009 National Cyclocross Championships in Bend, December 10-13. The Bicycle Art Walk event is in addition to the regular First Friday Art Walk downtown on December 4. For Bicycle Art Walk, everyone is encouraged to leave their cars at home and ride a bicycle.
Incidentally, the Downtown Bend website has been revamped and is now actually usable; they have a good listing of businesses participating in this Friday's Art Walk, as well as participants for the Bicycle Art Walk.
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Downtown Bend: First Friday Art Walk, December 4 + Bicycle Art Walk, Friday, December 11
» Ad HOC : Words + IdeasTwo arts walks in downtown Bend in December! -hoc
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Photos by Amy Castaño on display at
John Paul Designs fort Bicycle Art Walk.
The Downtown Bend Business Association invites bicycle fans to enjoy a special Bicycle Art Walk on Friday, December 11. Downtown business will display bicycle-themed art and other fun bike-related events will take place in conjunction with the 2009 National Cyclocross Championships in Bend, December 10-13. The Bicycle Art Walk event is in addition to the regular First Friday Art Walk downtown on December 4. For Bicycle Art Walk, everyone is encouraged to leave their cars at home and ride a bicycle.
For details about bicycle art exhibits and other activities, check the new Downtown Bend Business Association website.
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Creating the I AM – An Interview with Jacob Norris
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery has been a fan of Jacob Norris since we saw his show at The Sparrow Bakery a few years ago, and we are honored and pleased to represent Jacob's work
in our new Bend Oregon Art Gallery in the Oxford Hotel, located at 10 NW Minnesota at Lava, in downtown Bend. Recently, our Bend Gallery Manager, Kim, had an opportunity to sit down with Jacob and learn more about the passions driving this emerging young artist.
Kim: Your work has an exuberance that makes us think there's nothing else you'd rather be doing. Did you always want to be an artist?
Jacob: I always wanted to paint. I love the romance of the artist – the idea, the notion of what art is, to me. I feel I am a vessel for painting, a beam of light that resonates through me, bending light into the form of a painting.
Kim: How would you describe your love affair with paint?
Jacob: My love affair with painting is ...a dependent arising...a cycle of healing – the everything...
Kim: How do you start a painting?
Jacob: I am more of an intuitive painter, but I also try to balance conceptual elements to ground myself.
Kim: How is your art different?
Jacob: I choose to create from a place of no mind and that allows me to be original. If I chose to think about my work – my self conscious would take over and then I would become a vessel of conditioning.
Kim: What stories do you tell through your art?
Jacob: They are timeless stories of human emotion.
Kim: What artistic influences do you draw upon the most?
Jacob: Directly, the artists I create with are Ken Roth and Nathaniel Praska. They show me a template, we bounce ideas and techniques off each other, and on a spiritual level they listen – we are brothers. Historically, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Tom Thomson and the Impressionism period, for their use of color and sense of design elements.
Kim: Where do you want to be in ten years?
Jacob: How I see my future is living and creating in Europe with my family, my bike, a wool blanket and my paint box. Making my own paints and brushes. I want to move into portraiture and abstracts and use a primitive imagery that is less anchored in one genre. I want to push the boundaries of what I know or what everyone else knows of art, but with a level of simple restraint and subtlety.
Kim: What accomplishments are most important to you?
Jacob: Being in a gallery. I have wanted this since I was a small child. It is an honor to be accepted by the community and my peers.
Kim: Do you have an artist statement?
Jacob: It's a poem.
Ocean
Like a blind man seeing for the first time
Sacred, Spiritual, Natural
Playful, Honest, Present
I play the instrument of painting for all to hear
Move free falling like a fool
Singing like the birds in all weather
Riding the wave on the surfboard of Now
Create the I AM
Sacred Balance
In accordance to hand, heart, head.
About Jacob Norris: As a young boy, Jacob Norris was inspired by his grandfather, Walter
Joseph Norris II, an oil painter and artist. Jacob's first art experience was also influenced by his grandfather, when he copied a painting of Mt. Jefferson in pencil, before moving on to charcoal, which Jacob describes as "an extension of my fingers." During a year on the coast, Jacob spent much of his time studying A Field Guide to Western Birds by Roger Paterson. The illustrations of birds, painted by the author, lead Jacob toward painting his own images of birds, in oil on panel, and toward the goal of one day printing his own book of painted birds of the area. In high school, Jacob met Ken Roth, a respected art teacher and successful artist in his own right. Jacob says, “Meeting Ken was a turning point in my art career – he gave me a voice in my artwork – he let me sing.” While Ken Roth was Jacob's mentor in high school, he now sees his former student as a contemporary, and often paints with Jacob and Portland based artist Nathaniel Praska en plein air. Jacob has exhibited regionally and is represented in Central Oregon by High Desert Gallery. He touches the soul of those he meets and continues to paint, dream, and live the romance of the artist.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Sculpture Garden, Xeriscaping, Signage Blended at Mother’s Juice Café
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See the rest of the sculpture garden images on Mother's Juice Cafe Facebook. -hoc
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Sculpture garden? Low-water xeriscape landscaping? Business signage? How about all three? Mother’s Juice Café’s latest contribution to Galveston Avenue neighborhood beautification blends art, sustainability and commerce. Under the shade of a “Mother’s Juice Café” sculptural metal tree flourishes beds of sculptural metal flowers with small placards for Open, Espresso and other simple messages.
Mother’s Juice Café owner Mike Sackin tapped into his landscaping background to collaborate with Bend metal sculptor Andy Wachs at Weld Studio on the modern designs.
“We worked with the Mother’s tree-inspired logo to create a modern sculpture that also serves as signage in an organic way,” says Wachs. “It simulates a tree and plant forms and incorporates local landscapes for a playful, eye-catching blend of signage, garden and art,” Wachs explains.
The signs are constructed of steel and aluminum with traces of patina and rust to blend in with the surrounding Central Oregon desert environment.
Mother’s owners Mike and Janet Sackin, are also committed to supporting the local arts community by providing their venue as a platform for local artist to feature their work monthy.
“With our new sculpture garden emerging out front - we hope the community can be inspired to bring art into any environment,” states Mike Sackin.
Mother’s Juice Café is located on Bend’s west side at 1255 NW Galveston Ave. For details, visit www.mothersjuicecafe.com or call 541-318-0989.
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Fine Art Giclee Release by Kathy Deggendorfer
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonJust in time for the holidays! High Desert Gallery in Sisters is unveiling two new prints, “Out on Zumwalt Prairie” and “Coneflowers and Cornflowers,” by Central Oregon artist Kathy Deggendorfer. The Fine Art Giclee Prints are on display with custom framing options from High Desert Frameworks! The prints are $195 through December 31, 2009 and include an artist created remarque. Please stop by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing located at 281 West Cascade Avenue at Oak Street in downtown Sisters. Our hours are Thursday through Monday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday and Wednesday by appointment.
Order on line: "Out on Zumwalt Prairie” and “Coneflowers and Cornflowers,” by Central Oregon artist Kathy Deggendorfer can be purchased online at www.highdesertgallery.biz
Order by phone: Call Kim, our Gallery manager in our Bend Oregon gallery to place your order -- Toll free 1-866-549-6250.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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11/6 Downtown Bend Business Association’s November First Friday Art Walk
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Dozens of downtown Bend businesses will glow with the welcoming warmth of Autumn during the Downtown Bend Business Association’s monthly First Friday Walk on November 6. Art exhibits, artist receptions, live music, food and beverage samples and other events are open to the public free of charge throughout the evening.
Below are highlights and locations for several November First Friday Art Walk happenings:
Astro Lounge
147 NW Minnesota Avenue
Derek Anderson light paintings photography.
At the Beach
850 NW Wall
Handmade chocolate truffles, wine and 2010 swim and resort wear lines.
Bella Moda
1001 NW Wall Street #102
Lisa Mason color pencil drawings and acrylic paintings.
Bend Mapping & Blueprint 922 NW Bond Street
“Have you ever been this tired?” photo prints.
Douglas Fine Jewelry
920 NW Bond Street, Suite 106
Steven and Elyse Douglas gem show featuring Oregon Sunstone from Douglas mining claims.
Dudley’s Bookshop Café
135 Minnesota Avenue
Holly Grigg-Spall acrylic paintings. Music by French troubadour Eric John Kaiser. Artistic knitted items.
High Desert Gallery
10 Minnesota Avenue
Sue Favinger Smith “Perception and Imagination” oil paintings. Music by Erin Cole-Baker, acoustic mix of bluegrass, jazz, blues and rock.
Glass Symphony
916 Wall Street
Kate MacLeod new glass works.
Great Outdoor Clothing Company
933 NW Wall Street
Susan Mobley original watercolors and handpainted silk scarves and neckties.
Hot Box Betty
903 NW Wall Street
Karen Wright jewelry, Karen Brock designs, Stephanie Photography travel and nature photos.
Karen Bandy Design
25 Minnesota Avenue
Custom-designed jewelry and original abstract acrylic paintings.
Lowes Group
920 NW Bond Street, Ste 107
Artist TBA from BICA Gallery.
New York City Sub Shop
1043 NW Bond Street
Greta Gretzinger humorous paintings.
North Soles Footwear
800 Wall Street
Nikki Hoke Horner abstract interpretations of topographical mapping.
Sage Custom Framing
834 NW Brooks Street
Linda Gillard plein air pastel landscape paintings and figurative wire sculptures.
Thump Coffee
25 NW Minnesota Avenue
Kristin Klus hand-tinted darkroom prints and digital photography.
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High Desert Gallery Bend Oregon Features "The Intrepid Elk" by Grace Bishko
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery's mission is to present the Art and Soul of Central Oregon. When we explore the everyday environment through the prism of the contemporary artists who live here, we are transformed, enriched in our experience and viewpoint. We support the appreciation and collecting of fine art that connects community, opens new avenues of understanding, and heals the spirit.
High Desert Gallery is honored and pleased to present a new original painting by nationally known artist, Grace Bishko, in our new gallery location at the Oxford Hotel, 10 NW Minnesota at Lava, downtown Bend. Grace's work presents questions through a mixture of fable and displacement, exploring our human relationships with the other creatures sharing the environment.
“The Intrepid Elk” is an original oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.
“This painting belongs to the ongoing group of my works that illustrate the displacement of wildlife. It’s the first time, though, that I’ve used the elk image. So far, the raven, wolf and man - 'The Ancient Trilogy' - have been the subjects of the 'displacement' series. Including the elk, opens up the story. It adds the presence of food for man, wolf, raven and others. Wolf will follow the elk herds, and eventually choose the weakest to bring down. Usually it’s a sick animal, or one that is very old. Man will hunt for meat also. Both of them will leave certain parts of the animal for carrion eaters, like ravens, coyotes and foxes.
The characters in this narrative painting are in a confusing environment. Trees are growing inside, the wolf is both inside and outside. The raven is waiting patiently in the tree. Their behavior is lodged in their brain and automatic, regardless of the change in their environment. However, the human has changed himself into a coyote. He wears a coyote mask, and has clothed himself in red. As human beings we can change our costume, and our thought process, and become something we wish for. I respect my human world. However, I also have respect for all animals in this world for what they are, and I want them to survive.” Grace Bishko, September 30, 2009
To inquire about "The Intrepid Elk" please call 866-549-6250 or contact us online at Contact High Desert Gallery.
About Grace Bishko: Grace lives in Central Oregon, hikes the trails, and paints her memories of what she has seen. A serious and honest painter, she paints from her heart and of her memories and experiences. Her imagery contains an ever so slight surreal edge to grab and retain the viewer's attention, while at the same time satisfying their deep emotions and enjoyment. High Desert Gallery is truly honored to represent Grace Bishko. In the 1970's she decided to stop painting directly from "life," and to develop a vocabulary that would allow her to paint through her personal feelings. Through education, and experimentation, her creative endeavors evolved in many stages. The results of this adventure are embedded in the artwork she is involved in today. Now, Grace is honored that her paintings are appreciated and understood across a wide multicultural expanse. Winning all possible awards at the Cleveland Institute of Art, she went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers, The State University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. After receiving her M.F.A. degree, Grace taught life drawing at Rutgers, design at University of the Arts, and lithography at Moore College of Art. Since then, she has focused on her own art, exhibiting yearly in solo and group exhibitions. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Grace Bishko exclusively in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon, Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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Lisa Copenhagen Wachs Oil Paintings at Mother’s Juice Café in September
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Mother’s Juice Café in Bend is making a commitment to support the local arts community by featuring rotating monthly visual art exhibits. In September, Tumalo artist Lisa Copenhagen Wachs shows a collection of new oil paintings.
“The painting images are part of what I refer to as the ‘Drive By’ series,” says Copenhagen Wachs. “I snap photos while I am driving — usually over to Portland and back, around Warm Springs — and compile segments to create an amalgamation of different glances of landscape while passing through.”
Copenhagen Wachs has been a fixture on the local art scene for more than a decade. She works as a self-employed graphic designer and fine artist and has worked and lived in Portland, Oregon, San Francisco and Taos, New Mexico before settling in the Bend area in 1992. She paints primarily in oils and also works in mixed media collage/assemblage. She works in her Tumalo studio, which overlooks the high desert landscape.
Owners Mike and Janet Sackin, who bought Mother's Juice Café one year ago, are committed to supporting the local arts community by providing this opportunity to local artists to showcase their works. “My background is landscaping, and incorporating art into our lives is a natural part of who we are and what we want Mother’s Juice Café to be,” explains Mike Sackin.
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BICA: Craig Davidson Exhibit Throughout September
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Here's an opportunity to see the works for Minneapolis-area artist Craig Davidson, this month at Bend Independent Contemporary Art (BICA). -hoc----------------- Craig Davidson is a graphic designer and painter who holds a BFA in Graphic Design at Montana State University and a MFA in Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Davidson's working process often begins with a word, phrase or fragment of a poem written in journals and on post-it notes. At other times, a piece begins in response to an initial series of marks, a field of color or the relationship of shapes. The surface of his works become heavily layered which simultaneously conceals and reveals previously completed compositions, akin to a pentimento effect. Davidson will be exhibiting 60 x 60" and 16 x 20" oil and latex on canvas paintings as well as a series of 8.5 x 11" ball point pen drawings at BICA. Please join us for the opening reception this Friday, September 4th from 5-9 pm. Craig will be in attendance to answer questions and discuss his artwork. Show runs thru September.
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New Art Card Series by regionally acclaimed Oregon artist, Kathy Deggendorfer, announced by High Desert Gallery
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery announces the arrival of a new Art Card series featuring some of Kathy Deggendorfer's most whimsical images.
Titled the “Dog Travel Series,” these cards feature images from the “Going to the Dogs” collaborative series, one of Kathy's signature “Wedding Bouquet with an Art Beat” flower images, plus travels in a camp trailer with "yello,” the dog. There are 10 cards – one of each image – included in a pack. Each card is 4” by 6” and includes a white envelope. The images are printed on white paper, and the cards are blank inside with the artists name, title and a bit of information added on the back.
The 10 card package of fine art images in the “Dog Travels Series” retails for $30.00, with priority shipping of only $4.95. But for a limited time, we're offering you a $5.00 savings – the equivalent of free shipping plus change – if you order through our online store. Quick and easy to order, these cards are a wonderful way to enjoy fine art while writing to those you love.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Open Summer 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. Follow us on our FriendFeed and stay up to date with all our activies. Visit: High Desert Gallery Friendfeed! The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon Presents "Jump Off" - A New Original Painting by Kimry Jelen
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonFans and collectors know it - equine artist Kimry Jelen has a special gift: she captures the heart, spirit, beauty and power of horses. In 2008, her painting “Sky Jump” represented the Central Oregon High Desert Classics, and was so successful that this year Kimry was again commissioned to create a painting, titled “Jump Off,” for the 20th anniversary of the event.
“2009 is the 20th anniversary of the Oregon High Desert Classics. The poster for last year was a big success so I was asked to do the artwork and design for this year's poster too! I wanted to include the two types of horses that compete caught mid-action. A "Jump Off" is a timed competition to see who can accurately jump a course the fastest. It is thrilling to watch! The bold energy, the size of the painting and color are representative of the action and excitement in jumping. The mountains are the backdrop for this event, it's amazing to see a horse leaping tall jumps with one of the Three Sisters behind it. Three horses made it into the painting, two braided "Hunters" and a "Jumper" - you can tell by the hair-dos.” - Kimry Jelen, 2009
Kimry also suggests, “If you want to know more about Hunters and Jumpers, check out this link!”
About the Art: “Jump Off” is a 36" x 48" one-of-a-kind original acrylic painting on canvas, professionally framed by award-winning custom framer Myrna Dow. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is pleased and honored to make available artwork by Oregon artist, Kimry Jelen. For more information or to purchase "Jump Off" call the gallery at 866-549-6250 or visit: Kimry Jelen's Jump Off
About the Oregon High Desert Classics: The Oregon High Desert Classics is the largest and most prestigious hunter-jumper competition in the Northwest, bringing over 500 of the finest horses and most talented riders from the United States and Canada to Bend. Each Classic draws professional and amateur competitors and closes on Sunday with the Grand Prix competition, where the top horses and riders compete for purses up to $25,000. Since its inception in 1990, this annual fundraiser has become a premier event for both riders and spectators. Competitors enjoy a USA Equestrian A-Rated show on superb grass footing, while spectators (no admission fee for spectators) enjoy the athletic skill of the horses and riders and a variety of food and shopping at vendor booths.
2009 Daily schedule is 7:30am - 4:30pm, Wednesday - Sunday; 2009 Grand Prix - Main event each Saturday, July 18 & July 25 at 5:00pm approximately. Mini Prix - each Sunday, July 19 & July 26 at 2:00pm approximately. Check out www.jbarj.org for more information.
J Bar J Youth Services, the host of the High Desert Classics, was established in 1968 as a private non-profit organization providing quality programs for youth and their families. Their mission statement is "Innovative options for at-risk youth and families toward self-sufficiency and personal responsibility". The proceeds from the High Desert Classics fundraiser go towards J bar J's program. For more information visit www.jbarj.org
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing
281 W Cascade Avenue at Oak
Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250
Open Daily: 10am to 6pm (Summer Hours)
www.highdesertgallery.com
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with three High Desert Gallery retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Open Summer 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon and one High Desert Frameworks! located in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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Sneak Preview -- “West of West,” A Celebration of Ranch Life at High Desert Gallery -- Sisters Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonThe “West of West,” A Celebration of Ranch Life at High Desert Gallery Group Show Opens May 30 through June 29. Please join us for the Artist Group Reception Saturday, May 30, from 4 – 7pm.
The All-Star lineup of High Desert Gallery Artists includes Cristina Acosta, J Chester Armstrong, Paul Alan Bennett, Grace Bishko, Glen Corbett, Kathy Deggendorfer, Trisha Hassler, Kimry Jelen, Sue Smith, Jean Wells, Jerry Werner.
High Desert Gallery And Custom Framing
281 W Cascade Avenue at Oak Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250
Open Daily: F/S/S/M 10am to 5pm, T/W/H 10am-2:30pm (Spring Hours)
Open Daily: 10am to 6pm Starting June 14, 2009 (Summer Hours)
www.highdesertgallery.com
“Howdy Pardner” – Watercolor on Paper, by Kathy Deggendorfer (Image)
When I was a little kid growing up in the 50’s and 60’s in Portland I dreamt of the life of a cowboy. My parents told me my very first words were “Dat Da Dah”... I’d point to horses in the field and shout "Dat Da Dah!" Apparently because in the TV show, The Lone Ranger., every time he rode onto the screen the music would come up -- dat da da dah, dat da da dah, dah daaaaaaaah da! Hence, horse = dat dah dah.
My Dad was from Tucson so every summer vacation ---you got it... SUMMER vacation-- we would leave cool and rainy Portland and drive to Tucson to visit relatives. We’d swelter in the in unaccustomed heat but I loved to go because they’d take me out to a ranch and let me ride a horse! I’d pack my authentic western leather vest with the fringe trim and the metal studded holster and pearl handled six shooters I begged for every year at Christmas. I’d always get new boots and jeans in Tucson... much better selection, don’t ya know. I remember the year they begged the wrangler to tell me that " Cowgirls really do comb their hair". Hmmmm. They never showed any real personal hygiene on those TV shows. Oh, how I wanted to live there in Arizona and have my own horse--even though it was hotter than Hades and the bugs and snakes bit people and the bushes had thorns.
This piece, “ Howdy Pardner” is kind of an homage to all that childhood longing for wide open spaces and the dusty trail.
The border is reminiscent of this really cool Indian Chief Headdress that we had as kids-- it was made of colored feathers sewn into a band of red, yellow and blue felt. With this thing on you could command half the neighborhood kids, lead war parties, smoke imaginary peace pipes and feel very much connected to the history of the West.
The cowboy in the center looks a little bit like Dan Hicks from Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks-- I just replaced his guitar with a coyote... two truly great Western singers.
Of course, I had to put the mountains and the foothills of Sisters as the backdrop. It’s where I always hoped I would end up-- on a ranch near the mountains.
The floral pattern in the background came from an old embroidered cowboy shirt I used to have -- ahhh, it was a beauty!
The corners are dominated by the horseshoe prints left by my trustee mare--Boogie --on a field of red paisley like my favorite red cowboy bandana.
"The Lone Ranger", "My Friend Flicka", "Rin Tin Tin", "Sky King", maybe even a little bit of "Bonanza" (oh, wasn't Little Joe somethin' else???) thrown in.
Those TV Westerns made me pine for the life of a cowboy--- and guess what? Here I am--living on a ranch--horses, cows, with hay in my pockets and wearing cowboy boots every day of the year! -- Kathy Deggendorfer May 2009
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Going To The Dogs -- Kathy Deggendorfer and Tonye Phillips -- Pre orders start May 15
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonKathy Deggendorfer & Tonye Belinda Phillips “Going To The Dogs" Collaboration
Available July 2009 at High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon. You may order the "Going To The Dogs" Originals and limited Editions starting May 15th. Conservation Framed and the Limited Edition pricing starts at $595 To order call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery.
"Smells Like Spring"
Fine Art Giclee Print -- by Kathy Deggendorfer
Fiber Art / Quilted and Appliquéd by hand with US Fabric -- Designs By Tonye Belinda Phillips
Conservation Framing by High Desert Frameworks!
Approximate image size framed - 26" x 21"
Museum glass Optional
Orders taken May 15, 2009
Price and availability subject to change.
Each Fine Art Giclee print is signed and numbered by Kathy Deggendorfer and a wonderful reproduction of the original watercolor. Each quilted work by Tonye is signed and the two works of art are professionally framed by High Desert Frameworks!. The "Going To The Dogs" Series has five works in sets with each set limited to 25 prints/quilts. After the Series sells out there will be no more sets produced of the same images. Not only is the collaboration a wonderful addition to any home or office but it is also limited and potentially collectible.
The "Going To The Dogs" Series is available exclusively from High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon. To view all 5 images please visit: Going To The Dogs
For more information call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery
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Introducing: Oregon Glass Artist, Jenelle Lynn Kathan
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery is honored to work with and provide Central Oregon representation to Oregon Glass Artist, Jenelle Lynn Kathan. A fused glass artist specializing in functional and decorative custom designs that enhance any home or office. Jenelle's glass work features bowls, platters, plates, framed art, coasters, dichroic jewelry and unique glass gifts including magnets, ornaments, suncatchers and windchimes.
As a self-taught artist, Jenelle Lynn Kathan, dabbling in woodworking and pottery, and found warm glass to be the most exciting and mysterious medium. Presently, her expertise and style border on discovery and humility. By understanding the technical complexities of glass, she is forming a natural curiosity of how glass reacts under varied stages of heat. Jenelle states, “For me it’s all about the process rather than the finished piece, a combination of texture and light that create depth and mystery. My art simply takes form through the process of opening my heart and allowing for the human experience.”
High Desert Gallery with locations in downtown Sisters Oregon and Redmond Oregon will represent her work as well as High Desert Frameworks! located at 431 NW Franklin Avenue at Lava in Downtown Bend Oregon. For more information call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250 or visit www.highdesertgallery.com.
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Patricia Martin-Freeman: Herd Dynamics
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon“Standing Cattle” 22” x 7.5” Pen and Watercolor on Paper
I have spent years of my life watching cattle. As a rancher, one of my jobs was to watch and monitor cattle for health. I have a talent for identifying cattle that are coming down with illness. As a competitor at cow cutting competitions, studying the cattle for indications of their behavior and to remember each one of the herd as an individual, is a way to increase one's chances of doing well in the competition.
This little painting is an example of what I love about drawing cattle; even though they are all basically the same creature, they each have unique and identifying faces, lines, markings, and personalities. I love drawing cattle. They are a simple shape that is never the same from moment to moment. I love how cattle stand in groups. There is always a rhythm and pattern to the way the individuals make up the herd, and the way the light falls and scatters through, down and around their blocky forms. -- Patricia Freeman-Martin, March 2009
About Patricia Freeman-Martin: Patricia was raised in a ranching and rodeo family in Eastern Oregon, graduating from high school in Pendleton, Oregon. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She moved to New York City and spent nearly five years in the East Village. During a visit home, she fell in love with a potato farmer from Southern Idaho and never returned to New York. For 16 years, Patricia and her family lived and worked on their ranch at the foot of the Elkhorn Mountains in North Powder, Oregon. Ranching and cutting horses have been an integral part of her life as well as inspiration for her art. In 2004 Patricia and her family purchased a horse ranch in Terrebonne, Oregon, near Smith Rock. Patricia has woven together a beautiful and complex life of many different themes; cattle ranching, cutting horses, family, and art. She uses a variety of mixed media to talk about her experiences in the western landscape and her style reflects her fresh, honest and whimsical way of viewing the world.
Patricia Freeman-Martin – Original Paintings & Monoprints
March 1 through March 31, 2009
High Desert Gallery, 281 W Cascade Avenue at Oak, Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250
Open Daily (Winter Hours): F/S/S/M 10am to 5pm, T/W/H 10am-2:30pm
www.highdesertgallery.comTo purchase “Standing Cattle” please contact High Desert Gallery
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of
Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Open Summer 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2009. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Grace Bishko: I See it more completely
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonInside Out -Oils on Canvas - 23.75 x 20.00 inches (Image) by Grace Bishko
This painting is all about color, pattern, and displaced and unexpected placement of some of the images. When I come across something “out of place”, I see it more completely. However, it’s easy to walk right by objects, people, animals, etc. that are where they’ve always been, without seeing them.
Creating the painting, “Inside Out” was a little bit challenging, and a lot of fun. I “threw the dice” so to speak, and took my chances! -- Grace Bishko March 2009
High Desert Gallery is pleased and honored to make available artwork by Nationally Acclaimed Oregon artist, Grace Bishko.About Grace Bishko: Grace lives in Central Oregon, hikes the trails, and paints her memories of what she has seen. A serious and honest painter, she paints from her heart and of her memories and experiences. Her imagery contains an ever so slight surreal edge to grab and retain the viewer's attention, while at the same time satisfying their deep emotions and enjoyment. High Desert Gallery is truly honored to represent Grace Bishko.
In the 1970's she decided to stop painting directly from "life," and to develop a vocabulary that would allow her to paint through her personal feelings. Through education, and experimentation, her creative endeavors evolved in many stages. The results of this adventure are embedded in the artwork she is involved in today. Now, Grace is honored that her paintings are appreciated and understood across a wide multicultural expanse.
Winning all possible awards at the Cleveland Institute of Art, she went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers, The State University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. After receiving her M.F.A. degree, Grace taught life drawing at Rutgers, design at University of the Arts, and lithography at Moore College of Art. Since then, she has focused on her own art, exhibiting yearly in solo and group exhibitions.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Grace Bishko exclusively in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Open Summer 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Gallery include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition and Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition . For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2009. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Patricia Freeman-Martin: Trick Rider Series and more opens in Sisters Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery is honored to feature new fine art prints and original mixed media
paintings by Oregon Artist, Patricia Freeman-Martin. The exhibition and sale is hosted by High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon and will continue through March 2009.
Typically a mixed media painter, and collage artist, printmaking was completely new to me less than a year ago. Using the monoprint process has now become my favorite way to draw. It is the first process I have used that freely allows me to draw using a reductive approach. I love the process of applying ink to the plate, and then, using a variety of tools, remove ink until I am left with the image. The informality and flexibility of the monoprinting process provides immediate gratification. It is a way to create an image which has the vitality and freshness of a sketch, but the weight and depth of a fine ink drawing on beautiful paper.
I am excited to show this work which features rodeo trick riders as my subject matter. When I was young, my family spent a lot of time at rodeos, watching my father and his friends and brothers compete. There was always a trick rider act for entertainment. I was enthralled by these acts. I loved the theatricality of their courageous stunts, their costumes, their trust in their horses and their own abilities. My drawing of the trick riders is spreading to other areas of the rodeo, and the parades that were a frequent part of the rodeo tradition. I’m now starting to draw the calf ropers, now called tie-down roping, and the trick ropers. I’m looking forward to exploring this imagery more, as I am beginning to draw from old photographs of my father roping in the 1960’s, and some vintage photographs of trick riders from the 1920’s and 30’s. -- Patricia Freeman-Martin, March 2009
Patricia Freeman-Martin – Original Paintings & Monoprints
March 1 through March 31, 2009
High Desert Gallery, 281 W Cascade Avenue at Oak, Sisters, Oregon 97759541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250
Open Daily (Winter Hours): F/S/S/M 10am to 5pm, T/W/H 10am-2:30pm
www.highdesertgallery.comAbout Patricia Freeman-Martin: Patricia was raised in a ranching and rodeo family in
Eastern Oregon, graduating from high school in Pendleton, Oregon. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She moved to New York City and spent nearly five years in the East Village. During a visit home, she fell in love with a potato farmer from Southern Idaho and never returned to New York. For 16 years, Patricia and her family lived and worked on their ranch at the foot of the Elkhorn Mountains in North Powder, Oregon. Ranching and cutting horses have been an integral part of her life as well as inspiration for her art. In 2004 Patricia and her family purchased a horse ranch in Terrebonne, Oregon, near Smith Rock. Patricia has woven together a beautiful and complex life of many different themes; cattle ranching, cutting horses, family, and art. She uses a variety of mixed media to talk about her experiences in the western landscape and her style reflects her fresh, honest and whimsical way of viewing the world.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™
is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Open Summer 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2009. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Oregon Art Beat: Kimry Jelen, Central Oregon Artist Feature
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonTonight watch Kimry Jelen on OPB's Oregon Art Beat -- Thursday February 19, 2009 at 8PM. For more info: Visit: Kimry Jelen Artist Feature.
New Work: “Soul Mate,” acrylic on canvas by Kimry Jelen.
There are times when a horse looks at you with those big deep eyes and it feels like he is looking into your soul. Some horse "owners" feel that their equine friend was meant to be in their lives. That they make the perfect match! This horse is painted from memory - but is not just one horse. It is a culmination of all the cool horses I have met that have extra special people, there are so many out there! In return, these horses bond, bring joy, listen and share. They help carry the burden of everyday life and lighten the load. Soul mates give you the wonderful feeling that you're where you are supposed to be in life at this moment - you know it when you look into their eyes and feel the love. -- Kimry Jelen, February 2009.
About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to honor the horsewoman she is and pursue her artistic talents. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of nature with paint, brush and palette knife.
Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. A native Oregonian, Kimry has made the central part of the state her home, where she is a professional horse trainer and artist.
She comments on her inspiration, "My art is an opportunity to share what nature shares with me, every creation is a celebration of life, whether an aspen grove, the power of horses, or a critter's sense of humor!"
Kimry's art is also influenced by her travels in North America and to other continents. She has trained in the classical arenas in Portugal and Spain, walked with the primates in Africa, toured through Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and rode the Shinkansen in Japan. Her work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections around the globe.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kimry Jelen exclusively in Central Oregon. To contact High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery.
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Kimry Jelen - Conjuring up warm and sunny memories
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonSummer Flowers & My Mom's Poppies: Growing up in the Willamette Valley, we were
able to have super gardens. I admit, that is one thing I miss living in Central Oregon. My mom had an oriental poppy bush that sprang up each year. They were the most amazing cluster of flowers I had ever seen. It was as tall as I was, and it seemed like there were 50 or more flowers on it at one time. We had so much fun with those gorgeous flowers through out the season. We could hardly wait for the flowers to uncurl... the purple pollen was lovely "eye shadow" under our brows as we got dressed up for our "garden party" with the our (stuffed) animal guests. At the end of the season, the seed pods were wonderful shakers, they poured out fresh poppy seeds onto our perfectly golden yellow baked "muffins" from the (sand box) oven and doubled as rattles for our "parades"! There is nothing like a garden full of gorgeous summer flowers... I think it's possible the gardens of bright colorful blooms I grew up with have had some influence in my color palette choices to this day! During the winter it's nice to conjure up some warm and sunny memories as I paint away! -- Kimry Jelen, February 2009
Summer Flowers, 36”x 36” (image), original acrylic on canvas.
My Mom's Poppies, 24”x 36” (image), original acrylic on canvas.
About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to honor the horsewoman she is and pursue her artistic talents. The accolades she received from companies like Nike,
Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of nature with paint, brush and palette knife.
Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. A native Oregonian, Kimry has made the central part of the state her home, where she is a professional horse trainer and artist.
She comments on her inspiration, "My art is an opportunity to share what nature shares with me, every creation is a celebration of life, whether an aspen grove, the power of horses, or a critter's sense of humor!"
Kimry's art is also influenced by her travels in North America and to other continents. She has trained in the classical arenas in Portugal and Spain, walked with the primates in Africa, toured through Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and rode the Shinkansen in Japan. Her work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections around the globe.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kimry Jelen exclusively in Central Oregon. To contact High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery.
Don't forget to watch Kimry Jelen on OPB's Oregon Art Beat on Thursday February 19, 2009 at 8PM. For more info: Visit: Kimry Jelen Artist Feature
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The Psalms
» PenseesI love what Augustine calls the Psalms in chapter 9 of his Confessions:
"Outbursts of devotion with no room in them for the breath of pride!"
Outbursts of devotion. I could think about that phrase for quite a while. What do outbursts of devotion look like in our lives... in my life?
Was the capacity for "outbursts of devotion" why God called David a "man after his own heart"?
Without pursuing this at length, I think that unstructured creative acts of enthusiasm, passion or desperation are at the heart of outbursts of devotion or Psalms.
I'm often asked why art is such a big deal at Antioch... well, maybe that is the answer.
Unstructured creative acts (does that sound like art?) seem to me an essential ingredient in devotion, worship and our ability to glorify God with all that is within us.
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Kimry Jelen - Changing Your Perspective
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonSweet Hearts: February deserves red - cadmium red light, medium, dark and crimson! There are subtle hints of green to compliment the red. Spots of light and dark add depth and
interest to your eye. I started this painting as a vertical, with two horses facing each other. The texture and colors were right, but the composition wasn't working for me... so I turned the painting sideways - things fell into place! Sometimes, changing your perspective can make all the difference. Come visit these "sweet hearts" in the gallery to experience the richness and texture of this painting. -- Kimry Jelen, February 2009
Sweet Hearts, 16” x 24” (image), original acrylic on canvas.
About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to honor the horsewoman she is and pursue her artistic talents. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of nature with paint, brush and palette knife.Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. A native Oregonian, Kimry has made the central part of the state her home, where she is a professional horse trainer and artist.
She comments on her inspiration, "My art is an opportunity to share what nature shares with me, every creation is a celebration of life, whether an aspen grove, the power of horses, or a critter's sense of humor!"
Kimry's art is also influenced by her travels in North America and to other continents. She has trained in the classical arenas in Portugal and Spain, walked with the primates in Africa, toured through Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and rode the Shinkansen in Japan. Her work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections around the globe.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kimry Jelen exclusively in Central Oregon. To contact High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery.
Don't forget to watch Kimry Jelen on OPB's Oregon Art Beat on Thursday February 19, 2009 at 8PM. For more info: Visit: Kimry Jelen Artist Feature
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Kimry Jelen - Painting a Window to the Natural World
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonThe Watering Hole: Each panel is exactly as wide and high as I am in this triptych. I had the panels custom made to my size. The inspiration comes from a dream. I saw the size,
layers, values and shapes - but the subject matter was vague. The composition has a large amount of open space that I find calming from my time spent at ranches in Montana - big sky country. I love all the layers of color, texture and shape happening in the landscape with the mountainous horizon. There are energized brush strokes that imply movement, yet moments of solid color for your eye to rest and travel through the work. The water rushes by with a hint of danger as in life, yet refreshing and pure just like each new moment. Five is my lucky number. Visually, I find balance with five. There are three panels with light and dark - abstractly adding up to five. There are five horses, two yellow and blue, one red. This painting is a window to the natural world. A band of horses undisturbed, enjoying some private time at the watering hole. Myrna has done a simply beautiful job framing this piece. -- Kimry Jelen, February 2009.
The Watering Hole, 3 Panels 18” x 67” Each (image), original acrylic on canvas. Framed 60” x 72”
About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to honor the horsewoman she is and pursue her artistic talents. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of nature with paint, brush and palette knife.Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. A native Oregonian, Kimry has made the central part of the state her home, where she is a professional horse trainer and artist.
She comments on her inspiration, "My art is an opportunity to share what nature shares with me, every creation is a celebration of life, whether an aspen grove, the power of horses, or a critter's sense of humor!"
Kimry's art is also influenced by her travels in North America and to other continents. She has trained in the classical arenas in Portugal and Spain, walked with the primates in Africa, toured through Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and rode the Shinkansen in Japan. Her work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections around the globe.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kimry Jelen exclusively in Central Oregon. To contact High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery.
Don't forget to watch Kimry Jelen on OPB's Oregon Art Beat on Thursday February 19, 2009 at 8PM. For more info: Visit: Kimry Jelen Artist Feature
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Kimry Jelen - The Power of Hope
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHope: At the time I painted, Hope, the presidential elections were in progress and there was a lot of talk about the power of hope. I wanted to focus on a painting that would send some good energy out there. Through out history, the white horse has symbolized power and hope. The main colors in this painting are red, white and blue for "patriotism", Then I added some yellow for "sunny days ahead". I softened the shadows and added layer and layer of color to come up with the subtle shaping and depth. I like the texture that allows the under paintings to come through and show the many colors mixed with white. This is a local Lusitano stallion, Piloto (www.pilotoranch.com). I got permission to use their photos taken by, Jeff Sperber for reference. The pose of this stallion looking ahead, captures a moment of kindness, reflection and peace. Something we all need in our daily lives. -- Kimry Jelen – February 2009
Hope,18”x 24” (image), original acrylic on canvas.
About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to honor the horsewoman she is and pursue her artistic talents. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of nature with paint, brush and palette knife.
Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. A native Oregonian, Kimry has made the central part of the state her home, where she is a professional horse trainer and artist.
She comments on her inspiration, "My art is an opportunity to share what nature shares with me, every creation is a celebration of life, whether an aspen grove, the power of horses, or a critter's sense of humor!"
Kimry's art is also influenced by her travels in North America and to other continents. She has trained in the classical arenas in Portugal and Spain, walked with the primates in Africa, toured through Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and rode the Shinkansen in Japan. Her work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections around the globe.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kimry Jelen exclusively in Central Oregon. To contact High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery.
Don't forget to watch Kimry Jelen on OPB's Oregon Art Beat on Thursday February 19, 2009 at 8PM. For more info: Visit: Kimry Jelen Artist Feature
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Kimry Jelen - It's like a song by James Brown -- "I Feel Good"
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonJump for Joy: Horses are capable crazy contortions when turned out to play. Leaping and spinning, kicking up heels and racing around - sometimes it seems like the song by James Brown should come on, "I feel good"! You can tell they are enjoying themselves down to every last hair! I go out for photo shoots to capture horses in action and I really liked the silhouette of this dark horse against the sky. Of course I've added a bit of imagination and changed the colors around to bring out the excitement of the moment and make it more dramatic! It's all just in fun, a jump for joy, celebrating life and the freedom to move, look out! -- Kimry Jelen – February 2009
Jump for Joy, 8”x 24” (image), original acrylic on canvas.
About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to honor the horsewoman she is and pursue her artistic talents. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of nature with paint, brush and palette knife.
Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. A native Oregonian, Kimry has made the central part of the state her home, where she is a professional horse trainer and artist.
She comments on her inspiration, "My art is an opportunity to share what nature shares with me, every creation is a celebration of life, whether an aspen grove, the power of horses, or a critter's sense of humor!"
Kimry's art is also influenced by her travels in North America and to other continents. She has trained in the classical arenas in Portugal and Spain, walked with the primates in Africa, toured through Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and rode the Shinkansen in Japan. Her work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections around the globe.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kimry Jelen exclusively in Central Oregon. To contact High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Contact High Desert Gallery.
Don't forget to watch Kimry Jelen on OPB's Oregon Art Beat on Thursday February 19, 2009 at 8PM. For more info: Visit: Kimry Jelen Artist Feature
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Kathy Deggendorf: On The Road Home - Court Appointed Special Advocates
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonIt's time once again for the annual CASA ( Court Appointed Special Advocates) of Multnomah County Auction. This is an organization that supports kids who have gotten all tangled up in the court system through no fault of their own. Kids whose parents have lost the right to retain their children through drug abuse, neglect ... on and on. CASA finds volunteers and trains them to step in and advocate for those kids who are stuck in the system. These volunteer advocates are the people that the parents should be-- making sure the children are treated right and have someone looking out for them in the morass that is our underfunded family court system. You can read about the organization and their good work by going to their website: www.casahelpskids.org.
The theme for the auction this year is, "Home is Where the Heart Is". I painted this piece entitled, "On The Road Home" as my donation. Myrna Dow of High Desert Gallery kindly donated a beautiful framing job -- wonderful triple matting and beautiful frame to make the piece really shine and bring as much money in the auction to the organization as possible.
Here's what I wrote for the auction book -- "I was inspired by the auction theme this year "Home is Where the Heart Is"... you can see the little "teardrop" nostalgia trailer has a heart shaped window in the door. I have been working on a book over the last few months that features this yellow dog and different iterations of this truck and driver so it seemed right to me to send him out in support of CASA. I tried to stick an identifier mountain image ( Mt. Hood!) in for Multnomah County--- and of course some fall colors and fields in my funky stylized look.
I hope it is successful event this year and that the sale of the "On The Road Home" helps CASA continue it's great and generous work with kids."
The auction will be held on January 31, 2009 at the Portland Convention Center... wish us luck! -- Kathy Deggendorfer, January 2009
About Kathy Deggendorfer: Kathy Deggendorfer lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill ... See More
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening Spring 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Kimry Jelen - Behind the scenes of Oregon Art Beat
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonThere are untold hours of travel, filming and editing that are spent just to make the final "seven minutes" of an Oregon Art Beat story. I found out first hand this past summer
when KC Cowan and the Oregon Art Beat crew came to interview me! We started at the barn in the morning. I thought I would get a chance to warm up the horses and then start the filming but no, they started right at the beginning with the grooming, leg wraps, tacking and then followed me out to the arena. They filmed everything I did from start to finish.
Tom Shrider, the videographer had to say many times, "Act natural and pretend the camera isn't here!" He likes to get creative and right up close. (It was a little hard to ignore, the horses agreed!)
KC and Tom kept reminding me to "just pretend we're not here, do what you would normally do". I kept talking to the camera anyway! While painting, I usually have classical music playing, they needed it quiet in case KC asked me questions, so it took a lot of concentration to forget about the fact that everything I was doing was now on film, the crew surrounded me and there was no escape. Somehow I tapped into myself and creativity started to flow freely, I lost myself in the layering of color on top of color until the film ran out. A few days before I started a painting and thought it would be fun to have the Oregon Art Beat crew paint on it to change things up, add texture and make it more interesting. They were game! I finished "Bounty of Blue" a couple months later. By the end of the day I pretty much forgot about the "big black eye" staring at me... and just had a good time, it was hard not to, they were so nice.
After riding a couple horses that morning, then visiting the High Desert Galley, having lunch, giving a tour of my (then just finished) studio, looking through OLD photos, painting, having them paint... the "official interview" happened late in the afternoon, we set up a chair out in front of my studio with the woods as a back drop. Dennis McGregor took a photo documenting our visitors shown here. KC and the crew are talented in their art of story telling on film, and genuine in their love of the arts. They are very interested in the artist's individual story which makes each Art Beat fun to watch. Thinking back on that day, it makes me smile, we had a good time making art and sharing passions. I'm trusting the editors and KC have done their magic, I'll see the episode o
n February 19th for the first time with the rest of you! If you want to see a preview, there are a few seconds of Tom and KC painting in my studio with me laughing nervously on Oregon Art Beat's 10 year retrospective! -- Kimry Jelen, January 2009
Kimry Jelen Oregon Art Beat Feature on OPB TV
What: The Art of Central Oregon Artist, Kimry Jelen
When: Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 8pm and rebroadcast on Sunday, February 22, at 6pm
Where: In Oregon and SW Washington -- Over the air and cable providers
More Information: [www.opb.org]About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to honor the horsewoman she is and pursue her artistic talents. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of nature with paint, brush and palette knife.
Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. A native Oregonian, Kimry has made the central part of the state her home, where she is a professional horse trainer and artist.
She comments on her inspiration, "My art is an opportunity to share what nature shares with me, every creation is a celebration of life, whether an aspen grove, the power of horses, or a critter's sense of humor!"
Kimry's art is also influenced by her travels to other continents. She has trained in the classical arenas in Portugal and Spain, walked with the primates in Africa, toured through Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and rode the Shinkansen in Japan. Her work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections around the globe.
Kimry Jelen is represented exclusively in Central Oregon by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening early 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2009. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Bennett / Deggendorfer Print Promotion Extended through Christmas plus Free Shipping
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonGood news for all you holiday procrastinators! High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon has extended the release price on the new fine art prints by Paul Alan Bennett and Kathy Deggendorfer. PLUS we've added FREE GROUND SHIPPING to sweeten the deal. “Back to Black Butte,” by Paul Alan Bennett is a wonderful print for the Bennett collector or first time buyer. Kathy Deggendorfer has out done herself and beautifully captured the wildflowers and Three Sisters Mountains in “Wedding Bouquet With An Art Beat.”
Both fine art prints are of the finest quality, limited, collectible, and here's some really good news ...
Special pricing!
The release price of $195.00 is valid through December 14, 2008, December 26, 2008 at
midnight. The publication price of $300 will kick in on December 27th. All orders and purchases are subject to availability and prior sales. Free shipping applies to Fed Ex Ground Shipping!
Don't forget to inquire about our special framing options available with every print purchased. Don't miss out on the $105 art savings plus $9.50 Free Shipping savings!
To order “Back to Black Butte” and/or “Wedding Bouquet With An Art Beat” please order online , visit High Desert Gallery, call the gallery at 866-549-6250 or send us an email. Remember – Your best savings of $114.50 or more ends December 26, 2008.
Don't procrastinate!
About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally ... See More
About Kathy Deggendorfer: Kathy Deggendorfer lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill ... See More
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening Spring 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Kathy Deggendorfer -- Berry Merry Christmas from Oregon. White House Christmas Ornament Artist
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonWhat an amazing honor to be invited to participate in the 2008 White House Christmas!
When Senator Smith's office contacted me this summer to ask if I would create the Oregon State Christmas Ornament for the White House Tree I had to think about my feelings for awhile. A lifelong Democrat, I wondered how the heck a sitting Republican Senator had chosen me to represent the state of Oregon. The political scene this year was often more like a battlefield -- with candidates sending flak back and forth even within their own parties.... did I want to jump into the fracas too? Like many others I just had become weary of the constant barrage of negativity and examples of the myriad of ways we should be ashamed as Americans for our actions at home and abroad.
After some thought I realized that I was being offered an opportunity to focus on what is good and healthy about our state and I gladly accepted the challenge. The assignment was to feature what we considered to be things of national pride in our state. I decided that the work I have been doing with Oregon Specialty Farms should get a national showcase... all those days painting in the berry fields and vineyards, the trips to the ranches and orchards around Oregon should be featured on this nine inch Christmas Ball--proclaiming to all that farmers and ranchers are the true patriots here in Oregon. Working hard every day, all year long,to bring quality produce and foods to the nation's table.
I received the shiny plastic orb in July and spent the next couple of months learning about materials that would actually stick and remain on the surface. Painting on flat paper is a whole lot different that a rounded surface! With help from my friend, Kimry Jelen - a fine artist who lives near me, we were able to find a solution to the problems of making this project have the look and feel of my work. By adding liquid brilliant watercolor to a polymer base we solved the mystery and got the vibrant but transparent color that I love.
The finished piece is divided into thirds: the upper third depicts both sides of the Cascade Mountain Range-- Mt Hood and the Portland Skyline and the Three Sisters and the rolling
hills and fields of Central Oregon with a swirling blue sky; the lower two thirds looks just like a big bowl of fresh Oregon berries-- blueberries, strawberries, marionberries, and cranberries under the Portland skyline; the eastern side has grains, pears, apples and cherries and even a few peas to represent the agribusiness that Senator Smith owns in Pendleton. I like to say it's a "Berry Merry Christmas from Oregon"!
I was thrilled to be asked to participate and humbled by the experience of attending the White House Artist reception in Washington DC on December 2nd. Being in Washington made me proud to be an American again. It was exciting to see the wonderful museums that line the mall and to tour the Senate buildings. But most of all it was a renewal of spirit that seems to be in the air.... everyone is so excited about the possibilities for change and a new focus under the Obama leadership. I was sad to see that Senator Smith would no longer be representing us in the Senate -- he has been a powerful source for good for Oregonians. I hope he will return to Oregon and continue his service to us in new and exciting ways. I hope he is proud of the piece that I created and feels it represents what he too loves about our state.
Thanks Gordon for the opportunity and thank you Oregonians for making this such a wonderful place to live.
Kathy Deggendorfer – December 2008
Images:
- 2008 Oregon State Ornament
- Sally and Kathy on the Steps of the White House
- Sally, Kathy, and Alex (Artist from North Carolina) at the White House Green Room.
- The Tree!
Nugget News Article: Sisters Visits The White House
The Bend Bulletin News Article: Sisters artist gives Oregon its spot in the White HouseOregon Live Article: Five Oregon ornaments are on the White House Christmas tree
About Kathy Deggendorfer: Kathy Deggendorfer lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill the paintings with color and life. "Folks tell me they just feel happy when they look at my work-- that makes me happy."
Raised in Portland, Oregon, in a clothing manufacturing family, she says ,"Sewing skills skipped a generation with me... but I love fabric. I like to call my creations 'Painters Quilts.' I can prowl around the rounders full of prints at the Stitchin' Post with the best of 'em... I just put my fabrics in with a paintbrush." Kathy's collaborative work with master quilter, Tonye Belinda Phillips, is another fun combination of painted image and textile interpretation.
Kathy is currently working on a project about Oregon Specialty Farming and sustainable farm practices. This project takes her out into the fields of Oregon farms to paint and learn about what makes Oregon agricultural practices and people unique. Trips to the cattle ranches of Eastern Oregon and vineyards of the Willamette Valley provide her with plenty of rich and colorful images.
Kathy's work is collected throughout the Pacific Northwest and reaches out to all corners of the United States. Represented by High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon, she has pieces in the permanent collection at Redmond Airport, 2007 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Poster Artist, she wrote and illustrated a children's book for St. Charles Medical Center, and her work has been translated into clothing and fabric for Columbia Sportswear. In 2005, Kathy was awarded 'Citizen of the Year' in Sisters Oregon for her contributions to the community and the arts. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kathy Deggendorfer exclusively in Central Oregon.
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J Chester Armstrong -- I immediately had this vision of this great battle scene on the front door of the church
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonIt's been a long, hard, exhausting but extremely satisfying journey for J Chester Armstrong. A journey that has taken J Chester (Known as Skip) to Belize, back to Central Oregon and very soon to Boise, Idaho for the installation of one of his most prized creation. We've had the pleasure of knowing Skip and representing his wood carvings at High Desert Gallery in Sisters, Oregon for a number of years. His work is often monumental but his most recent creation is beyond words. We've read articles in the Nugget News, seen images and visited the doors under “construction,” but even with the advanced previews our visit today with Skip was unbelievable. We were awestruck. The following are images and a two part video of the doors to be installed in Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Boise Idaho. Please enjoy the images and quotes of Skip from the Nugget News. Links to the full Nugget News articles follows the text. Plan your trip to Boise – Installation is planned for the first week of December 2008 and the dedication to follow on a to be announced date.
Saint Mary's Church Doors Video Parts One and Two (You may want to increase the volume setting):
J Chester Armstrong Video Part One:
J Chester Armstrong Video Part Two:
J Chester ( Skip ) Armstrong:
"Before I was ever a carver and sculptor, I packed my Volkswagen van and went through Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in 1971. What inspired me to become a carver was seeing the ancient artifacts and the sculptures on the Mayan temples. So it is kind of like going back to my own roots and source of inspiration.”"It came about through Father Faucher who was the pastor at the Catholic church here in town. I did the sculptures that are in the garden and church there as a part of the remodeling program that he instituted. He was a visionary and a renaissance man, who wanted to use art to the fullest in the church."
"What started as an idea in my mind as Father Faucher read a passage out of Revelations about the seven-headed dragon attacking the virgin queen, defended by Archangel Michael, led to a sketch on paper, a journey to Belize and now into the physical dimension - this is it!" .
"I immediately had this vision of this great battle scene on the front door of the church. He loved the idea, so I drew him a sketch of what I had in mind and that is how this project developed."
"The key to this whole thing is the scale. These doors will be 16 feet high by 10 feet wide by 18 inches thick. So that is timber, not just wood. I wanted to do it out of mahogany because that is such a classic wood. It is durable and has great color. It is a perfect wood in a church context."
"You can't get wood like I am looking for in this country, so I came up with this whole concept. The only place this wood is available is in the area around Belize. About eight years ago there was a hurricane that came through there and knocked down millions of board feet of mahogany. Those trees are still laying in the jungle.”
"I am going to mill the wood and assemble them into a door, which is critical as only
finished products can be exported. The Belizeans will not allow timber to be exported; only finished goods can be exported. I am going to carve it in the jungle on the Mayan ruins, so I am going to tie this whole thing into the Mayan history of carving."
"The first two weeks were spent getting the wood together for the door timbers. Mahogany, 12-inch-by-18-inch by-16-feet, proved to be difficult to get as most of the big trees have already been cut. We tracked through the jungle's deep mud and finally found the hurricane-damaged trees we were looking for. With help from the local Mayans, we assembled the doors and on day 15 I drew the image on the surface with a piece of chalk and began carving with the chainsaw."
"I started sculpting the dragon first as I could hardly wait to see what it was going to look like 14 feet high and 20 inches deep. And Wow! It looked like the serious contender for bad-ass of the universe. But, Father Faucher said he liked drama."
"The doors will weigh eight tons, and I will be removing four tons of wood. The back of the door will be Noah's Ark using all the animals of the Northwest, which will bring it back home."
"It's a contemporary rendition of a Renaissance art form.”
Read the complete Nugget News article: Sisters sculptor: Have chainsaw, will travelNugget News: Sculptor unveils cathedral doors
Nugget News: Armstrong unveils spectacular doorsAbout J Chester Armstrong: A self taught artist, Skip achieved national and international reputation through gallery representation in major art cities including Carmel, Laguna Beach, Palm Desert, Santa Fe, Taos, Aspen and others. He has been sculpting professionally since 1972 and his work is sought after by private and corporate collectors worldwide.
"My art depicts and expresses the world of nature - primitive, immediate and direct; the screams of eagles soaring on the wind; the stealth of big cats hunting; coyotes howling at the moon rise; the pound of horses on the run; otters playing water tag ... these things move me; this and me are one - brothers of the life force. To find this is my joy, to express it, my passion," states Armstrong.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent J Chester Armstrong in Central Oregon.
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Kids Art Book
» PenseesThe Antioch Kids Art Books arrived this week and will be available starting a week from Sunday.
It's such a cool thing to see... all the artwork from so many different kids who all will be beaming with pride when they see their work in print.
I can already see my kids faces when they give these to their grandparents as Christmas presents :)
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A Birth Of A New Self -- Sue C Smith
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonWe spend most of our days immersed in our environments without really experiencing them. The wilderness has been sanitized: rare is the moment when we find enough time to stand alone in an empty place. How often do you feel the energy beneath your feet, or reach toward the depth of an overarching sky? Do you even remember what that feels like?
In 'Terra Incognito – Unknown Land' (image) – I want you to plunge into the wilderness, into this mysterious place that is wild and yet somehow familiar. Feel the wind in your hair and hear the whispered, ancient stories in your ear. Explore the depth of textures on the surface and feel the roughness beneath your feet. See those spots of red – are they home fires of shelter and companionship, or signaling some ancient pathway through the mountains? It that snow covering the high peaks, or the descending mists of time? Life is not tame. You cannot know where this journey will take you, but in entering this Unknown Land you are not walking away from life but stepping into it.
I took my first step into the Unknown Land when I decided to return to painting in mid-life. In Spain they have a word for this, “tercere edad,” which means Third Age. Your First Age is childhood, your Second Age is adulthood and raising your children. The Third Age politely means Senior Citizen, but I choose to be an optimist. If there is a Third Age, there can also be a Fourth Age, a Fifth Age. This is really what my work is about – optimism. A birth of a new self. In my paintings, I am not trying to hit you over the head with a new insight. I am cracking open a door, and as you walk past, perhaps you glance through and see something you have never seen before. Perhaps you are caught off guard by the way the colors beckon you. In that moment, as you pause and recognize something you can’t quite place, you are present in the moment. And perhaps you feel a little shift beneath your feet, so that when you turn back and look at the world it seems changed in some small way and you feel at home. -- Sue C Smith, November 2008. Redmond OregonPlease join Sue on Saturday, November 29, 2008 from 2-5pm at High Desert Gallery in Redmond Oregon for a wonderful community event (Home for the Holidays) and Artist Reception. For information on High Desert Gallery's artist reception please visit: Sue Smith and Redmond's Walk The Art Beat!
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Holiday Gifts (and more) at High Desert Gallery
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonAs the holidays approach High Desert Gallery takes on a different look. Both in appearance as well as product line. We decorate in a festive appearance and are deck out with lights, a tall tree and wonderful bows and more. In our Redmond Art Gallery and hidden amongst the seasonal decorations you will find some wonderful glass paperweights, and fused glass bud vases. If you look close enough you might even find some special pricing on a few of the paperweights! You best get down to our Redmond Gallery for the best selection!
At High Desert Gallery's Sisters gallery we have some great Precious Metal Clay Jewelry (Fine Silver) earrings by Gayle Weatherson as well as something new this year, hand crafted wood boxes. Laurence Dyer of Sisters Oregon has created wonderful hand crafted jewelry boxes made from rare woods and woods from Hawaii and beyond. Each box is hand made with love and no two are alike. A wonderful satin finish of linseed oil, tung oil and polyurethane laid on with multiple coats ensures a long lasting life. Laurence's boxes have been long sought after in many Sisters art auctions and fund raisers – Now you don't have to wait in line or worry about missing a bidding opportunity. Stop in soon as we only have a small but wonderful selection. First come first served, first happy!
We have lots of holiday gift ideas and it's not too late for custom picture framing projects. Looking to give some famed art as gifts or need to make your home look and feel warmer? High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing can help! Just call (541-388-8964) or stop by! We are located in downtown historic Redmond at 453 SW 6th Street and in the heart of downtown Sisters, Oregon at 281 W Cascade Avenue.
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Don't forget about the "Home For The Holiday" events -- A community holiday event in downtown historic Redmond!
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Oregon Glass Artist, Kyle Kraiter Represented by High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is pleased to announce the representation of Oregon Artist, Kyle Kraiter. Kyle's original hand blown glass is exhibited for sale at High Desert Gallery's Sisters Oregon Art Gallery located at 281 W Cascade Avenue in downtown Sisters, Oregon. After graduating in 2000 with a degree in Psychology, Kyle ventured outside of his home state of Oregon to travel, surf and sharpen his glass blowing skills from some of the best including stints with master glass blowers in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, Singapore and America. Kyle's attraction to glass work was tied to an underlying passion for adventure and beauty; this passion was fueled by both his exploration of glass and by other irreplaceable experiences with the people and places he encountered during his travels.
If you have ever been to Oregon, you would understand why nature has such a strong influence on Kyle's work. The curl of a breaking wave. The curve of a woman's hip. These two things, the ocean and the human form, are two of the most visually apparent influences in Kyle's work. "The true artist to which no one can compare is mother nature herself," says Kyle. "No one can compete with the pattern in a leaf or the colors of the sea." Smooth, simple line and form true to the nature of the material are what one will find expressed in both the shapes and color of Kyle's work. While his glass is not pretentious or tedious, Kyle still finds new ways to challenge the material: Don't be surprised to see him plunge molten glass into cold water and then take a hammer to the cracked surface to expose swirls of color hidden beneath.
Glass has taken Kyle all over the world, and each piece he makes is made with a world of knowledge and experience that few other glass blowers have had. Kyle's work is a unique culmination of his experiences. Not just the countless number of artists he has worked with, but the people he has met, and the natural beauty of the places he has lived. Kyle makes glass you want to reach out and touch. You want not only to look at it, but to look into it, and share in the rich array of experiences, the reverence for nature, the passion for adventure, and beauty of the glass itself, all of which influence every piece Kyle makes.
Brief glimpse of Kyle's studies and travels
Education/Experience:
2000 Bachelor of Science in Psychology
2006/7 Diffuse Glass Lighting, Sydney Australia,
2005 Synergraphic Architectural Glass Firm, Singapore,
2004/5 Bandon Glass Art Studio, Oregon USA,
2003 Design and Production semester, Kalmar University, Pukeburg Sweden
2002 Certificate in Glass Design and Production, Wanganui UCOL Polytechnic, Wanganui New Zealand
2002 Teaching Assistant for Karen Willenbrink-Johnsen, Eugene Glass Blowing School, OR USA
Teaching Assistant for Fritz Dreisbach, Eugene Glass Blowing School,Workshops:
Graul workshop with Juan Erik Ritzman, Sweden
Action Design with Rolf Sinnemark, Sweden
Glass Design with Monica Backstrom, Sweden
Glass Blowing workshop with Jane Bruce, New Zealand
Roll-up workshop with Scott Chaseling and Kristie Rey, New Zealand
Assistant For (2001-2007):
Fields and Fields Glass, Andy Nickols, Giles Bettison, Tim Shaw, Trish Allen, Jane Cowie, Lynn Read, Dutch Scholtz, John McClay, Lindsay Patterson, Flame Daisy Glass, Isola Productions, Deflute Glass, VisGlass, Schroder Glass, plus many others.High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kyle Kraiter in Central Oregon. For more information on Kyle, his blown glass and the gallery please contact High Desert Gallery at www.highdesertgallery.com or 866-549-6250 / 541-388-8964. To view works of art by Kyle Kraiter please visit: Blown Glass by Kyle Kraiter.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening early 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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14:53
A Toast to Good Art
» Chubby Mommy Running Club
This is me at my friend Sissy's house. We had a sleepover last week. Our daughters were there, but they played with a big lizard upstairs while we drank martinis downstairs.
Sissy owns this wonderful orange Sandy Brooke painting. Sandy and her husband Henry live in my neighborhood. She's the head art professor up at the Oregon State campus here in Bend. She's a super good painter, I think. Super good.
Sandy and Henry have a funny little Westie Terrier that Pierre often sees in passing. As in, when they're on a walk and we're on a walk, the dogs have to pass each other. Think about two little, male dogs on leashes, passing each other in the street. You can just imagine the yipping and yapping that happens.
We try to say hello and act all conversational, but it's impossible. Like, if I could, I'd say "Hey, Sandy! I drank a martini in front of your big orange painting at Sissy's house!" Instead, we spent some time untangling the dogs and saying things like "Oh, sorry, he's usually so friendly!" and "Ouch!" and "Oops!"
I love Sandy's art. She paints big, even though she has a little dog.
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Gottschalks and Jake's Truck Stop and Diner -- Cristina Acosta
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon'Gottschalks opens in Bend' has been all over the press lately as well as interior shots of the new store. In the atrium of the new 55,000 square foot retail space hangs two wonderful murals by Cristina Acosta. Cristina sold the limited rights for Gottschalks to use of her recent paintings, Spanish Sonata and Blue Bird Hacienda (image shown).
Cristina, a long time Central Oregon painter has a great blog post that is definitely worth the read. What's great about the story is that her work has come full circle -- In a fun way!. She first painted the billboard for Jake's Truck Stop and Diner back in the 1980's. Jake's has moved on to a new location and the renewed parcel is being developed into the new Pioneer Crossing Shopping Center. Gottschalks is the anchor store for the center.
If you would like to read Cristina's post please visit: Gottschalks Department Store Murals - Now & Then
To inquire about the original paintings please contact High Desert Gallery at 866-549-6250 or 541-388-8964.
Original artwork by Cristina Acosta. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Kids Art Book
» PenseesI'm not really involved in this one all that much, but I think it is pretty darn cool.
The Antioch Kids Art Book is going to be a collaboration of art work from students within the church put into actual book form. (Can you see all the Christmas presents that grandparents will be getting?!)
Here's the cover that Gary Christenson worked up...
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Paul Alan Bennett and Kathy Deggendorfer Release new fine art prints
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonHigh Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is pleased to announce a prepublication release of two fine art prints by nationally known Oregon artists, Paul Alan Bennett and Kathy Deggendorfer. “Back to Black Butte,” by Paul Alan Bennett is a
wonderful print for the Bennett collector or first time buyer. Kathy Deggendorfer has out done herself and beautifully captured the wildflowers and Three Sisters Mountains in “Wedding Bouquet With An Art Beat.”
Both fine art prints are of the finest quality, limited, collectible, and here's some really good news ...
Isn't it about time you treat yourself to something very special? Whether for yourself or for a friend – save some money, put a smile on your face and get your Holiday shopping started at High Desert Gallery. Act now and you can save $120 or more per print when ordering prior to October 26, 2008.
The prepublication price of $180 is valid through October 26, 2008 and the release price of $195.00 is valid from October 27 through December 14, 2008. The publication price of $300 is valid after December 14, 2008 and all orders and purchases are subject to availability and prior sales.
Inquire about our special framing and bonus options available with every print purchased prior to October 27, 2008. Consider placing your order now and save $120 or more on the print and framing combination.
To order “Back to Black Butte” and/or “Wedding Bouquet With An Art Beat” please order online , visit High Desert Gallery, call the gallery at 866-549-6250 or send us an email. Remember – Your best savings of $120 or more ends October 26, 2008.
For complete information please visit High Desert Gallery's online Art Gallery or come by the Sisters Oregon Gallery during our “Bounty” Show October 11th and 12th for a special sneak preview. The prepublication print release and sneak preview event is part of “Celebrate National Art and Framing Month” at High Desert Gallery and is free and open to the public.About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally ... See More
About Kathy Deggendorfer: Kathy Deggendorfer lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill ... See More
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening Spring 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Ingrid Lustig -- Watching and Waiting
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonWatching I & II -- These two paintings can be viewed together as a diptych or stand on
their own. The drawing of the wolf signifies loyalty, intelligence, communication. Asian lore has the wolf guarding the door that allows entrance into higher realms. The door is higher up in the painting, black surrounded by red. The rectangular shape symbolizes quartz, which has many, many applications in scientific, religious, and healing ways. The hawk figure on the right is also a powerful symbol, signifying the messenger, guardian, and keen observer. The collaged doors at the top of both paintings are a photo I took in Mexico – the two doors are of a carved woman and means to me angels, love, feminine spirit, entrance into joy.
The painting is mixed media: acrylic, pencil, watercolor crayon. Drawings and photos are on archival Rives BFK paper and collaged onto the canvas. -- Ingrid Lustig, October 2008
Waiting I & II -- These two paintings can be combined as a diptych or stand on their own.
The dog is drawn from a photo I took in the Philippines – the Filipino dogs all look basically like this. I’ve transported the dog into a High Desert landscape because this dog is the archetypal dog and can live anywhere. The painting on the left has a photo of a Korean door collaged into the mountain (photo taken by a close friend in S. Korea). Doors are very symbolic of portals or entrances into another world, a life stage, consciousness, after-life, before-life; basically they signify a change. The dog can be viewed either as a mascot on this journey or representing the animal spirit of the viewer.
The painting is mixed media: acrylic, pencil, watercolor crayon. Drawings and photos are on archival Rives BFK paper and collaged onto the canvas. -- Ingrid Lustig, October 2008
About Ingrid Lustig: A professional artist for 20 years, Ingrid works with acrylic on canvas and paper with a strong devotion to color and form used in a symbolic way. "I like to keep my paintings fresh, so they look like they are still in the process of being created, even when they are finished." Ingrid moved to Bend, Oregon in 2000 from Pendleton, where she was executive director of Crow's Shadow Institute for the Arts, on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. During the '70s, she worked for wildlife conservation groups, including three years as director of a predatory animal center in the California mountains near Reno, Nevada. Her nonprofit group traveled to schools to bring the message that predators like wolves, bears and cougars are an essential link in the ecosystem. Ingrid holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Washington State University at Pullman. She has enjoyed success as an artist and painter and exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Northwest. In addition to her professional art career, Ingrid is the Education Director for Arts Central, the Central Oregon regional arts council located in Bend, Oregon. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to exclusively represent Ingrid Lustig in Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Kimry Jelen -- Bounty of Blue
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonPreviously we announced our Fall "Bounty" event at High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon with the fine art exhibition and sale as part of “Celebrate National Art and Framing Month.” The Fall “Bounty” show opens on October 1 and runs through October 31, 2008 with an Open House Reception on October 11 & 12th from 10am to 6pm. Several guest artists have joined in on the fun and have contributed one or more original paintings as part of the group “Bounty” show. We hope you can stop by the gallery in October and especially during Sisters' Fall Harvest Fair on the weekend of October 11th and 12th.
Kimry Jelen, a Sisters area treasure, is not only an artist but also an accomplished trainer and expert in the field of Dressage. She balances her time between riding, training, painting and living the good life in Central Oregon. This past August, KC Cowan and the film crew from Oregon Public Broadcasting / Oregon Art Beat (see widget in left nav) filmed Kimry. Here is just a glimpse of what will be shown this fall.
When KC Cowan and the Oregon Art Beat crew came to my studio, I had everyone paint on top of one of my started paintings. It was a super fun exercise, we all laughed a ton. KC did something she had always wanted to do, "big yellow drips!" Although not much is left of what they painted besides the colors they chose (a lady's face with long flowing hair, a horse's dark bold head, a lush yellow tail), there are still some drips which make up this horse's amazing long flowing mane. The drips are red now from my over painting, even though they are the only physical remnants of their masterful artistry - their souls are in there communicating the compassion these folks have for the arts. Thank you to them for their bountiful support of the arts with their wonderful OPB Oregon Art Beat. What a great show. -- Kimry Jelen, October 2008. -- "Communication / Bounty of Blue," 18" x 48", acrylic on canvas, 2008
About High Desert Gallery's Fall "Bounty" Show:
What: “Bounty” -- Original art work by High Desert Gallery and Special Guest Artists
When: October 1 through October 31. Gallery Open House Reception, Saturday October 11 and Sunday, October 12 from 10am – 6pm. Refreshments, treats, great art of "Bounty," music and more!
Where: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, 281 W Cascade Avenue, Downtown Sisters, Oregon
Cost: Free and open to the public
More information: 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250 and www.highdesertgallery.com
As part of “Celebrate National Art and Framing Month” at High Desert Gallery we are encouraging area folks and visitors to participate in our Just One Can Food Drive held in October at both our art galleries. Just One Can is all we ask. For more information on the can food drive please visit: www.justonecan.com
About Kimry Jelen: In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to train and paint horses. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of these magnificent creatures. Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. Each painting seems to be a celebration of her new life of balance and purpose. While still considered an emerging artist, Kimry's astonishing volume of work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections throughout the West.
In the Spring of 2007, Kimry went even deeper into her vision of equine art by training and studying in the classic arenas of Portugal and Spain. Today she continues to work as a professional horse trainer and painter in Central Oregon.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to exclusively represent Kimry Jelen in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening Spring 2009), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, & 2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission.
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Self Portrait - the Artist as a Middle Aged Woman
» Chubby Mommy Running Club
"Okay," said the famous painter and color theorist during one of her famous artist's workshops. "Now, based on what you've just learned with your color wheel, create a self portrait."
Easy, I thought. I've been doodling the same big-lipped, big-eyed face for 36 years.
I took a deep breath and tried to put my color wheel failure behind me. Color wheels are harder than they look. It doesn't work to just copy the good artists, sitting beside you. You can't really cheat on a color wheel. If you don't pay attention, you put the violet in the wrong place, then you have to cut and paste, and then of course the gradients are all wrong, and you bite you lip and try not to cry when the stress of failing at an art project starts seeping into the corners of your eyes.
Exhale. Art is harder than it looks.
Self portraits, on the other hand, are easy. I did one for my Painting 101 final in college, but I got a B instead of an A because I skipped the last day to play the end-of-the-year Faculty/Student intramural softball game. So I quickly pasted silver-foil ribbon in the middle of the canvas where my face should have been, thinking I could get away with something symbolic.
Dumb idea, of course, since faces are easy (right?) and the professor could see I wasn't really trying. Plus he threw me out at first base in the softball game, so he knew I wasn't at the Art House finishing my self portrait.
"You have 20 minutes," she said. "Don't worry too much, just have fun."
Ah, I sighed happily. Now this is more like it. I felt a bit of my creative joy starting to flow again, as I snipped and ripped through piles of magazines to find the shapes and colors that would make up me. This was the easy part of art. This was why I was here.
"Oh," she said, as she walked by to check on me. "You're making a face. I didn't mean a literal self-portrait," I glanced at my friend's work next to me, which was quickly turning into a sophisticated page of exceptional color theory miraculously cut from the pages of Bend Living Magazine.
But then the famous painter, who is also a fantastic teacher, saw my smile and my easy laugh for what it was, a cover-up for the disappointment of failing again. "Of course, it's fine! No problem, it will be great!" she gushed diplomatically. She has a 10-year old child at home, she knows when to pass out gratuitous praise at the right time.
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Lisa Simpson Navigates her Social Network
» Chubby Mommy Running Club
I'm not sure what this means. My friend Patricia Freeman Martin sent it to me. Perhaps it is social commentary. Perhaps it is poetry. Perhaps it is a picture of her kid's toys all lined up near the window. Maybe it is all those things snapped into one picture.
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Cheval Grec and the Martini
» Chubby Mommy Running Club
I got lucky last year. I picked up this amazing hand-pulled lithograph by Francois Gilot at a fundraising auction for our local Arts Central.
It was donated by my dear friend Patricia Clark, who's a friend of Gilot's, and who taught with her and has shown her work along side Gilot's over the years.
Gilot, 87, one of the world's premier contemporary artists, was a life partner and muse of Picasso's and is the mother of two of his children, Paloma and Claude Picasso. Part of her fascinating life story is chronicled in her book Life With Picasso.
I have not met Francois, but I like having Cheval Grec live at our house now, watching over our cocktail parties. Our proud blue horse connects us to the recent past and the world of ink-stained hands, ancient ateliers, cafes and Salons filled with poets and artists smoking unfiltered cigarettes and debating politics. They were the innovators, thinking up new ideas and changing the world.
I often wonder what stories Cheval Grec would tell about his creator and her contemporaries, and the cocktail parties they must have shared. Did Matisse drink a dirty martini, or a good Cognac, or did he prefer a lovely French Bordeaux?
Our online world of social networking with Twitter and Facebook seems less glamorous than the real life meetings of Gilot, Picasso, Matisse and later on her husband Jonas Salk and their fascinating group of friends, who changed the world through art and scientific discovery. We are using our current new mediums to do our thing. Plus, we don't have to smoke, which is nice.
I also wonder what Mr. Cheval Grec will see my children and their children accomplish in the years to come, as he watches over them, a horse on the wall who listens and learns.
As I mentioned before, Bob Dylan once said, "Art stops time"I say, "Art watches time." And he happens to be a big blue horse on my wall.
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Antioch Metro
» PenseesTom Monson, one of the artists at Antioch, worked up this cool little map for us detailing the process for getting connected.
Check it out!!
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Grace Bishko -- Ancient trilogy of Man, Wolf, and Raven continues. Opening Friday, September 12 in Redmond Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonSeveral years ago I began a series of paintings based on the ancient trilogy of Man, Wolf, and Raven. The paintings are about the displacement of wildlife, which I demonstrate by placing the members of this trilogy in trees, rooms, and odd places. The image of Man is always portrayed in a red body and blue coyote mask. My reason for this is that human beings can easily change their image, and their concepts, because we have a brain that allows this, unlike animal life.
Green Mountain Encounter has an environment that is squeezed into patterns that make this little world unnatural-indicating their loss of habitat. The topsy-turvey border keeps us feeling a bit out of control. However, the animals are as they will always be. They cannot transform themselves. They are consistently wolf, black bird and raven. For this reason, I omitted human beings in this painting, and declared their presence in the area below the green mountain. The small blackbird riding the wolf has no fear - it can fly away easily. The raven is often a partner in the wolf’s hunting activities - the raven flushes out the pray and the wolf does the rest, as well as saving some of the carrion for the raven. So, their encounter, in my mind, is natural and might even turn into something playful.
Below the green mountain is a black area with white drawings. This little drama portrays the encroaching threat of the wild animals losing their habitat.
Grace Bishko -- September, 2008
Green Mountain Encounter -- Oils on canvas
24x20 inches
Join us for two Artist Receptions with Nationally known Oregon artist and painter, Grace BishkoHigh Desert Gallery – Redmond Oregon
Artist in Attendance Reception: Friday, September 12, 2008 5-8PM
High Desert Gallery – 453 SW 6th Street, Downtown Redmond, Oregon 97756
Refreshments, Live Music, Meet Grace
Featuring New Original Paintings and Fine Art PrintsIn cooperation with “Walk The Art Beat” A Redmond Community Arts Event.
Free and open to the public.High Desert Gallery – Sisters Oregon
Artist in Attendance Reception: Saturday, September 20, 2008 4-7PM
High Desert Gallery – 281 W Cascade Avenue, Downtown Sisters, Oregon 97759
Refreshments, Live Music by Jim Cornelius and Friends, Meet Grace
Featuring New Original Paintings and Fine Art Prints
In cooperation with “September in Sisters Art Stroll” and "Taste of Sisters" A Sisters Community Arts Event.
Free and open to the public.For more information on the events, Grace and the gallery please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: www.highdesertgallery.com.
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15:55
Remembering Art Foss
» Jane Johnson Photography
If you drive down Smith Rock Way, on the way to the internationally famed climbing destination, you will pass a small cemetery on your right. It was there that nearly 200 people gathered yesterday to remember a man who has influenced so many in his 80 years. As the beauty of the cliffs loomed before them, 11 young men dressed in jeans, white shirts, and cowboy hats, flanked their grandfather's casket. Art Foss, a world renowned steer wrestler, rancher, pilot, truck driver, husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, was being buried in the same plot of land his parents and siblings were, not even a mile from where he was born and raised. Cars lined the road as far as the eye can see, and people who couldn't make the walk to the grave site gathered in cars to do their own remembering. Just down the street stood the house Art's father built, commuting between Athena and Terrebonne by horseback to do so, installing the wiring himself by book.
"They say every rock pile out there he built by hand," Josh's cousin said to me as he saw me looking out at the property after the service.
As the people moved to the VWF Building in Redmond, the crowd seemed to increase. A slideshow of photos played as people laughed, compared stories, and ate together. The microphone was opened up to any who wished to share, and weathered cowboys approached the stage one by one. Every story started the same way. "I was 12 or 13 when I started going to the ranch." Art had a knack for Cowboy Discipleship. He reached out to troubled youngsters, opening his home, and inviting them to the ranch where he taught them how to work. How to ride bulls. How to get cows.
How to be men.
The first time I met Josh's grandpa was at a branding five years ago. I am, for all intents and purposes, a city girl. It was my first time on a ranch, and I probably had the fancy, pointy-toed boots on to prove it. He was a big man, had become hard of hearing, and his loud, booming voice intimidated me. I was surprised when Josh's mom told me a few years ago that this big, tough cowboy thought I didn't like him because I was too scared to talk to him. We just saw Art at the branding about four weeks ago. When we left, he told me three different times to take care of his boy--something he had never said to me before.
I love that I married into a ranching family that has left such a large wake of influence behind them. Art Foss will be missed. But his legacy won't be forgotten. Josh's brother proudly called his grandpa his best friend. He said yesterday "They just don't breed 'em like that anymore." And the sad part is, he's right.
But we can sure try.
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Gotham
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
So I know most of you all by now have seen Dark Knight. If you haven't I highly recommend it. If you do go see it, see it in IMAX. Its all shot in IMAX cameras and that is the best way to see it for t... -
Gotham
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
So I know most of you all by now have seen Dark Knight. If you haven't I highly recommend it. If you do go see it, see it in IMAX. Its all shot in IMAX cameras and that is the best way to see it for t... -
Gotham
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
So I know most of you all by now have seen Dark Knight. If you haven't I highly recommend it. If you do go see it, see it in IMAX. Its all shot in IMAX cameras and that is the best way to see it for t... -
Gotham
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
So I know most of you all by now have seen Dark Knight. If you haven't I highly recommend it. If you do go see it, see it in IMAX. Its all shot in IMAX cameras and that is the best way to see it for t... -
Gotham
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
So I know most of you all by now have seen Dark Knight. If you haven't I highly recommend it. If you do go see it, see it in IMAX. Its all shot in IMAX cameras and that is the best way to see it for t... -
Gotham
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
So I know most of you all by now have seen Dark Knight. If you haven't I highly recommend it. If you do go see it, see it in IMAX. Its all shot in IMAX cameras and that is the best way to see it for t... -
Gotham
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
So I know most of you all by now have seen Dark Knight. If you haven't I highly recommend it. If you do go see it, see it in IMAX. Its all shot in IMAX cameras and that is the best way to see it for t...
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August artist at Thump
» Hack BendThis is the press release treatment for what's on display at Thump this month.
Local Bend Firefighter Showcases Photography in August Exhibition at Thump Coffee.Michael J. Caligure, a full-time Bend firefighter since 1982, exhibits images of professional Bend Fire & Rescue firefighters during training and local emergencies in his August photography exhibition at Thump Coffee. Having the experience of both a photographer and a firefighter, Caligure depicts first-hand the energy, emotion and magnificent blaze of the fire scene, while documenting the heroes who risk their lives everyday for our community.
The exhibition for Thump Coffee is a personal statement of Caligure's career and his enthusiasm for depicting firefighters in action on the scene. Caligure's photography tells stories of the personal tests, experiences and conquests in the life of a firefighter.
In this exhibition, Caligure's subject is firefighters in action, however Caligure also enjoys capturing images relating to everyday life and important landmarks in one's own journey. "My passion for photography began around 1979 when I purchased my first camera," Caligure states, " I enjoy outdoor activities, so many of my photographs consist of landscapes and aerials." His work also includes portraits and sporting events.
Thump Coffee is located in downtown Bend at 25 NW Minnesota Ave. For details, visit www.ThumpCoffee.com or call 541-388-0226.
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august @ thump
» Ad HOC : Words + IdeasART: Michael J. Caligure Photography (throughout August)
Michael J. Caligure, a full-time Bend firefighter since 1982, exhibits images of professional Bend Fire & Rescue firefighters during training and local emergencies in his August photography exhibition this month. Having the experience of both a photographer and a firefighter, Caligure depicts first-hand the energy, emotion and magnificent blaze of the fire scene, while documenting the heroes who risk their lives everyday for our community.
The exhibition at thump is a personal statement of Caligure’s career and his enthusiasm for depicting firefighters in action on the scene. Caligure’s photography tells stories of the personal tests, experiences and conquests in the life of a firefighter.
In this exhibition, Caligure’s subject is firefighters in action, however Caligure also enjoys capturing images relating to everyday life and important landmarks in one’s own journey. “My passion for photography began around 1979 when I purchased my first camera,” Caligure says. “ I enjoy outdoor activities, so many of my photographs consist of landscapes and aerials.” His body of work also includes portraits and sporting events.
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Thumpology: Coffee Blends - A Different Story
July’s Thumpology explored the seasonality of coffee harvesting and how, like eating fresh produce when it’s in season, drinking coffees brewed from newly harvested beans is a more flavorful and enjoyable experience. Some coffeehouses — like thump — feature ever-changing drip coffee offerings that reflect what coffees have been recently harvested around the world. As mentioned last month, coffee blends have a different story to tell.
If you visit a coffeehouse and notice the same blend of beans being served throughout the year, the coffee roaster might use the same beans each time to create that blend (for example, a combination of Guatemalan, Indonesian and Brazilian). Those green beans might be up to a year old — the time passed since the last harvest.
Here’s a different scenario: Throughout the year, the roaster uses different, newly harvested beans in the blend and recreates a consistent flavor for the blend. For example, thump uses Stumptown Coffee Roaster’s Hair Bender Espresso Blend 365 days of the year. It’s Stumptown’s challenge to maintain a consistent flavor profile in this blend using an ever-changing selection of coffees.
Stumptown continually explores the body, complexity, acidity and flavor compatibility of their coffees. Each coffee that makes up the blend is roasted separately to develop its individual flavor profile so it will be optimally compatible with the other beans in the blend as well as to address its unique physical aspects, such as bean size, density, and moisture content (see past thumpologies on roasting). The beans are then blended together at the proper ratio to maintain that beautifully complex flavor that keeps us all coming back for more.
If you strip away the milk and flavorings and just taste the espresso, you’ll appreciate that this
blend is dynamic and changing subtly and tantalizingly throughout the year because of its ever-changing “ingredients” — but it’s consistently delicious! To blend well without taking the beans to a dark roast, which effectively roasts out the flavors of the individual beans, is a true art. Three cheers for a great blend and a talented roaster!
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CUPPING: Sunday, August 10 (NOT the third Sunday this month!) 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Cuppings are usually the third Sunday of the month at 1:30pm - get details at our website and by subscribing to our email newsletter.
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Traditional Cappuccino Happy Hour Fridays, 2:30pm to close
Join us every Friday for a celebration of the classic Italian espresso concoction, the Traditional Cappuccino. During TradCap Happy Hour — or Cappy Hour, if you will — enjoy half-priced traditional espresso drinks, dopios, macchiatos, and traditional cappuccinos. Many people have never ventured to try these delightful little drinks. No syrup, no chocolate, just espresso and perhaps a small embrace of milk steamed to sweet, velvety perfection!
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Gratis Grounds Make Killer Compost
Thump has wonderful organic and sustainably grown coffee grounds available for composting and worm bins. Coffee grounds' very jagged microscopic surface area helps speed up the breakdown of the biomass being composted. Call 388-0226 to arrange a pick-up time for your coffee grounds.
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ART: Mark Bernahl's “Wishes” Installation (ongoing)
Grab a plank and let everybody know your heart's fondest desires. From the absurd to the profound, the Wishes reveal the full range of human concerns and humor. Artist Mark Bernahl will continue rotating newly minted wishes into the existing installation. -
First Friday August: The Brothers Wachs
» Ad HOC : Words + Ideas
My friends David and Andrew Wachs are doing a show together (finally!) in August and September at the "tbd loft." Here's my shortened, edited version of the press release sent by the gallery, plus some of David's paintings and Andrew's sculptures that will be hanging for the show. Dave and Andy are the real deal - be sure to take a look. And even better: Bring your checkbook. -hoc
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First Friday August: The Brothers Wachs
(Bend, OR) Beginning Friday, August 1, the sculptures and paintings of Andrew Wachs and David Wachs will be on display at tbd loft. The show opens with a First Friday reception from 5 – 9 p.m. and runs through September.
Painter David Wachs has lived in Oregon most of his life. For the last 14 years he has lived in the same house in Tumalo. “I have never lived in one place as long as I have here,” commented David. “Working in a converted dairy barn on our property is a dream come true for me.”
During art school at Montana State, David made a lifelong commitment to the
landscape as subject matter and has faithfully retained this approach to content. He is inspired by the places he is so lucky to visit. Canyons, mountains, sage 
covered hills, basalt cliffs/breaks and dry deserts are the impressions that become my work. “I know when I see a painting I will do in the countryside,” explained David. “I bring those emotions back to my studio to create images.”
Andrew Wachs is a metal artist who lives and works in Bend, Oregon. The landscape and color fields of central Oregon continually inspire Andrew. and Much of his work is representative of my many travels from Bend to Portland. Andrew’s most recent works are in Bend’s new roundabout located at Bond and Wilson in the Old Mill District as well as a public sculpture in Northwest Crossing.
The work exhibited at tbd loft will represent a broad perspective of Andrew’s recent work. Andrew works primarily in steel and the exhibit at tbd loft is a study of composition and form.
tbd loft is located at 856 NW Bond Street, Suite 2 above Norwalk Furniture, in downtown Bend, Oregon.
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It's not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter... -
It’s not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter... -
It’s not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter... -
It’s not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter... -
It’s not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter... -
It’s not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter... -
It’s not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter... -
It’s not me!
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Today I was made aware of a site that pokes fun at an administrator of a photo submit site that I was kicked off of, god back in 2006. Oh my how we can stretch out drama! While I find it largely enter...
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Art Book
» PenseesYesterday was the launch of Antioch's Art Book.
The Art Book was the brainchild of Gary Christenson and Kim Hunt as a way to network artists and get artwork from within the congregation out into a visible format. The book is 188 pages full color and sells for $50.
Hands down... it is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in ministry!!
The Art Book will be available for purchase on Sunday mornings or you can order one by e-mailing Kim at kim@antiochchurch.org
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Do Glass and Steel mix?
» Live on the Fly StudioYes, they do. Come see for yourself. BeckerGillem Glass & Steel has a show going on now through August 14 at Sisters Artworks Building, on Adams St. in Sisters.Artist reception is today from 4-7pm. Elegant lines, reused steel and glass, you'll be amazed at how amazingly they combine to form art.Read more here. Hope to see you in Sisters tonight!
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Word Art
» Jane Johnson Photography
Do you ever have those days where you end up wasting time doing silly things when there is a mound of work taunting you just a few inches away?
I found a great website today that managed to distract me for about a half hour. You put in your blog address, and it makes word art out of the words on your blog. You can customize colors, fonts and layout. Such a fun distraction! I enjoyed going through and reading what words are picked up and displayed in the graphic. I might even try to find some fun way to display it in my office. Anyway, a mindless post. If you want to try it out and discover for yourself just how addicting it is, go to www.wordle.net.
Meanwhile, we are in the thick of the August issue of True North Parenting, and I have shoots stacked up just waiting to be edited. Someday I'll get caught up... but I have a feeling it won't be until after summer has ended!
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4 Peaks Music Festival: Band Schedule, Kids' Activities, Live Art and more
» Ad HOC : Words + Ideas(Bend, OR) The bands are finalized, the schedule is updated and the festival is right around the corner. The two day music fest is full of fun events for the whole family with 20 rockin' bands performing on two stages, live artists working on-site and tons of kids' activities including hoola-hooping and story telling. It is going to be an awesome show that you won't want to miss. Here's the info:
:: THE BANDS – Two Days, Two Stages, 20 Bands.
The 4 Peaks Music Festival has finalized its line-up and full schedule, featuring two stages of performances by local acts and national touring bands. The official roster promises great shows for all ages:
(Hot Buttered Rum performing at last year's 4 Peaks Music Festival.)
Friday, July 25
Rockin' A Ranch Stage (Main)
12:35-1:25 State of Jefferson
2:35- 3:25 Brent Alan
4:45- 6:15 Blue Turtle Seduction
7:35- 9:20 Hot Buttered Rum
9:45- 11:00 Zilla
Tumalo Stage (Mini)
11:00-12: 00 Opener TBD
12:15-12:35 North Channel
1:25- 2:25 The Mostest
3:35- 4:40 Acorn Project
6:25- 7:25 Poor Man’s Whiskey
9:20-9:35 Poor Man’s Whiskey
(Poor Man's Whiskey performing at last year's 4 Peaks Music Festival.)
Saturday, July 26
Rockin' A Ranch Stage (Main)
10:00- 10:50 Blackstrap
12:10- 1:15 Moon Mountain Ramblers
2:30- 3:45 Flowmotion
5:00- 6:25 Poor Man’s Whiskey
8:05- 10:00 Tea Leaf Green
10:30- 11:30 Everyone Orchestra
Tumalo Stage (Mini)
11:00- 12:00 Rising Tide
1:25- 2:20 The Grain
3:55- 4:55 Izabella
6:35- 7:55 Delta Nove
10:05- 10:25 The Erins
:: ART
Internationally recognized music interpretative painters VORCAN will be making a stop at this year’s festival. Formed in 2006, VORCAN is a collaboration between two prolific artists, Vort and Cank, who started an art production company and abstract art consulting firm called in Philadelphia. They began collaboratively painting live music of all genres in a variety of venues and events throughout Philadelphia and New York City. Using the music and environment as inspiration, Vort and Cank, create fine art using collaborative imagery. VORCAN has painted over 250 events in The United States and across Europe.
“I can't wait to paint Zilla again at 4 Peaks Music Festival,” says VORCAN’s Chris Cank, “When we painted Zilla before, as the band played musicians throughout the festival began to join in. First Steve Kimock, and then Anahata, Sasha Butterfly Rose, and Lynx. There were other musicians joining in to become the Sonic Bloom Orchestra. The outcome was a waterfall of an incredible soundscape never to be replicated in history.”
Check out VORCAN's art here.
Local artist Chris “Buffalo” Folsom, known for his larger-than-life metal sculpture creations, will also be working on-site at the festival. Folsom, whose work includes strikingly graceful animal sculptures such as his piece titled “Momma Bear and Cubs in Traffic Circle” located in a Madras roundabout, will provide festival-goers with the opportunity to watch first hand as the artist creates innovative and original work.
More about Buffalo Folsom Sculpture.
::KIDS
There are plenty of fun, hands-on activities for the kids and the whole family to enjoy during the festival. Continuing from last year, kids are welcomed to create festival prayer flags which are hung on site at the festival. Fun stations for the kids to play in will be provided by local Bend businesses. such as Gigglybops, Kids Central and others. Storytelling, juggling, poi workshops, water balloons toss contests and black light mural paintings will also be available for kid’s entertainment. Parents and adults can settle in and relax at The Dragon Lounge and have some maté tea, soda, iced coffee, beer, wine, or cocktails while their children have fun hula-hooping with the best, Molly Hogan, and enjoying the kid friendly environment. Here’s the schedule:
Friday, July 25
11am- 4pm: Prayer Flags! Make your mark on the Festival by creating your own prayer flag. There will also be mask making, chalk art and fun crafts for the kids.
12 pm: Juggling & Poi Workshop with Planetary Poi and the Spinsters
1 pm: Kids Central leads Child's Play with Todd LaFrenz and Gigglybops
3 pm: Stilting for the kids, made easy with Mike Reuse from Fireflight
Saturday, July 26
11 am - 4 pm: Prayer Flags! Masks! Paintings and crafts
12 pm: Wand Making Workshop
1 pm: Kids Central leads Child's Play with Todd LaFrenz and Gigglybobs
2 pm: Hula Hoops Workshop with Molly Hogan
3 pm: Hoops Jam takes the dance bowl in the amphitheatre
4pm: Kids Parade through the Venue!
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The newest Festivarian newsletter is up with spotlight on bands Zilla and Hot Buttered Rum.
For more information, details and tickets click here or visit Ranch Records on NW Wall St. in downtown Bend.
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Kimry Jelen: All it takes is a little faith, time and effort.
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonI'm Listening, Original Acrylic on Canvas by Kimry Jelen
This painting was inspired by a gorgeous Argentinean leather frame Myrna Dow, Gallery Director of High Desert Gallery, showed me. The texture and the beautiful rich color of the worked and crafted leather got me thinking of this image and lots of texture.
Cobreno ("copper" in Spanish) is an American bred Andalusian horse I started. He is beautiful, talented, and very handsome. He was sent to Portugal for training with Portuguese Olympic Team rider, Miguel Duarte, who I train with also. He was supposed to come home after 2 years, but now he is being used in exhibitions at a lovely stud farm and will make his home there, it is a good match. While working on this painting I was sending him nice thoughts and well wishes, trying to let him know - it's going to be alright I've been told you'll have a good job and a fancy place to live - and he is saying back, "I'm listening... I'll be just fine, thank you."
It Takes Two, Original Acrylic on Canvas by Kimry Jelen
Ever since my trip to Portugal and Spain, I have been incorporating the textures on the old walls and surfaces that inspired me, into my paintings. One early morning I woke dreaming about colors and textures with a distinct idea for a composition. I knew the size and the basic shape of the image, but didn't exactly know what the image was going to be.
I had to wait until I got a canvas ready, prep the canvas surface and then I went to town painting the shapes I had seen in my dream. This painting evolved over a period of 3 weeks, but never quite came together, always staying as vague as my cloudy morning vision of the composition shapes. A week past, nothing changed, but I knew it had to be something. I put that painting aside and worked on others. During that same time I had been working with a horse that is a "little" nervous about being anywhere but home in her stall or her arena... the more we do and set things up for success, the more she is learning to trust. Later, I was at a horse show with her and another of the horses I train, and as I looked back on them to see if they were all set, Chardonnay was intently watching me, and Barcelona was looking around at the hall way.
It seemed to me, that the blue horse (which actually looks blue in certain light because she has a milky white coat) had decided she kind of liked all the extra attention she was getting at these new places... it was a break through, in TWO ways - for her and - the way they were standing was EXACTLY the same shape of the composition I had started. I was stunned.
The next few days, I worked at recreating that moment with all the clarity I could muster, the image was blazed into my memory along with the feeling of hope I had at that moment, which I believe she had too. It means so much to me when a horse begins to trust you and gain confidence, then have an easier life, no more living with fear. This painting was meant to be, it shows there is always hope, all it takes is a little faith, time and effort.
Kimry Jelen -- July 7, 2008
For additional information about Kimry, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art and custom framing gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Redmond, Sisters and Bend Oregon (opening December 2008) specializing in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery and work by Kimry Jelen can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
Original artwork by Kimry Jelen. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. Subscribe to High Desert Gallery's art gallery weblog via Feedburner RSS permission based email service. Or ... Call 866-549-6250 x 3, visit our art gallery events calendar at www.events.highdesertgallery.com or subscribed to the following: Twitter, subscribe to our blog, RSS, or our events calendar.
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Gettin’ hitched by Luis and Zoe
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Esther Havens and I shared some camera time (and cameras) shooting a wedding for a good friend. Luis and Zoe were joined together before witnesses and god on June 29 a little after 7pm and before the ... -
Gettin’ hitched by Luis and Zoe
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Esther Havens and I shared some camera time (and cameras) shooting a wedding for a good friend. Luis and Zoe were joined together before witnesses and god on June 29 a little after 7pm and before the ... -
Gettin’ hitched by Luis and Zoe
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Esther Havens and I shared some camera time (and cameras) shooting a wedding for a good friend. Luis and Zoe were joined together before witnesses and god on June 29 a little after 7pm and before the ... -
Gettin’ hitched by Luis and Zoe
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
Esther Havens and I shared some camera time (and cameras) shooting a wedding for a good friend. Luis and Zoe were joined together before witnesses and god on June 29 a little after 7pm and before the ... -
Film equipement on E bay
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Film equipement on E bay
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Film equipement on E bay
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Film equipement on E bay
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=15026518543 [cgi.ebay.com] 4x5 is a Toyo field camera with two lenses, fuji back, polaroid back, ...
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Count Down on Savings - Promotional Offer ends May 26.
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonJust a couple more days are left for the Kathy Deggendorfer 'Wishin I was Fishin' fine art giclee promotion. The response has been wonderful and Kathy's collectors are really enjoying her new fine art print. If you are interested in saving $105 please order by Monday, May 26, 2008. Orders can be taken at High Desert Gallery in Redmond or Sisters, by phone (866-549-6250) or online at Wishin' I was Fishin' .
For those of you that missed our previous post ... Wishin' I was Fishin' a new fine art giclee
print by Kathy is available at High Desert Gallery for a special
release price valid through May 26, 2008. The release price is a
limited time offer and subject to availability. Kathy's original
watercolor of the fine art print is available at High Desert Gallery
in Sisters Oregon and online at: Original Watercolor.
To order, visit High Desert Art Gallery
in Sisters or Redmond Oregon or call the gallery toll free at 1-866-549-6250.
Online orders prior to May 27th qualify for free shipping
and the special release pricing. Visit: Wishin' I Was Fishin' Special Release. Stellar Custom Framing options are available at either gallery. (Please note: The prior links will be inactive at 12:01am on May 27th).For additional information about the artist and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 and toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening December 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
Original artwork by Kathy Deggendorfer. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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may @ thump coffee
» Ad HOC : Words + Ideas
May newsletter from Thump Coffee
contents: Shelby Leigh photos; thumpology: Processing Coffee; Closed for PPP; coffee cupping; meet our thumpistas; featured coffee; yummy new treats; Buffalo's Column
Hello thumpologists,
We will be closed on Saturday, May 17 while Team Thumpista poles, pedals and paddles its way to the finish. Come cheer us on!
See you soon,
Kent, Hazel & Finley
ART: Shelby Leigh Photography (throughout May)
According to photographer Shelby Leigh, her work is an extension of sometimes-quiet observations and how she sees tiny moments in time. In her travels near and far - the exhibit includes photos from Oregon, Morocco and Chile - she likes to "notice the little things and bring them to others so that they too can see the beauty and intricacies that this world has to offer." Though she says her stories are infused in each image, she invites you to "let your imagination take you on your own journey to find peace, simplicity and wonder."
Recently making the transition from film cameras to fully digital photography, Leigh explains that her newer images were shot with a Nikon D70 camera and digitally printed from an Epson 2200 printer, while most of her photos have been taken with many different traditional film SLR cameras, scanned, then printed from the Epson 2200.
ART: Avis Lofts by Robert Johans (through Spring)
Avis LoftsTumalo-based artist and custom furniture designer Robert Johans elevates the humble, utilitarian birdhouse into the fine art realm. Whimsy and masterful craftsmanship make Avis Lofts the perfect celebration of Spring.
ART: "Wishes" (semi-permanent installation)
Grab a plank and let everybody know your heart's fondest desires. From the absurd to the profound, the Wishes reveal the full range of human concerns and humor. Artist Mark Bernahl will continue rotating newly minted wishes into the existing installation.
LITERATURE: Buffalo's Column
Our own writer-in-residence, Buffalo Folsom contributes "Buffalo's Column," which you'll find in the shop printed on laminated strips of paper that hangs from hooks on a board, one for each day of the week.
MEET BUFFALO
Here's the intro from his website: "My name is Christopher "Buffalo" Folsom. Most people call me Buffalo. The monicker was formed during my work as an archaeologist in the State of Utah. A couple of Native Americans I was working with started calling me Tatanka, the Sioux word for the American Bison. Over time, it evolved to "Buffalo".
If you have ever seen a Buffalo, you understand the incredible size and power that they posses. If I apply this analogy to my sculptures, it would reflect my passion for life, beauty and accomplishing what might seem impossible. One of the best compliments I have received was the loss of a commission as the client felt my work "brought out too much emotion". My belief is that there can never be too much emotion.
Several pieces I have created involve the use of recycled materials. I have been refered to as a junk artist, a genius and everything in between. As you view this site, you be the judge. Enjoy!"
http://www.artbybuffalo.com
featured coffee: Costa Rica Montes de Oro - Washed Processed
From Kent: This is the same bean we were serving a few months ago, however the current lot has been processed differently. The fully washed process produces a cleaner, brighter, and slightly sweeter flavor. Where the previous lot exhibited flavors of grape, cherry and milk chocolate; the current lot shows lemon, dark chocolate, and brown sugar. I love the way this bean illustrates the importance of the processing method on the final cup quality (see Thumpology below).
(photo by Erika Schultz)
CUPPING: Sunday, May 25 1:30pm-2:30pm
Can you taste the difference between a washed process and dry process coffee? Join our public coffee cuppings and taste coffees side-by-side. Discover personal preferences, likes and dislikes, and begin to taste and describe your personal and subjective sensory experience. You'll appreciate how many variables and steps along the coffee's path to us can influence how it tastes in the cup (see this month's Thumpology).
Cuppings are usually the third Sunday of the month at 1:30pm - get details at our website and by subscribing to our newsletter.
EVENT: Saturday, May 17 - Team Thumpista Rocks PPP (we're closed for race day)
Team Thumpista rips it up for a second year in the Pole, Pedal, Paddle. Thump will be closed for the day, so come cheer us on! We'll be back at the shop on Sunday to share war stories. See you then!
meet our thumpistas: Amy
A coffee industry veteran, Amy was a long-time manager at Starbucks back in the days before they adopted fully automatic espresso machines. You'll find Amy here on weekends. During the week, she helps manage a world-class outrigger and surf paddle company, Kialoa Paddles. She spends off time hiking with her doggies Scout and Timber, playing soccer, or training with the Bend Oregon Outrigger Canoe Club (BOO). In the photo above, she and her BOO mixed crew receive a 1st place trophy for an 18-mile race at Howe Sound, British Columbia. Amy has raced with BOO up and down the West Coast - and in Bora Bora! For a good story, ask her about her epic race at Pacific City, Oregon with crashing waves and broken boats!
thumpology: Processing Coffee - From Fresh Cherry to Dried Green Bean
In previous Thumpology articles we've discussed how the roast can affect a coffee's flavor. How it is processed after harvest can have an even more significant influence on its ultimate flavor.
Not to be confused with processing food, which might involve removing nutrients, adding artificial stabilizers, flavors, preservatives, etc., processing coffee is an all-natural sequence of steps taken after picking the coffee to prepare it for market.
Coffees are harvested when the fruit surrounding the bean, known as the cherry, is ripe. The cherry holds necessary sugars and desirable flavors that need to be infused into the coffee bean. Farmers use two primary processing methods to release these flavors from the cherry: the dry process and the wet process.
Dry Process (aka Natural Process): The cherry is left on the bean and dried naturally in the open air by sunlight on large patios, where the coffee is continually raked for even drying and mildew prevention. Once properly dried, the cherry is removed from the bean. The dry process method can be hard to control due to the coffee's vulnerability to environmental elements (rain, humidity, sun) while drying. The end result can be mixed and unpredictable. A dry processed coffee may be heavy bodied, sweet, smooth and complex.
Washed Process (aka Wet Process): The cherry is removed from the bean, but a thin, sweet, slimy layer, called mucilage, remains. The beans are placed in fermentation tanks for 12 -36 hours for flavor development, then they undergo extensive washing to remove remaining mucilage and fermentation residue. This is a more controlled method with more consistent results. A washed process coffee may taste cleaner, brighter, and fruitier.
The washed process is water intensive and is more likely to be used in growing regions with easy access to water - and by farmers with the money to build the infrastructure needed for processing. Whereas the dry process is likely to be used in growing regions with lower humidity and reliably dry, sunny periods to prevent the cherries from mildewing while drying.
Our May featured coffee is Costa Rica Montes de Oro - Washed Processed. Previously, we carried the natural processed Montes de Oro, which was heavier, even thick in body and very citrusy. By contrast the washed version is very clean, smooth with very balanced citrus notes. The same bean, processed differently has yielded extremely different results. Which is better? That's up to you to decide!
Warm Your Soul: New Baked Goods
Muffins!
Carrot Crumble w/ pineapple & coconut
Blueberry Sourdough - the classic muffin
Marionberry - a huge plump berry muffin
Chewy Toffeenut Bars Wonderful butterscotch flavor blended with crushed toffeenut & pecans.
7-Layer Coconut Bars
Layers of rich chocolate, butterscotch, pecans & coconut on a graham cracker crust.
New Panini* & Salads
Assortment of
Mixed Greens Salads
Loads of healthy greens, a freshly baked roll & dressing
Chicken Pesto Panini
Freshly roasted chicken breast, pesto, tomatoes, spinach, sundried tomatoes, on hand shaped focaccia.
Veggie Panini
Fresh basil, roasted red peppers, goat cheese, artichoke hearts, balsamic vinegrette, on hand shaped focaccia.
Ham & Cheese Panini
Hand sliced ham, garlic aoli, swiss cheese on hand shaped focaccia.
* Did ya know that a single panini is a panino?
Thump Coffee is located in downtown Bend at 25 NW Minnesota Ave. For details, visit www.ThumpCoffee.com or call 541-388-0226.
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Wishin' I Was Fishin' -- Kathy Deggendorfer releases a new fine art print!
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Nothing says Camp Sherman Oregon more than Kathy Deggendorfer. Wishin' I was Fishin' a new fine art giclee print by Kathy is available at High Desert Gallery for a special release price valid through May 26, 2008. The release price is a limited time offer and subject to availability. Kathy's original watercolor of the fine art print is available at High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon and online at: Original Watercolor.To order, visit High Desert Art Gallery in Sisters or Redmond Oregon or call the gallery toll free at 1-866-549-6250. Online orders prior to May 27th qualify for free shipping and the special release pricing. Visit: Wishin' I Was Fishin' Special Release. Stellar Custom Framing options are available at either gallery.
For additional information about the artist and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 and toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening December 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
Original artwork by Kathy Deggendorfer. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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May art at Thump
» Hack BendMay New Exhibit: Shelby Leigh
According to photographer Shelby Leigh, her work is an extension of sometimes-quiet observations and how she sees tiny moments in time. In her travels near and far — the exhibit includes photos from Oregon, Morocco and Chile — she likes to "notice the little things and bring them to others so that they too can see the beauty and intricacies that this world has to offer." Though she says her stories are infused in each image, she invites you to "let your imagination take you on your own journey to find peace, simplicity and wonder."
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Weird find of the day
» Hack BendMaybe I should turn this "Weird Find" into a series.
Anyway, came across this freaky sculpture in the Old Mill District:
There was a bunch of other art pieces all over the area, but this one was by far the craziest. A little card attached says you can buy it for $1000. Sure.
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Oregon High Desert Classic -- Kimry Jelen
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Thanks to last years High Desert
Gallery advertisements for my 2007 summer show in Redmond,
Oregon the events coordinator for the High Desert Classic saw my work
and thought they would like to use my art for their next poster.
Serendipity! I got a call about doing the High Desert Classics poster
for 2008, something I've wanted to do ever since moving here. I
noticed the high quality posters and ads they run every year, horses
and art, how perfect!
The staff at J Bar J was great to work with and they gave me 'free rein'. I had some specific ideas about how I wanted my horses to look, but found I had to do quite a bit of research on jumping horses to get it realistic. In Milbrook, NY, in order to get my British Horse Society Stage III certification, I evented, what a thrill it was to jump! I try to incorporate that into my painting, it is amazing what these equine athletes can do. The horses have incredible focus and seem to enjoy their fantastic leaps, intent and happy doing what they love - almost effortlessly it appears! This painting was super fun capturing all that during the creation of it with color and brush strokes.
I started painting on several canvases experimenting with different concepts and ideas. When I got far enough along with a few of them, this one seemed to demand completion, sort of "jumped out" at me you might say. You'll be seeing it about town this summer in poster form.
Held during the last two weeks of July, the Oregon High Desert Classics feature two
consecutive weeks of
competition, running Wednesday through Sunday. Each Classic draws
professional and amateur competitors from all over the west and
Canada and closes on Sunday with the Grand Prix competition, where
the top horses and riders compete for purses up to $25,000. Since
its inception in 1990, this annual fundraiser has become a premier
event for both riders and spectators. Competitors enjoy a USA
Equestrian A-Rated show on superb grass footing, while spectators
enjoy the athletic skill of the horses and riders and a variety of
food and shopping at vendor booths.
J Bar J Youth Services hosts the show and benefits from the profits made at the show, which enable them to provide much-needed services and supplies for the various youth and family programs.
The original painting will be available at High Desert Gallery, the use of the image and poster design is donated to J bar J, and a team effort from High Desert Gallery and myself of a framed giclee will be donated and available at the silent auction the night of the first week's Grand Prix dinner.
Again this year the gallery is featuring my original artwork at High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon in Redmond Oregon in June and an artist reception on Friday, June 27th from 5-8pm. I hope you can visit the gallery to view my work. If you are in the Central Oregon area, stop by the High Desert Classic during the last two weeks in July -- You will enjoy it!
Kimry Jelen -- April 23, 2008
Sky Jump, (Acrylic on canvas 18" x 24" (image size)) is an Original Painting by Kimry Jelen. For additional information about Kimry, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art and custom framing gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Redmond, Sisters and Bend Oregon (opening December 2008) specializing in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery and work by Kimry Jelen can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
Original artwork by Kimry Jelen. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. Subscribe to High Desert Gallery's art gallery weblog via Feedburner RSS permission based email service. Or ... Call 866-549-6250 x 3, visit our art gallery events calendar at www.events.highdesertgallery.com or subscribed to the following: Twitter, subscribe to our blog, RSS, or our events calendar. Don't worry -- We won't spam you or give, rent or sell your email address and you can always unsubscribe. We promise! or our
To inquire or to purchase call 866-549-625, Email High Desert Gallery or purchase online at Sky Jump.
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My Sunflower Effort -- Grace Bishko
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Sunflowers, are incredibly large,
strong, tall plants, and their seeds are enjoyed by most animals,
including birds and human animals. So many artists have painted these
interesting, yellow flowers, such as - Vincent van Gogh, who was the
king of “ochres, and yellows”; and also, Egon Schiele, who
preferred the dark, dried flowers and leaves, which he turned into
dark blues, purples, reds and brownish greens. Such intense feelings
have been deposited on this flower! How could I resist, I said to
myself. So, here you have it - my sunflower effort. I decided to make
them happy, with possibilities of movement. And, I do like to include
“witnesses” like the cat and the bird, to take my place in the
paintings I create, whenever possible. Grace Bishko, April 18, 2008
Sunflowers, (Gouache on Handmade Paper 15 x 19 inches (image size)) is an Original Painting by Grace Bishko. For additional information about Grace, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art and custom framing gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Redmond, Sisters and Bend Oregon (opening December 2008) specializing in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery and work by Grace Bishko can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
Original artwork by Grace Bishko. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. Subscribe to High Desert Gallery's art gallery weblog via Feedburner RSS or our permission based email service. Or ... Call 866-549-6250 x 3, visit our art gallery events calendar at www.events.highdesertgallery.com or subscribed to the following: Twitter, subscribe to our blog, RSS, or our events calendar. Don't worry -- We won't spam you or give, rent or sell your email address and you can always unsubscribe. We promise!
To inquire or to purchase call 866-549-625, Email High Desert Gallery or purchase online at Sunflowers.
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First Friday (and more) this week
» Hack BendThis Friday, April 4th, is First Friday in Downtown Bend and the Old Mill District: when the art galleries stay open late, from 5 to 9pm, offering receptions, special exhibits, and in some cases, music and refreshments (wine!).
But wait! There's more!
This Friday is also the Spring Art Hop—think of it as an amped-up First Friday, where a bunch of downtown stores (not just galleries) are participating and displaying art. Check out the PDF brochure from the Downtowners Association to see a list of all the participants.
Other things going on that night, coinciding with First Friday/Art Hop:
- Bistro Corlise will be hosting another Open House during Art Hop:
916 NW Wall St.
Friday, April 4, 5-7pm
Complimentary wine and hors d'oevres.
Dinner reservations available after 7pm.
For reservations and info, visit www.BistroCorlise.com or call 385-6979. - Thump Coffee will be open late, featuring music and wine:
"For Art Hop on Friday, April 4 Thump Coffee will stay open until 9:00 pm, pouring complimentary wine and showcasing the [solo acoustical] guitar talents of Thump barista James Simmons. Though Simmons took up the instrument himself only a decade ago while in his 20s, music runs deep in his blood. His father Larry played for the Grand Ole Opry and toured with top country musicians, and grandfather Buddy, uncle Don and cousin Dean are all professional musicians." - The Des Chutes Historical Museum will feature "a unique look at Bend's changes through paintings created by local artist Judy Hoiness." They will also be serving food and a chance to buy one of 12 signed prints by Western artist James Bama.
Plus lots more going on. Don't miss it!
- Bistro Corlise will be hosting another Open House during Art Hop:
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Pastry Chef -- Original Painting by Cristina Acosta
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Pastry Chef, Acrylic & Hard Pastel
on 100% Cotton Rag Paper, 22” x 30” Some person, place, thing or event sparks the memory & emotion that become a painting. Pastry Chef was inspired by my memory of the first time I ever saw Jen McCrystal, partner in the restaurant Jen’s Garden in the town of Sisters, Oregon. Many years ago I was at a friend's birthday party and I saw this very slim, lovely woman walking barefoot across a polo field carrying a giant wedding-like cake. It was iced with white butter cream and had 4th of July sparklers poked into the top cake layer! (The cake was her gift to the birthday girl.) What an amazing image!
In my painting this pastry chef dances joyfully, her artistry sings from her pan, as she balances lightly on the ever-changing flow of her creative process, inviting us to enjoy the abundance of her creation. This painting also conveys my love of most everything to do with cooking. Pastry Chef is one of the images published in my book, Paint Happy! (North Light, 2002©, 2004©).
August 11th I’m teaching a week-long workshop with Art In The Mountains ( Bend Oregon ) sharing my Paint Happy techniques with beginning and intermediate artists.
Cristina Acosta – April 1, 2008
To inquire please call High Desert Gallery at 1-866-549-6250 x 3 or visit: Pastry Chef.
About Cristina Acosta : Cristina Acosta is a life long artist. A painter, writer and designer, she’s garnered national acclaim for her artwork. Born in Los Angeles, Cristina earned her BFA in Painting from the University of Oregon in 1988 and resides in Bend, Oregon. She paints original oil or acrylic paintings for exhibits, sales and commissions. Taking her art off the easel and into life, she is a color consultant, designing interior & exterior color palettes for homes & buildings; illustrates and writes books & articles; loves to cook and create recipes, teaches, makes presentations and more.
Her career has included: A two-year stint as a billboard mural and lettering artist. Five years teaching college art classes. Nine years as an artisan tile designer & production artist for her nationally distributed signature line of ceramic tile during the 1990’s, and more.
Her artistry is featured in a variety of books and magazines, including her successful art book, Paint Happy! (North Light Books, ©2002,2004). She illustrated the children’s book, When Woman Became the Sea (Beyond Words Pub., ©1998) and contributed to many other books and periodicals including Artist Magazine, Pure Inspiration, Better Homes and Gardens, House Beautiful, Latina magazine, Latina Style, Good Housekeeping, and Woman’s Day home design publications.
Cristina continually paints and writes from her studio at her home in the rain-shadow of the Cascade Mountains. She creates three distinct series of paintings: Paint Happy series, Hispanic Heritage series (Madonnas) and her oils including her Animal Spirit series. Despite the different styles, her work is typified by her lush use of color, dynamic design and the presence of joy.
Museums, galleries and collectors nationwide collect and exhibit her work.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening December 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Art Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
Original artwork by Cristina Acosta. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. Subscribe to High Desert Gallery Feeds: Follow us on Twitter, subscribe to our blog, RSS, and our events calendar.
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4/4 Thump Coffee Art Hop: Music, Wine, Art
» Ad HOC : Words + IdeasArt Hop: James Simmons’ Solo Acoustic Guitar - Open Late and Pouring Wine
April New Exhibit: Robert Johans’ Avis Lofts
Continuing in April: Artists Local 101 group show, Mark Bernahl's new "Wishes"
(Bend, OR) Thump Coffee welcomes spring with an exhibit of Avis Lofts. Tumalo-based artist and custom furniture designer Robert Johans elevates the humble, utilitarian birdhouse into the fine art realm. His designs are so sleek, modern and cool it makes one wish for wings simply to be able to live in his Avis Lofts.
“Modern homes for modern birds,” is how Johans describes his creations. “Avis Lofts are meticulously handcrafted birdhouses that render a whimsical nod to the classic design elements of modern architecture,” he says. “These boxes are ornithologically functional, and feature found, recycled, or sustainable materials and natural, non-toxic finishes. They’re just as beautiful on display indoors as in the backyard.”
For Art Hop on Friday, April 4 Thump Coffee will stay open until 9:00 pm, pouring complimentary wine and showcasing the guitar talents of Thump barista James Simmons. Though Simmons took up the instrument himself only a decade ago while in his 20s, music runs deep in his blood. His father Larry played for the Grand Ole Opry and toured with top country musicians, and grandfather Buddy, uncle Don and cousin Dean are all professional musicians.
Simmons endlessly explores the possibilities of the guitar fretboard. When asked to describe his music, Simmons simply shrugs. “My friends describe my music as an eclectic mix of finger-style progressions interspersed with bluegrass-style flat picking.” His guitar heroes include father Larry Simmons, and such pioneers as Michael Hedges, Pierre Bensusan, Mike Marshall, Tony Rice, and Scott Huckabay.
Continuing in April will be a group exhibit by Artist Local 101, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting contemporary and outsider art. For many years the group has provided local artists who work “outside the box” with a vehicle for exhibiting their art, as well as a place to network with other artists. The show at Thump Coffee runs March through April and features a diverse representation of many artists affiliated with the organization, from the well established to newcomers. Artist Local 101 welcomes new members, and membership forms will be available at Thump. (left: Holly Hutton's "Mandrake Musings"; below: Lisa Wachs' "Winter Thistles")
Mark Bernhahl’s popular “Wishes” installation is hanging again, and customers are encouraged to continue creating wish planks to be rotated into the installation throughout the year.
Thump Coffee is located in downtown Bend at 25 NW Minnesota Ave. For details, visit www.ThumpCoffee.com or call 388-0226.
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Gouache on Handmade Paper -- Two new paintings by Grace Bishko
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Cornstalks by Grace Bishko
Gouache on Handmade Paper, 19 ¾ x 15 inchesDo you think I like to make repetitive dots, lines and circles, etc. on paper? I LOVE to do that! It’s so completely peaceful and satisfying. Also, painting on handmade paper is an exquisite experience. The paper, being thin and full of fibers, becomes a bit sculptured by the paint, and takes on a life of it’s own.
These physical happenings actually help me create a strange and beautiful image, regardless of the subject, because the paper is “alive”.
The “Cornstalks” is an abstraction of a real environment – cornstalks, earth, sky, wolf, black birds. Turning the ancient African mask image on its side makes it into something else, doesn’t it. However, we don’t really have to know what it’s doing there. The color, the shapes, the patterns – they add to the mystery of the Cornstalks, and that’s my goal.
Old Friends by Grace Bishko
Gouache on Handmade Paper, 19 x 191/2 inches
This painting, “Old Friends”, is still another image belonging to a long series of my
paintings that are based on The Ancient Trilogy –
Man, Wolf and Raven.
Again, I’m carried away by the delight of working on handmade paper that responds physically to my brush. Still another ancient African mask divides the painting into land and sky, and the flock of birds belongs to early spring. The complex earth is wet with black.
Grace Bishko -- March 30, 2008
"Cornstocks" and "Old Friends" are Original Paintings by Grace Bishko. For additional information about Grace, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art and custom framing gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Redmond, Sisters and Bend Oregon (opening December 2008) specializing in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery and work by Grace Bishko can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
Original artwork by Grace Bishko. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. Subscribe to High Desert Gallery's art gallery weblog via Feedburner RSS or our permission based email service. Don't worry -- We won't spam you or give, rent or sell your email address and you can always unsubscribe. We promise! -
Springtime in the Alvord Desert -- Glen Corbett
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonAlvord River Springtime, an original oil on masonite has just arrived into
the gallery and available for
sale. The artist, Glen Corbett has captured the wildflowers of Southeastern Oregon near the Alvord Desert. The original painting measures
48” x 24” (image) and is framed in a wonderful contemporary frame with a hand painted double stack moulding. To obtain more
information or to purchase call the gallery at 1-866-549-6250 or
visit: Alvord River Springtime by Glen Corbett.About Glen Corbett: Glen, an award winning painter, tapestry weaver and print maker makes Central Oregon her home. She has participated in numerous one woman and group shows in the Northwest and beyond including the Oregon Capital, Maude Kerns Art enter, Honolulu Academy of Art, Ithaca Museum and several Fine Art Galleries on the West Coast. Glen's work is found in private and corporate collections worldwide including AJ Heinz, State of Hawaii, Walsh, Walsh, & Foster, Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Black Butte Ranch, Brooks Resources, Fred Meyer Inc. and many more. "Art captures a very present moment, sometimes evocative of the past or predictive of the future – but at best taps a timeless core/chord." High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Glen Corbett exclusively in Central Oregon.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening December 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz
Original artwork by Glen Corbett. All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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New Galleries on the Ethni Site
» Jane Johnson PhotographyTags: Fine Art Photography [edit]
I added a fine art category to my website. Under that category there are two new galleries:
Simplicity is a series of simple florals I did last summer.
Breaking Free was a photo documentary series I did for my senior project in college. It's gritty and grainy, and has the feel of movie stills. It's a different feel for me, all done on film. The portrait of the cross was taken with a medium format camera in a studio on campus. The project was to do a nude figure study that showed movement. A Brazilian friend who happened to have the perfect hair, posed on a cross that was used in a play. If you look closely, there are multiple faces in the shot. I had him lift himself up to take a breath, and lower himself back down again to get the right movement. I miss those days! Anyway, the series tells the story of the emotional bondage that we can carry around with us for way too long. Anger.. fear.. fill in the blank. It all fits. But there is so much freedom found in Christ... a truth that's difficult to grasp and actually believe if you haven't experienced it yourself. If you're skeptical, I dare you to try it. I had emotional wounds in my past that I never thought would heal. I figured as long as you can remember the painful story, the hurt associated with it might lessen, but it would never fully go away. God proved me wrong. Look at the scar you have from the surgery a few years back.. or from an accident you had as a kid. You remember the story of how you got that scar, but when you tell the story, you can't remember the pain involved in the process of it. Such is my heart. I can pull it out and tell you my story, and how God has healed it. But the pain of what once was no longer remains.
This photography series will always be incredibly special to me. My chains are gone. I've been set free. He is a good God. Don't just take my word for it.
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Press Release: Cristina Acosta Represented by High Desert Gallery
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nationally Known Oregon Artist, Cristina Acosta, Represented by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Download PR-HDG-CristinaAcosta-03182008.pdf (123.3K)
Bend, Oregon -- March, 18, 2008: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is proud to announce the signing of a representation agreement with Nationally known Oregon Artist, Cristina Acosta. Cristina's original paintings and fine art hand embellished giclee prints are available for sale in High Desert Gallery's Redmond and Sisters Oregon fine art and custom framing galleries.
Cristina's career has included: A two-year stint as a billboard mural and lettering artist. Five years teaching college art classes. Nine years as an artisan tile designer & production artist for her nationally distributed signature line of ceramic tile during the 1990’s, life long love of the arts and more.
Her artistry is featured in a variety of books and magazines, including her successful art book, Paint Happy! (North Light Books, ©2002,2004). She illustrated the children’s book, When Woman Became the Sea (Beyond Words Pub., ©1998) and contributed to many other books and periodicals including Artist Magazine, Pure Inspiration, Better Homes and Gardens, House Beautiful, Latina magazine, Latina Style, Good Housekeeping, and Woman’s Day home design publications.
Cristina continually paints and writes from her studio at her home in the rain-shadow of the Cascade Mountains. She creates three distinct series of paintings: Paint Happy series, Hispanic Heritage series (Madonnas) and her oils including her Animal Spirit series. Despite the different styles, her work is typified by her lush use of color, dynamic design and the
presence of joy.
Museums, galleries and collectors nationwide collect and exhibit her work.
Cristina's work is available for sale at High Desert Gallery's Fine Art Gallery in Redmond and Sisters Oregon. For more information on the artist and to purchase on line visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery is honored to exclusively represent Cristina Acosta in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening December 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a “Top 100 Art and Frame Gallery in America” and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond, Oregon (2006 & 2007) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition. For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Press Release Contact: T. Dow
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon
PO BOX 519 Bend, OR 97709-0519 Phone: 541-388-8964
Web Site: www.highdesertgallery.com
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It's winter now but I still like to paint bits of summertime from memory -- Kathy Deggendorfer
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonSpot Sits on The Cabin Porch...
We've been spending quite a bit of time out at the cabin this year. It's winter now but I still
like to paint
bits of summertime from memory. I love the places where the creeks
flow into the main river and you can catch little glimpses of those
charming little cabins that are upstream. These little cabins are
quiet now but full of life all summer long."Spot Sits on the Cabin Porch" includes a little bit of what makes the Camp Sherman Oregon and the Metolius River area so special... it's a place where a friendly pooch, like Spot ,can sit and soak up the sun and watch the river flow. A place where you know it must be midday because the neighbor down the way came in for lunch and left his fishing vest hanging on the hook outside the door... he won't come out until dusk when the bugs come out and the fish jump. Oh, and did you notice the neighbors got new sky blue cushion covers for their old comfy bench?
Kathy Deggendorfer – February 2008
“Spot Sits on The Cabin Porch,” an original watercolor on Paper by Kathy Deggendorfer. Image: 21.75" x 7" Professionally and Archival framing by High Desert Gallery with Frame size: 33" x 18.5" +/- All rights reserved and © copyright 2008.
View More Kathy Deggendorfer Originals (including: Wishin' I Was Fishin' )
For inquiries please call High Desert Gallery at 1-866-549-6250 or purchase online at Kathy Deggendorfer. For additional information about the artist and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 and toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .About Kathy Deggendorfer: Kathy Deggendorfer lives on a cattle and hay ranch just
outside of Sisters,
Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her
surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings.
Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill the paintings with
color and life. "Folks tell me they just feel happy when they
look at my work-- that makes me happy."
Raised in Portland, Oregon, in a clothing manufacturing family, she says ,"Sewing skills skipped a generation with me... but I love fabric. I like to call my creations 'Painters Quilts.' I can prowl around the rounders full of prints at the Stitchin' Post with the best of 'em... I just put my fabrics in with a paintbrush." Kathy's collaborative work with master quilter, Tonye Belinda Phillips, is another fun combination of painted image and textile interpretation.
Kathy is currently working on a project about Oregon Specialty Farming and sustainable farm practices. This project takes her out into the fields of Oregon farms to paint and learn about what makes Oregon agricultural practices and people unique. Trips to the cattle ranches of Eastern Oregon and vineyards of the Willamette Valley provide her with plenty of rich and colorful images.
Kathy's work is collected throughout the Pacific Northwest and reaches out to all corners of the United States. Represented by High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon, she has pieces in the permanent collection at Redmond Airport, 2007 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Poster Artist, she wrote and illustrated a children's book for St. Charles Medical Center, and her work has been translated into clothing and fabric for Columbia Sportswear. In 2005, Kathy was awarded 'Citizen of the Year' in Sisters Oregon for her contributions to the community and the arts. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Kathy Deggendorfer exclusively in Central Oregon.
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Central Oregon Symphony Winter 2008 Concert -- Grace Bishko
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonLast year, I was contacted by the Director of the Central Oregon Symphony, regarding a series of paintings I’ve done on musicians. Her idea was to use these images on the programs, as well
as on symphony mailings. After
several meetings, the idea was launched, and the first image, “The
Cello”, was used on a brochure mailed to supporters of the
Symphony. By Fall, 2007, the Central Oregon Symphony Program was
redesigned for the first time in many years, and my painting of “The
Flute” was on the cover, as well as on the poster for Music in
Public Places, that took place in High Desert Gallery's Redmond art
gallery.The “Bass” is the program art chosen for the upcoming weekend winter concert, and has a snow setting – the painting is virtually white. The bass player, in his black overcoat, is carrying his instrument through the snow. His red hair is almost hidden by his shoulders hunched against the cold. Actually, we see very little of him and his bass, as he is entering the scene at this very moment. He is facing a row of frozen trees with their branches embracing each other against the cold. Surrounding all is the border of the painting – a rectangle of barren, brittle tree branches isolated by the winter sky.
I am honored to have my artwork associated with the Central Oregon Symphony.
Grace Bishko -- February 18, 2008
“Bass” by Grace Bishko, Oils on linen, 25” x 29” image, Framed 34.5" x 30.75" +/-
About Grace Bishko: Grace lives in Central Oregon, hikes the trails, and paints her memories of what she has seen. A serious and honest painter, she paints from her heart and of her memories and experiences. Her imagery contains an ever so slight surreal edge to grab and retain the viewer’s attention, while at the same time satisfying their deep emotions and enjoyment. High Desert Gallery is truly honored to represent Grace Bishko. A nationally and internationally known artist.
In the 1970’s she decided to stop painting directly from “life,” and to develop a vocabulary that would allow her to paint through her personal feelings. Through education, and experimentation, her creative endeavors evolved in many stages. The results of this adventure are embedded in the artwork she is involved in today. Now, Grace is honored that her paintings are appreciated and understood across a wide multicultural expanse.
Winning all possible awards at the Cleveland Institute of Art, she went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers, The State University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. After receiving her M.F.A. degree, Grace taught life drawing at Rutgers, design at University of the Arts, and lithography at Moore College of Art. Since then, she has focused on her own art, exhibiting yearly in solo and group exhibitions.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Grace Bishko exclusively in Central Oregon.
For more information, to inquire or purchase "Bass" call High Desert Gallery (1-866-549-6250 x 3) or visit: Bass.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening December 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Art Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
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Four New Original Paintings by Paul Alan Bennett
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
I
always liked the simple composition of The Healing Space but, over
time, there were parts of the over-all design that bothered me. For
example, the blue in the upper left hand corner seem to come forward,
competing with the attention I wanted to give to the feather. Also,
the shape of the clouds were too, well, intestinal and the mountains
at the bottom seemed to need to be pushed back more.Basically, it just needed to be simplified in color and design to bring clarity to the poetic power of the composition.
Paul Alan Bennett – February 2008
All rights reserved and © copyright 2008
Read about Paul's previous post (July 2006) on "Healing Space" (older image to right).
"The Healing Space" and three additional original paintings by Paul Alan Bennett can be viewed and purchased online at:
Passage from the Metolius To Lake Billy Chinook
To inquire please call High Desert Gallery in Redmond at 1-866-549-6250 x 2 or purchase online at www.highdesertgallery.biz . For additional information about the artists and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 and toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
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The Red Couch -- Paul Alan Bennett
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
The Red Couch -- I
wanted to combine a furniture piece with a forest setting but not
make it look like the piece had just been abandoned in the woods.
Making it surreal by putting the feet and head of a woman on the
pillows seem to put it more into that poetic realm I was reaching
for. Because the face is asleep, it also added a dreaming element
that went along with this surreal intent. The piece offers much in
the way of a painting about color- the reds against the greens. My
eye is drawn as much to this color theme as to the image of the woman
sleeping. Paul Alan Bennett -- 2008
"The Red Couch" Image: 19.5" x 16" Professionally and Archival framing by High Desert Gallery : 25" x 21" +/- Medium: Oil on Board. All rights reserved and © copyright 2008.
For more information, to inquire or purchase "The Red Couch" call High Desert Gallery (1-866-549-6250 x 3) or visit: The Red Couch.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Art Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
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New Work -- Glen Corbett and Trisha Hassler
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"Palatine Hill" Some of my
childhood memories have a way of lingering in my mind. The view of
poplar trees stirred by afternoon breezes, Queen Anne's Lace and
daisies in the sheep meadow and the view to the west from Palatine
Hill is one of those. It felt like days were open forever to explore
and the lanes across the fence were there to travel if I wanted. The
sounds were soft: cicadas and the occasional robin drunk on cherries.
Just beyond the trees on the left was the garden where the grapes
were ripening. This watercolor study is a way of returning to
timelessness of those memories. 
"The Bench" is along a trail
in Nepal during the monsoon season when light is rather flat and
muggy. The bench sits under two trees, the male and female trees,
planted intentionally to give the traveler a shaded place to pause:
to remember "it's the journey, not the destination."
Painting this watercolor was a way for me to honor that person who
planted the trees and for the person who provided the bench and left
the pile of wood that fuels my memory. The bamboo, a renewable
resource, is a reminder to daily keep vigilance and remember to leave
a light footprint. And then there are the exposed roots and the
implication of buried ones that remind me to pay attention to the
simplicity of the lifestyle that supports and created the bench.Glen Corbett -- January 2008
About Glen Corbett: Glen, an award winning painter, tapestry weaver and print maker makes Central Oregon her home. She has participated in numerous one woman and group shows in the Northwest and beyond including the Oregon Capital, Maude Kerns Art enter, Honolulu Academy of Art, Ithaca Museum and several Fine Art Galleries on the West Coast. Glen’s work is found in private and corporate collections worldwide including AJ Heinz, State of Hawaii, Walsh, Walsh, & Foster, Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Black Butte Ranch, Brooks Resources, Fred Meyer Inc. and many more. "Art captures a very present moment, sometimes evocative of the past or predictive of the future – but at best taps a timeless core/chord." High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Glen Corbett exclusively in Central Oregon.
“Go Ahead and Pile It On” is an
Original Mixed Media Fiber/Metal wall hanging by Trisha Hassler.
About Trisha Hassler: Lifetime quilter
and award winning Oregon Artist, Trisha has enjoyed numerous group
and one woman exhibits in the Pacific Northwest. Former “Art in
the Pearl” board member and former member artist of L.O.C.A.L. 14,
she has been featured in Fiber Arts Magazine and other national fiber
arts magazines. Trisha Hassler embraces both torch-cut steel and
improvisational quilting and through her artistic abilities combines
the two mediums in one art form even though they are considered being
on the opposite ends of the artistic spectrum. Trisha Hassler’s
artwork is available exclusively in Central Oregon at High Desert
Gallery & Custom Framing of Redmond and Sisters, Oregon.To inquire or to purchase please call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: " Palatine Hill, The Bench, and Go Ahead And Pile It On.”
"Palatine Hill" a 10.5” x 29.25” (image) Watercolor on Paper and “The Bench” a 22” x 30” (image) Watercolor on Paper by Glen Corbett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2008. “Go Ahead And Pile It On” a 24” x 19.5” mixed media metal fiber wall hanging by Trisha Hassler. All rights reserved and © copyright 2008. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz
Original artwork by Artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2008. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2008. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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The art of not being an artist.
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You know, I love what I do. I get to travel the world for people that want my art and are willing to pay for it. It pays well in my opinion. I am pretty simple and I don't need fancy cars or huge irre...
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Reflections on Nature -- Grace Bishko
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"The Ravens Are Back" Original Painting by Central Oregon Artist, Grace BishkoWhen I first moved to Bend, Oregon I had a studio space on Greenwood Avenue, with an abundance of windows, overlooking a parking lot. The view was disappointing and distracting, but at least I had good light. So, every day at 9am I climbed the stairs to my space, and settled down to sketch ideas in my sketchbook. Soon, I became aware of various raven calls coming from a tree on the other side of the parking lot, and before long, a large flock of these strong, black beauties were filling the tree. One raven perched itself at the very top of the pine tree with a mate on a limb just below. The others kept circling the tree, flying in and out of the branches to change their positions – working their way throughout all of the branches. After about half an hour, the couple at the tip of the tree called out, and flew away, as the others followed.
The next day, they returned at the exact time as the day before, and repeated their ritual, much to my delight. From that day on, I heard their calls as they gathered together before they even came on the scene, and stayed at the window sketching their movements and listening. For the next 6 months, until I moved out of this studio, they were there – same time, same dancing performance. Their unified movements, voices and various positions, shaped my days into creating a plethora of drawings and paintings of these intelligent, gallant birds.
Recently, I heard a raven call out among the trees near my window, and I recalled the days back at the parking lot. “The Ravens Are Back” emerged on canvas slowly, but eventually, I realized how I could portray the movement of the flock, and the stationary position of one raven at the same time. The nuthatch is me, the witness.
Grace Bishko -- January, 2008 – Bend Oregon
"August” Original Painting by Central Oregon Artist, Grace Bishko: This past summer, it seemed to me that there were more groups of deer within the perimeters of Bend, Oregon than last year. Driving around town, I saw them running across the streets, regardless of the cars whizzing by; and also, twice I saw a dead deer by the side of the road. At home, looking out of my window each day, there were deer in the fields among the parking lots of the buildings around me. Sometimes they were there all day eating the tops of the bushes, laying down to rest, and then nibbling more.
By August, the fawns were born, and they were fresh and beautiful – and added to the numbers. At that time, the different family groups became evident – the “female yearlings” stayed with their mothers and the fawns. Seeing this portion of their yearly cycle was tender and satisfying. However, there was something I intensely wanted for them, and that was for the deer not to have to adapt to human beings, the surge in building and development, parking lots and cars. Rather than having to adapt to the human element, I wanted them to live, give birth and migrate in lush meadows and forestlands.
And so, as a reaction to my thoughts and feelings, I painted the pastoral, freshness of a grove of aspen trees in August – a haven of lush vegetation to nibble on for the fawn and his mother – to prepare them selves for the barren winter. It seemed a perfect environment for them, but it’s just a painting.
Grace
Bishko -- November, 2007 – Bend Oregon"The Ravens Are Back" and "August" are Original Paintings by Grace Bishko. For additional information about Grace, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art and custom framing gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Redmond, Sisters and Bend Oregon (open Fall of 2008) specializing in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz. To purchase online visit: "The Ravens Are Back" and "August"
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New work -- Trisha Hassler & Paul Alan Bennett
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It has been a busy week at High Desert Gallery -- New work has just arrived and we encourage you to stop by the gallery or call as we have several new
works in the gallery including works by Paul Alan Bennett, Trisha
Hassler, Kathy Deggendorfer and Grace Bishko. Our Gallery in Sisters is located downtown at Oak and West Cascade. Our toll free number is 1-866-549-6250. "A Little Mending Left," is the title of a great NEW Trisha Hassler. The title sounds a bit like a Christmas Shopping list as the days are counting down. Just one more item, just one more store, just a little bit more to get. Get the point? Click on the image to enlarge the view.
"Winter Night at Wizard Island," is a new wonderfully framed original painting by Paul Alan Bennett. The watercolor captures Crater Lake at
night with Wizard Island in the foreground. Paul's trademark knit stitch painting style, painted boarders, and night sky makes this a must have work of art for the serious Bennett collector.
To view our online store please visit: A Little Mending Left and Winter Night at Wizard IslandAbout Trisha Hassler: Lifetime quilter and award winning Oregon Artist, Trisha has enjoyed numerous group and one woman exhibits in the Pacific Northwest. Former “Art in the Pearl” board member and former member artist of L.O.C.A.L. 14, she has been featured in Fiber Arts Magazine and other national fiber arts magazines. Trisha Hassler embraces both torch-cut steel and improvisational quilting and through her artistic abilities combines the two mediums in one art form even though they are considered being on the opposite ends of the artistic spectrum. Trisha Hassler’s artwork is available exclusively in Central Oregon at High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Redmond and Sisters, Oregon. For more information on Trisha visit: Trisha Hassler
About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. Honors graduate of Maryland Institute of Art and Master of Arts from The University of La Verne (Athens Greece), Paul has excelled in the field of watercolor and most recently in the release of a select group of Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee Prints and worked closely with Pendleton Woolen Mills to release limited edition tapestry blankets. Paul's work has been reproduced for two Sisters Folk Festival Posters and the 2008 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show poster. His style and perspective originate from memories, life experiences and travels that spark the playfulness in this Sisters artist. Paul Alan Bennett’s artwork is represented by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
For additional information about the artists and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 and toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
Original
artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright
2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written
permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central
Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central
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New Arrival -- "Spirits Keep Whistling me Home," The works of Lillian Pitt
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In
a previous post we announced the representation of Lillian Pitt. To
be real honest – It has been a blast. Lillian is a wonderful
person, a great artist and she has her heart truly in the right
place. Honoring the arts and culture are pivotal to her approach in
her art and her life. As was mentioned in the previous post –
Lillian was recently honored by The High Desert Museum with the Earle
Chiles award. It was a wonderful evening and so many of her
friends, patrons and supporters participated in the evening.
We are making every effort to upload her inventory to our online art gallery (www.highdesertgallery.biz) but with the holiday season it has been a bit crazy. We do have her wonderful 1999 soft cover book, “Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home” available online. The book with shipping is $17.25. If you have any questions, please call the gallery at 1-866-549-6250 x 3 or stop by our Sisters Oregon art gallery and you can thumb through our sample book.
About Lillian Pitt: In her book "Spirits Keep Whistling Me Home", Lillian writes, "My early work began as a playful interaction with clay...I felt that I needed to make work that represented my own culture and who I am (knowing) that my people had a 10,000 year history of living in the Columbia River Gorge...I felt privileged to begin making images in clay of the pictographs, petroglyphs, and legendary beings of my ancestral homeland".
Born in 1943 of Warm Spring/Yakima/Wasco heritage, Lillian often features Stick Indians in her masks, sculpture, and jewelry. "Growing up on the Warm Springs Reservation, we were told Stick Indians living in the mountains would whistle to guide a good person to safety if lost in the woods, and would lead a bad person deeper into the forest. Because my life has been enriched by so many good people, I picture the Stick Indian I make whistling people to good fortune and well being". Lillian Pitt is represented in Central Oregon by High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon.About High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializing in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery has been honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as one of the top 100 Art and Frame Galleries in America and voted “Best Art Gallery” in Redmond, Oregon (2006 & 2007) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006). High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz . For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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Silent Sentinels -- Kathy Deggendorfer
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonJefferson in Early Spring — Some thoughts on why this scene popped off the paintbrush…
Did you know aspens have eyes? A friend pointed it out
to me one day while we were walking. They form in places where
branches once were…. scars healing over with kohl black "tree
eyeliner." Now when I pass a grove of aspens I look to see
what they see--silent sentinels watching the seasons pass.
In my opinion, this particular group of aspens has an exceptional view. Before the leaves of summer fill in the picture, these trees have the opportunity to watch the spring storms come in and cover Mt. Jefferson with a fresh coat of white snow. I bet the water in the foreground brings in lots of ducks and Canadian geese for company. These migrant waterfowl wing in with tales to tell of other places they have seen but the aspens just nod in the wind and say… "Thanks, we'll stay right here and watch this show."
Kathy Deggendorfer, December 2007
About Kathy Deggendorfer: Kathy Deggendorfer lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill the paintings with color and life. "Folks tell me they just feel happy when they look at my work-- that makes me happy."
Raised in Portland, Oregon, in a clothing manufacturing family, she says ,"Sewing skills skipped a generation with me... but I love fabric. I like to call my creations 'Painters Quilts.' I can prowl around the rounders full of prints at the Stitchin' Post with the best of 'em... I just put my fat quarters down with a paintbrush."
Kathy's work is collected throughout the Pacific Northwest and reaches out to all corners of the United States. Represented by High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon, she has pieces in the permanent collection at Redmond Airport, 2007 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show Poster Artist, she wrote and illustrated a children's book for St. Charles Medical Center, and her work has been translated into clothing and fabric for Columbia Sportswear.
For additional information about the artists and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
Original artwork by Kathy Deggendorfer. All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
To purchase online visit: Jefferson In Early Spring – Fine Art Giclee Print. Or call High Desert Gallery at 1-866-549-6250 x 3 .
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Stock Your Love Ones Stocking with An Americana Project CD -- On Sale and Free Shipping!
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American Project CD -- “Faces In A
Cloud”Just in Time for the Holiday's and ready for a stocking near you. Again this year the Sisters Oregon Americana Project has produced a stellar CD with Music from students. All but one song contains original music and lyrics by students of the Americana Project – The CD was Produced by Brent Alan, Brad Tisdel and the Students of the Americana Project.
Please consider supporting a wonderful cause – get great music and allow a great school curriculum at the Sisters Oregon Schools to continue.
Please note: The sale and free shipping ends December 31, 2007 at midnight -- Orders after December 31 will be at the regular price and include $2.50 shipping. Order today and save $4.50!
Order your CD online from High Desert Gallery today -- $10 including Free Shipping! 100% of the $10 goes to the Americana Project. If you are local – Go to Paulina Springs Books in Downtown Sisters, Oregon and pick up one or two today. Order Today by visiting High Desert Gallery's online store: Buy Now
About the Americana Project: The American Project, the educational outreach program of the Sisters Folk Festival provides opportunities for young people to learn about, write, perform, and record music. Through a curriculum integrating both guitar instruction and the history of American music, students build a heightened awareness of the influences that have shaped today’s music and culture. In its fifth year, the Americana Project has made a positive impact on the lives of over 750 young people both in class and as part of the overall program. The students are immersed in expressing themselves through songwriting and as a part of the curriculum write their own original songs. Opportunities to perform and be part of the Sisters community in celebrating art and self expression are driving the intergenerational participation in creating music and community involvement. The program now includes an elementary, middle, and high school component where simultaneously 60 students are participating each trimester.
About The Sisters Folk Festival: The Sisters Folk Festival is a three-day celebration of American music, from blues to bluegrass. Many greats have graced the stage since the initial Festival in 1995, including, Ian Tyson, Natalie MacMaster, Chris Smither, Dave Carter, The Waybacks, John Gorka, Ruthie Foster and more. The Sisters Folk Festival 2007 was a huge success. The festival brought together people that enjoyed beautiful weather and record numbers of music lovers who "folked out" to the music of incredible performers like Willy Porter, Harry Manx, The Greencards and the ever-popular Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. The 2008 Festival is scheduled for September 5-7, 2008. Plan on enjoying the festival and all that Sisters Oregon has to offer!
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Airplane Art
» a dog named OrBitSince I haven't been flying at all since September the flight training blog has fallen off the map so I am going to post this here instead: Flight Patterns
Its pretty worth watching even if your not an aerophile.
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Back to Aristotle and Beyond -- Paul Alan Bennett
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Aristotle
Nights: When I look up at the night sky I often feel as though I am
looking into the past- that this same sky was seen by thousands of
generations before me- back to Aristotle and beyond. The old
photographs give that feeling of the past. They can also be
seen as constellations- the Constellation of the Twins: the
Constellation of the Artist as a Young Woman- or as twin moons
spinning their stories in the night sky. These story fragments
come to me as I work and help to guide me in how I weigh the
mood/tone of the piece. For the viewer, he or she may see
something entirely different. What they may see is just as
valid as the thoughts I have shared here.
Paul Alan Bennett – October 2007
"Aristotle Nights" an original Oil over Gouache on Board by Paul Alan Bennett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. Image 36" x 20" +/-. Professionally framed by High Desert Gallery.
About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. Honors graduate of Maryland Institute of Art and Master of Arts from The University of La Verne (Athens Greece), Paul has excelled in the field of watercolor and most recently in the release of a select group of Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee Prints and worked closely with Pendleton Woolen Mills to release limited edition tapestry blankets. His style and perspective originate from memories, life experiences and travels that spark the playfulness in this Sisters artist. Paul Alan Bennett’s artwork is represented by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. For additional information about the artist, the work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 or toll free 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery's online art gallery is found at www.highdesertgallery.biz
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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Fashion shoot
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I don't do them very often but Esther was doing this for a Sunglasses company. I tagged along and snapped a few. These were my visions which don't hold candle one to hers. Twist her arm some and she m... -
Northern California II
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What you thought I was done? I just didn't have time to put all of them in the last blog. I was able to work in some black and whites too.Enjoy. ... -
Northern California
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What a great trip, there was a little fear and frustration over the weather but in the end it worked out. San Fran was beautiful. That is where we really dodged the weather bullet. The day we were sho...
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Steens Mountain Energy -- Kimry Jelen
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I visited the Steens Mountain range in South East Oregon in search of fall colors and wild horse bands. I was lucky enough to see several herds, but too far away to get any good pictures. The image of the wide open range and the mountains as a backdrop impressed me as we tried different routes. On our last trek around an upper loop, we were lucky enough to come across this small herd. I got some great pictures, it was the perfect family. A couple mamas and babies, a beautiful strong stallion (he's the one looking straight at us), two mares one old, one young. It was a moment charged with so much energy I had to paint them in bold colors.Kimry Jelen - October 2007
"Sagebrush Flats," An Original Painting by Kimry Jelen . For additional information about Kimry, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Redmond, Sisters and Bend Oregon (open Fall of 2008) specializing in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. New Original Paintings by Kimry Jelen can be viewed at www.highdesertgallery.biz
Original artwork by Kimry Jelen. All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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The Raven Woman of The Metolius -- Paul Alan Bennett
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I've often seen ravens at the exit to
the Metolius River off of Hwy. 22 just west of Sisters, Oregon. They seem to be an ancient part
of that landscape. I know a woman here in Sisters who is tattooed
with the image of ravens along her back and left arm. I took some
pictures of her, thinking that I would emphasize the tattoo images
and tie that idea together with the Metolius River. However, as I
worked on the painting my idea changed. Her pose with the raven
looked like a statue, so I abandoned the tattoo idea and painted her
as if she were made out of bronze. She looks over a landscape that
reminds me of one of those 19th century images of scenes
from the American west where you're not sure what is real and what
might be fantasy.
The figure is dramatized by the setting sunset. Such theatrics lend themselves to this image that feels mythic to me- as if I've discovered an ancient legend, The Raven Woman of The Metolius!
Paul Alan Bennett - October 2007
"The Raven Woman of The Metolius" an original Oil over Gouache on Board by Paul Alan Bennett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. Image 36" x 20" +/-.
About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. Honors graduate of Maryland Institute of Art and Master of Arts from The University of La Verne (Athens Greece), Paul has excelled in the field of watercolor and most recently in the release of a select group of Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee Prints and worked closely with Pendleton Woolen Mills to release limited edition tapestry blankets. His style and perspective originate from memories, life experiences and travels that spark the playfulness in this Sisters artist. Paul Alan Bennett’s artwork is represented by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. For additional information about the artist, the work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 or toll free 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery's online art gallery is found at www.highdesertgallery.biz
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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Latest fun and travels
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Less than a week left and I am off to California which will be a really nice blog of pics. This week has been fun, I shot some cool fashion images... However I can't show those... Yet. So here is some... -
Shannfab
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Today was a fun and creative day. Summer is winding down as is the temperatures... Thank god too. It turned out to be a great day to shoot an up and coming band here in the Austin area. I don't get to...
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Layers of Color of the High Desert -- Grace Bishko
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A
couple of months ago, while driving around the Millican Valley, I
began to truly realize what the “high desert” is – huge areas
of extremely flat land that are covered with the driest, most brittle
looking, and colorful vegetation I’ve ever seen. From a distance,
though, everything looked soft, and layered with beautiful arrays of
muted greens and other hues like pinks and yellows. Then, there were
the mountains, complacently anchored in the farthest distance from
view - mountains with names like Bear Creek Mountain, and Pine
Mountain. Who named them? And when were they named, and why? I
know that this valley and the mountains have history, both known and
unknown, but who can tell it to me? It’s time for some research.
However, I decided to paint the mystery into this painting, before I
came to know the realities.
Grace Bishko -- September 2007
"Pine Mountain" Oils on Canvas 36"x 30" Canvas
"Pine Mountain," An Original Painting by Grace Bishko. For additional information about Grace, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Redmond, Sisters and Bend Oregon (open Fall of 2008) specializing in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz . To purchase online visit: Grace Bishko.Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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The oldies
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While archiving and storing some older shots. So since some of them were edited through Photoshop 6.5 I thought I would give some the CS 3 treatment. Some of these are so old they were not even digita...
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Sheep Camp Memories -- Kathy Deggendorfer
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They used to run a lot of
sheep up in the mountains in the Sisters and Camp Sherman Oregon area
to eat the spring grasses. I love to look in the old aspen
groves for the signatures of the sheepherders who followed
their flocks and had the time to sit in the shade and sign an
"autograph" on the white page of the aspen bark. At a wedding here in Sisters the family had taken framed images of those family members who had passed on or couldn't attend-framed them and hung them in the aspen grove as part of the celebration and sense of family. It was a powerful image and called for me to paint...
I thought these old sheepherders and their companions like dogs, sheep and horses would be what I would hang in the mountain aspen groves to honor their memories.
Kathy Deggendorfer – September 2007
About Kathy Deggendorfer: Kathy lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill the paintings with color and life. "Folks tell me they just feel happy when they look at my work-- that makes me happy."
Raised in Portland, Oregon, in a clothing manufacturing family, she says ,"Sewing skills skipped a generation with me... but I love fabric. I like to call my creations 'Painters Quilts.' I can prowl around the rounders full of prints at the Stitchin' Post with the best of 'em... I just put my fat quarters down with a paintbrush."
Kathy's work is collected throughout the Pacific Northwest. Represented by High Desert Gallery in Bend, Redmond & Sisters, Oregon, she has pieces in the permanent collection at Redmond Airport, she wrote and illustrated a children's book for St. Charles Medical Center, and her work has been translated into clothing and fabric for Columbia Sportswear.
High Desert Gallery is hosting a joint artist reception with Kathy Deggendorfer and Danae Bennett-Miller on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at High Desert Gallery in Downtown Sisters Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz . For more information please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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Trip to Oklahoma City and Back
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I had to shoot up in OKC for an architect and we decided to take a scenic route to get there. Myself along with a buddy that does video for thewindowchannel.com decided to shoot some windmills up in S... -
Mexico City Shots
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Here are some night shots from Mexico City. These are shot from the Sheraton Maria Isabel that I stayed at and shot about a week back. ... -
Pronghorn
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My 100th house.
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Backyard portrait session.
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The other day I had some fun goofing off time with the camera and a great subject. Becca is a good friend of my neighbors and was willing to pose for some pictures. These were all shot with the 1Ds MK...
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Photos: Last night's rainbow
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4th of July photos
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I know these are a bit late but I have been preoccupied since the 4th of July. I still fumble with my camera settings but these shots were an improvement compared to last year. Enjoy! Hearts, C  ...
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Painting on Mediterranean Time -- Kimry Jelen
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In a previous post I commented on my recent travel to Spain and Portugal to ride, train and paint horses. In preparation for my upcoming artist reception and showing of new original paintings I thought I would provide more impressions of my travels and how it has influenced my recent work. Please plan on attending my reception at High Desert Gallery in Redmond Oregon on Friday, July 20 from 5-9PM. For more show information please call the gallery at 1-866-549-6250 or visit the gallery’s website at www.highdesertgallery.com.During my travels I was most impressed with Mediterranean time. Everything shifts later, there's time for yourself in the morning, a break in the afternoon allows for a rest or getting personal things done, a later dinner gets the family together to share the day and wind down for the next one... it's a more relaxed pace, time for work, play and the good things life has to offer. Some of those things I experienced - really wonderful table wine, delicious breakfast pastries, hearty coffee, delicious bread, a friendly curiosity, a welcoming and inviting attitude - work to live, not live to work. Hundreds of years of family histories, old and young, an understanding of the value of life - because of death, a maturity and wisdom that comes from that history, an acceptance of being human. These are some of the experiences I had during my time there.
History heaped on history, I stood on the most western point of Europe that overlooked the ocean. The earliest of nations had used this very spot as a look out. I felt the hundreds and hundreds of years that earth had been tamed by humans, it was still earth, bare soil and rock, the same big cliff some Roman had stood on as I was standing now - you start to get an understanding when they talk of "the old world". We are such young pups over in the states.
Early spring flowers, lush green rolling hills, yellow soil, yellow walls, white washed buildings with handsome blue detail and pale orange-red tile roofs. Villages and Quintas (small ranch/farms) nestled in the nooks and crannies of the landscape, old stone bridges, painted tiles, marble entries, fruitful gardens and cobblestone courtyards. Healthy happy round topped trees spotted with bright spots of oranges hanging in the dark green foliage. Thursday - fresh cut flowers for the week delivered to Alcainca, strong small ladies in their scarves knotted at the neck, brown wool jacket and dark skirt, practical black shoes, deep intense eyes, salt and pepper hair brushed across forehead and cheek bones that could tell their life's story, walking the steep winding cobblestone streets with bunches of white lilies tucked under their arm, cane in the other.
The daily routine, early morning, people walking back from the local market bringing home the ingredients for the breakfast and the following daily meals. The food at these local markets is locally farmed, in-season, healthy and fresh, the bread is baked fresh daily. Delicious. Pastries from the pastry shop, produce from the produce stand, meat from the butcher and it's all right there in the neighborhood, always fresh.
The following works are new and part of the High Desert Gallery (Redmond) reception on Friday, July 20th. I hope you can attend!
Vibrant (image above)
Acrylic on Canvas 16"x 20"
The horse breeders in Spain and Portugal love to show off their stallions, and the stallions love it too. They get them all fired-up looking proud and full of "bravado"!I have this image emblazed on my mind, this stallion - like fire in the wind (bright reds, oranges and yellows) with all of his strength – galloping, lunging, spinning, and darting around as if there was a bull in there with him, showing us his graceful catty moves, mane and tail flowing like flames, vibrant energy pouring out of him - never loosing his cool (signified by the blue). I could almost hear him saying, "and then I'd fake him out like this, hook him on like that and then we'd really get him if I did something like this, yeah, like that, that was good, did you see that!?" running by one more time as if to show us if we missed it. This is him - vibrant as can be, running by to check and see, if we noticed his fancy moves.
Levels of Trust
Acrylic on Canvas 24"x 48"
Sometimes in my painting I get a chance to communicate what my equine models might be thinking or feeling. In this work, communication is in horse terms, it just takes a little awareness to recognize. When you do, a whole world of partnership with your horse opens up! In “Natural Horsemanship” there are levels you work through. I think most importantly - is the level of trust your horse has in you - and his level of understanding of what you are asking him to do. Horses
react to what we communicate to them. They quite often mirror our attitudes. I start out with a horse slightly tense and high headed, ears on everything but you, a hard eye. a tight jaw and a distant look. This horse is not yet open to your "ask". The middle horse is warming up, head has dropped, you got an ear, jaw still a little tight, the eye is looking at you but he's still ready to flee if needed, you've got some curiosity now but... If you asked too much at this point, you might get a refusal. The horse facing you is relaxed, ears on you, soft eyes, licking and chewing, wanting orders – "hooked" on to you. Now you're ready to have some fun!Yellow Sand
Acrylic on Canvas 30" x 40"
The ménages and arenas in Portugal were filled with yellow sand. This same pale yellow was in the ancient cobblestones in Lisbon and some of the very old buildings were made of this yellow stone. It was a color so unusual to me and so appealing. There is something very grounding to be in a building that is made from the earth it sits upon. Here the blue stallion (an Andalusian) is powering around in a ménage filled with yellow sand. The Lusitano stallion watches on knowing he will get his turn to show his moves next. The color ratio and combination is inspired from beautiful tiles that mark the names of streets or "rues" in the villages there.
Striking
Acrylic on Canvas 18"x 36"
I was lucky enough to visit Quinta de Archino during a time when there were no guests and received private lessons from Dom Braganca in trade for exercising schooling stallions. Dom Francisco De Braganca's family ruled Portugal from 1640 to 1910. He is dedicated exclusively to the Portuguese equestrian arts, culture and horse, continuing the centuries-old traditions of horsemanship laid down by European royal riding masters. He has extraordinary knowledge of the classical royal court riding arts and trained with the master Nuno Oliveira. In earlier years Dom Braganca performed as a "forcado," an assistant to the Portuguese mounted bullfighter. Today he teaches, trains and breeds fine Lusitano's at his farm near Lisbon, Portugal, Quinta de Archino and travels the world giving clinics. He ended up allowing me a ride of a lifetime on his prized and highly trained Lusitano stallion, Pasqua. This is Pasqua – hundreds of years of royal bloodlines run through this magnificent horse’s veins - he is striking!!!The Artist Reception is scheduled for Friday, July 20, 2007 from 5-9PM at High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon located at 453 SW 6th Street in downtown historic Redmond Oregon. To view my work please visit Kimry Jelen.
Original artwork by Kimry Jelen. All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permission. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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Man Fooling Wolf, and Wolf Liking The Game -- Grace Bishko
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Years ago I read a book, which has always remained in my mind, by the highly acclaimed Italian author, Italo Calvino. It was titled “Baron in the Trees.” Basically, without narrating the whole story, it was about a young Baron, who was unhappy with his life and his country’s politics, and started wandering the countryside. He climbed the trees to see further distances into the countryside, and frequently to hide from certain people. One day he came upon several other people up in the trees – and then more and more people living in the trees - important people from all walks of life, so to speak. Even a famous pianist and her piano! As time went on, he remained in the trees more and more, and eventually made his life up there along with the many who were already there. It became a safe haven for him as well, as, for the rest of his life, he became notorious for helping people who were poor and struggling to survive, all over the countryside and as far as the sea.And so, Coyote and Red Wolf, my recent painting, have found a home in the trees. They are part of an ancient and mythological trilogy of Man, Wolf and Raven. Wolf and Raven are pure and true to what they naturally are in nature. Man can convert himself by costume, customs, mental freedom and logic. However, here they are - Man fooling Wolf with a coyote mask, and Wolf liking the game. And they are safe.
Grace Bishko -- July 2007
"Coyote and Red Wolf " Oil on Canvas 12" x 24"
"Coyote and Red Wolf" An Original Painting by Grace Bishko. For additional information about Grace, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz . To purchase online visit: Grace Bishko.
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Fireworks
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Happy July 4th. Hope y'all had as much fun as we did....
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Bring on the Canvas! Part Two
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Okay. Here it is. I forced myself out of my creative block. Actually, I was gently bullied into it by Deanna, a new MS pal. I was SO proud of the first painting I shared with ya'll. Truth be told, I ...
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Video is is a great thing to work with now that you can see so much on the web now with the power of video. I have teamed up with thewindowchannel.com and I am now a content editor for the site. I kno... -
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So I splurged a little bit. My old wide angle zoom that I got in Jan. of 2000 just isn't cutting any more. I had the older Canon 17-35 f 2.8 L. Yesterday I bought the Canon 16-35 f 2.8 L MKII. WOW! Hu...
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“Through The Envelope,” and into our hearts. Thoughts by Paul Alan Bennett and John Simpkins.
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In preparation for their upcoming show, we asked John and Paul to provide a sneak preview of an image or two and craft some thoughts on the theme, “Through The Envelope.”This special once a year show is not to be missed! Call the gallery (1-866-549-6250) to obtain your invitation. Plan now to attend ...
“Through The Envelope”
Artist Reception for Paul Alan Bennett & John Simpkins
High Desert Gallery – Sisters Oregon
August 11, 2007A sneak preview and some thoughts ...
Paul Alan Bennett
"Through the envelope" can mean so many things- endless things. It can mean a veil or curtain that hides things but those things can still be sensed or shadows seen. It could mean the envelope of the present through which the past peeks out now and then- when history comes to light unexpectedly. It can mean the envelope of skin or fur or feathers or scales that the spirit dances within. Likewise, the envelope of youth or old age. We are all on a moving train passing "through the envelope" of time. Or it can mean a letter, a stamp, stationary, one's handwriting, how we feel when we recognize someone else's handwriting on a letter addressed to us. Or it can be a bill, a check, a credit card application with our typed name peeking out "through the envelope." It can be a mood that we are passing through- anger, hurt, sadness, feeling deeply touched, longing, elation, pride, love, grief...Or it can simply be a poetic sounding phrase that feels good on the tongue.
Paul Alan Bennett – June 2007
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John Simpkins
Paul Alan Bennett and I began pondering the possibilities of our next show in January of this year. We spent many an hour sitting at The Navigator or Sisters Coffee Company, sipping lattes or tea and encouraging our imaginations to create a title for our show this August. Eventually, I do not recall precisely how it happened, we decided upon the title, "THROUGH THE ENVELOPE". I likened it to the ability of seeing into another person's persona.....in this case, taking a peek into the inner workings of our personalities.THROUGH THE ENVELOPE encouraged my creative muse to visit often. I began imagining new forms in ceramic to decorate, and even found a most unusual wooden form to paint while trapped by a blizzard in Laramie, Wyoming! Though thought to be born with two left feet, this coming show has encouraged me to dance freely! The show in August will be diverse in content and subject with an overall quality of playfulness and wonderment.
I am currently working on 12 pieces for the show. Some paintings are the result of dreams recalled, some are based upon sketches done in Tibet, others express my sense of rhythm and balance on selected forms, all reflect my response to the dance of life....... there are images of cats and poodles, monks and Buddhas, mermaids and anteaters, and even a couple of self-portraits.........please come and see "through my envelope" and into my heart!
Warmest regards,
John Simpkins
June 2007~~~~~
Please plan on joining us for a wonderful evening of lively conversation, great art, refreshments and live music! High Desert Gallery is honored to host an artist in attendance reception for Paul Alan Bennett and John Simpkins on Saturday, August 11, 2007.
To receive updates on new work, art speak thoughts by both artists, show progress and sneak previews please subscribe to our weblog at: High Desert Gallery Weblog.
Check back for more show and artist information. If you haven’t already done so – Mark your calendar, make your hotel reservations and plan on attending this is a not-to-be missed gallery event. To receive a mailed invitation please call the gallery and we’ll collect (but not share) your postal mailing address. Our toll-free phone is 1-866-549-6250 – Option 3 for the Sister Gallery and Option 4 to leave a message. We hope to see you on Saturday, August 11 for “Through The Envelope” an Artist Reception for Paul Alan Bennett and John Simpkins.
For additional information about the artists and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-388-8964. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Bend (Opening Fall of 2008), Redmond and Sisters Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
Original artwork by listed artist(s). All rights reserved and copyright 2007. Use of image is restricted and prohibited without prior written permisson. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon content copyright 2007. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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More images from Bend
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Back in Bend, OR for a week. The weather thus far has been interesting. Here are just a few of the shots we have done so far. ...
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Bring on the Canvas!
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This last Christmas I received some art supplies; oils, acrylics, brushes, table easel, and canvas etc. I hadn't actually opened any of it until today. I just spent the afternoon listening to music......
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Wear and Tear of 100's of years -- Kimry Jelen
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This past spring I had the pleasure to travel to Spain and Portugal to ride, train and paint horses. I visited Vejer de la Frontera (the Sunshine Tour horse show was there), Zahara, La Muela (all on the Costa de la Luz), I drove south from Seville to Vejer about a 3 hour drive in the region of Andalucia and visited Barcelona. While in Portugal I stayed mostly within 3 hours driving time of Lisbon. I stayed in Estoril and Cascais. I visited Sintra, Pero Pinheiro, Negrais, Alenquer and worked/trained at barns in Alcainca, Ota and Alfouvar.Portugal impressed me with all the texture, texture and more texture on top of texture. Bricks, stucco, old paint, marble, ancient doors, tile roofs, rock walls, polished cobblestones, old stone foot paths ... I just couldn't get enough. I loved all this texture - only possible with the wear and tear of 100's of years. I want to capture that feeling in my paintings, texture made with layers of paint, palette knife and brush.
Horsemanship, over in Spain and Portugal, is revered as an art form. They take the time the horse needs to train a horse from hundreds of years of experience passed down through the ages, to do the maneuvers expected of their equine partner. The training facilities I visited were incredible. Patterned cobblestone courtyards, 10 feet tall hand painted tiles representing horsemanship from 600 years ago mounted on the walls in the riding arena, the breeders brand carved into the walls, beautiful ironworks, wonderful quotes in appreciation of good horsemanship scattered throughout the stalls, Stallions standing next
to each other in a respectful manner, always a groom near by, a certain level of knowledge and horsemanship is assumed and expected by both the horses and the people there.While in Portugal and Spain I captured digital and mental images that have settled nicely on
canvas through use of color applied by the palette knife and brush. Two new works I’ve recently completed are, Intrigue and Profile of Freedom. Intrique, an acrylic on canvas is 18"x24" and Profile of Freedom, an acrylic on canvas with varnish is approximately 30"x30".Kimry Jelen -- June 5, 2007
Intrigue (Grey horse)
What is this stallion thinking? That's what I wondered as I visited each horse that hung his head out of his stall wanting a scratch behind the ear. They seemed to communicate very well. Iberian breeds are very intelligent horses. I believe they have questions and think about things. They work so closely with people they learn to let us know what they want by pointing with their noses, shake their heads, make funny faces and they always seem to be curious if the new person will listen to their needs, it's always worth a try, they never loose their curiosity. This guy was no exception.Profile of Freedom (Red horse)
This painting was inspired by a young stallion that had been turned out and was making full use of his freedom charging ahead, mane flying from his speed, a proud Lusitano, blood lines from Royalty. The white washed walls of the menage (arena), the detail of cobalt blue
that many of the buildings are painted, the texture on the walls from literally hundreds of years of wear and repair. A horse with 900 years of breeding - history, hence antique looking red color, textured background in white, blue details, returning home to the land of the free, high desert and mountains, Independence day coming up... All these observations and thoughts created - A Profile of Freedom.More to Come! More thoughts on my trip and paintings will be posted prior to my show at High Desert Gallery of Redmond Oregon. Please plan on attending this special showing of all new work. The gallery has some fun things planned with refreshments, live music and lively conversation. The Artist Reception is scheduled for Friday, July 20, 2007 from 5-9PM at High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon located at 453 SW 6th Street in downtown historic Redmond Oregon. To view my work please visit Kimry Jelen , stay tuned or call 1-866-549-6250. Hope to see you in July!
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Season Of Hope -- Paul Alan Bennett
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I have often admired the mother/child theme in art depicting animals made during the Neolithic Age in Greece. Much tenderness can be found in these works and the sense of design is so often topnotch. With that thought in mind, I saw this mother sheep with her baby a few months ago when I was driving back from teaching in Redmond. The momma sheep was all white. The baby, all black. The strong graphic quality of this image as well as the connection the wool theme has to my knit style... well, it all seemed a perfect blend of several of my interests. I was also interested in the quality of summer light around the sheep's forms as well as the subtle colors found in the landscape.Paul Alan Bennett - June 5, 2007
"Season Of Hope" original Gouache on paper by Paul Alan Bennett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. Image 30" x 22" +/-. "Season of Hope" is sold. To view more of Paul's artwork call High Desert Gallery at 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Bennett Originals .. Paul's next major reception is scheduled for Saturday August 11, 2007 -- Visit "Through The Envelope" for more information.
About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. Honors graduate of Maryland Institute of Art and Master of Arts from The University of La Verne (Athens Greece), Paul has excelled in the field of watercolor and most recently in the release of a select group of Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee Prints and worked closely with Pendleton Woolen Mills to release limited edition tapestry blankets. His style and perspective originate from memories, life experiences and travels that spark the playfulness in this Sisters artist. Paul Alan Bennett’s artwork is represented by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. For additional information about the artist, the work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. -
Private Conversations -- Trisha Hassler
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Sometimes I talk to myself. Sometimes, someone else is listening. Sometimes the thoughts are profound, but only sometimes. In my private moments, the thoughts present themselves at random, often overlapping and contradicting previous thoughts or beliefs. They challenge me to find space for everything I want to keep. Conversations communicate these thoughts and although different every time, occasionally we may be hashing out the same old stuff.
The smaller pieces hanging on steel plow teeth I like to call "Chats."
Chats – Snippets of thought, unfinished sentences, the "I'll get back to you on that" ones. More to come. We'll chat again. Off the record. Renderings of conversations in brevity.
Trisha Hassler - June 5, 2007
Please join Trisha and the staff of High Desert Gallery for a wonderful artist reception on Saturday, July 7 from 4pm to 7:30pm at High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Sisters Oregon -- Don't miss this wonderful exhibition of new work! Join us for light refreshments, cheer, lively conversation, great artwork and live music by Jacob French. For more information on the event and "Around The Block" fiber Arts Stroll please visit: www.sistersoutdoorquiltshow.org
About Trisha Hassler: Lifetime quilter and award winning Oregon Artist, Trisha has enjoyed numerous group and one woman exhibits in the Pacific Northwest. A “Art in the Pearl” board member and former member artist of L.O.C.A.L. 14, she has been featured in Fiber Arts Magazine and other national fiber arts magazines. Trisha Hassler embraces both torch-cut steel and improvisational quilting and through her artistic abilities combines the two mediums in one art form even though they are considered being on the opposite ends of the artistic spectrum. Trisha Hassler’s artwork is available exclusively in Central Oregon at High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Redmond and Sisters, Oregon. For more information on Trisha visit: Trisha HasslerImages above -- Left to Right (photography by Tom Hassler)
Ask The Right Questions, Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Sounds Like Double Talk To Me, Why Can't I Howl At The Moon, You Are Talking In Circles (click on image to enlarge).
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Warming The Front of You -- Glen Corbett
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"Early spring in the late afternoon has a way of warming the front of you, leaving your back cold. There is just the touch of grass greening up. Most is still winter freeze dried. What I like about this time of year is the sense that everything is about to breathe deeply." Glen Corbett May 17, 2007
"Black Butte Early Spring" Oil on board 57" x 33" by Glen Corbett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. For additional information about Glen, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
About Glen Corbett: Glen, an award winning painter, tapestry weaver and print maker makes Central Oregon her home. She has participated in numerous one woman and group shows in the Northwest and beyond including the Oregon Capital, Maude Kerns Art enter, Honolulu Academy of Art, Ithaca Museum and several Fine Art Galleries on the West Coast. Glen’s work is found in private and corporate collections worldwide including AJ Heinz, State of Hawaii, Walsh, Walsh, & Foster, Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Black Butte Ranch, Brooks Resources, Fred Meyer Inc. and many more. "Art captures a very present moment, sometimes evocative of the past or predictive of the future – but at best taps a timeless core/chord." High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Glen Corbett exclusively in Central Oregon.
To inquire or to purchase please call 1-866-549-6250 or Email High Desert Gallery or visit: " Black Butte Early Spring."
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Really cool east coast style home.
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I shot this really cool home just outside of Austin near Marble Falls. It was something very different than what I was used to with shooting Texas homes but also a big welcome. Thanks for looking, I l... -
Size and scale
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Miniature model? Or full to scale? I will put up the shot that reveals the answer in a week....
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Making Bird Sense -- Kathy Deggendorfer
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonThe Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ Poster Preview Party is set for Saturday, May 12 at High Desert Gallery in Sisters. I hope you are able to stop by and visit -- Jacob French a wonderful musician will be at the gallery too. My bird series is in full flight and the gallery will highlight several new watercolors and a couple of fun collaborations with Tonye.
A bit about the series ...
Each winter when I start to work on my contribution to Sister’s community- themed art project –-My Own Two Hands-- a whole series of ideas begin to pinball around in the old noggin. The result is -I just have to get those images onto paper before I do anything else!
This year’s theme was “ Gather Round.” It came to me that others who call Sisters home also like to “gather round”. Like the people of Sisters, native birds “gather round” at local restaurants (read bird feeder here) and coffee shops and bars (bird bath and waterers). A friend who is a birder made notes for me in a book about local birds and where they like to hang out.
I worked up a whole series of bird images and then narrowed it down to the basic graphic shape—a little light went off when I realized these little guys just looked like eggs that grew a tail!
The
piece, Let’s Talk Online, was the first small image from that series… just like
folks who stop to admire the view on their drive to Bend , these little guys
perch on a telephone wire and twitter and tweet about life and living with the
Three Sisters as a backdrop.
Do Bluebirds sing the Blues? -- In the spring on our ranch just outside of Sisters, we have
a whole flock of Western
Mountain Bluebirds who zoom and zip across the fields and perch on our rail
fencing-- just like little spots of brilliant blue sky that have come
alive. This little band of
bluebirds sing a song of spring in the Cascades… perfect pitch and harmony. And why not? They live right here in Central
Oregon! Lucky little
guys!
Come
By For a Drink Sometime -- The
birdbath seems like a classic “watering hole” for birds of a feather to come
together. This group of bluebirds
takes a break from new home construction and spring decorating to chat with
friends, complain about their sub-contractors, and gossip. Looks like Bronco Billy’s on a Friday
night to me…. 
Out On A Limb -- I love these little shapes… the leaves and birds just called out for color. The red-tipped dogwood that grows along the edges of our pond is full of life this time of year…. Birds and buds, twigs and tweets…. It’s spring, after all!!
Country Charmer -- All these birds being homeless really started to bug me… I decided I’d better paint a few little birdhouses just to give them a place to roost.
This piece stems from my love of the ¾” angle shader brush. It’s perfect for all kinds of fun shapes… the shingled exterior of this little birdhouse just kind of formed itself as the paint hit the paper.
Actually, Tonye and I decided that this bird theme ought to
play out with a few collaborative pieces — she made some birds and I made some
bird accommodations. This one
doesn’t have a bird to go with it hence; the title. Some little bird real estate agent
should post a sign in front--- “Country Charmer, great views, close to feeder
and community pool.”Kathy Deggendorfer -- April 30, 2007
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Don't Forget -- Join us, Saturday, May 12th at High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon for the 2007 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ Poster Preview Party featuring Kathy Deggendorfer. The artist reception located at High Desert Gallery in Sisters will feature Kathy Deggendorfer in attendance, 2007 Quilt Show Poster signing opportunities, new original paintings and mixed media collaborations, refreshments and more fun stuff!
2007 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show™ Poster Preview Party
Saturday, May 12, 2007 4:30pm to 7:00pm
Meet Kathy Deggendorfer!
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing
281 W Cascade Avenue at Oak Street (½ block east of the Stitchin’ Post)
Sisters Oregon Phone: 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250
www.highdesertgallery.comOriginal artwork by Kathy Deggendorfer. All rights reserved and copyright 2007. For additional information about Kathy, her work and the gallery please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
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New Work, New Thoughts -- Paul Alan Bennett
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
"Under the Mountain" combines several ideas: one current theme is that of my wife who cannot get to sleep without a book in her hand; the dog/mountain comes from a book I read on 'sleep' about something called "sleep paralysis.". This is a fairly common experience where people wake up but are unable to move. This is sometimes portrayed as an animal or mountain on one's chest. Our dog, Zula, has recently been going through a weird time where she wakes us up in the middle of the night, wanting to crawl into our beds. So, the painting is cut-and-paste of what's been happening in my life.
"The Next Greatest Generation" shows our son putting on my dad's hat. I remember so clearly how he would always put his hat on when it was time to leave. That gesture was a part of his generation- the hat generation.
"Wood Spirit"- A tree had recently fallen across the trail in Buck Run where I frequently walk our dog. The fallen tree was then cut into sections to re-open the pathway. The whiteness of the trunk seemed so exposed-naked-to my eye. I was always aware of it's glowing whiteness-like light- whenever I walked by. When I thought about that nakedness as a human form it all seemed to make sense on some level.
Paul Alan Bennett - April 24, 2007
"Under The Mountain, The Next Greatest Generation, and Wood Spirit" all original Gouache on paper by Paul Alan Bennett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. Image 30" x 22" +/-. To purchase call High Desert Gallery at 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Bennett Originals
About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. Honors graduate of Maryland Institute of Art and Master of Arts from The University of La Verne (Athens Greece), Paul has excelled in the field of watercolor and most recently in the release of a select group of Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee Prints and worked closely with Pendleton Woolen Mills to release limited edition tapestry blankets. His style and perspective originate from memories, life experiences and travels that spark the playfulness in this Sisters artist. Paul Alan Bennett’s artwork is represented by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. For additional information about the artist, the work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250.To inquire or purchase visit: Under the Mountain, The Next Greatest Generation, Wood Spirit or call the gallery at 1-866-549-6250.
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My Beautiful Fish -- Grace Bishko
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Koi are fish that were first bred in Japan in the 1820’s, from the Common Carp. At first, these brown fish were bred for food. However, occasionally they produced red and blue mutations, and selective breeding of these mutants resulted in the development of new varieties. Today, there are many varieties of Koi, and they are bred in as many countries. They can grow to 28 inches and live 60 years in the right environment. In ideal conditions, Koi have grown to 38 inches in length. “A Fishkeeper’s Guide to KOI”The painting, “My Beautiful Fish”, was inspired by witnessing people talk to their fish, do anything to help them survive if ill, and truly love them. Getting in the water with them and cradling them in their arms is a loving experience for them, and the fish respond. I’ve never had an experience like this, but witnessing people who have, has inspired me to really think about it. And what I now think is that most living things – animal or vegetable - can inspire compassion and love. Maybe I’ll own a fish some day (or paint one again).
Grace Bishko -- April 12, 2007
"My Beautiful Fish" Mixed Media on Rives BFK paper - 22 ½ x 30 inches (Image)"My Beautiful Fish" An Original Painting by Grace Bishko. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. For additional information about Grace, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
To inquire or to purchase please visit: “My Beautiful Fish” or call 1-866-549-6250.
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Shape Changers -- Glen Corbett
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
There is such a beauty in storm clouds, such energy and it signals
something more: baby's breath and global warming, a need for human's to
make significant changes.Glen Corbett -- April 3, 2007
"Shape Changers" Acrylic on board 24 1/4 x 32 1/4 by Glen Corbett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. For additional information about Glen, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
About Glen Corbett: Glen, an award winning painter, tapestry weaver and print maker makes Central Oregon her home. She has participated in numerous one woman and group shows in the Northwest and beyond including the Oregon Capital, Maude Kerns Art enter, Honolulu Academy of Art, Ithaca Museum and several Fine Art Galleries on the West Coast. Glen’s work is found in private and corporate collections worldwide including AJ Heinz, State of Hawaii, Walsh, Walsh, & Foster, Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Black Butte Ranch, Brooks Resources, Fred Meyer Inc. and many more. "Art captures a very present moment, sometimes evocative of the past or predictive of the future – but at best taps a timeless core/chord." High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Glen Corbett exclusively in Central Oregon.
To inquire or to purchase please call 1-866-549-6250 or Email High Desert Gallery.
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Kimry Jelen Opens at High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Artist Feature - Kimry Jelen
April 1 - April 30, 2007
New original works on canvas and paper
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Sisters
281 W Cascade Ave at Oak Sisters, Oregon
541-549-6250 / 1-866-549-6250
Open daily 11am to 6pm
In a moment of clarity, Kimry Jelen left the corporate world and her life as a fashion designer to train and paint horses. The accolades she received from companies like Nike, Royal Robbins and O'Neill pale in comparison to the joy she receives from interpreting her love of these magnificent creatures. Her contemporary style flows freely, from abstract to representational, and demonstrates an intimate understanding of her subjects. Each painting seems to be a celebration of her new life of balance and purpose. While still considered an emerging artist, Kimry's astonishing volume of work has found its way into exhibitions and corporate and private collections throughout the West.
In the Spring of 2007, Kimry went even deeper into her vision of equine art by training and studying in the classic arenas of Portugal and Spain. Today she continues to work as a professional horse trainer and painter in Central Oregon.
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to exclusively represent Kimry Jelen in Central Oregon. For more information on Kimry and the gallery please visit www.highdesertgallery.com or call the gallery toll free at 1-866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery’s online art gallery can be viewed at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
Original artwork by Kimry Jelen. All rights reserved and copyright 2007.
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Miss Dotty & Yello Have Arrived!
» High Desert Gallery of Central OregonKathy Deggendorfer & Tonye Belinda Phillips
“Miss Dotty & Yello” Collaboration
Color!
Texture! Color! Tonye and Kathy were destined to join together and
share their love of color and whimsy. Lots of laughter and bouncing of
ideas is common place between these two women. The charming mountain
town of Sisters, Oregon and the nearby Metolius River with it’s unique
landscape have offered a multitude of inspiration.
Tonye and Kathy have admired each others work for several years and finally decided to collaborate on a series of painted/quilted pieces featuring the local “color” and landscape. Kathy’s paintings have such a quilt like look and feel that Tonye actually found that she had fabrics that very closely matched the textures in Kathy’s paintings. The two mediums together are so unusual yet so complimentary. The whole collaborative idea grew from there in very exciting and fun ways.
Before teaming up with Kathy, Tonye had created a series of unique and graphic designs of her own and was working with good friends in China in the reproduction, by hand, of these
pieces. Her friends Li Guohua and his
wife, Wang of Yantai City, China have rallied their cousins and friends
in a small remote village outside of the city to create Tonye’s
designs. It is a very social event for the ladies and they are very
happy to have such enjoyable work as any kind of work in the remote
regions is difficult to come by. The pieces are then professionally
framed (archival) by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of
Central Oregon made available in our retail gallery and online at
www.highdesertgallery.biz
About The Miss Dotty Series: Each Fine Art Giclee print is signed and numbered by Kathy Deggendorfer and a wonderful reproduction of the original watercolor. Each quilted work by Email High Desert Gallery. To purchase the Miss
Dotty Series you can stop by High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon , call our toll free number at 1-866-549-6250 or purchase online at: www.highdesertgallery.biz
Tonye is signed and the two works of art are professionally framed by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. The Miss Dotty Series has five works in sets with each set limited to 25 prints/quilts. After the Series sells out there will be no more sets produced of the same images. Not only is the collaboration a wonderful addition to any home or office but it is also limited and potentially collectible. The Miss Dotty Series is available exclusively in Central Oregon from High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon. For more information call 1-866-549-6250 or visit:About the Artists: KATHY DEGGENDORFER lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill the paintings with color and life. "Folks tell me they just feel happy when they look at my work -- that makes me happy." Raised in Portland, Oregon, in a clothing manufacturing family, she says, "sewing skills skipped a generation with me ... but I love fabric. I like to call my creations 'Painters Quilts.' I can prowl around the
rounders full of prints at the Stitchin' Post with the best of 'em ... I just put my fat quarters down with a paintbrush."Kathy’s work is collected throughout the Pacific Northwest. Represented by High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon, she has pieces in the permanent collection at Redmond Airport, she wrote and illustrated a children’s book for St. Charles Medical Center, and her work has been translated into clothing and fabric for Columbia Sportswear.
TONYE BELINDA PHILLIPS lives in the tiny mountain community of Camp Sherman, Oregon. She creates her artistic pieces in a charming, rustic, historic cabin. Tonye Belinda has called Camp Sherman home for more than 34 years. She lives there with her husband and two teenage sons. They live a very active lifestyle enjoying skiing, snowboarding, climbing, hiking, biking, sailing and gardening. Tonye Belinda was born and raised in Portland where she learned the love of working with her hands from her mother, Marjorie Hood. From crewel embroidery, to sewing, to counted cross-stitch, to knitting and then in 1992 she fell in love with quilting. Tonye Belinda can also be found teaching an occasional quilting or knitting class at the Stitchin Post in Sisters, Oregon. Using 100% cotton materials from the United States and lots of saturated colors, all of her designs are quilted and appliquéd by hand. These pieces are carefully reproduced by artisan friends in the far east. Some of her individual designs can be seen and purchased at Twigs, Bedouin and The Sisters Movie House in Sisters, Oregon.
About the Framing: Each
of the works are framed as a package and NOT as pictured in the
description. The wood moulding is a light to medium brown with gold
accents on the rabbit (next to the glass). We use exclusively UV
conservation glass and acid free and archival double and triple mats
with acid free hinge mounting. The framing is professionally done and
100% archival. If you would like to receive an image of our framing
selection prior to your purchase please email us at Email High Desert Gallery
and we will forward you an image for your consideration. If at any
time you have questions please call us toll free at 1-866-549-6250.
The Miss Dotty Series is purchased framed and available at
High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing in Sisters Oregon. To purchase online visit: www.highdesertgallery.bizAbout High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing: High Desert Gallery, honored in 2005 & 2006 by Decor Magazine as one of the top 100 Art and Frame Galleries in America has two convenient retail showrooms in Central Oregon. Voted “Best Art Gallery” in Redmond, Oregon (2006) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006) their flagship gallery is located in the heart of Sisters, Oregon, at 281 West Cascade Avenue at Oak Street and located in the center of the historic district of downtown Redmond at 453 SW 6th Street at Evergreen. Both Redmond and Sisters are a short 15 minute drive from Bend, Oregon, Black Butte Ranch, Brasada Ranch, Eagle Crest Resort and Sunriver Resort, and only three hours from Portland. High Desert Gallery in Sisters, Oregon is open daily from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. The Redmond, Oregon art gallery, located in the historic Butler Building, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. To contact the gallery please visit www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll-free 1-866-549-6250.
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Miss Dotty Comes to Sisters - April 1, 2007 - No Fooling!
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
"Miss Dotty" Collaboration Series by Kathy
Deggendorfer & Tonye Belinda Phillips featured at High Desert Art Gallery
in Sisters Oregon!Color! Texture! Color! Tonye and Kathy were destined to join together and share their love of color and whimsy. Lots of laughter and bouncing of ideas is common place between these two women. The charming mountain town of Sisters, Oregon and the nearby Metolius River with it’s unique landscape have offered a multitude of inspiration.
Tonye and Kathy have admired each others work for several years and finally decided to collaborate on a series of painted/quilted pieces featuring the local “color” and landscape. Kathy’s paintings have such a quilt like look and feel that Tonye actually found that she had fabrics that very closely matched the textures in Kathy’s paintings. The two mediums together are so unusual yet so complimentary. The whole collaborative idea grew from there in very exciting and fun ways.
Before teaming up with Kathy, Tonye had created a series of unique and graphic designs of her own and was working with good friends in China in the reproduction, by hand, of these pieces. Her friends Li Guohua and his wife, Wang of Yantai City, China have rallied their cousins and friends in a small remote village outside of the city to create Tonye’s designs. It is a very social event for the ladies and they are very happy to have such enjoyable work as any kind of work in the remote regions is difficult to come by. The pieces are then professionally framed (archival) by High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon made available in our retail gallery and online at www.highdesertgallery.biz on or after April 1, 2007.To view the Miss Dotty Series visit www.highdesertgallery.biz - Miss Dotty Series. Online ordering and in store purchase (Sisters Oregon) will be available on April 1, 2007
About The Miss Dotty Series:
Each Fine Art Giclee print is signed and numbered by Kathy Deggendorfer and a wonderful reproduction of the original watercolor. Each quilted work by Tonye is signed and the
two works of art are professionally framed by High Desert
Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon. The Miss Dotty Series has five works in sets with each set limited to 25 prints/quilts. After
the Series sells out there will be no more sets produced of the
same images. Not only is the collaboration a wonderful addition to any home or
office but it is also limited and potentially collectible. The Miss Dotty Series
is available exclusively in Central Oregon from High Desert Gallery of Central
Oregon and At this time we are not able to deliver or sell the work unframed..
For more information call 1-866-549-6250 or visit: Email
High Desert Gallery. About the Artists:
KATHY DEGGENDORFER lives on a cattle and hay ranch just outside of Sisters, Oregon. Inspired by the color, pattern and texture of her surroundings, she creates vibrant and colorful watercolor paintings. Whimsical images of flowers and ranch life fill the paintings with color and life. “Folks tell me they just feel happy when they look at my work-- that makes me happy.” Raised in Portland, Oregon, in a clothing manufacturing family, she says , “Sewing skills skipped a generation with me... but I love fabric. I like to call my creations ‘Painters Quilts.’ I can prowl around the rounders full of prints at the Stitchin’ Post with the best of ‘em... I just put my fat quarters down with a paintbrush.”
Kathy’s work is collected throughout the Pacific Northwest. Represented by High Desert Gallery in Bend (opening 2008), Redmond, and Sisters, she has pieces in the permanent collection at Redmond Airport, she wrote and illustrated a children’s book for St. Charles Medical Center, and her work has been translated into clothing and fabric for Columbia Sportswear.
TONYE BELINDA PHILLIPS lives in the tiny mountain community of Camp Sherman, Oregon. She creates her artistic pieces in a charming, rustic, historic cabin. Tonye Belinda has called Camp Sherman home for more than 34 years. She lives there with her husband and two teenage sons. They live a very active lifestyle enjoying skiing, snowboarding, climbing, hiking, biking, sailing and gardening. Tonye Belinda was born and raised in Portland where she learned the love of working with her hands from her mother, Marjorie Hood. From crewel embroidery, to sewing, to counted cross-stitch, to knitting and then in 1992 she fell in love with quilting. Tonye Belinda can also be found teaching an occasional quilting or knitting class at the Stitchin Post in Sisters, Oregon. Using 100% cotton materials from the United States and lots of saturated colors, all of her designs are quilted and appliquéd by hand. These pieces are carefully reproduced by artisan friends in the far east. Some of her individual designs can be seen and purchased at Twigs, Bedouin and The Sisters Movie House in Sisters, Oregon.
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Approaching with Respect, Awareness, and Good Intentions -- Kimry Jelen
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
Arlo lives at Frostline Farm training for dressage. He has taken it upon himself to train people also. Exactly how to properly catch horses, is his objective. You get one chance. After that, you're hoofin' it for at least 20 minutes or so, before he decides you've learned your lesson and you get another try. He likes to let people know that horses deserve your full attention, you leave your problems back in your car - before you step foot in the barn yard. He mostly focuses on his opinion as to whether you are approaching him with respect, awareness, and good intentions. If he is unsure about you, you have to stop and wait - let him check you out and then he will indicate whether you can continue toward him. This starts clear up by the gate, as soon as you walk into the pasture. If you don't listen to his 'be in the present moment' teachings... as he speeds off down the hill shaking his big head... you will almost hear him tossing out to the wind, "you can't catch me!" Kimry Jelen – February 21, 2007
"You Can’t Catch Me!" Acrylic on Canvas Image/Canvas 36" x 24"
"You Can’t Catch Me!" An Original Painting by Kimry Jelen. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. For additional information about Kimry, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
To inquire or to purchase please visit: “You Can’t Catch Me!” or call 1-866-549-6250.
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Vibrant Fruit of our Community – Glen Corbett
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
I first noticed the tree on a cold end of November day driving over the
Santiam Pass just before Idana, a small Oregon logging community. The
tree seemed to speak of neglect and hard times. It made me think of
aging in some of our rural communities. And what impressed me, caught
my eye, were the vibrant fruit. I was reminded of the richness in those
communities and with the elderly in all communities...in spite of hard
physical times.Glen Corbett -- February 20, 2007
"Apple Tree" is a combination of watercolor and dry brush technique, painted on 300 lb. Aguarell Arches, a French cold pressed cotton acid free paper with four deckle edges (Image 30" x 22") by Glen Corbett. All rights reserved and © copyright 2007. For additional information about Glen, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz.
About Glen Corbett: Glen, an award winning painter, tapestry weaver and print maker makes Central Oregon her home. She has participated in numerous one woman and group shows in the Northwest and beyond including the Oregon Capital, Maude Kerns Art enter, Honolulu Academy of Art, Ithaca Museum and several Fine Art Galleries on the West Coast. Glen’s work is found in private and corporate collections worldwide including AJ Heinz, State of Hawaii, Walsh, Walsh, & Foster, Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Black Butte Ranch, Brooks Resources, Fred Meyer Inc. and many more. "Art captures a very present moment, sometimes evocative of the past or predictive of the future – but at best taps a timeless core/chord." High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon is honored to represent Glen Corbett exclusively in Central Oregon.
To inquire or to purchase please call 1-866-549-6250 or Email High Desert Gallery.
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Home is Where The Heart Is ...
» High Desert Gallery of Central Oregon
... was the theme for the 2007 CASA for Children Auction on January 20, 2007. The 16th Annual Voices For Children Auction generated more than $360,000 to support CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates). Kathy Deggendorfer and High Desert Gallery teamed up and donated a wonderful watercolor by Kathy and of course -- Professionally framed by High Desert Gallery. Kathy’s “Sunny City View” auctioned for $2500 with 100% of the proceeds going toward the CASA auction.
CASA’s primary goal is founded on the belief that every child deserves a loving family and a permanent, nurturing home. Through events, donations, auctions, and fundraisers CASA raises 80% of their funding from the private sector so that they can maintain their mission to advocate for the best interest of those children who have been abused and neglected and are under the protection of the Juvenile Courts.
For more information on CASA please visit their website at: CASA For Children. For more
information on Kathy Deggendorfer including the new original painting “Do Bluebirds Sing the Blues?” please visit High Desert Gallery’s online art gallery at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
Original artwork by Kathy Deggendorfer. All rights reserved and copyright 2007. For additional information about Kathy, her work and the gallery please visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call 541-549-6250 / 866-549-6250. High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing – An award winning fine art gallery with retail locations in Central Oregon including Sisters and Redmond Oregon specializes in Central Oregon Artists and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery's online sales gallery can be found at www.highdesertgallery.biz .
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New Portraits
» Samurai CameraTags: Art and Photography [edit]
While doing my regular architecture work I don't get to shoot a lot of portrait work. This job though has been different. Its been split 50/50 of rooms and interiors and portraits. What a nice break. ... -
Panama City
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Here are some shots from my recent job in Panama City. I only had half a day to myself to shoot some good scenics. We did mostly video anyway but these are nice. The city itself is unbelievable. I sho...
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