Copyright for all art images are retained by the artists.
June through
September 2008
"La Vida Nueva" Zapotec Women's
Collective
Weaving Exhibit and Sale***
Tuesday,
September 23, 6-11pm
Oaxacan
Benefit Dinner and Latin Dance Party
"La Vida Nueva" is a women's weaving cooperative from the Zapotec community of Teotitlan del Valle, in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca. This traditional indigenous community is known world wide for its long line of weavers. Patterns, techniques, tools and the "habit" of weaving have been passed down through the generations...click to see gallery and full article
(***100% of purchase
directly benefits Zapotec women artists)
Sunday,
April 20, 2-4pm
Reception
and Opening for Alan Kapuler
FireWorks is excited to exhibit the work of Alan Kapuler, cultural visionary and icon of the organic movement. On display from April 1 to Mid-May 2008, Kapuler's works in acrylic provide a fascinating journey into architypal symbology drawn in great part from his immersion in the local Corvallis community. Many works include Kapuler's family, musicians and friends.
Th reception will feature
live music and finger foods by Chef Intaba. Kapuler will discuss
his work. House-infused cocktails, local wines and craft ales
will be available from FireWorks bar.
Thomas Kramer has been described as smooth folk and blues guitar with hints of country twang, heavily influenced by the likes of Eric Clapton, Johnny Cash's American albums, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. This is compl
Ede Schenkel
Wolfe
The recent drawings of Schenkel Wolfe record an inner journey of experience in visual narrative. Her current gallery show at FireWorks entitled "Redeeming the Child: Visual Images of Growing Awareness" represents retrospective to present. The Jungian paradigm provides Schenkel Wolfe with an interpretive basis for her symbolic images. Giclee prints are available for purchase.
A reception for the artist
will feature complementary finger foods and cocktails for purchase.
For more information call 541-754-6958.
Frances Stilwell
Frances' show featured
pastels and oils of Oregon native plants, with a special focus
on Benton County flora. The show includes many works from "Come
Walk Through Spring with Bessie Gragg Murphy and her Willamette
Valley Wildflowers", illustrated and written by Frances
Stilwell in 2001.
The Work of Dorothea
Fransoza
FireWorks is
excited to welcome the return of Fransoza's exquisite works in
watercolor and collage. Her style ranges from mystical landscapes
to abstract pieces.
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"Redeeming
the Child: Visual Images of Growing Awareness" The recent drawings of Schenkel Wolfe record an inner journey of experience in visual narrative. Her current gallery show at FireWorks entitled "Redeeming the Child: Visual Images of Growing Awareness" combines paintings, etchings, drawings and masks and represents retrospective to present. The Jungian paradigm provides Schenkel Wolfe with an interpretive basis for her symbolic images. A reception for the artist will feature tasting of fine organic wines by Chateau Lorane. FireWorks will provide finger foods to sample from their newly expanded menu. Schenkel Wolfe's daughter, Abigail Rose, will perform original songs with her own accompaniment on cello and guitar. Mother and daughter share an intent to explore the unconscious, providing a window into a deeply personal space through their respective media. For more information call 541-754-6958. |
"Earth Art and Natural Building": the Sculpture of
Kiko Denzer
"Earth is a natural material for
sculpting and the combination of earth with sand and straw provides
an extraordinary structural flexibility that dissolves the division
between sculpture and architecture. The work with patterns has
been an inspiration reinforced from many corners. The garden
is full of pattern, rhythm, form, and endless variety..."
(click
here to see Kiko's online gallery)
The Art of Pamela Hough
Pam's work explores an ever-unfolding world of texture and color. Pam favors oil but also works in colored pencil and graphite in her realistic renderings of flora, fauna, and human figures in a fascinating variety of activities and expressions.
Illustration &
Design by Seth Deutchman
works in a diversity of media: oil, pastel, ink & watercolor
Left: Snow Queen in Pastel, Seth Deutchman, 2005
Serigraphs by Bonnie
Hall, 1931-2004
"Some
people, like flowers, give pleasure just by being" - anonymous
Bonnie Hall was born an artist. Though never formally trained, from her earliest school days she showed an innate talent for capturing life and transmitting it to paper. Through a nearly 40-year career as a scientific illustrator she regretted that her intensely detailed black-and-white drawings, though essential to the science, were shut away in scientific journals "very badly needed by very few people". When she discovered color serigraphy, she found her life's mission.
Bonnie's screenprints of native
wildflowers and a few butterflies were immensely popular in the
region. She was anxious that a larger public come to appreciate
"the overlooked, the undervalued, or the threatened wild
things native to our Pacific Northwest landscape". Bonnie
died of cancer, too young, at 72. She was at the height of her
game, having almost mastered screenprinting after 12 years of
struggle. Of the 32 large prints she produced, 14 are now out
of print, and others are nearly sold out. This book is dedicated
to her life and talent, in the hope that through this medium
many more people will come to appreciate the natural world in
the way that she did.
In her own words: "A native
Oregonian, I grew up charmed by the ambient wildflowers of the
region. There followed academic degrees in biology and a 40-year
career as a scientific illustrator. I retired with a will to
share the privileged close scrutiny of nature that I had enjoyed.
In embracing screenprinting, I have discovered the means. I love
the construction of screenprinting, building an image one layer
of color at a time. And I love the communication of it, creating
multiple originals to entice a broader audience."
"My subjects are native wildflowers and the occasional butterfly. In the tradition of natural-history portraiture, each rendition is faithful to form, color, and defining characteristics of the species. The ideal is an artful composition, rather like a family portrait that reveals personality, life stages, and the very essence of the subject. Motivation for my work stems from a desire to celebrate the overlooked, undervalued, or threatened little natural treasures in our Pacific Northwest landscape. May it both delight and inform."
Dun Munro to Dun Hallin
The painting philosophy
of Diane Hoff-Rome and Gordon Dobbie is best described in a quote
from the late English writer Kathleen Raine's essay in Towards
a New Landscape: "The work of the artist is not to reproduce
what everybody sees, but to heal the soul; to remind us, as it
were, of our native country - the world of the spirit - and tell
us that it is there all the time." These paintings span
a period of 2 years at work int he dramatic landscapes of Scotland
and Oregon and at their studios at Dun Hallin on the Isle of
Skye, Scotland and in their new studio on Dun Monro, in Monroe
Orego
n
Wood Fired Pottery and Asian
Brushwork by Lee Kitzman
Philomath, Oregon
Philomath artist Lee Kitzman's work reflects a deep inspiration and appreciation of the cultures and artwork of China, Korea and Japan. A self-taught potter of 32 years, Mr. Kitzman has traveled to Japan to study a variety of pottery techniques in the famous potter region of Mashiko. Travels to Europe and the Middle East have further enhanced his understanding of art and its relationship to pottery world wide.
The classic Asian form which utililzes grace and simplicity is a dominant style in Mr. Kitzman's pottery. Raku has been a long-time specialty and trademark in which Mr. Kitzman incorporates his unique glazing technique and Sumi brushwork with the process. His pieces are individually fired and decorated with hand-painted scenes of bamboo, chrysanthemum, cherry blossoms and geometric patterns. Crazing of the glaze serendipitiously balances his controlled hand-painted designs.
Ocean and Intaba are
honored to host Mr. Kitzman's exhibit, over a dozen pottery pieces
which beautifully adorn the hand painted Lazure walls of FireWorks
dining room, as well as complementing the restaurant's natural
clay sculptural features and earthen wood fired oven. Ocean chose
the restaurant's earthen patio bench as an ideal backdrop when
he photographed the pieces for this website. To inquire regarding
purchase please contact Lee Kitzman: (541)929-5507
"Sanctuary Series" by Eugene Artist Tricia Clark-McDowell
Tricia's
works have been described as "textural, luminous, mystical,
watercolors of the soul peering into the evocative beauty and
mystery of nature."
Watercolor Collage
by Dorothea Fransoza
These works
are a small sample of Dorothea's works in watercolor and paper
collage. Her style ranges from mystical landscapes to abstract
pieces, and we are blessed to initiate our gallery shows with
Dorothea's talent!
