Winter Light at Bush Barn Art Center

I’m pleased to have two pieces in the Winter Light show at Bush Barn Art Center, from the Salem Art Association. It’s up now through December 24; here’s a little more about the show:

In the dark, gloomy days of winter, light plays an important role in lifting the spirits and brightening lives around the world. To counteract the darkness, cultures – both here and abroad – hold festivals of light. This exhibition showcases the many different people living together in the Willamette Valley and celebrating winter with their own, unique customs.

Salem Art Association, in collaboration with Salem Multicultural Institute, presents Winter Light, a juried exhibition of the work of local artists, depicting the beauty of light in the still, quiet moments found in nature and in the warmth of hearth and home.

Check it out!

12x12x12: A Celebration of Community

I have a piece up in 12x12x12: A Celebration of Community, on view at ARTSpace Gallery in Lake Oswego, Oregon, through October 28 (gallery hours 10a-5p, Tuesday through Friday). Check it out — there are more than 60 artists featured, and it’s a wonderful collection!

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Wallowa Valley Festival of the Arts

Some of my collage work made it into the 40th annual Wallowa Valley Festival of the Arts. Held at the Josephy Center in Joseph, Oregon, in scenic Wallowa Valley, there was a ton of wonderful art — and mountain scenery — to take in. Kudos to all the exhibiting artists!

#COLLAGENOW up through Sept 30

Pleased to be a part of the #COLLAGENOW 2022 show from Denise Bibro Fine Art. The virtual exhibit is up through the end of September, and there’s a tremendous amount of talent for you to peruse. Check it out on Artsy, or see my 4 pieces below.

Minimally prepared

I’ve been experimenting with minimalism and negative space in some of my more recent collages. This one, “Getting ready,” is affixed to an index card as substrate.

Recent collages, for ICAD2022

As mentioned in the previous post, I’ve been doing a creative challenge since June 1, which has been a nice way to pass some time. Daisy Yellow Art does something called Index Card a Day, where — you guessed it — you make one piece on an index card each day. Beyond that, there aren’t too many constraints, although there are some suggestions for themes, as well as daily prompts, if that’s your sort of thing. Here’s a small sampling from my first month participating; still plenty of time to play along if you’d like!

Where the heart is

I was also honored to have two pieces in Lunaria Gallery’s “Home is Where the HeART Is” show in January 2022. If you’ve never visited, Lunaria is in Silverton, OR, and is a lovely space right downtown.

Modern living

Honored to have been a part of “Putting the Pieces Back Together” at the Bristol Art Museum in Rhode Island. While the national juried exhibit of collage and constructions closed in April, BAM has tons of wonderful programming and exhibits — visit it if you have the pleasure of being out RI way!

Many hands make light work

Lovely opening for the Light Work PDX show. Please to have a mixed media collage piece, Inertia, in it! Make art, enjoy art, spread joy.

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Collage craze

Been honing my collage practice recently; some will appear in the Paper Cuts show at Collapse Gallery from July 9-31, driven by the PNW Collage Collective and sponsored by the Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection. Check it out if you happen to be in the Pacific Northwest!

New Surrealism

Enjoying Roberto Gil de Montes's works, especially those that bring to mind earlier Surrealist experiments, like this one:

Welcome, 2014!

Happy New Year, from mine to yours! To celebrate, I made a collage in the last hours of 2013 with some bookstore scraps I picked up yesterday here in Chandigarh.

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