Join us in the Gallery this February for an Art Opening
“Duos—Two is Better than One” opens Friday, February 6th, with a Champagne Saturday event on Saturday, February the 7th
Featuring Richard Jolley, Graceann Warn, Maggie Taylor, Margaret Scanlan, Michael McChesney, Allan Cox, and others
Richard Jolley
When Jolley began working with glass in the early 1970’s, he knew he had discovered his muse. “There is a seduction with glass. It is such a beautiful material. I was trying to use non-traditional materials for art and at that time Jackson Pollack was using industrial painting techniques and developments were happening in plastics. It’s not a stretch to say sculpting glass is as non-traditional as any of these media.”
Jolley’s works often focus on natural subjects like birds, dogs, plants, and the human form. Even though he is a skilled master at various techniques for creating glass sculptures, Jolley says he hopes to disguise the techniques used in the finished works. “I want the work to feel free, not labored over. I want it to not reflect the tedium of life.”
Learn more and see Jolley’s work.
Graceann Warn
Maggie Taylor’s creations exemplify fantastical art, finding inspiration in 19th century photographs, taxidermy specimen, insects, vintage toys, sea shells, and organic artifacts from her own backyard. She enjoys creating “dreamlike worlds inhabited by everyday objects” using digital technologies such as Photoshop to create her visions. Her whimsical prints pull the viewer into the composition, generating an entirely new world before one’s eyes.
Learn more and see Taylor’s work.
Margaret Scanlan
Margaret Scanlan has been doing Color Field painting for more than thirty-five years, often times depicting natural feats like poppy fields or quiet cows watching the viewer. She states how, “I return to them over and over, aiming for perfect balance and images in which you can become lost.”
Learn more and see Scanlan’s work.
Michael McChesney
With decades of experience as an artist, Michael McChesney brings everyday objects to life in his photorealistic work.
Allan Cox
Allen Cox, a native Oregonian, is a well-known abstract painter now residing in Pasa Robles, California, after a long stint in Knoxville, Tennessee. He holds an MFA in painting from the University of Oregon, where he studied with the highly regarded Pacific Northwest abstract painter Frank Okada. He also worked as a field archaeologist and scientific illustrator for 10+ years in Oregon, experiences which heavily impacted the themes found within his art. Cox has been showing his work nationally since 1982, and held his first international exhibition in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2003.
His abstract paintings call back to nature and his scientific career, with his art “find[ing] its basis in 20th century abstraction, yet at the same time includes pictorial elements not usually accepted in pure abstraction. I feel such contradictions add to the complexity of my densely constructed images.
