Events/News (Page 29)

Dragonfire Gallery will hold its annual Chinese New Year Show & Party over the President’s Day Weekend. The show will feature new work created for the event by many of DragonFire’s artists. The reception will take place from 2-5pm on Saturday, February 16. Live music will be provided by popular local artist, Bucky Pottschmidt on guitar and vocals. Asian inspired cuisine will be provided by Chef Jonathan Hoffman.Read More →

February 1-28, 2013 Cannon Beach Gallery www.cannonbeacharts.org February brings four vanguard artists to the Cannon Beach Gallery. Eunice Parsons, Rex Amos, Liz Cohn, and Grace Sanchez will be featured in “Sacred & Profane: The Art of Collage.” Ninety-six year old Parsons is no newcomer to the Oregon arts scene and creates collage using torn bits of paper she collected over the decades. Rex Amos is Cannon Beach’s own skilled scissors man whose ability to cut complex edges with precision, transforming the cut forms into fantastic imagery, landed him in the Hallie Ford Museum of Art last summer. Liz Cohn hails from 12×16 Gallery and GalleryRead More →

Colorado sculptor Linda Prokop has several new bronze sculptures at Bronze Coast Gallery. ‘Poised for Success’ features a schoolgirl balancing a book on her head, while ‘Almost Within Reach’ shows a girl reaching to select a book from a high shelf. ‘Leader of the Pack’ has a female figure walking, or being walked, by six dogs. A weightlifter struggling with a heavy set of weights is ‘Determined’ while ‘Finish Line’ depicts three runners breaking the tape in a foot race. A solitary figure holding the end of a long coil of rope is literally at the ‘End of the Rope’. “The source of my imageryRead More →

The Cannon Beach Gallery announces a new show, Chimera: Mythological and Hybrid Creatures featuring a new collection by painter Dmitri Swain. Dmitri describes the work as a “narrative about creatures, animals, flowers, mycology, biology and even science itself…the canvas becomes a story weaving a tapestry about ecology.” This exhibit includes a juried component. Artists may submit work related to the Chimera theme on Thursday, January 3 from 10am to 4pm at the Cannon Beach Gallery. By definition, “Chimera” refers to a fire-breathing female monster from Greek mythology, typically with a lion’s head, a goat’s body, and a serpent’s tail, but it can also represent anyRead More →

Bronze Coast Gallery in Cannon Beach welcomes artist Randy Mulder and his collection of sculptures called ‘Time Machines’. Time Machines are working clocks made from an assemblage of new, recycled, and found items that merge the past and present. Adorned with objects, words, and pictures, each Time Machine is unique; Mulder also does custom pieces using personal photographs and other memorabilia. A self-taught artist, Mulder describes himself at an artistic “dabbler”, having pursued a career as a stand-up comedian, and specializing for many years doing people and pet portraiture as well as writing poetry. He has been making his found-item sculpture for five years andRead More →

December 6 – 31, 2012 Artists’ Reception, Saturday, December 8 from 6-8pm The Cannon Beach Gallery will be showcasing the work of the many volunteers who donate their time and talents to operate the programs of the Cannon Beach Arts Association in its’ annual Volunteer Show from December 6-31, 2012. The Artist Reception will be held on Saturday, December 8 from 6-8pm and will feature libations, appetizers and lively conversation. The Cannon Beach Arts Association is a volunteer run, non-profit director with several programs that directly impact the quality of cultural life on the northern Oregon Coast, including an Annual Summer Art Camp that isRead More →

Thanksgiving weekend, Saturday, November 24th from 1 pm to 3 pm at the Northwest By Northwest Gallery. He will be giving an informal talk & presentation of new fine art color landscape photographs. Burkett is an Oregon Art Beat feature artist. Northwest by Northwest Gallery is located at 232 N. Spruce Street Cannon Beach, Oregon 97110.   503 436 0741Read More →

Bronze Coast Gallery in Cannon Beach welcomes Kenneth Wachtveitl and David Petlowany. Washington state artist Wachtveitl draws images on natural stone using thousands of dots, a technique known as stipple. “Even though this technique is extremely time-consuming it delivers an element of softness or subtleties that are difficult to achieve any other way,” explains Wachtveitl. “Using this unique medium it is my hope to add to the natural beauty of the stone and to inspire you with emotion while showing the powerfulness and sensuality of the human body and its connection with nature.” Also now showing at Bronze Coast Gallery is David Petlowany, a self-taughtRead More →

Fall has arrived with its crisp, cool mornings and gorgeous sunny afternoons.  The evening sky has often been painted with incredible strokes of orange, yellow, a hint of purple with a few wispy clouds which artists love to capture.  This is just one of many benefits we enjoy living here along the north Oregon Coast. The members of the Cannon Beach Gallery Group have some interesting new artwork to celebrate the changing seasons. Martin Gerard is a new artist to show at Primary Elements.  With a background in music, fine furniture, sculpture and original abstract art painted on glass, Martin’s newest piece combines many ofRead More →

Fall has officially arrived at Haystack Gallery as October bursts out in color in the “Fall Delight” exhibition with three artists featured: Sally O’Neill, Janis Ellison and Booker Morey. Booker Morey – discovered a process in 1993 to etch leaves to reveal the lacy and intricate beauty of the veins of the leaves. Janis Ellison – Her love of nature and the outdoors was a natural companion to her passion for painting plein-air and continual quest to share her view through her paintings. Sally O’Neill –”I want my paintings to bring the viewer into a world they would love to be in. A world ofRead More →