33rd Annual Stormy Weather Arts Festival, November -2021

Archimedes Gallery

Erik Abel

Bold colors, geometric patterns, and botanical profiles capture the eye in Erik Abel’s artwork. Inspired by his love of the ocean, surfing and travel, his work articulates the spirit of the water and awe of nature. His roots as a California surfer intermingle with his experiences traveling to the South Pacific and Central America, imparting an organic, tribal style to his subjects and compositions. Upon a closer look, Abel’s graphic imagery unfolds to tell the story of his paintings. Accents peak through unexpectedly revealing the layers of color Abel cloaks in each piece while loose strokes of colored pencil and marker create dimension.  Erik currently lives in Seaside, Oregon.

Nicole Gustafsson

Nicole works as a full time illustrator specializing in traditional media paintings featuring everything from woodland characters and environments to pop culture based projects. She uses a stunning color palette to capture fantastical places. Her interest in wildlife and trees grew into a life-long passion of the natural world and continues to be a theme in her artwork.

Brin Levinson

In the war between man and the natural world, it would appear, judging from his unpeopled cityscapes, nature has won. Levinson’s worlds – washed in dour grays, ochre, and sepia brown – suggest the landscape before us is already becoming a relic. The brightest colors, the occasional burst of blue sky that breaks out from behind cloud-crowded sky, the flash of red graffiti on a rhino, illuminate the scene. Currently living in Portland, Oregon, you can see the influence Portland’s industrial areas and older architecture have had on Levinson. His “backyard” has become the subject of his art. A “new place” has emerged in his work based on the collision of urban landscapes and the natural world – in which the deer and the zebra roam, while wildebeests graze in the city’s Chinatown, and beneath an underpass in a switching yard, a tagged walrus, big as a train car, appears to rest his weary flippers.

Bronze Coast Gallery

Carol Gold

Carol grew up on a dairy farm in western Massachusetts and studied art at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Boston University School of Fine Arts, MA; and the Museum School in Boston. Before she embarked on a sculpture career, however, she spent 14 years raising her family. In 1977 she resumed her art career in earnest, enrolling at the College of Marin in Kentfield, CA, to study bronze casting. Encouraged by her results with the medium, she built her own foundry in Northern California and has been operating it ever since. She shapes her figures and animals from wax instead of clay because she likes the way it can be manipulated to convey emotion and mood. “Wax enables me to sketch-in my figures rapidly,” she says. “It has a lightness to it that I like.” Her work is characterized by rich patinas in colors that range from warm tones of gold and copper to various shades of turquoise.

David Crawford

co“As an artist, I’ve been inspired by people and things both in and outside the ‘fine arts’ disciplines, but I probably owe as much to my rural upbringing and surroundings as to any other influences for the images I produce. Growing up living and working among cattle ranchers, art was not really the kind of thing that one should take too seriously. So, initially, I tried to focus my creative energy on functional objects, such that I would be considered useful. But time would inevitably lead me to make things that had no purpose whatsoever.”   David Crawford was born in 1955 in Walla Walla, WA and grew up in rural southeast Oregon in Adel and later Lakeview. He worked on the MC Ranch for a hay contractor during the summers until he graduated from high school. He received a bachelors degree in Art from Eastern Oregon University in 1979, he married Victoria Thew and he began his early art career in Portland, OR.   In late 1981, he moved to Enterprise, OR where both of his sons were born. Working in furniture at first, he began in 1986 to work primarily in bronze. In 1993, he and his family moved to Halfway, OR where he currently maintains his studio and foundry for casting his works.   David works in limited edition bronze with most editions numbering just 9.

Dan Chen

Dan Chen was born in China, in the province of Canton. Dan immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1984. Dan enrolled at San Francisco City College and studied graphic design and illustration at Academy of Art University. Since that time, Dan’s professional career has begun focusing full-time on nature and wildlife art in both paintings and sculptures. Dan’s experience with the eastern and western disciplines of art has provided the inspiration for the extremely pleasing and dramatic style he has developed. Whether the media is oil, pastel, watercolor or sculpture, each piece Dan creates is an exquisite and masterful expression of line, color, light and energy which is truly his own. The art of Dan Chen is a marriage of the finest qualities of eastern and western art style and technique.

During the Stormy Weather Arts Festival, Cannon Beach Gallery will host its 34th Annual Miniature Show. The exhibition will take place from November 4 – December 31, 2020. The gallery will be exhibiting small works of art 6×6″ or smaller by community artists. Reasonably priced and a perfect opportunity to buy locally in preparation for the holidays. In the spirit of stormy weather, the Cannon Beach Gallery will be hosting a virtual reception and tour of the gallery. The virtual tour will take place during the Stormy Weather Arts Festival weekend.

The Cannon Beach Arts Association is a non-profit gallery space. Supporting local art and artists through exhibits, education, and events. Become a member today by signing up in person or online a cannonbeacharts.org/support

Email the gallery at info@cannonbeacharts.org or call 503-436-0744 for more information.

DragonFire Gallery

Friday, November 6: The show opens at 10am with extended hours until 6pm. To kick off the weekend, DragonFire will feature a special showing and sale of 5” X 7” artist proofs from Tad Hetu’s limited edition photographs. Printed on metal, each photograph captures the detail and wonder of the natural world. Only one artist proof is available for each image.

Saturday, November 7: The featured artists will conduct painting demonstrations in the gallery from 11am-3pm. They will be accompanied on live guitar by Jason Okamoto. A self-taught musician and composer based in Portland, Jason combines elements of bossa nova, flamenco, and French gypsy jazz in his deeply felt performances. Saturday will also feature extended hours of 10am-6pm.

Sunday, November 8:  Anton Pavlenko and Theresa Andreas O’Leary will be joined in the gallery by Michael Orwick from 11am-3pm for a special day of painting titled For the Love of Trees. The three painters will each complete a painting, taking inspiration from the majestic 3500-acre Rainforest Reserve. Located in the mountains above Cannon Beach and Arch Cape, it connects with Oswald West State Park and the Falcon Cove Marine Reserve. The North Coast Land Conservancy is in the process of acquiring this parcel of land so-as-to keep the forests and watersheds pristine in perpetuity for all forms of life. To benefit this historic purchase, gallery proceeds from the sale of these paintings and a percentage of all Stormy Weather weekend sales will be donated to NCLC. Their work to conserve temperate rainforest ecosystems is a key element in mitigating climate change and has never been more relevant.

Please note that attendance numbers in the gallery will be kept to safe limits. Following all local and state mandates, the use of masks will be required. Private viewings are available by calling 503-436-1533.

Theresa Andreas-O’Leary

Theresa Andreas-O’Leary works with acrylics, gold, and copper leaf to render her subjects through the essential play of light and pattern. Whether landscape, still-life or waterscape, Theresa invites the viewer to share a vision of what is beautiful in the world.

Bev Jozwiak

Bev Jozwiak is a keen observer of both human and animal natures. Versatile in watercolor as well as acrylics, Bev’s paintings present a use of color and gesture that is utterly fresh and engaging. Her images resonate on an individual and universal level.

Anton Pavlenko

Anton Pavlenko uses oils in a textural interpretation of landscape. Color and form, light and shadow take on a sculptural significance on his canvases – presenting highly immersive and emotional portraits of our natural world.

Icefire Glassworks

For Stormy Weather Arts Festival, we are featuring new pieces by Mark Gordon. Mark will be at our gallery from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Friday and Saturday, and from 10:00 am to Noon on Sunday.

He will bring some Battuto Bowls with him. Battuto is an Italian word that translates to “beaten” or “hammered”. This technique is done after the blown piece has cooled. Sintered diamond wheels are used to rhythmically grind on the surface of the piece, leaving small divots. The resulting textures are pleasing to the touch, and they play beautifully with the light that passes through the glass.

Mark’s Watercolor Series is a gorgeous expression of the unexpected things that can happen when different colors are brought together in the making of a piece.  Some of our glassblowing colors like to interact on a chemical level with others, bringing in hues of their own creation.  It’s one of the ways we co-create with the medium in a satisfying partnership.

Join us in the gallery as Mark talks technique! We will also showcase new pieces by Jim Kingwell, Suzanne Kindland and Michelle Kaptur.

Jim Kingwell

Jim’s  life-forming fascination with glass began as a five-year experiment. Today, he has pieces in all 50 states and in more than 40 countries. And during Stormy Weather you’ll be able to see the first examples of his newest direction. Multiple firings of cast and fused glass will play with other materials, including wood and possibly clay. The idea is to produce work that evokes light and frozen motion. Over the next decade he expects Icefire’s sculpture to express ideas relating to transference, rhythmic and incremental repetition, bridging concepts and coherent light.

Suzanne Kindland

Suzanne’s journey into the world of glass began with a dream where she was suspended in a pillar of fire. Turning in the flames she found herself dancing. That dancing continues as she continues to learn the ways of glass, creating with it as her partner and bringing forth objects reminiscent more of water than fire: cool, smooth forms that reflect light as a pond does, sculptures that bend the light as a ripple does, calm creations that transmit light like the stillest pool.

Michelle Kaptur

Michelle Kaptur has been blowing glass since 1975.  She came to glass after completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Pacific North West College of Arts in Portland OR.   Michelle worked for ten years learning the basics of glass blowing and then went on to paint for several years.  “Painting is where I put together all the composition, color and design stuff that I learned about in school.  When I came back to glass I had a much stronger sense of what sort of design choices I wanted to make and why.  I feel my work was my work and was much stronger after this.”

Mark Gordon

Mark began blowing glass in 2003. His first experience with the medium was at Icefire and he now lives and works in Bend, Oregon.  His current body of work is focused on blending colors and balancing them with individual forms.  The challenge of combining colors in different ways, and working with a hot and fluid medium, keeps every day of working with glass new and exciting.

Randall J Hodges

Randall J. Hodges has been capturing images of the Western United States and Canada as a full time professional photographer for over 20 years. Most of his work comes from time spent hiking and backpacking the wilderness areas of the West where he had has hiked and photographed over 31,000 trail miles. Randall’s work has been published over 4,500 times worldwide in books, magazines, calendars, greeting cards, post cards, newspapers and much, much more. His work appears in publications like National Geographic,  Nature Photographer Magazine, Northwest Travel Magazine, Oregon Coast Magazine, Hawaii Magazine, Photo Monthly Magazine,  Outdoor Photography Magazine, Photo Professionals Magazine, Seattle Magazine, 1859 Oregon Magazine, Washington Trails Magazine, In the Pacific Northwest Magazine, Seattle Met Magazine just to name a few. Randall has won countless awards for his photography. Randall does not alter his work in any way and considers himself an “All in Camera Shooter” as he spends the time to wait for the right light and color and uses “Old School Techniques” rather than post-processing to capture his remarkable images.  Only the smallest adjustments are made to ensure the finished print matches the back of the camera as closely as possible.

Jeffrey Hull Gallery

As always, Jeffrey has been painting up a storm! He will be in the gallery all weekend as we offer his newest paintings and prints for all to see. While our gallery is very spacious, for everyone’s safety we will be following state guidelines including requiring face coverings for all our guests and staff. The gallery will open by 9 throughout the weekend and remain open until at least 7. We hope you will join us again for Stormy Weather Arts Festival 2020.

Jeffrey Hull 

Jeffrey began his painting career over 40 years ago as one of the artists in the early years when Cannon Beach was developing into the thriving art community it is today. Though largely self-taught, he credits three Pacific Northwest artists with helping him get started with watercolor. He is known for his ability to capture the beauty and moods of the coast from small to large expansive paintings in both watercolor and oil. His deep love of the area is clearly evident in his original paintings and prints.

Northwest By Northwest Gallery

Georgia Gerber

Georgia Gerber defines many NW Public Places; Rachel the Pike Place Pig at Seattle’s Pike Place Market, 26 sculptures in Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland and Tufted Puffins part of the City of Cannon Beach Public Art Collection. Gerber will share a new collection of work, Pond Dance is pictured. Fox, Sage Lodge Trout, Tufted Puffins, Rabbit with kits, Turtle and Yearling, Golden Retriever, Standing Otter. Gerber is the first woman in America to have her own bronze foundry. She is the leading Public Sculptor working today.

Hazel Schlesinger

Hazel discovered her passion for oil painting at an early age, inspired by her childhood on the Northwest coast. The shorelines, fields, and vineyards, and later the Mediterranean countryside, have supplied the scenes and subjects of her work. She paints from a palette of predominantly warm, vivid colors and large, rhythmic brush strokes, transforming landscapes into more contemporary or abstract realism.

Angelita Surmon

Angelita Surmon is an accomplished painter and kiln formed glass artist . She captures the color, rhythm and movement alive in nature. Her series “Refuge” reflects the imagery of the seasons. Her visionary paintings explore abstraction and representation, using acrylic paints with dynamic assuredness and knowing brushstrokes. Her Kiln Formed Glass “paintings” take days to fire one layer at a time as many as 7 to 9 firings. Surmon was one of four artists nationally to be selected for the prestigious Aspen Institute. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum. Pictured Aspen Grove Kiln Formed Glass.

Christopher Burkett

Studying with Ansel Adams inspired award-winning, fine art color landscape photographer Christopher Burkett to redefine color photography as Adams had defined black and white. The Washington Post says, “Burkett has achieved in Cibachrome what Eliot Porter achieved for dye-transfer or Weston for black & white”. Each handcrafted photograph is a hand printed, hand crafted fine art original, solely created by the artist. Museum Collections include Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Fine Art, Kansas City. Art Auction Houses; Sothebys & Bonhams.

“The negative is the score, the print is the performance”. Ansel Adams

Ann Fleming

Ann has been having a life long affair with clay. In harmony with her very practical nature she created colorful functional ware and architectural accents for over 25 years.  But one day  she gave herself  permission to have fun. She went to her studio in 2004 and created her first figure in clay simply for the joy of working in a material she knew so well. In 2006, urged by friends, she cast the first piece in bronze. Each new sculpture became a joy to her. She soon recognized that things that mattered to her crept into her work, stories that reflected human nature surrounded by our natural world. And though in the beginning she thought this work had no utility but to bring back to her the joy of process, she can now see that the stories the pieces tell are their utility. This year “Midori” was made into a Public Sculpture.

Ivan McLean

He is a public sculptor working in steel, bronze, glass and wood. His work can be seen throughout Portland’s Pearl District and he has also created extensive site-specific installations within the Nines Hotel. His work is also well known in California where he has just installed a series of spheres of different sizes and colors on Hollywood Boulevard. His 108′ steel sculpture was also selected from ten sculptors nationally for the Newport Beach Sculpture Park.

White Bird Gallery

Tom Cramer

Tom Cramer is a native Oregonian and well-known artist who creates meticulously carved, painted and gilded wood reliefs. Cramer gained much recognition throughout Portland in the 1980’s and 90’s for his landmark outdoor murals, wildly painted art cars and carved miniature totems – all of which are bright, bold and lean toward American pop-culture. This show revisits those themes in a series of new paintings, functional art and his signature carved Totem sculptures.

Jon Norquist

New artist Jon Norquist uses black coffee as an innovative medium to create sepia toned images that pay homage to the nature and adventure of the Northwest. A cheap, ill-performing coffee pot turned out to be the simple mechanism for inspiration. One morning, with the light just right, Jon caught a glimpse of the patterned coffee spills on his countertop made from the fundamentally flawed appliance. The artist has always found beauty in everyday things and from here is artwork was born.

Valerie Savarie

New artist Valerie Savarie is traveling from Colorado to demonstrate her altered book sculpture techniques in the gallery. Savarie uses vintage books as the centerpiece of her creations, reinventing them into unique pieces through cutting, carving, stitching and character illustrations that are part of a larger visual storytelling. Valerie’s multi-dimensional book collages leave the majority of the book intact – every page is kept as bound to retain the intrinsic book characteristics. Her innovative artworks form an inseparable bond between words and visual arts. Valerie will be showing a collection of altered book art during the new gallery exhibition.

Shadowfox

In his new reductive wood sculptures, Eugene-based artist Shadowfox (Jason Pancoast) depicts meticulous renditions of animals, trees and nature-inspired scenes. His three-dimensional wood relief is influenced from years of architectural study at the University of Oregon. Through hand-made layers of cut wood and paint inspired by the magical wonder of the Pacific Northwest, Shadowfox explores the relationship between nature and narrative – story and self.

Stirling Gorsuch

Stirling’s subject matter is based on the coastal region of Oregon and the high desert, east of the Cascades. As he spends more time revisiting these particular places, he becomes more enamored with their complex natural history, and the rich visual experience accompanying them. In consideration for new images, he is searching for a story in the landscape that he can accentuate through visual means. Signs of geological activity, or indications of how weather has shaped the land are examples of what fascinates him as an observer. The inherently slow process of relief printing and monotype forces him to be methodical as he builds up each printed layer. Many of these prints are made over weeks, sometimes months at a time, making his process somewhat self-reflective. Like reading a journal from the past, his work is a record of his present-day focus and admiration of the world he occupies.

Helga Winter

Helga Winter has made something new, unfamiliar and possibly shocking out of something very familiar to us. Taking a book full of words she has turned it inside out, deconstructing it, but at the same time reconstructing, relearning and rethinking. Tearing, ripping, coloring, waxing, rolling, arranging and gluing the pages is practice. Something she does over and over to acquire a certain knowledge of patience, quietude, peacefulness and a gathering of information from the inside. She invites you to view the sculpture from all angles, to stay open-minded to learn about both sides of the story and know that it can always be changed.