AUGEN GALLERY NEWS

 

 





ROYAL NEBEKER's solo exhibition at The Brigham Young University Museum of Art opens on June 5, 2013 and continues through September 14. The exhibition is titled Royal Nebeker: An Artist's Journey and includes around 30 paintings. The museum is on North Campus Drive in Provo, Utah. For more information, see moa/byu.edu.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SARA SIESTREEM will have a solo exhibition of her paintings at the Missoula Art Museum in Missoula, Montana from September, 2013 to January, 2014.

 



 

MARK ANDRES's film, The Immortal Head, has been awarded BEST ANIMATION at the 16th Annual Independent Filmmaker's Showcase film festival in Los Angeles, CA. Film screenings will take place from March 27 - April 8, 2013 in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. For more info, see ifsfilm.com.

 

 

JEF GUNN's encaustic work is included in an exhibition titled Waxing Poetic: Five Oregon Artists Working With Encaustics at OSU's Memorial Union Concourse Gallery in Corvallis, OR. The exhibition is from March 11 to
May 8, 2013 with an opening reception on Wednesday, April 17 from 5-7pm.
The exhibition was curated by Shelly Jordon and Nicole Hernandez.

 

 

 

 

The Book of Sand, published by Nawakum Press in California, is a beautiful artbook with a short story by Jorge Luis Borges and etchings by THOMAS WOOD. The book is available at www.nawakumpress.com.

 

 

 

 


TALLMADGE DOYLE's work will be included in the 34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition from March 9 - April 19, 2013 at the Hartman Gallery at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The exhibition is juried by Stephan Goddard, senior curator at the University of Kansas' Kress Foundation.

  

 

 

EUNICE KIM represented the United States in the International Print Triennial – Krakow 2012, held at the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, Poland. The exhibit was on view from Sept. 15 through Oct. 3, 2012. This exhibition is widely regarded as one of the most prominent and influential events in contemporary printmaking. See more online at: http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2012/11/seattle-artist-represents-us-at-international-art-show/

 





RYAN BURNS is having a show at Drew University in New Jersey in the fall of 2013 called Climate Proxies which is appropriate due to the loss of trees there to Sandy. Also, he is collaborating with the town of Cave Junction to build a skatable sculpture for Youth Empowerment Services at Jubilee Park. That will be a large concrete old growth stump and bioswell. And this is from Bear Deluxes facebook page: Contributing artist RYAN BURNS' tree rubbings to be featured in film Lola Versus. See u-tube trailer (link follows) and watch in the beginning when Lola walks into the apartment and stands in front of his work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kG87BW22Y

  

 



JAMES FLORSCHUTZ's work was included in a group exhibition called Still at Archer Gallery at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington from Oct. 2 -28, 2012. 		 



TALLMADGE DOYLE was featured on Oregon ARTBEAT (on OPB-TV, Channel 10) on Thursday, November 1, 2012. (The episode is available in the show's archives.) DOYLE exhibited work at several locations in the fall of 2012 including Hilo, Hawaii and Palo Alto, CA. Her work is in the Pacific State Biennial National Dec. 3 - April 30 at the Center Gallery, University of Hawaii at Hilo, juried by Karen Kunc. From Nov. 2 - 30, her work was included in Pressing Matters National Printmaking Exhibition at Pacific Art League Gallery in Palo Alto, CA, juried by Crown Point Press' Valerie Wade.

 

  

 

 




EUNICE KIM is a recipient of a 2012 Individual Artist Projects Grant from 4Culture, cultural services agency for King County, Washington. From 295 applications submitted and reviewed, 66 artists working across disciplines in visual arts, literature, music, media, dance, and theater were selected to receive total of $333,000 in funds. KIM will use the award to support creation of new works using a sustainable, nontoxic printmaking technique she developed that is specific to her visual language and utilizes safety-conscious methods. For more information, visit:
http://blog.4culture.org/2012/06/333000-for-artists/

  





SARAH ELLEN TAYLOR's first British solo exhibition titled lux took place at Natterjacks Art Gallery - Sefton House www.seftonhouse.co.uk – from June 20 - July 28, 2012 – with an opening party with the artist on Wednesday, June 20th from 5-8pm. More of her new paintings can be viewed on Natterjacks facebook page.Three artworks by TAYLOR are featured in the current issue (Issue 10) of  Pushing Out the Boat , a British journal of art and literature published in Edinburgh, Scotland.

 




WENDY FRANKLUND MILLER's work was included in a group show at Anchor Art Space in Anacortes, Washington titled "Extended Outlook" from Friday, June 1, 2012 throughl July 15. The exhibition was curated by writer, critic and artist Ron Glowen. For more info, see anchorartspace.org.

 

 


THOMAS MILLER's Ethiopian portraits were exhibited in New York City last May at the 2012 Tribal Art Show at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd St.

 



 

 

JONNEL COVAULT was featured on OPB's ARTBEAT on April 5, 2012 at 8pm, repeating on Sunday, April 8 at 6pm (Channel 10) and available in the OPB online archives after that (http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/arts/article/slideshow-jonnel-covaults-willamette-river-series/).

 



LORI-ANN LATREMOUILLE has a new CD release in 2012 titled "Deep Water" – also the title of her new painting pictured on the CD cover. (Over the past three years Latremouille has transitioned from charcoal drawing on paper to acrylic painting on wood panel.) Songs on the new CD are written and performed by Latremouille and arranged, produced and recorded by David Kershaw (keyboard player for Sarah McLachlan). The CD is available from CDBaby. For more info, see www.wix.com/latremouille/deepwater.




 

 


In December 2011 RITA ROBILLARD received the honor of a Ford Foundation Grant given to an artist-in-residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She was invited to extend her stay at Sitka through the end of January, 2012.





 

 

GEORGE JOHANSON has been selected by the Oregon Arts Commission to produce a large new painting for the ODOT Transportation Building in Salem, which is undergoing a major renovation. Scheduled completion date is in mid-2012 and installation will be in
January 2013.

 

 

YUJI HIRATSUKA's work recently was included in the 16th Space International Print Biennale at the OCI Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea (winning the Excellent Prize) and will be included in October 2011 in an exhibition of the Tolman Collection in Tokoyo, Japan. Portland's Richard Speer wrote a review of HIRATSUKA's work for ArtNews (March, 2011); see richardspeer.com/artnewshiratsuka.html. Also, HIRATSUKA was featured on Oregon ART BEAT on Thursday, Oct. 13th, 2011, Channel 10, OPB. If you missed it, Art Beat episodes are viewable online at OPB (opb.org/programs/artbeat/).






 


TALMADGE DOYLE's latest public artwork is now installed at the Ford Alumni Center on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, along with work of two other artists (Rick Bartow and Lucinda Parker) selected for the center.  Doyle's project consists of 21 etched and colored copper plates depicting the flora and fauna of Oregon. These plates surround a fireplace in the central area of the Alumni Center. Prints will be made from some of the plates. The Ford Alumni Center is open during regular business hours and an official celebration and art opening will be held during the last week of September 2011.







 

 

MARY WELLS exhibited her work this year in New York City at Viridian Artists from February 21 - March 10, 2012. Her work has been recently published in "The Artistic Time 2," the annual yearbook of La Machina di San Cresci in Greve in Chianti, Italy, where she did a six-week residency last spring. It features the work of the13 artists-in-residence.











TRUDE PARKINSON will be featured (again) on the televised April 7 edition of Oregon Art Beat at 8pm on OPB, Channel 10 (coordinating nicely with her April 2011 exhibition at Augen in the Desoto Building). This is a rerun of an earlier show and it will repeat on Sunday, April 10 at 6pm and can be accessed anytime from the archives of OPB's website ((opb.org/programs/artbeat/).

 




MORGAN WALKER participated in every aspect of costume design, including hand-selecting the fabrics and appearing onstage at the opening, for Oregon Ballet Theatre's 2011 production called The Stravinsky Project. The ballet was performed at Keller Auditorium in Portland in February and early March. WALKER says the experience has inspired some new paintings.For more information, see the illustrated Oregonian article by Grant Butler (oregonlive.com/performance/index.ssf/2011/02/oregon_ballet_theatre_gets_in.html).



As part of the 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival, MARK WILSON's artwork is currently included in an exhibition of works called Drawing With Code: Works from the Anne & Michael Spalter Collection at Foster Galleries in Boston. The exhibition continues through April 24, 2011. WILSON's artwork also graces the covers and some of the pages of a new book, Digital Pioneers, by Honor Beddard and Doug Dodds about the Victoria & Albert Museum collection of computer art.







AMY ARCHER did the photography (including the cover) for a book by well-known New York interior designer Bunny Williams published in November, 2010 and titled Bunny Williams’ Scrapbook for Living. The book was published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in New York. From the reviews: "Archer's poetic style of imagery compliments Williams' eye for design and detail, and the combination of the two points of view are magic."






HIBIKI MIYAZAKI participated in an artist's residency in the fall of 2010 in Delhi, India where she produced a new body of large-scale paintings on paper. Her residency took place from Nov. 2- Dec. 25, 2010 at the Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi. The Oregon Arts Commission provided a grant to help cover her expenses.

 

 




GARY GROVES' work  "Eastern Washington" was selected by the International Print Center New York for New Prints 2010/Autumn, curated by Jennifer McGregor, opened Oct. 21 and continued through Nov. 20 in New York (and then traveling to the University of Texas at Austin Jan. 28 - March 12, 2011). For more information, see ipcny.org. In Chicago, several GROVES' prints were selected for The Color of Black & White, an exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery that ran from Sept. 10 - Oct. 16, 2010. This exhibition was curated by CHRIS JOHANSON. For more information, see kavigupta.com.





Fall 2010 was a great season to see GEORGE JOHANSON's artwork in Portland. From Sept. 30 - Oct. 27 his work was included in Marylhurst Art Gym's 30th Anniversary Celebration. Next, Oregon Public Broadcasting aired a segment on JOHANSON's work on October 7 on Art Beat. (The show is available for viewing in the OPB archives.) A major retrospective of his paintings opened on Friday, October 8 at PNCA (Swigert Commons) at 6:30 pm with a lecture by Johanson. The exhibition, titled Seven Decades, was accompanied by a 35-page catalogue of his work.





SALLY CLEVELAND's artwork was selected, along with 40 other artists, for inclusion in New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition, Dec. 2009/Jan, 2010. Juror for this edition was Rita Gonzales of the Los Angeles Museum of Art.










JIM MINDEN and MARY WELLS whose artworks were featured in studio visit, volume four, A Juried Selection of International Visual Artists. published by Open Studios Press (the same people who bring us New American Paintings). This volume was published in 2008 and the juror was Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. See also www.studiovisitmagazine.com.