AUGEN GALLERY NEWS


Congratulations to multi-talented LORI-ANN LATREMOUILLE who has a new CD release 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 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 has been 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.

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EVA LAKE completed a two-week residency in October 2011 at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Lake worked with Master Printer Frank Janzen and produced four original prints while there. The residency was via an award by the Ford Foundation. For more info (and pictures) see crowsshadow.org/stories/165. http://www.crowsshadow.org/stories/165

 

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 will exhibit her work next 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.

 

EVA LAKE's work is included in an exhibition in Berlin from April 29 - May 28, 2011. Titled "Cutters Edge: Contemporary Collage," the exhibition is curated by James Gallagher andtakes place in the newly opened Gestalten Space. For more information, see beefmastermagazine.com/04/21/opening_of_gestalten_space-in-berlin/.  (LAKE can be heard every Thursday at 10:30am on KBOO on Art Focus as the host (and producer) of this weekly talk show about art. KBOO is at 90.7 FM.


 

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.


 


SARAH ELLEN TAYLOR's work will soon be featured in Pushing Out the Boat, Issue 10, to be published in Edinburgh, Scotland.





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.

 


THOMAS MILLER lives and works in Africa. His latest book,"AFRICAN QUEENS, Portraits of West African Tribal Women," is available and can be previewed and/or purchased through blurb.com/bookstore/detail/38711.