The Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts

I am the master of my fate;

SOLD

Digital image printed on William Turner

 paper mounted on a birch panel.

June 21, 22 & 23

is the 50th Anniversary of the 

Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts...

In the hall of the Lakewood Center there 

will be 50 pieces on 24"x 24" 

birch panels celebrating 

50 years of art.

Opening Reception:

Friday, June 21, 2013

6 - 7 p.m.

KeyBank Pavilion Tent

Some involved are:

Ben Rood

Cyan Bott

Lisa Onstad

Kyle Durrie

David Bernard

Bill Schlegel

Jack Voekel

Benny Soeby

Jesse Reno

Dylan Burt

William Park

Cassandra Poulson

Theresa Andreas O'Leary

Bob Schlegel

John Allgood

Lisa Wiser

Judy Wise

Laura Buchan

Jan Rothermel

Stephanie Lee

Annie Goodrich

And a Eugene Favorite Painter:

Sarah Refvem

I am excited to be invited to participate and

hope to see you there!

While in town be sure to head over to

OCAC for a look at the Alumni Show.

Object Acquisition # Spratt, G.

Documenting objects from The Hunt Show:

Object Acquisition# A newly acquired book with anatomical flaps: Spratt, G. Obstetric Tables: Comprising Graphic Illustrations, with Descriptions and Practical Remarks: Exhibiting on Dissected Plates Many Important Subjects in Midwifery. Philadelphia: James A. Bill, 1850
Object interpreted and Statement by Cyan Bott

Thank you for looking.

Can anything be art when imbued with meaning? Is it art or is it memory?

Do they function the same?

For this piece, I was working from the memory of an object, trying to recreate that memory in tangible form. That image that I saw initially - and the meaning I took from it - were the jumping-off point. From there it was just a free-fall of responding to the materials at hand.

Process - based work, created by the natural rhythms of the hands, has a different resonance than that which is premeditated. There is room for evolution, immediacy and expressiveness when responding to things as they surface. It's a process of decision making and being able to follow your gut. Ultimately it is all about the confidence you have in your decisions and the actual conviction behind them.

For me, making is an escape from intellectualism, It's one of the few things that I can do on autopilot, using my eyes and hands to guide me.

"Manipulating material is a way to speak."

Jessica Stockholder