Place Your Bid!

The Theory of Forms

Comes matted & framed.

Bidding Number for this piece is: 58

Bidding for this piece ends:

February 17th @ 5:00pm (pacific time)

This is your chance to support a great cause and get a really great piece of art.... All pieces start out @ $50!

Excellent opportunity to get one 

of my Artist Proofs and support a great cause.

As is the tradition with each February 100 Artists show @ Mary Lou Zeek Gallery, proceeds generated from silent auction sales will benefit a worthy project.  This year we will use funds to create Art of Communication activity kits for loan to teachers, after school clubs and home school programs, and perhaps even senior centers. Just think of the creative possibilities that an art pen pal activity can provide for all ages and skill levels and the interesting conversations it can provoke! Where would history be without the hand-written correspondence between John and Abigail Adams?  Is cursive writing a dead skill that shouldn’t be taught anymore in school?  

How do you know that what you heard is what I meant?  

Shared meaning… necessary or possible?

About the bidding…  

If you'd like to bid on this piece, please give Mary Lou Zeek Gallery a call @ (503)581-3229, and we can take your information, give you a bidding number and place your bid.  

Enjoy the Show!

Surreal Salon IV Exhibition

 

 

Presented by Baton Rouge Gallery center for contemporary art

 (BRGCCA), Surreal Salon IV is aimed at engaging audiences in a multi-sensory art experience and shedding light on the growing popularity and exceptional quality of the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement. This exciting and irreverent movement has come to the forefront of American contemporary art in recent years and Surreal Salon IV will celebrate all the reasons why.

This exhibition will be held from January 3 – 26, 2012 at BRGCCA. The exhibition will feature over 60 works by 54 artists representing 21 different states. This multi-discipline show will include everything from paintings to sculptures, video art to photography and more.

Surreal Salon IV Exhibition Catalog

The Baton Rouge Gallery

"Seeing by Skull Light"

is my work included in this exhibition.

Venez Par!

Thank you to Special Guest Juror artist Casey Weldon

and to the Baton Rouge Gallery

The Art of Communication – 100 Artist Show

"The Theory of Forms"

The Art of Communication – 100 Artist Show

Artist Reception: February 1, 5-7pm

February 1-March 3rd

During the month of February, the Mary Lou Zeek Gallery will be presenting “The Art of Communication”, the 10th annual 100 Artists show. Participating artists received a blank letter through the mail and were asked to write a thought, a story, a description or whatever they so choose and then send to their “partnered” artist. That artist then interprets the writings that were sent to them and then used the writings as their starting point for their own artwork. The completed maximum size will be 12″ x 12”.

My artist statement for this image:

"The Theory of Forms"

I was very excited when I received my letter so I took my time to slowly look over all the elements of it. The first inspiration was on the back of the envelope where I found the number 85 printed twice once right side up and then right next to it again upside down. I began thinking about duality and it grew as I read Betsy's letter. I was imagining her writing in the past while I was reading. She had asked several questions which sent me researching while also thinking if she had already found the answers. I enjoyed playing with the dichotomy from this simple letter. The idea that as distinct and immaterial substances of this object (a letter)and phenomena (the words on the page that carried ideas and questions) that we perceive in the world are nothing more than mere shadows.

My pen pal is Betsy Moore

Awesome artist and penpal!

Mary Lou Zeek Gallery

Hope you can drop in!

First Friday Artwalk: Fri. Jan. 6, 5:30 - 8:00 @ the Jacobs Gallery

I'll be @ the First Friday Artwalk

Fri. Jan. 6, 5:30 - 8:00

@

The Jacobs Gallery

for the

Small Pleasures Invitational 2011

The Gallery is in the lower level of the 

Hult Center for the Performing Arts

Located between 

7th Ave & Willamette Street, Eugene OR

http://www.jacobsgallery.org/

Gallery Hours:

Tues - Fri, 12 - 4pm

Sat. 11am - 3pm

Come by if you can!

Object Acquisition # 77-108.1.33 Cautery Transformer

Documenting objects from The Hunt Show:

Object Acquisition # 77-108.1.33 Cautery Transformer
Object interpreted and Statement by: Isaac Yoder


Veil

The cautery transformer I had picked at random was manufactured in 1928 by The Wappler Electric Company during the tail end of the Comstock laws. At the time public opinion and federal law made it impossible for physicians to disseminate any information regarding contraceptive or reproductive health. The electrical device was used by a local obstetrician for cervical and surgical cauterization. Looking at the object, I was instantly reminded of the wood burning kit my older sister had given me one year as a birthday gift.

Veil, is a series wood burning based off of a selection of historical painting depicting the annunciation; The annunciation is the point at which the angel Gabriel appears to Mary and informs her she will conceive and give birth. Annunciation paintings are accompanied by a criteria of symbolism, all geared at informing the viewer of Mary's pure nature. the original paintings(and source material for my work) dating back from 1436 up onto 1712 were created during the wide spread witch hunts of Western Europe, in an age where seeking out information regarding one's reproductive health was criminalized. Midwives, who had originally been the source of information pertaining to birth control, were labeled witches, hunted down and executed.

I chose to focus solely on Mary's face - all of Mary's faces, at the most critical moment of her life. I wanted to show who she was -- not what she was. I delineated the planes and values of each face as if they were parts of a map, or the wavy lines of a cat scan, to present this historical figure in a contemporary context.

Curator's Note:

I think it is amazing how history comes back on itself... People today are still fighting for reproductive health rights to remain safe and available yet people are quick to burn the witch or critique the single mother. Amazing work!

Wishing you

And a Bright & Joyful New Year!

from Beth @ Robinpress 

& the Robinson Hartpence Family...

This next year for the studio is looking full of more wonderful adventures... please stay tuned...

Write when you can...

Object Acquisition # 77-129.6.6 Rubber Stamps: Interior of Eye

Documenting objects from The Hunt Show:

Object Acquisition # 77-129.6.6 Rubber Stamps of the Interior of the Eye


Object interpreted and Statement by: Elyse Gambino
to see more of her work go to www.elysegambino.com


Sometimes I forget how creative scientists must be, that Charles Darwin loved to draw and sketch. In my studio I often feel like an explorer making new discoveries, a scientist experimenting with ideas and testing my hypothesis. Art and science are intertwined conceptually as well as historically, and going into OHSU and completing this project gave me the opportunity to examine art and science in a different way. My pieces from the Hunt are creative representations of parts of human anatomy: a set of stamps used for medical publications. I made a large scale "stamp" to hang on the wall and made the subject matter imaginative rather than representational. I was particularly drawn to the stamp of the ocular cavity and had fun experimenting with symbols and objects that are a solely artistic portrayal of the inside of my own eye.

Curators note: Elyse also printed this block. The empty box under the print block was full of prints. 

Small Pleasures Invitational 2011

New Boxes

 for the Holiday Season at the

 Small Pleasures Invitational 2011 

December 9 thru January 28, 2012

Artist Talk: Fri. Dec. 9, 3:30 - 4:30 pm

Opening: Fri. Dec 9, 5:30 - 8:00 pm

First Friday Artwalk: Fri. Jan. 6, 5:30 - 8:00

@ 

The Jacobs Gallery

The Gallery is in the lower level of the 

Hult Center for the Performing Arts

Located between 

7th Ave & Willamette Street, Eugene OR

http://www.jacobsgallery.org/

Gallery Hours:

Tues - Fri, 12 - 4pm

Sat. 11am - 3pm

About the Exhibit:

20 artist have been invited to create artwork no larger than 12 inches in any direction. As a special holiday offering, if you purchase a piece of art from this exhibit as a gift, you may take the artwork with you on the day of purchase!

Artists included:

Johnny Beaver, Bets Cole, Betsy Credle, Lavonne Tarbox-Crone, MarDee, Jan Eliot, Ann Blumb Hamilton, Laura Jaszkowski, Jeanne Maasch, Rogene Manas, Sally Metcalf, Jerril Nilson, Rich Norman, Marilyn Odland, Lynn Ihsen Peterson, William Pickard, 

Beth I. Robinson, Kirsten Shende, 

Jo Warren and Shannon Weber

Special thank you to Beverly Soasey

Symbols, Letters, Words

"The Between Times"

Looking for a little sun & warmer weather...

How about heading south...

I have some work @ 

The Umpqua Valley Arts Association

1624 W Harvard, Roseburg, OR 97471  

 November 4th  2011– January 6th 2012 

A great space to see work...

This weekend they are having a great event

Music for the Arts on December 2nd!

You'll need to RSVP soon!

The Harvest

Happy All Hallows' Evening!

Harvest Moon

The Winter Squash

And lastly

Brother Gus making venison sausage from his recent hunt.

( Max Dog making sure each morsel is used)

These are just some of the things we are thankful for...

Wishing you all the best...

Object Acquisition # 77-363.1 Pneumothorax Apparatus

Documenting objects from The Hunt Show:

Object Acquisition # 77-363.1 Pneumothorax Apparatus

Object interpreted and Statement by: Dorothy Sharrar

The object I "found" was a Pneumothorax Apparatus. It was used in the 1930's to collapse a lung diseased by tuberculosis, allowing it to heal while the patient breathed through the other lung. The process was called "resting the lung" and it could take months or years for healing to take effect. There was only about 50% chance of success.

My response to the object was elicited from my family history and my father's personal experience of losing both of his sisters and his father to tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was a stigma, a family secret that my father was taught not to divulge to anyone at the time because of the disgrace it would bring to the family.

During the process of working on this project, I thought a lot about the aunts and the grandfather I never knew, about my grandmother who endured the loss of her daughters and her husband to the disease, and about my father who fed his sister her last meal at 21 years old, witnessing her struggle for breath and life to the very end.

I used materials and processes that were able to reflect the qualities of breathing-- movement, transparency, weightlessness; and at the same time the qualities of the disease process-- the struggle to breathe, the strictures and scarring from the disease as well as from the veil of secrecy surrounding it. I chose to work with fabrics and hand-sewing, utilizing found handkerchiefs; a common item used for personal hygiene, they hold a sense of intimacy and fragility-- cared for, monogrammed, embroidered, tatted-- valued as a personal possession, reflective of the era in which they were used.

My piece is titled "For Kathryn" in memory of my aunt.

Curator's note: Small white crosses embroidered over and over, meditation and reflection.

Chandler & Price Press Finds New Home With an Unlikely Mate

This is the new press for Robin Press Studio.

This Chandler & Price is from 1889 and is 112 years old.

My sister, Carey, has dubbed him Johnny Tremain.

He needs a little cleaning up, new rollers and a treadle.

In the novel Johnny Tremain, it concludes 

on a note of hopefulness for the future. 

Although the beginning of the war 

has wrought great death and destruction, 

American Patriots have defeated the 

British army and surrounded Boston, 

a doctor will have mended Johnny's hand, 

and Cilla and Johnny have exchanged their first kiss.

Johnny recieved a nod from the older(?) printer 

Obie - the Epson 9900 I purchased last year.

I think they will be fine mates and 

am eager for them to play together.

Note: 

Obie is the artificial intelligence with the ability to alter local regions of reality, in Jack L. Chalker's Well World series (1977)

Time to get to work!