•Marcia Wood Gallery www.marciawoodgallery.com Peter Bahouth’s stereoscopic transparencies with very cool viewing stands were snapped up by collectors interested in visual whimsy. Also showing Mary Engel, whose bizarre mixed-media animal sculptures are among the most entertaining things eh-ver. Hey, she sold the pony. Any chance you’d like a poodle?
Sculpture of Mary Engel
•David Lusk www.davidluskgallery.com Tad Lauritzen Wright gets it right in his “Philosophy of Beauty” discourse. Through collage, painting, drawing, and sculpture, Wright explores misguided notions of beauty. It is irreverent, visually dense, and exposes the diluted essence of beauty.
•Julie Baker Fine Art www.juliebakerfineart.com Eric Blum’s exquisite encaustic portraits of women with Veronica Lake hair enthrall. Curiously, he numbers rather than naming the pieces. I would call Blum’s technique flawless. Julie is also co-founder of Flow.
•M% www.Mpercent.com That Matthew Garson—boundless energy and good humor. Garson is co-founder of flow and I’m telling you, he was everywhere. Great job! Please keep Flow going. Here, we had another champion of encaustic work and Lenore Thomas’s abstractions.
•Kenise Barnes Fine Art www.kbfa.com Showing Joanne Mattera’s work. Ahhh, viewing her “Silk Road” pieces is vacation “visual” style. In this reductive series each painting is a voluminous monochrome achieved by applying 20 or so layers of translucent wax. Did I write monochrome? Better take another look.
"Silk Road #20"
•PDX Contemporary www.pdxcontemporaryart.com This Portland gallery always has intriguing work. Marie Watt’s reclaimed stitchings are beautiful geometric pieces rendered in wool, satin binding and thread.
“Wool of the West”
•Toomey-Tourell Gallery www.toomey-tourell.com The big buzz here at Toomey-Tourell is that they sold all the work in their show! Congratulations! Heather Wilcoxon’s work always tickles. She’s whimsical and her richly developed surfaces come alive with patterns and extra-ordinary creatures and shapes. These imaginary creatures spring from Wilcoxon’s full blown imagination. Make no mistake this whimsy takes on issues that threaten our human condition.
"Catch"
BRIDGE ART FAIR 67 galleries, 12 West Coast Galleries
•Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery www.eesgallery.com Johnnie Winona Ross creates abstracted paintings whose satin surfaces are subtle drips of colored pigment that appear in banded stripes. These works are composed of more than one hundred layers of glazed pigments. Ross finishes each piece with by buffing the surface for an ethereal glow.
"Wire Canyon Cutoff #12"
•Andrea Schwartz Gallery www.asgallery.com John Belingheri paints, scrapes, paints, scrapes, paints….his is much reworking of the canvas. Belingheri’s work is generating strong interest and sales. San Francisco’s Tina Vietmeier was also featured.
“Dipthong Hooker Green”
•Brian Gross Fine Art www.briangrossfineart.com Andrea Way’s characteristically abstract works that deftly articulate complex organic patterning are rich indeed.Her compositions are complex layers of nuanced color, and geometry. Way’s work is rhythmic, multifaceted, and formally sophisticated.
"Alcina"
•Birch Libralato Gallery www.birchlibralato.com David Kramer chronicles fear, pathos, and insecurity—whether drawn or oil-painted these sardonic commentaries prick your latent fears. Kramer slathers on the irony.
“Sellout”
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