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DIVA MEMBER: INTERNET DIRECTORY
DIVA Center 280 W. Broadway , Eugene - Phone:541- 344-3482 |
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Adrienne Adam, Fine Art Photographer
Intimate Landscapes of Pattern and Texture In Nature
Artist Statement: The images I make are meditations on pattern, design, movement and color found in the natural world. Each image elicits a symphony of emotion and thought that, when experienced by the viewer, offers peace, healing and amazement. The intention behind the images is to bring attention to the subtle nuances, the beauty and the love of the Universe. I invite you to visit and enjoy the gifts I have been given.
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Mark Andrew, Sculptor
Mark Andrew Sculpture Studio
Artist Statement: Working primarily in stone, wood, and bronze, I create architectural details, bronze hardware, carved entry doors, fireplaces, furniture, and statuary. I excel at bringing the vision of my clients into physical form. At the core of my art is an appreciation of the natural world. I carve flora and fauna in an effort to understand them. I fill myself up with the essence of my subject and interpret it sculpturally, following humbly in the footsteps of the past and keeping an ancient art form alive.
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Nate Beyerlin, Filmmaker
Ultra Lounge Films
Artist Statement: Ultra Lounge Films is the production name for all things filmy by native Eugene Oregon filmmaker Nate Beyerlin. Please visit my web site for more information about current and future film exploits.
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R-Atencio, Artist and Sculptor
Web Site
Artist Statement: Nature is my main art inspiration. I am drawn to the shapes, textures, colors, shadows of deceptively simple forms. The first question I ask myself is, “how do I express what I'm seeing?” and "how do I re-create the wonder that I'm feeling? From there, I select a medium or mixed media that will best help me express and share the sense of beauty or awe to the person viewing the finished painting or sculpture.
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Artist Statement: Artistic growth, for me, is the willingness to be open to all creative possibilities. I continually challenge myself by not letting old perceptions get in the way of new ways of being. Capturing the Spirit, the essence, the heart of a moment in time, provides the images and words for me to share myself with my fellow human beings.
The core of my creative belief is that Spirit guides the result. It is my joy to strike a inner chord of remembrance... that all of nature is One.
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Carla Crow, Painter, Mixed Media
SalonFoxy
Artist Statement: For over thirty years handmade bark paper has been a critical element in my work. The paper is produced by Mexico’s Otomi Indians using the bark from Mulberry trees.
Figures, plants, animals, and mythical beings are typically included in the subject matter. Often repetitive patterns and strong geometries are used reflecting the tribal and ethnic nature of the cultures with which I resonate and find inspiration.
My paintings rely strongly on composition, strong line, and contrast. My intention is to have much of the surface remain unpainted, thereby allowing the beauty of the paper to be evident and obviousWith regularity, the images are merely metaphors for life’s daily occurrences.
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Rogena Degge, Color Monotypes and Etchings
Personal Site and Studio Tre Amiche, LLC
Artist Statement: "Color monotypes and etchings make up the main body of my art work and birds are a frequent source of inspiration.
Birds suit my abstract style and love of curved, sweeping lines. Their unique behaviors speak to my playful side and challenge my skills in seeing and translating their stunning diversity into satisfying images.
My degrees are in fine arts and arts education. I am a University of Oregon professor emerita and co-owner of a printmaking studio and gallery, Studio Tre Amiche, at 160 E. Broadway in downtown Eugene."
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Artist Statement: Susan Detroy is a multi-faceted artist working in a wide range of mediums includingphotographic processes, mixed media transfer artwork and oil, tempera, acrylic paintings. Susan created her colorful, folkloric series called Mythic Animal using Tombow ink pens.
Susan Detroy is also an Exhibit Designer consulting for commercial, non-profit organizations and residential clients. Susan Detroy operates a photography business for commercial and individual clients. Her work spans color and black and white, stock, portraiture, journalism and wedding photography. Susan is well known for her family portraiture. She teaches Gallery Management and Art : multi-media, collage and transfer processes.
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Gary Ferrington, Educator, Sound recordist, Photographer
Ecoacoustics
Artist Statement: I was raised in the Columbia River Gorge area where the sounds of nature dominated my acoustic space and facilitated my interest in the field of acoustic-ecology. I've also enjoyed photography and the combining of sound and image in media programs.
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Patsy Hand, Monotype and watercolor
Online Gallery
Artist Statement: I translate stories of experience and emotion into abstract movement through the use of color and line. I appreciate that viewers see aspects in my work based on their life experiences, often contradicting my own intentions. My background in science adds to my understanding of the abstract world. See also Studio Tre Amiche, LLC
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Anthony Dean Hensley, Painter
Online Gallery
Artist Statement: I am fascinated by the simplicity of thought, this is what I paint. I use emotions, allegories and symbolism to convey a thought. My paintings are Hermetic picture parables or a ruse or a paradox, they are all truthful lies. From schizzo to conclusion it’s this simple thought that guides my hand. I believe it's a capital mistake to explain a work of art for: Omne ignotum pro magnifico. All my paintings are in Oil, normally on canvas but sometimes on panel.
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Anna Horrigan, Pastels
Purely Pastel
Artist Statement: I have been painting with pastels for over 35 years and moved west from Boston 12 years ago. My pastels have been in exhibits in New England, New York, California, and Oregon. I love to capture the heat of a summer day, the cool shadow in a park, the tranquility in an elderly face. The more I am exposed to the world around me the more I see and the more I want to paint.
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Artist Statement: My mission is to foster an awareness of the arts in personal lives and communities through the production of fine art photography, art events and educational workshops. My artwork focuses on merging 21st century technology and 19th century non-silver photographic processes. The beauty and wonder of nature, the mythic qualities of light and the Zen aesthetics of wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen are at the heart of my photographs. For me, art is a personal quest for shared meaning and connection. Inspiration and mystery are my primary visual goals
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Artist Statement: Perhaps because the majority of quilters are women, quilting is often considered a craft, not a serious artistic pursuit, but I am determined to challenge that anachronistic assumption. I approach my medium with every bit of the discipline and spirit that any artist does. I just happen to wield a needle alongside my paintbrush and palette.
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Kate McGee,
Kate McGee, Pastel Artist
Artist Statement: I have been recording scenes from the open road, presenting them in their best light. Numerous road trips through the Northwest, the backside of the Sierras and Death Valley are captured with my pastels. Simplified and dreamlike, these pieces evoke memory. They are distilled reality in bright color and pattern.
I am also experimenting with abstract compositions of interior spaces. Instead of starting with a place that exists, these paintings are of imagined places. They intrigue the viewer into imagining their own interior landscapes; taking clues from what is inferred by color, mood or form to envision a place of their own.
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Sandra McMorris Johnson, Fiber Artist
Windows of the Soul
Artist Statement: Fiber is all around us and I see it as a metaphor for the connectedness of things. I create whole worlds in these collages which I see as windows of my being. The play of light and color across the layers of fabrics are like jewels which express joy, exuberance in the face of fear and the unfolding of life processes. When I create, I go to a place that is informed by the awareness of shape, form, line, color and space. But what I really do is go to a “zone” where fiber, color, light and experience shine through my hands.
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Artist Statement: Making art requires uninterrupted time, thought, and solitude that have always been difficult for women to find in the midst of competing demands of job, family and community. For more than thirty years I have made art while working at another job and raising a family. My artistic focus is expressionist portraiture. I look under the surface to what is unique about each of us and our relationships to one another and the world we occupy. I often wonder if I can justify my focus in these times of global conflict and environmental crisis. Then I look at art in history and remember that there has always been a place for paintings that reflect what we strive to be and to love.
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Artist Statement: This site contains a collection of my videos that are either independent creative endeavors, or videos relating to activities at DIVA
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Artist Statement: I have been making photographs with more or less serious intent for some 40 years now. I've never found it easy or natural to talk about this work because it's never been an intellectual process for me. Rather, it's been one of a deep esthetic and emotional recognition and a process of selecting the parts of a landscape that represent and concentrate the essence of the whole.
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Artist Statement: Color and sound, rhythm and pattern are a non-verbal language. I paint with acrylic on canvas while listening to music. The flow and rhythm of the music (a great variety of artists and musical styles) creates an ideal space for me to move outside of judgment into inspired free flow. I wish to communicate the experience of pure joy which is at the core of each piece of art I create.
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Tenold Peterson, Artist
Tenold Peterson Studio
Artist Statement: Living for the past thirty-seven years in the coast range of Oregon, Tenold’s art has evolved exuberantly free from the pressure of artistic conformity. His body of work includes extensive collections in pastel, sculpture, glass, and architectural design and construction. Committed to rendering beauty, that beauty is never trivial or sedative, but always rewards the observer with a deeper engagement. Says Tenold, “ I don’t like cute little things. To me life is not that way. There are some parts that sting you and I want to see what the sting feels like too… I have a lot of folds and facets inside of me and I like to find out about all of them. Some of them are a little scary, some are joyful, and some are whatever, but I want to follow them, honestly follow them.”
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Artist Statement: The beauty of the natural world, drawn with scientific accuracy! Katura Reynolds’ science illustrations have been featured in museum exhibits, books, and other publications. From fossil flamingo footprints, to ancient Aleutian artifacts, to exploding spore capsules, these detailed images portray the complexity of science in a visually appealing format.
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Jerry Ross, Painter
Jerry Ross Studios
Artist Statement: My work is influenced by the I Macchiaioli school of Tuscany and the social verismo school. My landscape painting is close to the earth and the love of nature and my love for the sketch and the spontaneity of plain air painting.
In addition, I am always seeking a philosophical component that one finds present in work of the I Macchiaioli, namely an angst and spirituality linked to pathos and a deeper observation given the historic and revolutionary context of that period.
Like those Italian painters of the Ottocento-Novecento, I also have lived "in context" and engagement. Recently, I have moved towards a deeper observation of nature and society with my show "La Spiaggia (the Beach)" and more currently "Uprising", both at the Springfield Museum (Oregon)
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Artist Statement: Bonnie Smith started painting as a young child. Her award winning paintings have been exhibited at White Glove Gallery in Lakewood, Washington, in Design Consortium in Cincinnati, Ohio, Black Bear Gallery in Mt. Shasta, California and many others. Her paintings have collected numerous awards and ribbons and many of them are in private collections in Washington, D. C., California, Arizona and Oregon. She works in oils, pastel, watercolor and encaustics with subject matter varying from portraits, wildlife, scenery and experimental work.
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John Spragens, Photographer
Enigmaterial: Words and Pictures
Artist Statement: For more than 40 years, I've been using cameras to document the world around me, from daily life in Vietnam and Cambodia to the work of a family farm in Texas, from jazz musicians in the San Francisco Bay area to the pure energy of their music. Some samples of this work appear on my site, with more to come.
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Artist Statement: My art work grew out of my observant character structure and a strong personal need for expression. In service to these requirements, I studied with many teachers to learn both the techniques and content of the serious artist.
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Brian Walker, Digital Artist
Demo Reel
Artist Statement: Brian Walker received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Oregon for the class of 2006 with a focus on digital arts and documentary production. He strives to further modern media's status into the realm of the great arts, possessing the same lasting value as the age-old crafts of sculpture, painting, weaving etc. It makes sense that the artist of the day would thus use the materials of the day wether it be of stone, clay, electronic or otherwise.
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Marianne Walker, Artist
I Like Markers
Artist Statement: I believe in teaching anyone who does not feel they can be artistic to nurture their creative seedlings and learn new techniques. My blog is full of tutorials on Marker Illustration techniques for beginners.
Marianne Walker is the Copic Marker Product Specialist. Marianne specializes in Illustration, Graphic design, and marker renderings.
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Mike E. Walsh, Installation,Sculpture, Mixed Media
Artist Portfolio
Artist Statement:
I began a series of installations exploring war in ancient and modern culture after visiting the Middle East and Egypt in 2004 on the first anniversary of the Iraq War. In Egypt I became fascinated with the Egyptian Book of the Dead: Papyrus of Ani, in which an ancient text describes the weighing of the heart against the feather of Maat. If the heart is in equal balance with the feather the person has lived an honorable life. I suggest that each person who participates in war must face the judging of the heart. In my 2009 Maude Kerns installation, Judging the Heart: Waiting For the World toChange, I cover a series of houses with 46 feathers, stenciled soldiers' heads and text fragments from Percy Shelley's poem Ozymandias - all together suggesting the futility of war.
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Rakar West , Painter
Art By Rakar West
Artist Statement: My abstract works are inspired by movement and change in landscape, weather, time and human experience, change which can be spiritual or physical. References to landscape, oceans, lakes or rivers have consistently appeared in my work throughout the years. There may also be geometric shapes, Native American symbols, and elements from Chinese wisdom and other sources. I use color, texture, line, shape, and sometimes multiple viewpoints to create what I think of as visual meditations, or expressions of the inner life.
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Michael Wherley, Photography and Fractal Art
Michael's Dancing Photons Artist Statement: My photographic intent is to reveal facets of the beauty, humor and surprises to be found in the world we live in. I tend to focus on the wonders of nature both large and small and also the creativity of human culture. I've been fortunate to visit interesting places around the world and here at home, and enjoy sharing the images I've captured.
My fractal art is a process of discovery in form, texture and color showing the correspondences between the realm of mathematics and the physical world.
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Artist Statement: Sandi Whetzel's acrylic paintings are a subtle blending of fantasy with reality. A seductive flirtation with mesmerizing color, graceful contours and tactile textures fuels Sandi's creativity. She is also known for her signature pieces to promote the wine industry in Oregon.
Her current focus has been intimate views of succulents, featuring engaging shapes and vibrant hues. The compelling designs, vivid colors, directional brush strokes and varied textures pull viewers through the paintings, saturating them with the emotions the forms and colors convey.
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Artist Statement: Luminessence is the essence of light captured in handcrafted light sculptures of laminated paper and wood. To create works of art that bring beauty and light into the environments and lives of individuals is my aim with Luminessence. I create these works primarily for residential interiors where a unique artistic expression in lighting is desired. In addition to pieces already created displayed in my home/studio gallery, special orders for pieces to suit your particular environment may be commissioned.
Stephen White/LUMINESSENCE, 3400 View Ln., Eugene, OR 97405
Phone: 541-344-2124
Web: http://culturesource.net/stephenwhite
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Statement: Stirring up literary play between youth and community since 1994, YWA provides opportunities to inspire young developing writers through community connections. It also offers programs to stimulate the joys of writing, building excitement around literature and creative writing in classrooms, camps and intergenerational settings. YWA is a non profit organization, offering engaging ways to stir up imagination and word skill for our Lane County young people. Youth create stories and poetry that we share with the community in publications, on the web and on the radio. We encourage young minds to discover their creativity.
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Artist Statement: Carole Zoom (Portland, OR) has been a community organizer since 1988 and artist since 2002. In the late 1980s, she was involved in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and in Eugene Carole helped organize for full access to the Eugene Federal Courthouse. Carole Zoom is one of the founding members of DIVA's board of directors. A published artist and photographer as well as a theater writer/performer, she uses her art to further social justice. Carole is also developing studios for artists and dancers in Portland, called Zoomtopia.
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