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March 13, 2011
March 10, 2011
New Look! Kind Of Makes You Warm All Over.
It's been long over due and very much needed! No, not a 50% off sale! Rather a redo of our main gallery and framing websites for High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks! We are making every effort to provide you a clean and easy to navigate website where you can find up-to-date gallery and artist information in just one or a couple of clicks.
On our new site you will find the typical "About Us" sections including our awards, maps to the gallery and hours plus we now have an extended Artist Statement Section and a developing photo gallery of artists work. We are utilizing RSS feeds to populate our Events Calendar, Blog Posts and current and past artist shows. We have a Twitter widget for a quick read of our tweets plus links to both our Twitter acconts (@HDGOCO @HDFRAMEWORKS). The gallery's increasingly popular Facebook page has a widget feed and overview plus links and a LIKE US option. Take a look: http://www.highdesertgallery.com and let us know what you think.
Our gallery weblog or blog will contine to be hosted at http://www.highdesertgallery.info (subscribe here: Be In The Know ) and our online store at http://www.highdesertgallery.biz. In the next month and after the finishing touches to our main site are completed we'll overhaul the online store and populate our artists pages with new work (which you can buy if you like!).
Tell us what you think!
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks! High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. Click on the following links to download your free iTunes or Android app to follow High Desert Gallery on your mobile device. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
March 01, 2011
First Friday Gallery Walk with Sue Favinger Smith -- Sneak Peek!
We hope you can join us this First Friday (March 4, 2011) in our gallery at the base of The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. We have a great show and here is a sneak peek of some of the new work by Sue Favinger Smith.
Visit our online store at: Sue Favinger Smith to see more great work! Better yet -- Join us for “There and Back,” an exhibition of original paintings featuring work by Central Oregon Artist, Sue Favinger Smith and turned wood vessels by Oregon Artist, Dan Tilden. “There and Back,” runs from March 4, 2011 through April 5, 2011 at High Desert Gallery's downtown Bend Oregon art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
First Friday Gallery Walk and Artist Reception: Friday, March 4, from 5 to 9pm.Meet the artists, enjoy great conversation and refreshments during First Friday Gallery Walk. First Friday Gallery Walk sponsored by the Bend Gallery Association takes place each First Friday of the Month in downtown Historic Bend and The Old Mill District. A hoot for sure!
Read more about Sue and Dan in our previous post: "THERE AND BACK" - SUE FAVINGER SMITH AND DAN TILDEN FEATURED AT HIGH DESERT GALLERY - BEND, OREGON
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit:http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
February 21, 2011
New Original Paintings by Donald Yatomi at High Desert Gallery -- Bend Oregon
Good News -- Several new original paintings have arrived into our Frame Shop (High Desert Frameworks!) for framing and exhibition at High Desert Gallery. You can visit the new work on line at Donald's online store or better yet -- Stop by High Desert Gallery and inquire about the new work! The gallery is open daily 10am to 6pm and Sunday 11am to 5pm.
Donald and his family reside in Central Oregon. He is an accomplished contemporary painter and artist and both Donald and his wife are Art Center graduates. Please welcome Donald to the gallery!
We have a show coming up for Donald so make sure you subscribe to our newsletter (or follow us ) to get all the info and dates! It's the best way to stay in touch with the gallery and our artists!
About Donald Yatomi: Donald Yatomi’s wide-angled compositions originated in the early 1990s as a sarcastic attempt to capture the then trend of cropped, panoramic photography and film developing. The panoramic format stuck as he continued his interest for urbanscape paintings, in which it eventually and suitably evoked the subject of population sprawl and mass-communities that he was after. Yatomi’s work is about the industrial mundane, the urbanized deserts and the metropolis serenity. He finds witnessing the ironies of mobilization and stillness interlaced within highly developed and overcrowded cities very interesting. His ideas are implications and hints of alienation vs. congregation that occurs at a particular point in time, in very specific locations. It is not urban development itself that he is inevitably drawn to, but rather the paradoxes of every human meeting and isolation in the midst of urban development. It is about transportation. It is about transactions. It is about emotional epiphanies. These negative spaces and cultural icons evoke so much activity within his memory, becoming abstractions and reminiscences that are so intriguing to Yatomi. He names his greatest influences as Willem de Kooning, Chuck Close and Antonio Tapies.
High Desert Gallery is honored to represent Donald's work in Central Oregon.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit:http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
February 17, 2011
"There and Back" - Sue Favinger Smith and Dan Tilden Featured at High Desert Gallery - Bend, Oregon
Come celebrate with us as we host “There and Back,” an exhibition of original paintings featuring work by Central Oregon Artist, Sue Favinger Smith and turned wood vessels by Oregon Artist, Dan Tilden. “There and Back,” runs from March 4, 2011 through April 5, 2011 at High Desert Gallery's downtown Bend Oregon art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
First Friday Gallery Walk and Artist Reception: Friday, March 4, from 5 to 9pm. Meet the artists, enjoy great conversation and refreshments during First Friday Gallery Walk. First Friday Gallery Walk sponsored by the Bend Gallery Association takes place each First Friday of the Month in downtown Historic Bend and The Old Mill District. A hoot for sure!
Image: Unnamed Stream and Aspen Grove In November, by Sue F Smith. Madrone Root by Dan Tilden.
About Sue Favinger Smith: Sue Smith is a studio painter living in Central Oregon. Raised in California, she moved to Oregon in 1972. After a career in small business she returned to Oregon State University - Cascades, where she earned a degree in art and the Distinguished Student – Department of Art Award in 2005. She is represented in Central Oregon by High Desert Gallery.
“I’ve always been drawn to the idea that a good landscape painting is an invitation to explore. Where I live there is immense solitude, wild skies and secluded places. My work is about stepping in to this vast unknown and discovering what you might find there, of being alone without being lonely. My focus is to find a simple beauty in nature, without sentimentality.
My painting process is always evolving, as I seek better solutions to describe what I see. I paint directly, slowly allowing the forms to emerge from either the darkness or the light. I will use whatever tool gives me the surface quality I want, be that brush, or palette knife or rag. I believe the painting surface can communicate as much to the sense of light as the imagery – the overlaying of compliments, drawing back into wet paint, resolving the edges, thick and thin paint application. Everything you do affects what you’ve done and will do next. I am always learning, trying to capture with freshness and spontaneity this thing we call beauty.”
Professional Associations:
National Association of Women Artists, Women Artists of the West Associate, Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibition, High Desert Gallery, March 2011
Oil Painters of America Western Regional Exhibition, 2010
Women Artists of the West Juried Exhibition, 2010
National Association of Women Artists Membership Exhibition, 2010, 2009
Solo Exhibition, "Perception and Imagination", High Desert Gallery, 2009
About Dan Tilden: All of Dan's work is turned on the lathe, using local woods from Southern Oregon. Typicall y he tu rns the wood in the green (when the wood is wet) and then manipulates th e dry ing process to creat e organic shapes and forms. What some people may think of as a flaw in wood, he uses this to build character in the work and let the wood speak for itself. Dan has enjoyed his fine craft as a wood turner for 9 years and continues his study with international known wood turners, Christian Burchard and David Ellsworth. Creating in wood is his passion and what he loves to do.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
February 11, 2011
Central Oregon Artist, Paul Alan Bennett featured at St. Charles Medical Center 2nd Floor Gallery through Friday, April 8, 2011
Nationally recognized Central Oregon Artist, Paul Alan Bennett's Original Paintings, Tapestry Blankets and Fine Art Prints are featured at the Surrounding Cascades Cafe located on the 2nd floor of the St. Charles Medical Center through April 8, 2011. The gallery is open daily from 6am to 9pm and the exhibition and sale is open to the public and free to attend.
Exhibition Details:
Artist: Tapestry Blankets, Original Paintings and Fine Art Prints by Paul Alan Bennett
St. Charles Medical Center
2nd Floor Gallery - Surrounding Cascades Cafe
2500 Northeast Neff Road
Bend, OR 97701
Friday, February 11, 2011 through Friday, April 8, 2011
Open from 6AM to 9PM Daily
About Paul Alan Bennett: Award winning professional artist, educator, and art advocate, Paul Alan Bennett has garnered national attention. Paul's imagery is passionately detailed and manifests a unique perspective and style resulting in colorful, vivid imagery sought after and collected nationally. Honors graduate of Maryland Institute of Art and Master of Arts from The University of La Verne (Athens Greece), Paul has excelled in the field of watercolor and most recently in the release of a select group of Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee Prints and worked closely with Pendleton Woolen Mills to release limited edition tapestry blankets. Paul's work has been reproduced for two Sisters Folk Festival Posters and the 2008 Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show poster. His style and perspective originate from memories, life experiences and travels that sparks many of the themes found in this Sisters artist's work. Paul Alan Bennett's artwork is represented by High Desert Gallery.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
February 08, 2011
"Remember When..." - Guest Artist, Beverly Soasey Featured at High Desert Gallery in Bend, Oregon
"Remember When..."
High Desert Gallery is excited to announce guest artist, Beverly Soasey, February 18 to April 13, 2011. “Remember When..." exhibition is featured at High Desert Gallery in downtown Bend, Oregon, located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
When trying to explain the meaning of Beverly’s art, it can be said that one is “painting their life”, that they and their art are one. Beverly’s ideas emerge from her reality; expressing her beliefs and ideals and exposing her truths. There are no boundaries, no rules on execution of materials. In a blending of objects and media, assemblage art invites exploration and experimentation. It is completely suited to her collective nature, where she can do whatever it takes to express an idea, evoke a mood or convey a concept. Beverly’s work is a study of textures, patterns and color, the combination of elements that intrigue and surprise the viewer. This process begins with the search and ends in a story. “I love going to that unknown place and surprising myself with the result. There’s always that moment when I know a piece is finished, but until that moment, I have no clue when it will happen.” Her studio is a collection of hundreds of objects, photos, books, bird wings, metal and ideas saved in various forms. There are boxes full of secrets and boxes waiting to be filled. Assemblage art requires having inspiration and ideas around all of the time to translate her thoughts and ideas into a single statement. Beverly’s passion for collecting, traveling and exploring in shown throughout her art.
“Remember When..." an exhibition of original artwork by Beverly Soasey runs February 18 to April 13, 2011 and is featured at High Desert Gallery in downtown Bend, Oregon, located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award-winning fine art located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford Hotel in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
February 05, 2011
Who is your favorite Central Oregon Artist? We would love to know! Voting Ends February 28th
February is for Lovers and love. What Central Oregon Artist do you love the most? Tell us who your all time favorite Central Oregon Artist is and if we pick your entry you will win a $125 Custom Framing Gift Certificate from High Desert Frameworks! PLUS the artist with the most VOTES/Entries will also win a $125 Custom Framing Gift Certificate!
Visit High Desert Gallery's Facebook page to enter or our direct link here: Love My Favorite Central Oregon Artist!
- After you complete the official entry YOU MUST also enter your post on our Facebook Wall!
- Contest Start: February 05, 2011 @ 10:00 am (PST)
- Contest End: February 28, 2011 @ 06:00 pm (PST)
- Winners Announced: February 28, 2011 @ 08:00 pm (PST)
- Remember: You can get extra points for telling us a story, example of the work and/or post a link to the artist’s webpage. Even better -- You will garner extra extra super bonus round points if you are creative in your post! If your entry evokes laughter from the judges and you win the contest you will earn an extra $200 of paper Monopoly money! Don't forget to sit back and relax knowing that you gave it every effort and your creativity, wit and humor was splendid! Then wait, pray and hope we pick your name at random on February 28, 2011 a 8pm!
- You can view the submissions and even vote and comment on your Favorite Central Oregon Artists.
Good Luck and please send out the message to all your friends! For you Twitter lovers please tweet the following: RT @hdgoco #inbend Love My Favorite Central Oregon Artist at http://ping.fm/Ncdac
For official entry information and rules visit: Love My Favorite Central Oregon Artist!
Get Voting! Tell us who you love!
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with a retail gallery location in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio for the gallery, is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
Sharing The Love in February. Customers of High Desert Frameworks! save $50!
You know what they say about LOVE. It's better to give than to receive and February is all about sharing the love! Now through Monday, February 28, 2011 all new AND existing customers of High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks are eligible for our "Customer Love" framing special. You save $50 on one custom framing project of $250 or more. Save as much as 20% on High Desert Frameworks award-winning custom framing.
WOW! What do I do now? Print this email or blog post and save the attached image and coupon. Bring it in with your framing project before Monday, February 28th and we'll knock off $50 on your single framing project of $250 or more! It's that simple. Great Value, Great Service, Great Price, Great Quality. Come Frame With Us!
Who are these guys? High Desert Frameworks! provides all services of a custom picture framing gallery including on site manufacturing, conservation custom picture framing, consultation, design, layout and installation services. Additionally, we'll represent select Pacific Northwest artists working in three dimensional glass, clay, silver, wood and other mediums. International Framing Awards earned by High Desert Frameworks! include First Place and Top Honors in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2007-2008 International Open Framing Competition, Third Place in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2008-2009 International Print Framing Competition, and Top Honors and "Best Use of Fabric" in the Professional Picture Framing Association (PPFA) 2009-2010 International Print Framing Competition. Numerous PPFA Regional Chapter awards have been earned by High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks including two first place awards in 2010-2011 Print and Open Framing Competitions. Other awards for High Desert Gallery include honored in 2005, 2006 and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery in America."
High Desert Frameworks! is open Monday through Friday 10am to 5:30pm, Saturday 10am to 2pm and by appointment. We are located next to FedEx Office at 61 NW Oregon Avenue between Lava and Bond streets in downtown Bend Oregon. Easy parking on Oregon Avenue or the City Parking Garage. For more information on the gallery and framing studio please visit www.highdesertframeworks.com, www.highdesertgallery.com or call High Desert Frameworks! at 541-647-2191.
About High Desert Gallery and High Desert Frameworks!: High Desert Gallery, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with a retail gallery location in downtown Bend, Oregon. High Desert Frameworks!, the award-winning framing studio for the gallery, is located at 61 NW Oregon Avenue at Lava in downtown Bend, Oregon. The gallery specializes in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ and Stellar Custom Framing. For more information please visit: http://www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
Want to be in the know? Then follow us on via Google Buzz, RSS, Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog. To download your free iTunes or Android app visit: High Desert Gallery App Store. The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ and Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™ are trademarks of High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing of Central Oregon.
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