Please join us as we host our Annual Fine Art and Craft exhibition, the Teeny Tiny Art Show, from December 2, 2010 through January 4, 2011 at High Desert Gallery's downtown Bend Oregon art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford.
Holiday Open House: Thursday December 2, from 5 to 7pm. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments and collect the work of your favorite artist!
First Friday Gallery Walk and Artist Reception: Friday, December 3, from 5 to 9pm. Meet the artists, refreshments, and live music by Erin Cole-Baker, from 5:30 to 8:30pm during First Friday Gallery Walk. A hoot for sure.
Here are some thoughts from a select few of the shows artists and a sneak peek of a small sampling of the work! Nearly 50 pieces of Teeny Tiny Art at the opening! Click on the image to enlarge the image.
Janet Rothermel
The ‘Teeny Tiny’ format of these paintings gave me an opportunity to provide the viewer with a much more ‘intimate’ experience with each composition – as if the landscape is being viewed from a window or through a camera lens – and the perspectives are only available to the person standing in that particular place.
Autumn Vineyard
The spectrum of colors that develops in the Willamette Valley during grape harvest is spectacular. This image was painted to emphasize the color blocks that develop and evolve in the landscape as fields and vineyard plants turn hot with color before winter transitions in to grey the landscape.
Patty Freeman-Martin
Postcard Cowboy
"My style of drawing is more symbolic than representational, and I am more interested in sharing a mood or a feeling than an accurate description. The boredom and monotony of trailing cattle for countless hours as child gave me a highly developed sense of imagination and dreaminess. This image shows two version of reality; the inner rectangle describes a space where the cowboy and cattle move along in the real world. Reality gets a little sketchy in the border area. The horse’s feet walk on air and the hide of the cattle turns into a floral pattern."
Glen Corbett
"Botanical art is a way of seeing and painting: the astonishing and beautiful detail in each plant is reproduced accurately in the painting. It is different from "flower paintings" in which a painter may use creative license and is not so interested in the precise qualities of the particular botanical object. In selecting the two roses I was both interested in seeing more detail than I'd ever seen before and in presenting each rose in such a way that the viewer would also have the opportunity to look closer, see more. Using water color and water color glazes, each of the roses has at least 20 glazes to build up the colors. So even the technique is detailed and hopefully begins to reflect the depth and beauty of each subject. Symbolically the rose has been featured throughout history and I find that fascinating as well."
Ingrid Lustig
Hawk series (Hawk I, II, III)
"These small pieces are solar etchings that have been painted and drawn into individually. The etchings were created at Atelier 6000 with a non-toxic etching process using light (solar) on the plate surface instead of chemicals, a revolutionary change in the world of printmaking. The wonderful part of making hand-pulled prints on a printing press is that each one has the exact same image that can then be used as a foundation for further art making. Since I am a painter at heart, I love to make prints and then paint all over them – the joy of both worlds!"
Paul Alan Bennett
"Since these images were small I thought it would be interesting to make them really 'pop' by using cadmium reds and yellows and let them glow with light. Such intense colors and light seem to fit into the high desert landscape. Think about the colors found in paintbrush flowers and the painted hills. With all the grays and browns and ochres so prevalent in the high desert, such bright spots catch the eye because they are often seen in such contrast with their surrounding landscape. When you look at my little snapshots of scenes reminiscent of Central and Eastern Oregon, think about what role such intense color and light play with these surroundings."
Kathy Deggendorfer
Here's Lookin' At You
"This summer I really got into painting sagebrush. I did this little piece using a stylized version of those beautiful plants of the High Desert. Anyone with a dog on a walk knows about the 'stand offs' between our domesticated hunters and the ubiquitous chipmunks that drive them nuts all summer. This little painting grants every pooch his holiday wish....a chipmunk that finally holds still!"
Celebrate with us as we host our annual miniature exhibition of Fine Art and Craft, featuring work by more than 18 outstanding Oregon artists. The Teeny Tiny Art Show, exhibiting the intricacy and delight of small format art, runs from December 2, 2010 through January 4, 2011 at High Desert Gallery's downtown Bend Oregon art gallery located at 10 NW Minnesota Avenue at The Oxford, and will feature a Holiday Open House and Artist Reception.
Holiday Open House: Thursday December 2, from 5 to 7pm. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments and collect the work of your favorite artist!
First Friday Gallery Walk and Artist Reception: Friday, December 3, from 5 to 9pm. Meet the artists, refreshments, and live music by Erin Cole-Baker, from 5:30 to 8:30pm during First Friday Gallery Walk. A hoot for sure.
Participating artists this year include High Desert Gallery artists: Paul Alan Bennett, Kathy Deggendorfer, Grace Bishko, Kimry Jelen, Glen Corbett, Ingrid Lustig, Patty Freeman-Martin, Sue Favinger Smith, Lisa Kaser, Shannon Weber, Jacob Norris, Morgan Madison, Donald Yatomi, Valerie Winterholler, Janet Rothermel, Cheyenne Malcolm, Cary Weigand, Deb Sether, Sheldon Prescher, Bill Bolstad and a few more special guest artists!
For more information on the Teeny Tiny Art Show please bookmark the following show website: www.TeenyTinyArtShow.com. We'll update you with images, artists thoughts and pre and post show information. A Hoot For Sure!
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™ is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with retail gallery locations in downtown Bend, Oregon and Sisters 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.
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