“Vestiges” features the work of Julie Anderson Bailey, Janine Etherington, Jason Greene, and Karen Russo, and “Evocation,” a two-person exhibit showcases the work of Andrea Schwartz-Feit and John Richey.
Vestiges is a group show from Oregon artists Julie Anderson Bailey, Janine Etherington, Jason Greene, and Karen Russo who tell visual stories that represent a kind of call and response collaboration with nature.
Roseburg artist Julie Anderson Bailey explores nature and mark-making with paper sculpture to illustrate humanity’s fragility and interdependence with the natural world. Bailey says: “We are balancing hope and heartbreak as we adapt in this time of climate change. These disruptions to our daily life force us to learn new ways to co-exist in community.”
Eugene artist Janine Etherington uses small, square, cradled panels and blocks to create imaginative mixed-media works inspired by her love of geometry. She says of her pieces: “My work develops intuitively, helped along by the endless possibilities in combining and recombining the elements.”
Corbett artist Jason Greene paints the natural world, and particularly the forest near his home, with a sense of motion and energy as it is felt, not just seen. He says: “I look for connections in the forest and wonder about my experience within it. Like ever-expanding roots reaching for nutrients, those connections provide an endless supply of metaphor and meaning.”
Elmira artist Karen Russo creates ceramic sculptures in which the figure becomes the landscape. She finds inspiration from the Douglas Fir forest that surrounds her home, where fascinating wildlife and native plants are abundant. She uses seed pods, feathers, bones, and stones to create textures and patterns upon the surface layers of her sculptures.
Evocation is a two-person show of the work of Oregon artists Andrea Schwartz-Feit and John Richey.
Eugene artist Andrea Schwartz-Feit creates encaustic paintings that translate and interpret patterns in nature and self. She thinks of her work as a “time-meets-space experience, a manifestation of a marriage of the personal to the universal.”
The standing figure wood sculptures of Cove artist John Richey are carved out of laminated slabs of wood, which are shaped and selectively painted. Richey says of his work: “They don’t so much resemble human figures as they evoke psychological human presence.”
