Co-working spaces are hot in Bend right now and, with a growing population of makers, telecommuters, and other out-of-the-cube workers, it’s no surprise. Joining the recently opened Dastardly Arts are two new ventures: DIYcave and The Wilds. DIYcave opened May 30 in the former Pakit Liquidators space (444 SE Ninth St.). The new work shared […]
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Art Watch 5/27-6/3
With such a rich culture of art and creativity in Central Oregon, it’s no wonder talented artists from other parts of the country are looking for a way to have their work on display here. For Jim Peterson at the Mockingbird Gallery in downtown Bend, his hope is to provide such an avenue for these […]
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Art Watch 5/13-5/20
Metal Magic A fairy tale carriage, a fire-breathing rhino, a frozen phoenix. These are among the inhabitants of Sisters artist Ken Scott’s imagination. Inhabitants, rather than creations, because they appear when he shows up for them, like lovers in a misty, moonlit meadow. “Everything I do is all wrapped up in the fact that metal […]
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Art Watch 5/6-5/13
In speaking about the work of an artist, painter Georgia O’Keefe once said, “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” O’Keefe was a talented painter of oversized flowers and New Mexico landscapes who, at the ripe age of 86, took up pottery […]
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Art Watch 4/29-5/6
Master printmaker Patricia Clark
One of Bend’s most celebrated artists, master printmaker and Atelier 6000 (A6) founder Patricia Clark, celebrates her 80th birthday this year. Her impressive works, which reflect a fascination with the natural world that spans six decades, will be on display at two galleries during First Friday and throughout the month of May. Her exhibit “Marks” […]
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Bouyant and Bubbly
Our Artist of the Month Tracie Broughton paints underwater (well, not literally)
In the six years that Portland artist Tracie Broughton has been a fine art painter, the prolific painter has embarked on ambitious projects with a distinctive style suggesting a much longer career. Broughton is a graphic designer by trade whose murals and lifelike canvases evoke a joyful liveliness in both form and substance. The photographic […]
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Art Watch 4/22-4/29
When people ask me if I make art, I pretty much always answer, “No.” If someone describes me as “creative,” I will usually scrunch up my nose and make a self-deprecating comment. I do like to spend time creating things that are visually and or intellectually beautiful—shadow boxes or short stories or terrariums—but I decided […]
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Art Watch 4/15-4/22
These days everyone is a photographer. If you have a cellphone, chances are you are carrying around a gallery of selfies, animal portraits, and food still lifes in your pocket. My nine-year old can snap a picture, slap on an insta-filter, and upload it to an online portfolio in less time than it takes me […]
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Art Watch 4/8-4/15
In case you didn’t already know, upcycling is quite a thing right now. Theoretically, artists have been creatively reusing objects and turning them into art for decades—Marcel Duchamp and the Dadists were doing it when they created their “ready-made” art in the early 1900s, and Robert Rauschenberg was incorporating trash into his mid-century collages way […]
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Art Watch 4/1-4/8
Throughout April at the Red Chair Gallery in downtown Bend, aspiring high school students will experience the ins and outs of a “real world” art show—from the jury selection process to hanging and pricing and (hopefully) selling their work. For the past four years—almost as long as the gallery has been in existence—the women at […]