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Remember when you were a kid and for Mother’s Day you’d make a Georgia O’Keefe-inspired flower painting? Or maybe you’d cover your hands in paint, smack ’em down on a piece of paper with a poem, give it to mom and call it good? Mom loved that. She loved your art. Your mom still loves […]
In his upcoming show, Bill Cravis explores the current predicaments of the world in two new large-scale pieces, on display at Central Oregon Community College’s Pence Pinckney Gallery throughout the month of May. One piece is in the form of ceramics; one in the form of video installed in a large-box that, well— you just […]
All good things come to an end: The Beatles, love letters… and now, Last Saturdays at The Workhouse. While The Workhouse, an artist’s studio and retail space, is not going anywhere, its regular monthly event—which provided a place for local musicians and artists to connect and share their work—will take place for the last time […]
Keira Kotler Keira Kotler’s show At Liberty is one to see. Her serene and visually calming work is a delight in color and light exploration. It’s her ability to find the simple, in between moments of color and light that make her work so enticing. It’s precisely this work that names those things we don’t […]
Oregon WinterFest has held a firepit competition at the February event for a number of years. New this year was the addition of a donation program that saw the winning artist gaining a $5,000 cash prize, and a local entity gaining a valuable piece of public art. This year, the winning creation, by Hunter Dahlberg […]
Lloyd McMullen at Pence-Pinckney Gallery There’s no such thing as useless or unworthy when viewed through the eyes of Bend artist Lloyd McMullen. Her work often features found objects or “cast-off” items—most that might be given the tag “trash,” but if that same piece of trash finds its way to McMullen’s studio, it will no […]
Karen Ruane never had a knack for watercolors, which is why her art may surprise you. It’s not watercolors that she works with. Instead, she uses alcohol inks, which leave you with the same feeling: free and light. Ruane grew up in the desert and has a deep love for it. She and her family […]
Sally Gilmore is a sculptor. That much is clear. Often working in paper, fiber and textiles, Gilmore’s sculpture can bring laughter and intrigue. Her newest foray into ceramics had her friends and family stunned, but for Gilmore, it is the excitement of bringing sensuality to utilitarian items that’s exciting, reckoning back to her sculptural past. […]
How do you capture the feeling of a mountain in a ring? Or the magic of a dance in a painting? Somehow, Karen Bandy does just this. Whether through jewelry or painting, Bandy has the unique ability to capture movement and the feeling it projects. Bandy landed in Bend over 30 years ago after various […]
When Haley Stendahl’s grandmother taught her to cross stitch, she may not have imagined the vision her granddaughter would have: taking a traditional, primarily female medium and turning it straight up onto its head. Stendahl’s collaboration with longtime friend Briony Deege has resulted in the empowering and often hilarious cross stitch art they create under […]
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