NSH Gallery Features Four Oregon Artist in Invitational Exhibit
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| Cynthia Spencer "Hieroglyphs Of The Heart." |
Portland painter William Park and Salem multi-media artist Kristin Kuhns share the galleries with Corvallis artists Cynthia Spencer and Suzanne Campbell (who uses the psuedonym S Tellez).
A public reception and gallery talk with the artists will be held on Thursday, Jan. 30, from noon to 1 p.m. in the NSH second floor atrium.
•William Park has exhibited his striking oil paintings at various venues around the Northwest since the early 1990s, including several solo exhibits at Portland's Augen and Mark Woolley galleries, and was featured on Oregon Public Broadcasting's "Oregon Art Beat" in 2010. For the LBCC Invitational, Park is showing a selection of large contemporary portraits from his "Fridays with Fred" series. Park describes the series as an on-going "collaboration" with his sitter, Fred Nemo, a one-time stranger who first sat for a portrait in 2007, and who has been visiting Park's studio weekly ever since.
•Kristin Kuhns lives in West Salem, where she pursues a dual career as a professional artist and part-time teacher at Valley Inquiry Charter School. She began her studio practice 30 years ago while living in Maui, and since coming to Oregon her work has taken several bold, new directions, including combining textiles with painted canvas, and installations involving wood and ceramics. Her work challenges the viewer to consider his or her relationship to nature, especially the forest.
•Cynthia Spencer has been showing her pottery at craft fairs and galleries around the Northwest since 1987 and is known for both her utilitarian ceramics as well as her sculptural work. Her functional pieces in the LBCC Invitational are constructed from slabs of clay rather than thrown on a potter's wheel, and are wood-fired in a traditional anagama kiln. Her sculptures in the show combine clay with wire and paper to create fanciful forms.
•Suzanne Campbell (aka S Tellez) is known for creating whimsical constructions that can take the form of tiny dioramas inside anything from eggshells to cigar boxes, as well as for her paintings and sculptures that celebrate Dia de Los Muertos. She describes one of her recurring themes as an exploration of "the absurdity of materialism in a consumer society." She also draws inspiration from the Mexican illustrator, Jose Guadalupe Posada, who saw death as the "great equalizer of all social classes." Representatives of both bodies of work are in the Invitational exhibit.
The four artists will be exhibiting on both floors of the NSH Galleries, which are open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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| Kristin Kuhns "Teeth." |
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| Suzanne Campbell "Pinata." |
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| William Park "Coffee Break." |
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