Valley Artists Join Forces for Three-person Show at LBCC
Glass artist Jerri Bartholomew of Corvallis and printmaker Paul Gentry of Independence join Corvallis painter and graphic artist Carol Chapel for an exhibit in the North Santiam Hall Galleries at Linn-Benton Community College, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, Albany, from March 5 to April 20. A reception and informal gallery talk will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 8 in the NSH Gallery second floor atrium. The show, “Carol Chapel and Friends,” combines Chapel’s graceful, ethereal drawings and paintings with Gentry’s exquisite wood engravings of quiet Willamette Valley scenes and Bartholomew’s evocative collages assembled within glass panels. “I asked Jerri and Paul to join me in this exhibition because in addition to liking them personally, I admire their work,” Chapel said. “Our approaches have some similarities but our mediums vary. I feel the combination of work by the three of us will make for an interesting show.” Chapel studied painting and printmaking at Wichita State Unive...