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About Oregon Coast today. (Lincoln City, OR) 2005-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 2019)
artsy A copper-ative approach Steve and Calisse Browne are the featured artists for October at the Pacific Artist’s Co-op Gallery in Lincoln City. The couple’s copper art is “painted” using a propane torch flame. As the flame from the torch heats the metal, up to 14 colors, from bright yellows and green to bold blue, purples and browns can be oxidized onto the copper. This process requires patience and a willingness on the artist’s part to adjust their vision for the piece as the temperature and humidity in the air affects the way copper reacts to the flame. Flame-painted art is a negotiation between the artist and the copper. Once the design is flame drawn and the color is oxidized on the copper, color can be ground off revealing the natural copper color and enhancing the design. The couple’s artwork will be on display from 10 am to 5 pm daily throughout October at, 620 NE Highway 101. Artist of the month Gleneden Beach oil painter Ronald Yasenchak is October’s artist of the month at the Artist’s Studio Association in Lincoln City. Yasenchak’s artistic talents first surfaced in 1968, when he started painting with oils while living in Columbus, Ohio. He and his family moved to Portland in 1970 where he put away his brushes and pursued woodwork along with various outdoor interests including hunting, fishing and golf. In 1974, he attended a garden show that included a bonsai exhibit. Yasenchak had majored in forestry in college and he found bonsai an almost perfect marriage of plants and art. For the next forty 40 years, he designed and maintained dozens of artfully crafted bonsai. In 2008, he and his wife, Becky, bought a home in Gleneden Beach and became permanent residents. Trees remained central to Yasenchak’s art when he picked up his abandoned paints and brushes in 2014, joining birds and fish as the main focus of many of his paintings. He also likes to include a little mystery and humor in his work. Yasenchak’s work will be available to view daily from 10 am to 5 pm at 620 NE Hwy. 101 22 • oregoncoastTODAY.com • facebook.com/oregoncoasttoday • October 18, 2019 By Joshua Feeny ART IN THE SPOTLIGHT The latest Spotlight Show from Newport’s Yaquina Art Association features the artwork of husband-and-wife duo Joshua and Megan Feeny. From distant sunsets, to intimate close up views of ferns and moss, Megan Feeny expresses the light, movement and energy of nature in her oil paintings. A long time Northwest artist, Megan has been an art Instructor and an artist represented by many galleries up and down the coasts of Oregon and Washington. She now shows exclusively at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery, where she supports the association’s mission of inclusiveness and community outreach. Megan showed an interest in art at an early age, watching TV’s “Romper Room,” for the craft segment, paper and crayons at the ready. She continued exploring art all throughout her life. She believes that everyone has an artistic nature, just expressed in many different ways. It could be in visual arts, gardening, writing, music or creative thinking. Joshua Feeny’s Spotlight show will feature his photos and paintings. Joshua has found that he can express himself more with a brushstroke or the click of a camera than with words and believes that art is a form of expression, rather than a means to popularity or notoriety. Van Gough has been a great influence on Joshua’s art. He appreciates his rebellious brush strokes of thick intense color, and painting what spoke to him rather than what the public perceived as “good” art. Joshua was exposed to art in his early years. His mother would often bring him and his brother to art classes and shows, and art supplies were always available at home. Joshua always had a love for the romantic periods of history and it often reflected in murals on the walls of his bedroom. Having gone through some difficult personal times, he has once again reached out to art as a healing form of expression. The show will be on display through Friday, Oct. 25, available to view from 11 am to 4 pm daily at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery, 789 NW Beach Drive.
