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Gallery wings it on re-opening
The annual bird-themed art show at
Lincoln City’s Chessman Gallery will come
alive this Friday, June 12, showcasing 3D
sculpture and paintings by Robert Schlegel;
ceramics, art prints and paintings by
Marilyn Burkhardt; mixed media and fabric
art by Cheri Aldrich; and fire paintings by
Cynthia Longhat-Adams.
The show, titled “the thing with feathers,”
opens with a virtual reception on the
Lincoln City Cultural Center’s Facebook
page @LincolnCityCulture, hosted by
Executive Director Niki Price and Gallery
Director Krista Eddy at 5 pm.
A graduate of Willamette University
and Portland State University, Robert
Schlegel’s lifetime commitment to drawing,
painting and sculpture has led to numerous
solo and group exhibits in California,
Montana, Oregon and Washington. His
work has been included in the Artists of
Oregon juried group show at the Portland
Art Museum; the John Natsalous Gallery
in Davis California; Steven F. Austin
University in Nacogdoches, Texas; KDR-
Prographica in Seattle; Koplin Del Rio
Gallery in Los Angeles; and the Governor’s
Office in Salem, Oregon.
From 2012 to 2013 he was a member of
the artists collaborative 13 Hats, which held
exhibits in Portland and Seattle. Following
a 2015 exhibit of multimedia assemblages
at Western Oregon University, his work
was featured in the catalog “As.sem’.bla.
ges,” which included a foreword by Roger
Hull, senior faculty curator at Hallie Ford
Museum of Art.
In 2016, Schlegel created an edition
of archival ink jet prints, “or fact a formal
treatment” in collaboration with his son, the
poet Rob Schlegel. Editions of this work
are included in permanent collections in
Whitman College’s Special Collections;
Stanford University’s Green Library;
University of Delaware, Special Collections;
Brown University’s John Hay Library; and
Yale’s Beinecke Library.
In the fall of 2016, Schlegel was featured
on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s “Art
Beat.” Since 2001, he has worked in a
By Cindy Adams
studio shared with his brother, the artist
Bill Schlegel, in the foothills of the Coast
Range.
Schlegel is interested in the interaction
of shape, contrast and line to transform
forms into images in paintings, collage
and prints: particularly, structures that are
juxtaposed into landscape. He strives to
create images that possess tension between
the representational and the abstract. He
paints in the studio and en plein aire from
preliminary sketches in charcoal, pencil and
oil pastel and takes reference photographs
as necessary. Finished paintings are in oils
and acrylics on gesso prepared paper, panel
and canvas. He also creates monotypes and
images from cut paper and collage. Drawing
is the foundation for his work and he is
tenacious with the sketch, whether it be in
a life-drawing session or in the field. He
fills journals with sketches and narratives
from travels. Through line, contrast, texture,
color and composition he explores his
own responses to form and shape where
objects in the natural world and objects
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By Marilyn Burkhardt