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Musical duo sings of labor, environment Dana Lyons, Anne Feeney to perform at Blue Scorcher ASTORIA — Environmental singer Dana Lyons has teamed up with notorious labor hell- raiser Anne Feeney to launch Teamsters and Turtles: Together at Last! Starting in Lyons’ home- town of Bellingham, Washing- ton, the musical duo took off July 1 and are sweeping south on tour. Lyons and Feeney will perform in Astoria at 7 p.m. Monday, July 20 at the Blue Scorcher Bakery & Cafe, lo- cated at 1493 Duane St. Ad- mission is a suggested dona- tion of $10 to $20, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. For more information, call 503-338-7473. The duo is touring to dis- pel the myth that unions are at odds with environmentalists. Through song and story, Ly- ons and Feeney will work to bring together labor activists and environmentalists into a movement for justice, peace, equality and sustainability. Feeney, a Pittsburgh-based agitator, performs music that she says is designed to “com- fort the afÀicted and afÀict the comfortable.” Not many women have chosen to walk the path of Woody Guthrie, but Feeney has made a career of it for the past 35 years. Lyons is the singer/song- writer best known for his outrageous hit comedy songs “Cows With Guns,” “RV” and “Ride The Lawn.” Dana Lyons & Anne Feeney 7 p.m. Monday, July 20 Blue Scorcher Bakery & Cafe 1493 Duane St., Astoria 503-338-7473 $10 to $20 suggested donation Submitted photo Submitted photo by Julie Leonardsson Pittsburgh-based agitator Anne Feeney will perform with Dana Lyons on July 20 at Blue Scorcher Bakery & Cafe. Bellingham, Washington-based singer/ songwriter Dana Lyons is known for his dynamic performances of comedy, ballads and love songs. White Bird Gallery opens new exhibition CANNON BEACH — White Bird Gallery will open its summer art show with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 18. The show features new paintings by Randall Tipton, wood carvings by Tom Cramer, and raku-¿red ceramics by Dave and Boni Deal. The show will run to Aug. 25. Randall Tipton is an Oregon artist who has been painting for over three decades. He works in oils on canvas as well as with various water media on paper and yupo surfaces, creating paintings that use the landscape as a guiding orientation. At its core, Tipton’s work suggests something fundamental and pri- mal, drawing from the transcen- dental relationship we have with the natural world. His composi- tions interpret the complexity of scene in deep layers of color and gesture, using soft tones and ex- pressive brushwork that is often achieved through a trial-and-er- ror process. 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Alluding to a dreamlike state, his emotive compositions challenge the relationship between fore- ground and background as ele- ments of light and depth create a degree of abstraction among his recognizable scenes. Tipton studied painting with Richard Diebenkorn at the Santa Fe In- stitute of Fine Arts. His work is included in several prominent collections such as the U.S. Em- bassy in El Salvador and News- week. Cramer is a well-known Oregon artist who creates me- ticulously carved, painted and gilded wood reliefs. The native Oregonian gained recognition throughout Portland in the 1980s and 1990s for his landmark out- door murals, wildly painted art cars and carved miniature to- tems — all of which are bright, bold and lean toward American pop-culture. Cramer’s recent wood reliefs are more intimate- ly approached than his previous public works. He draws from the deep histories of spirituality and cultures from places such as In- dia, Egypt and Europe. Merging aspects of paint- ing and woodcarving, Cramer’s pieces are labor-intensive vi- gnettes that allude to timeless- ness and emotional experience, rather than any direct representa- tion. In Cramer’s intricate relief surfaces and gilded textures there Submitted photo “Amoeba” by Tom Cramer. Submitted photo A tree triptych by Dave and Boni Deal at White Bird Gallery. Submitted photo “Shade and Sunlight” by Randall Tipton. is a sense of the in¿nite nature of reality, as he blends a inÀuences and such contradictory things as order and chaos, irrational men- tal states, romanticism, industri- alism and an array of musical, literary, visual and cultural ref- erences to turn the viewer on to an expanded view of themselves. Boni and Dave Deal are a husband-and-wife team who have been creating raku vessels and wall plaques for over 40 years. Their collaborative piec- es are mainly classic ceramic forms embellished with themes of Northwest Àora and fauna, created at their rustic home-stu- dio in the Cascade Mountains. Dave Deal is a master at wheel throwing, building and ¿ring the ceramic vessels with precision while Boni Deal uses her exper- tise to create elegant surface de- sign and texture to each pottery piece. The Deals’ nature-oriented ceramic art is also notable for the integrity of process — pieces are created with water from a creek, no electricity, and often use a kick-wheel, before being raku-¿red. The exhibit will include large-scale vessels with her- on motifs, wall triptychs and platters inspired by landscape scenes, and their signature leaf motif pottery, which uses real leaves pressed into the clay sur- face leaving behind an incredible real-life impression of maple, fern and gingko leaves. Some of their newest pieces also use batik methods and wax resistance to achieve detailed landscape de- signs on the pottery surface.
