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.
Tipton’s process is informed
by the improvisational aspects
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more direct link to the uncon-
scious. His introspective paint-
ings also stem from a belief in
the restorative qualities of nature.
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
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“Amoeba” by Tom Cramer.
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A tree triptych by Dave and Boni Deal at White Bird Gallery.
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“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.