JUNE 2, 2016 // 21
Salem gallery
shows Royal
Nebeker art
retrospective
SALEM — The Hallie Ford
Museum of Art at Willamette
University will present a
major retrospective exhibition
of the work of Astoria artist
Royal Nebeker (1945-2014).
Organized by John Olbrantz,
the Maribeth Collins director,
“Royal Nebeker: Dreams and
Allusions” features 36 paint-
ings and prints from public
and private collections on the
West Coast, opens Saturday,
June 4 and continues through
Aug. 28 in the Melvin Hen-
derson-Rubio Gallery.
A variety of compli-
mentary events accompany
this exhibition. A conversa-
tion, moderated by John Ol-
brantz, at 5 p.m. Friday, June
3 in the Paulus Lecture Hall
at the Willamette University
College of Law, will bring
together a panel of family,
friends and colleagues who
will share recollections about
Nebeker. A reception will
follow at the Hallie Ford Mu-
SUBMITTED PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROYAL NEBEKER ESTATE
“Shady Grove,” 2006, mixed media on paper by Royal Nebeker
(1945-2014), from the collection of Sarah Nebeker, Gearhart.
seum of art between 6 and 8
p.m. (RSVP for the reception
by calling 503-370-6855.)
Explore the exhibition with
museum docents during free
Tuesday Gallery Talks that
start at 12:30 p.m. on June 7,
July 5 and Aug. 2.
Nebeker was an accom-
plished symbolist painter and
teacher who created highly
personalized narratives based
on dreams and memories,
often embellished with words
and notations that helped
drive his narrative.
Born in San Francisco in
1945 to a Norwegian mother
and a Danish/Swiss father,
Nebeker was fascinated with
Norwegian art, literature,
language and culture.
Throughout his career, he
focused on the human igure.
His work was strongly inlu-
enced by Norwegian painter
Edvard Munch, the German
Expressionists, and by the
Vienna Secessionist artists
Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele
and others. Although his early
teachers encouraged him to
embrace the tenets of Abstract
Expressionism, he remained
irst and foremost a igurative
artist.
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The artist said of his work,
“For me, this process of paint-
ing resembles looking through
a night window. I peer out,
observing and at the same
time see the relection of the
interior conditions of my own
reality. It is my intent that
as the viewer peers into my
painting he will not only see
a visual record of meaning in
my life but will discover the
relection of meaning in their
own, as in a night window.”
Over the years, Royal
was the recipient of numer-
ous awards and honors. He
studied in California at the
Claremont College and Otis
Art Institute, and received
a Master of Fine Arts at
Brigham Young University in
1970. He went on to complete
a postgraduate degree from
the National School of Fine
Arts in Oslo, Norway, in
1972. He served as an artist in
residence in Norway in 1972
and 1975 and was awarded a
fellowship to live and work in
Edvard Munch’s Oslo studio
and research graphic art at the
Munch Museum. He taught at
Clatsop Community College
between 1974 and 2014 and
served as an Oregon Arts
Commissioner.
At the invitation of the
Norwegian Ministry of
Culture in 2004, Nebeker
received a residency and
one-person exhibition. In ad-
dition, he received sabbatical
and study grants to Japan and
Germany and support grants
for travel and exhibition from
the Japan Foundation and Art
Matters. Nebeker’s paintings
and prints have been featured
in numerous solo and group
exhibitions throughout the
United States and Europe and
are included in public and pri-
vate collections in the United
States, Norway, Germany and
Poland.
This exhibition is sup-
ported by general operating
support grants from the city of
Salem’s Transient Occupancy
Tax funds and the Oregon
Arts Commission.
The Hallie Ford Muse-
um of Art is located at 700
State St. in Salem. Hours are
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday
through Saturday and 1 to
5 p.m Sunday. The galleries
are closed Monday. General
admission is $6, $4 for seniors
and $3 for students 18 and
older. Students 17 and under
and children are admitted
free. Admission is free for
everyone on Tuesdays. For
more information, call 503-
370-6855 or visit willamette.
edu/go/hfma
Mon-Sat 10 am - 8 pm
Sun 12 Noon - 6 pm
2911 Marine Dr #B
Astoria, OR 97103
503-325-2576
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