Spring ARTS
Unveiling
FESTIVAL
presents the 17th annual
It’s nearly time again for one of the North Oregon Coast’s most popular art events.
This year, eleven galleries including two that will be celebrating their 30 th
anniversaries, will spotlight new work by more than 50 artists, May 5-7.
A
The galleries and their featured event artists include:
rtwork being revealed for the fi rst
BRONZE COAST GALLERY
Using the patina process on bronze plates as his
time will include virtually every
ARCHIMEDES GALLERY
canvas, Nathan Bennett mines new veins in painting.
medium from watercolors to oils, bronze to Portland artist Brin Levinson’s artwork clearly shows
Taking the chemicals normally used to fi nish bronze
the infl uence of the city’s industrial areas and older
marble and metal sculpture, blown glass to architecture. His “backyard” has become the subject of sculptures, he instead wields them as he would paint,
on an eighth-inch-thick sheet of silica bronze that
cast and ceramics.
his art, based upon the collision of urban landscapes
becomes his canvas. The result is stark, but haunting.
Cannon Beach visitors who have attended and the natural world. Melding together an organic
Margret Short specializes in still life and fl oral subjects
style with graphic overlays, David Rice’s work also
this event in the past have said they really
in oils, concentrating on replicating 17 th century paints,
focuses on the themes of nature, but it speaks to how,
enjoy being able to visit with the artists,
hand grinding each pigment. The resulting colors are
instead of only a natural world existing, or one that is
reminiscent of Rembrandt’s pallet, and create a game
while watching many of them at work on a manmade, the two can coexist harmoniously if the
dominant party yields to this cohesive existence. Nicole of hide-and-seek in each painting. Melissa J. Cooper
new piece.
spent ten years working in a Loveland, Colorado
Gustafsson works full time as an illustrator specializing
Also included for the sixth year is “Art
foundry, casting other artists’ work, never once thinking
in traditional media paintings, featuring everything
of creating her own art. But the hard work was worth
from the Chef’s Table” with more than two
from woodland characters and environments to pop-
it, because it gave her an invaluable education in
dozen local chefs selecting artwork from the culture-based projects. She uses a stunning color
working in bronze from the bottom up. Today, this
palette to capture fantastical places found in the
galleries as their theme for creating special
award-winning artist’s widely collected wildlife art, is all
natural world.
menu items off ered only during the weekend.
worked in detail that infuses each animal with spirit and
personality.
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