JUNE 29, 2017 // 9
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SEASIDE — Celebrating 13 years in 2017, Seaside’s next
First Saturday Art Walk will take place 5 to 7 p.m. July 1.
Visitors meet artists, see original art, sip wine and snag
appetizers by favorite restaurants and personal chefs, view
artist demonstrations, and enjoy live music performances.
The event is free and is all about seeing and selling art
in the galleries and boutiques located between Holladay
Drive and Broadway Street in the historic Gilbert District of
downtown Seaside.
Complimentary parking is on the corner of Holladay
Drive and Oceanway Street.
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“Exhilaration” by Victoria Brooks
SunRose Gallery
606 Broadway St.
Seaside artist Robin Montero
will be our featured artist with her
fiber collages of both wet felting and
needle felting processes.
A self-taught artist, she is not
afraid to experiment and unites her
artistic passions of painting, sculp-
ture and beading into one form,
often with a touch of whimsy.
Also featured will be her original
line of art clay jewelry she romanti-
cally calls “Atlantia.”
Montero’s background is in pro-
fessional theatrical costume design.
Also in attendance will be popu-
lar upcycle mixed-media artist Patty
Thurlby and SunRose owner-artist
Cathy Tippin with her broken china
and stained glass creations.
Fairweather House
and Gallery
612 Broadway St.
Opening reception for “Waves,”
an exhibition featuring resident
artists Victoria Brooks, Linda Fen-
ton-Mendenhall and Ron Nicolaides,
and introducing Jim Young and
Karen Lewis.
Brooks paints in oils to capture
landscapes and emotional moments
of people in natural settings.
Fenton-Mendenhall, a lifelong
resident of Clatsop County, offers
fresh perspectives of the fleeting
moments of waves and the whisper
of the sea.
Nicolaides has mastered the
mesmerizing translucent waves in
his depiction of luminous seascapes.
Young, a fishery biologist for the
National Marine Fisheries Service,
and later a research scientist for a
U.S. Department of Energy national
laboratory, uses photography as
documentation, illustrating articles
written for a website and publica-
tions.
“My aim as a photographic artist
is to capture images expressed in
nature that would be forgotten if
not recorded permanently after the
events have passed,” he said.
Lewis has a lifelong relationship
with water. She grew up kayaking,
swimming, and snorkeling. She tries
to capture the many moods of water,
and her sweeping brush strokes
express fluidity and color in motion.
Naturalist and biologist Neal
Maine will speak at 6 p.m. about the
ecology of the local habitat.
Shirley 88 will play live music.
Moxie
609 Broadway St.
Moxie features exclusive jewelry
and art; everything is handmade.
As a member of the Fair Trade
Federation, Moxie demonstrates a
genial and equitable approach to
conducting business.
Moxie is a fabulously fun store
with the heart of a lion.
Art in the Loft Gallery
at Beach Books
616 Broadway St.
Beach Books proudly presents
two uniquely talented women
artists from the Portland Metro area,
Eliat Avivi and Elina Zebergs.
“Prom Night” by Marcus Lundell
Textile art at SunRose Gallery
“Tillamook Head” by Billy Lutz
Unique. Colorful. Expressive.
Alluring. Happy.
Encaustic (wax) art by Elina Zeberg at Beach Books
Avivi was born in France and
lived in Iran, Turkey, the Netherlands
and Israel before moving to the U.S.
in 2014. Creating art is a major force
in her life. The colors, rhythm and
feelings of the places she has lived
inform her work.
Zeberg’s favorite medium to
work in is oils and encaustic, yet, as
an architect, her brain likes to work
in watercolors and colored pencils.
Each artist has found her place
in the art world through different
pathways and different back-
grounds, but both share a deep love
of artistic expression. Bold. Daring.
T Anjuli Gallery
7 N. Holladay Drive
“Billy Lutz, owner of the gallery,
is a magnificent artist. His works
transcend pure aesthetics and
delve into the abstract realm of the
metaphysical to evoke an intense
spiritual and intellectual response,”
wrote Amy Kiefer, a freelance Gilbert
District reporter.
“In the true spirit of his
paintings, Lutz eclipses his physical
limitations through his fathom-
less ardor for philosophy,” Kiefer
continued. “Afflicted with retinitis
pigmentosa, a hereditary degen-
erative eye disease, Lutz continues
expressing his brilliant theories
through poignantly conceptual
art.”
Seaside Coffee House
3 N. Holladay Drive
Featuring Marcus Lundell, an
artist who utilizes a traditional
reverse glass painting technique on
distressed windows, as well as new
and vintage picture frames to create
his unique images.
His window views include come-
dic characters. His witty perspective
brings a modern, urbane touch to his
folk art medium. All funds from sales
are donated to charitable organiza-
tions on the Oregon Coast.