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Newspaper Page Text12 JANUARY 19�26, 2022 MIXED MEDIUM THE ARTS AROUND EASTERN OREGON Walla Walla artists explore traditions of painting Show by Andrew and Emily Somoskey in Nightingale Gallery runs through Feb. 9 Go! staff L A GRANDE — The Night- ingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University begins winter term with an exhibition by Walla Walla artists Andrew and Emily Somoskey. Their exhibition, titled “Vis- à-vis,” opened Jan 14 in Night- ingale Gallery, located in Loso Hall room 106 on the campus of Eastern Oregon University. The show runs through Feb. 9. Nightingale Gallery is open 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Proper face coverings are required of all campus visitors and social distancing is encouraged. “Vis-à-vis” consists of a va- riety of works that explore and expand upon the traditions of painting. Emily’s mixed-media work on canvas integrates layers of paint and collaged digital prints, while Andrew’s includes oil painting on canvas, wall-based installation and vinyl collage. The French term “vis-à-vis” originally referred to a carriage where passengers faced one another, and came to describe two entities in opposition or working alongside one another. Its direct translation refers to two things that are face-to- face. This proximity generates a dialogue that inspires and drives the exhibition. Both Emily and Andrew hail from Ohio and earned MFA degrees from Michigan State University. They now nurture student artists at Whitman Col- lege in Walla Walla, Washington. “‘Vis-à-vis’ encourages viewers to explore Emily and Andrew’s complex, layered compositions, as well as en- gage in the ongoing dialogue of the two artists’ works,” Gallery Director Cory Peeke said. Both Emily and Andrew’s work examines the ways in which we navigate transitional spaces and the systems within our environments through the language of abstraction. “The systems I reference within my process center around textual and symbolic language. They also refer to the history of abstraction,” Andrew said. While Andrew’s work is based in encoding and decod- ing text, and Emily’s mixed- media work is based in the pieces and fragments from the world itself, they both ask, “How do we navigate the familiar and respond to the unknown?” “My work gives form to the complexity, instability, and enigmatic nature of our lived experiences,” Emily said. For more information, visit eou.edu/art or follow the Night- ingale Gallery on Facebook and Instagram. Work by Andrew and Emily Somoskey is now on exhibit at EOU’s Nighingale Gallery. 11am-8pm Tuesday-Saturday