'Local Color' - Part 2 - opens
Thursday, January 12, 2006 6:42 AM PST
By Staff
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E-mail this articleThere's enough local color for more than one exhibition.
So the Lower Columbia College Art Gallery has assembled the works of eight painters and one potter for "Local Color II," which opens Friday. A reception for the artists will run from 4 to 6 p.m. today. The show continues through Feb. 9.
As in "Local Color I," which ran at the Gallery last November, the new show has plenty of variety.
-- Carol Boudreau's intense, high-color watercolors capture the spirit of local scenery, according to Gallery director Trudy Woods.
-- Catherine Clark, who divides her time between Puget Island and Idaho, paints buildings, landscapes and still lifes in an impressionistic style.
-- Sharon Freeman's vivid watercolors portray flowers and scenes from her travels.
-- Barbara Kaempf Matkowski does bold, abstract explorations of form and composition.
-- Sharon Pedersen has built up a national reputation for soft, detailed watercolors of nostalgic scenes.
-- Quentin Robbins paints vividly realistic landscapes around his cabin in northern British Columbia.
-- Gene Staples started painting seriously at 60 in LCC classes and has been showing her work for two decades.
-- Marie Wise of Kalama recently returned to the oil medium; her paintings are full of bright color and a variety of brush strokes.
-- Ann Selberg is a Portland potter whose style tends toward simple elegance based on organic form. She will present a workshop in the LCC ceramics studio Jan. 28. For more information, call 442-2510.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesdays-Thursdays. Admission is free.
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