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The East Oregonian Gallery at the Pendleton Center for the Arts is a beautiful space for viewing a wide range of artwork. Funded by the East Oregonian, publisher of the local daily paper since 1875, the gallery is flanked by large windows original to the building, bamboo floor and more than 1800 square feet of display area. Sculpture, paintings, photographs, artist’s C fiber arts are just a few of the mediums that have been showcased. We invite established artists from outside the area to exhibit as well as local emerging artists. Want your work considered? Get more information here.
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You can view more highlights of our past exhibits and read about the artists here. |
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Exhibit highlights of the past three years….. |
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Exhibits at PCA |
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What to see NOW….. The Art of the Gift - through Dec. 31 |
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Pendleton Round-Up at 100 Design Binding Competition Through August 26, 2010
Made possible through the support of Colleen & Jeff Blackwood |
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We asked artists from across the country to create unique bindings for Pendleton Round-Up at 100: Oregon’s Legendary Rodeo. Each artist received an unbound text block that was then transformed into a bound volume using a variety of materials and techniques. Fourteen entries were received, and Sabina Nies of Ashland, Oregon was awarded the award for best binding. Nies’ piece featured a case binding, bison leather (Oregon Full Circle Bison Ranch) onlays (Goat & Sheep), hand made paste paper, and leather headbands and was housed in a clam-shell box with round-up logo inlay, bison suede and bookcloth.
Nies described her concept this way: “For the cover I chose Oregon raised Bison leather as a tribute to the American Buffalo. The Native American pattern and the American Starts and Stripes are a symbol for the friendly get-together of both Nations. The Native American décor on-lay pattern is taken from the Indian Beauty Winner Caroline Motanic (1952). The hoofs in ‘metal’ symbolize the cowboy horses while the blind impression stand for the Native American horses and for the ghost of the ancestors Round-Up for 100 years.” |
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(left) Detail of binding by Constance Wozny, (center) display of some tools of the trade, (right) detail of binding by Karen Hanmer |
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Judge Kathryn Bedford Brown was especially impressed with Nies’ reflection on the spirit of the event. Nies wasn’t familiar with the Pendleton Round-Up, the third largest rodeo in North America, but was so intrigued after reading the pages that she bought tickets to attend the 100th Anniversary event in September. |
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From the Artist’s Statement….
“One favorite family quote: Mom didn't hang curtains for 26 months 'cause she wasn't staying. … That alone spoke of the early landscape of eastern Oregon. My father worked construction jobs to support his family during the 40's and then established a business he owned and operated until age 75.
I was born in Pendleton, the last of four girls and the only one born in a hospital. I grew up picking huckleberries, blackberries and chanterelles in the mountains. Deer and fishing seasons marked on the calendar were as important as Thanksgiving and Christmas. My father had his annual fall five-county tour that we traveled by car, up Cabbage Hill into the Blues and beyond, then rounding back through Heppner.
I married into a ranching family – the Campbells on Buttercreek. At 24, I spent five years being a ranch wife, with two small children. For three months I worked along side my husband, Gene, his father, Glenn, and brothers and hired hands for harvest and have never worked so hard in my life. I was the only cook, providing three square meals a day and delivering afternoon refreshment into the fields!! Bouncing around in an old truck, on a dirt road through the wheat fields with a six and two year old standing beside you and who used seat belts?
Round-Up to ranchers meant Harvest was done. Every September since I can remember, the Pendleton Round-Up arrived with the end of summer and the onset of fall. It started with the Dress Up Parade and then the excitement of Rodeo Week. As a little girl I never had cowboy boots… but I LOVED my moccasins.
My family always planned for the last day and the Westward Ho Parade. An early morning drive with a long line of cars moving so slowly into Pendleton from the west. I spent 4 decades going to the Round-Up off and on. My daughter was thrilled to ride her first pony, then her horse along with her cousin Kelly and aunt Barbara, a Round-Up Princess 1963.
My reminiscences are small compared to the local people and native Pendletonians who have kept the Round-Up as thrilling and historical as its beginning 100 years ago, the town teeming with cowboys, cowgirls, and then real cowboys and cowgirls, horses, music, lights, pageantry, Indians dancing and drumming… all in the early tradition and pioneer spirit of the old west.
The paintings are a few images of many that I cultivated from well-known photos and family photos that I collect. My sentimental 'recollections' and borrowed visions of the September days of Round-Up.
So, ‘here's to you,’ Pendleton Round-Up and the next 100 years!” |
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Sandra Jones-Campbell: Recollections Sept. 2 - Oct. 1, 2010 Made possible through the support of Hallman and Dretke. |
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MaLynda Poulsen: The Gilded West Oct. 7 - Nov. 4, 2010
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MaLynda Poulsen is visiting assistant professor of art at Whitman College in Walla Walla and has been exhibiting her work for more than a decade. Her new exhibit features the innovative use of recycled materials in elaborately layered shadow boxes that are compositionally rich and thought-provoking.
Poulsen received both her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Fine Arts degrees from Boise State University. Her background is mainly focused on painting, but she is also skilled in printmaking and thinks of drawing as her forte. These current works draw on a range of mediums, from photo collage to an encaustic technique that encapsulates drawings and transfers into a wax surface. Poulsen has also used relief prints of wallpaper designs that offer an intriguing contrast with the subject matter, which includes barnyard animals and iconic Hollywood images of the West.
The unifying feature on all the works are their captivating frames. At first glance they appear to be ornate, Baroque, wooden pieces, but upon closer inspection they reveal themselves to be layers of simple cardboard and applied decorations. After years of training that emphasized the purity and permanence of art-making materials, Poulsen finds it liberating to depart from the formal canon and explore the textures and structure of layered corrugated cardboard.
“The students arrive on campus each year with tons of boxes, so I began collecting and cutting them down” said Poulsen. “In addition to feeding into my desire to be environmentally conscious and recycle things, it was surprisingly liberating to be able to use the materials with spontaneity, not worrying about the archival qualities of the paper, but rather just responding to the way it felt and looked to me as I began experimenting.”
Poulsen also was intrigued with the way layers of cardboard made to look like something else referenced the building facades used in movie making. Many of the images she used in the work come from old Hollywood films and television programs.
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Made possible through the support of Medical Center Dental |
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The Art of the Gift (Group Fine Craft Exhibit) (Tana Teel in the Board Room) Dawn Forbes & Margaret Jamison Christy Wychoff |
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Through Dec, 31, 2011
February 2 - 25, 2012 March 1 - 31, 2012
October 4 - 27, 2012 November 1 - December 31, 2012 |
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Sam Collett: New Work January 20 - Feb. 25, 2011
The East Oregonian Gallery at the Pendleton Center for the Arts is often filled with people, but this month even the walls are adorned with interesting characters. The figurative work by Joseph artist Sam Collett greets visitors as they enter the room, and Collett’s eye for detail draws them in to the canvases.
When Collett studied at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and pursued graduate work at University of Utah he found his interest in realism was something of an anomaly. Paintings of people and places took a back seat to what most of the students and instructors considered more contemporary means of expression, like abstraction and minimalism. He moved to New York and found a mentor in painter Albert Handell and continued to study the style of realism that captivated him.
The people depicted in his paintings are Collett’s friends from Joseph. In his gallery talk at the Opening of his exhibit, he spoke about musicians visiting his studio, playing while he sketched and painted studies for future work.
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The East Oregonian Gallery at the Pendleton Center for the Arts is a beautiful space for viewing a wide range of artwork. Funded by the East Oregonian, publisher of the local daily paper since 1875, the gallery is flanked by large windows original to the building, bamboo floor and more than 1800 square feet of display area. Sculpture, paintings, photographs, artist’s C fiber arts are just a few of the mediums that have been showcased. We invite established artists from outside the area to exhibit as well as local emerging artists. Want your work considered? Get more information here. |
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Upcoming exhibits….. |
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Each year we transform our main East Oregonian Gallery into a showcase for exciting works created by the best craftspeople from across the country and right here at home. We select functional and wearable items we think you’ll love browsing through and giving as gifts for the holiday season. |
