Septembers featured artist at Tumalo Art Co., Carla Spence, questions the conventional wisdom of color, borrowing discordant palettes and bold shapes from the Fauvists, yet creating a warm and emotive whole. In her show, Between Here and There…Closing the Divide with Color, opening September 4 from 4-8pm, she strives to capture a “joie de vivre” in her vivid portrayals of the places she loves—the high desert of Central Oregon, the Adriatic Coast of central Italy and the south of France.
Her work reflects her preoccupation with the color and shape of things, of landscapes, of details in the ordinary components of life, which call to be altered, and to be represented in unexpected ways. She deconstructs the various elements of her compositions, simplifying them, and distorting the perspective, blending sophistication with primitive simplicity.
Tumalo Art Co. is an artist-run gallery in the heart of the Old Mill District, open 7 days a week. www.tumaloartco.com; 541-385-9144.
Sarah B. Hansen will be teaching an online workshop through the Northwest Watercolor Society April 24-25. Energetic Acrylic: An Expressive Approach to Landscape Painting in Acrylics, will be from 10am-4pm
Kerrie Moore writes about “A Sense of Place” for Uppercase magazine, issue 61, April/May, inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, who found “her place” in New Mexico in the 1940s. She interviews