February/March 2025 Group Show—”Unbound”
February 6 at 3:00 pm - April 6 at 2:00 pm
A Gathering of Fishes Dee McBrien-Lee
the removal of the Klamath River Dam and the joy of the fishes returning to their former habitat. ” Dee
Our Group Exhibit, “Unbound” opens February 7, from 3-7pm during the Old Mill District First Friday Gallery Walk.
“Unbound”—this exhibition is a celebration of art without limits. Each of the artists in this gallery has come to be known for a particular style, a technique, a palette, a medium, or a favorite subject. What might we see if they give themselves the permission to break out of that mold?
Racing the Stars Shelli Walters
“A band of wild ponies thunders across the Earth. Their spirits are as unlimited as the cosmos as they race the swirling night time stars.” says of her inspiration for her piece for Unbound.
Perhaps a landscape painter explores abstraction or a watercolorist starts including other materials to make marks and texture. Come see how these artists push boundaries and redefine what art can be. It’s all about freedom, expression, and the joy of creating without constraints.
The Oceans Rise and the Neighborhoods Burn Anne Gibson
“I was doing some studio play, experimentation, a couple weeks back. Using up pots of paint on scraps of canvas that I just can’t seem to discard. On each scrap I layered colors in various sequences to play with the effects. I then decided to piece them together, using acrylic medium and paint as the adhesive. No real end goal in mind, just creating a surface I could continue working on, loosely thinking this might become something I could submit to the “Unbound” exhibit.
The L.A. fires started and grew, and I found myself spreading red, gold and yellow paint into big flames over the other colors. Against the turquoise blues and greens, the palette felt SoCal to me. It was cathartic, if nothing else. Night aerial photos of burning neighborhoods began appearing in the news. I grabbed a couple rolls of tape in different sizes and masked out squares to represent the burning buildings, in rows like roads, or canyons leading down to the coastline.
The sheer scale of destruction and loss from these fires is hard to comprehend. The realization that nowhere is safe from climate disaster weighs heavy.” —Anne Gibson about her artwork for Unbound.
Free As a Bird Helen Brown
“To be Unbound is to fly free as a bird across boundaries or borders, and to flee enclosures at will.
Humans don’t all have this luxury. Through my painting, I’m trying to express compassion for those feeling trapped…
as well as desire to be as ‘Free as a Bird’.” —Helen
If You Could See Time David Kinker
“We are all bound by time, to see the future and the past, all at once, unbound.
The process came in a dream, process followed brought it to the present.” David Kinker
Released Sarah B. Hansen
We look forward to seeing you at the February 7, First Friday Gallery Walk in Bend, Oregon’s Old Mill District! If you can’t make it be sure to drop in during the month to see our group exhibit Kaleidoscope—the perfect antidote to the dark and cold of winter!
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Our galleries in the Old Mill District — Lubbesmeyers Studio & Gallery, Stacks Studios & Gallery (just upstairs), and Amejko (in the little red house) along with Tumalo Art Co. (the hub), and various stores host artists for the First Friday Gallery Walk every month. Stop by—we have flyers and can direct you.