Tumalo Art Co.

20 Year Anniversary Retrospective
2022-04-01 15:00 - 19:00 UTC | Tumalo Art Co., 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407, Bend, OR, 97702, United States
Tumalo Art Co. celebrates with its 20 Year Anniversary Retrospective show, which will include art from about 40 members and represented artists from over the years. Join us for music, libations and special food from Luckey’s Woodsman Off-Grid Provisions!
From its beginning in the Tumalo Junction in the tiny burg of Tumalo, to moving just off the hub of Downtown Bend on Greenwood Ave., and then moving to the Old Mill District just as the great recession began in 2008, Tumalo Art Co., has always been filled with some of the best art the Northwest has to offer. Owned and operated by artists, the gallery has thrived through the years through good times and hard times.
Artists who were the in the first show in 2002, Marta Batha, Chari Rich (Grenfell), Karen Piedmont, Annie Ferder, Tracy Leagjeld, Deanna Hansen, Janet Guiley, Mary Marquiss and Susan Luckey Higdon are all represented in the 20 Year Anniversary Retrospective. And well-known artists who have been represented by the gallery will come back for this show, among them Kim Chavez, Ingrid Lustig, Kathy Deggendorfer, Vicki Shuck and Gary Vincent. Cheri-Lee Helfenstein, who taught art at COCC after her membership at Tumalo Art Co. will present her book of poetry illustrated with her paintings. Loved artist Pamela Bird will have a painting in the show loaned by her husband Dave Hewitt.
Tumalo Art Co. is built on relationships, both between the artists themselves and their collectors. When you visit Tumalo Art Co. you are greeted by one of the 14 member artists. As artists themselves they can talk knowledgeably about all of the art, explaining their colleagues techniques, styles and stories. Customers meet the artists whose work they love. One of the groups goals is to make art accessible to all and take away the intimidation of entering a gallery. People coming in for their “art fix” are encouraged, whether they purchase art or not to stay and be inspired. They also offer many ways for people to get started collecting art, from original art cards, limited edition Giclée’s and tiny art. Collectors looking for large pieces for their homes and offices will also find many pieces of art to choose from. The gallery represents artists making ceramics, glass, sculpture, photography, digital media, original hand-pulled prints, hand-turned wood and hand-made jewelry from four local makers as well as painters in all mediums.

The 20 Year Anniversary Retrospective Show is open until April 30th.

Tweet: A Group Show about All Things Birds
2022-03-04 15:00 - 19:00
Spring is in the air and art for our Tweet group show. As the birds serenade us with their songs, our artists have turned their minds toward depicting their favorite winged ones.
“Mojo”, by printmaker Adell Shetterly is one of a series of three linocuts.

“Courage” is a mixed media on cradled board by Sarah B Hansen.
Waking up to birdsong, watching the ducks land on the water, a peacock in full plummage, an owl camouflaged in the trees but with those blazing yellow eyes…birds take so many forms. From the unassuming to the majestic, our artists portrayals are are completely unique from artist to artist.
Helen Brown’s watercolors on rice paper are representational but at the same time loose and capture her peacock in full plumage. Adell Shetterly’s two linocuts of song birds are whimsical and graphic in bold blue. Majestic birds hidden in the abstract multi-media Central Oregon landscape by Judy Hoiness leave so much to the imagination and honor the lands history. Ravens cavorting in the air by Janice Druian and a sweet yellow birdie semi-abstracted with flowers by Dee McBrien-Lee—any mediums, lots of perspectives. This is a joyous exhibit of our feathered friends to celebrate a new season.

“Harlequin Around” is an acrylic on cradled board by David Kinker.
The Tweet Group Show is open until March 30th.

Loving Central Oregon Group Show
2022-02-04 15:00 - 19:00
For the month of love, Tumalo Art Co. artists are presenting artwork about what we love – our home, Central Oregon. Expect to see art that celebrates the beauty of our unique landscape from every perspective—paintings, sculpture, photography and even jewelry.

Katherine Taylor’s oil, “Kaleidoscope Sunrise at Sparks” is in the February “Loving Central Oregon” group show at Tumalo Art Co. in Bend, Oregon this February.

Dee McBrien-Lee paints her favorite hike in the Badlands of Central Oregon for the “Loving Central” Oregon group show at Tumalo Art Co. in February.
Bruce Jackson’s iconic fine art photograph of Sparks Lake, “Where Cranes Speak Freely”, is print on canvas and has wrapped edges.
Inspired by their majestic surroundings many of the artists in this show worked large for the show. Dee McBrien-Lee painted a 30 x 48 canvas of Dry River Canyon, a favorite hike of hers with a more high desert landscape. Katherine Taylor painted the Cascades mountains at sunrise from Oregon’s Sparks Lake using oils. While Anne Gibson choose a the rocky river rim in a dramatically wide horizontal painting. Digital media photographer Dorothy Freudenberg presents a pine forest with a winding path printed on metal with rich rust and green tones. Nancy Becker interprets the rich green, blue, purple and rust of Central Oregon is swirling hand-blown glass. These are only a sampling of the many pieces in the show during February focusing on the diverse Central Oregon landscape.
A portion of sales from this show will benefit a local nonprofit with a cause dear to the artists’ hearts, the Hunger Prevention Coalition. Not surprisingly, some indigenous societies call the February full moon, the “Hungry Moon,” and as we enter what is often the coldest month, hunger is with us today. Hunger Prevention Coalition raises funds to support partner agencies that feed the hungry through meals or groceries that that are nutritionally dense, as these foods are less likely to be donated because of perishability and expense.

The Loving Central Oregon Group Show is open until February 28th.
