Tumalo Art Co.

Danae Bennett-Miller—New Sculptures & Printmaking
2022-06-03 15:00 - 2022-06-30 19:00 UTC | OR
Small birds, cranes, eagles and elk and other wild animals show up in Danae Bennett-Miller’s
June show, “Spirit Found”, opening June 3, from 3-7 pm during the Old Mill District’s First Friday Gallery Walk. The show is up through June. For this exhibit Danae has created both bronze sculpture and collage monoprints with polyurethane layers on cradled board.
Detail of Danae Bennett-Miller’s “Grassland”, a monoprint of a buffalo.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The animals who live with and around Danae are her inspiration. They connect to the spirit of the earth and fill her soul. A rancher who raises chicken and other farm animals, Danae has a close relationship with her surrounding environment and is well-known for her organic, life-filled forms of animals. To create their dynamic shapes she flows out strips of wax with ripples and texture and forms them into the shapes she is imagining for each creature. This technique gives an organic aliveness to each one. Once cast her pieces are one-of-a-kind. Augmenting her sculpture works with printmaking has given a new avenue to express form, texture and line to all of her animals.
“Sunburst Raven” is cast in bronze and glass by Danae Bennett-Miller.

Besides sculptures for residential and corporate placement, Danae has had many public sculpture commissions. These include roundabout art of a horse on Greenwood Ave. in Bend, Oregon; herons in a pocket park at the end of Minnesota Street in downtown Bend and a heron sculpture in downtown Sisters, Oregon. The most ambitious of her public art installations is a tableau of life-size elk and pronghorn bronze sculptures with towering basalt rocks, in the roundabout on Highway 20 in Sisters, Oregon.
See more of Danae’s available sculpture and monoprints

David Kinker—"Over Water" New Paintings
2022-05-06 15:00 - 2022-05-31 19:00 | OR
Exhibit runs through the end of May. The first solo show of the year at Tumalo Art Co. features new works by David Kinker.
With “Over Water”, Kinker dives into his entrancement with all things water.
David Kinker’s 24 30 painting, “Hyptomist”, looks directly down into swirling water.

An avid rafter and river guide and adventurer on wild rivers from the Pacific Northwest to South America and beyond, Kinker has learned water. As a painter, he is able to describe the mesmerizing movement and atmosphere, and colors and feeling of water, bringing it to the viewer as a felt experience. A colorist by nature, Kinker’s painting are the perfect focal point to a room.

“Doubletree”, is a 24 x 36 acrylic painting of Oregon’s Metolius River in the autumn, with a snow-covered Mt. Jefferson in the background.

Many of the works in this show are large. Kinker also makes plein air study paintings in the field and these are available. Well-known for murals across Central Oregon, he was recently commissioned to do murals and original paintings for the Partners in Care facility in Bend, along with many private residences. Multi-talented, Kinker makes the frames for all of his paintings, mixing exotic woods, many that are reused materials, to complement his paintings.
Tumalo Art Co. is an artist-run gallery in the heart of the Old Mill District, open 7 days a week. Call 541-385-9144 for details.

20 Year Anniversary Retrospective
2022-04-01 15:00 - 19:00 | 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 | OR
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 | OR
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.
