JESSICA ISRAEL returns to Celebration of Art this year as an ORA member. She lives in Bend where in addition to her day job, she is an extraordinary photographer.
You will delight in getting to know her and in viewing her works. Jessica's remarkable scenic photographs demonstrate her ability to really SEE the landscape; capturing the poetry of the landscape before her.
The biggest challenge will be in the selection of your purchase…. Which photograph will win your heart?
CELEBRATION OF ART ’11 10:30-4:30 OCTOBER 30th
HARRIET KAUFMAN LEVI BRIEF BIO
I started my artistic career in the 1960’s at the Boston University School of Theatre. During that period I designed costumes for the Tufts University Theatre, the Kennebunkport Opera Theatre, and the Charles Playhouse. After attempting to do the costumes for Doctor Faustus at the University of Oregon while parenting two toddlers, I postponed my “artistic life”. For the next 35 years I taught preschool, worked for Headstart, and then worked in higher education in parenting, early childhood ed, and eventually found my calling in coordinating and teaching Women’s Studies. After retiring from 21 years at Clark College, I was then free to pursue my dream of becoming an artist. I work primarily in acrylics and wood, but also explore pastels, inks, watercolors, and multimedia.
I have shown in numerous group and solo shows in the northwest and in Daegu, Korea. Most recently(summer 2010) my work has appeared in the International Women’s Artists Exhibit at the Littman gallery at PSU, the Geezer Gallery, the Albina Bank in the Pearl, and a 2 person show at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.
http://www.artistliszt.com/harrietlevi
Laura Dawson Rosenblit:
I live in Salem. I am the mother of two grown daughters. My husband and I like to travel, hike locally, and read.
In my early career I was a Montessori teacher. During that time my artistic projects were block printing and collage. Currently I am a reading and math teacher of middle students. Today, my artistic project has become designing and creating wearable art.
See more of Laura's work at the MJCC, October 24th from 10-4 free admission!
Meet guest artist:
My paintings are combinations of the unexpected. I grew up in the heart of southern Appalachia and studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, and Princeton and Yale Universities in the early days of co-education there. I live and paint in Portland, Oregon, working primarily in watercolor.
I am an avid gardener and hiker. I often paint botanically detailed paintings on an unexpectedly monumental scale, or sweeping landscapes on a tiny handful of paper. I find particular challenge in creating an illusion of solid form and distinct time and place using the ethereally insubstantial materials of watercolor.
One of the things I most often hear during a studio open house is, “ I can’t believe the same artist painted all these different kinds of paintings.”
I do tackle a variety of subjects: landscapes, still-lifes, botanical studies, skyscapes, architecture, the occasional figure or face. Sometimes I blur the traditional distinctions between these subjects and paint large landscapes with finely detailed botanical foregrounds, or still-lifes with highly rendered botanical elements and more abstracted man-made objects.
I have a deep and abiding love and respect for the individual and the particular. In my painting there is an element of conservation of the passing moment, the ephemeral bloom, and the open space that may disappear in development in the future. I do not impose a style on my subjects. My response to the subject in that particular moment in that particular light dictates what degree of rendering, of impression, of abstraction and of expression tips the balance of choices I make. In thirty-five years of watercolor painting and experimenting one assembles a large toolbox of skills. Yet there is a unity of a recognizable hand.
My hand has been shaped by many things: A gluttonous love of color balanced by a love of subtlety. The discliplined training of Chinese brush painting . A broad education in cultural history. Travel. A love of nature dating back to earliest years in my mother’s garden and along my grandfather’s creek. My father’s photography dark room and the “ah-ha” moment of an image emerging from a white paper void. And yes, maybe a little bit of rebellion against the abstraction that was the art establishment of the 1960’s and 70’s of my formative years.
http://www.janelevycampbell.com
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