August 2010 exhibits

Blackfish at Gallery 110 in Seatttle




Gallery 110 at Blackfish

Exhibit announcement

a poetics of place

Each painting a place,
And painting a way
Toward a mute poetics
Of Earth. Light. Water. Wind.


An exhibit of oil paintings by
JoEllyn Loehr


June 21 - July 31, 2010
Rotunda Gallery - Barber Library
Central Oregon Community College, Bend OR


Opening reception: 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Thursday, June 24
(ADA parking in front, visitor parking immediately west of library)
Summer library hours vary; please check COCC website: www.cocc.edu.


www.loehrdesign.com

My work is a blend of painting and drawing.
Paint is used as a drawing medium.
Each painting consists of layers upon layers of drawings, creating a world out of paint itself, becoming more complex over time.

The goal is to make a gestural, intuitive drawing with the lush, sensuous, physical qualities of paint.

Often people see landscapes in the paintings. Though I don’t set out to paint landscapes, I do enjoy back-country walking and looking at aerial photos and maps - especially old ordnance surveys and topographic maps. So having landforms show up in the paintings is not surprising.

Abstract visual art is unmediated experience.

"Any awareness is an increment to consciousness,
an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence . . .
There is a growth of being in every instance of awareness."
Gaston Bachelard
Poetics of Reverie

Greg Conyne sculpture in Vancouver, WA

'Ramona Falls' installed at Turtle Place

by Greg Conyne

The challenge presented to the sculpture team consisting of Wendy Armstrong and myself was using materials that started perhaps as someone’s vision of a better future or a not so elegant, but very serviceable piece of equipment that had become outdated or worn and turn them into a piece of sculpture that would have rain water running over it, becoming a fountain. 

We were to use cast off materials from the likes of Clark County Public Utilities (CPU), the local bus company (C-Tran), a local contractor (Bob Colf), and the department of the city in charge of the traffic signals. This seemed like quite a daunting task until taking of tour of the “bone yards” of these establishments. Wendy and Greg left with spinning heads and many possibilities. They came up with a concept sketch that was approved and were on their way. 

The frame or super structure is made out of 3”x 2”, 2”x2” new steel and new bolts. As the piece is to be approximately 15’x8’x8’ and movable they needed to be able to disassemble it and reassemble it at a future date if the need arises. All of the rest of the sculpture is made up of pieces from the above mentioned places. Transformers and insulators make up the majority of the features. These are not necessarily left the way we received them from CPU. Some are turned upside down, some cut, insulators are all different ways to make the water flow and drip off them. The concept reminds us of Ramona Falls out of recycled materials.

Painting will be exhibited at La Sells Center, O.S.U., Corvallis

Hi Blackfishers,

I will have one of my large 7' x 12' paintings hung in the lobby of the La Sells Stewart Center, O.S.U., Corvallis on April 25th, a Saturday.  This painting will be a part of the Saving the Salmon conference.  I looking forward to answering questions about the work.

Hey Blackfishers,
I have a show up at a bar on 2026 NE Alberta called The Know.
You've already seen but two of the paintings, but if you're in the
neighborhood after 4pm it'll be open through March 31st.
So slum on down and have a pint....it'll put hair on your chest.
-Brandon Wilkinson