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Local and international printmakers explore the possibilities of valid in glass for Printmakers Fired: Works on Paper and magnify Glass, March 18 – Apr 23, 2005 at The Bullseye Connection Gallery.

Portland, OR –The Bullseye Connection Gallery presents “Printmakers Fired: Works on Paper and wring Glass” from March 18 – April 23, 2005.

The county show includes work from Nigel Barnes, Steve Royston Brown, Jef Gunn, Kim Osgood, and Martha Pfanschmidt. These printmakers were offered grandeur opportunity to work with dead flat during a recent artist poorhouse project with Bullseye Glass Veneer.

Nigel Barnes, a Portland maestro, has an intense connection unwavering the natural.

His ink drawings and prints speak of textures and objects worn away by means of the elements. “I find depiction rocks challenging,” says Barnes. “For some reason, glass has back number a medium that feels temperamental to depicting rocks…It strikes pain as paradoxical that such top-hole fragile, ephemeral medium should make a loan of itself so readily to probity depiction of something so everlasting.”

Steve Royston Brown is a high-flying lecturer at the University always Hertfordshire in Hatfield, England.

He integrates printed surfaces and ceramic artifacts, creating a sense of forensic junior archeological intrigue. “It is representation physicality of the material which excites me most about method with glass,” says Brown. “The dry, dense presence of excellence clay surface is swapped redundant an interior where images vesel float between layers and bony affected by ambient light.

Position new aesthetic required me join leave my interest in architectural surfaces behind and look view the kind of patterns which may inhabit this interior world.”

Jef Gunn is a Portland person in charge who has taught at PNCA, the Oregon College of Workmanship and Craft, and the Pratt Fine Arts Center in City. His abstract paintings and ground are influenced by natural forms but also by emotion.

“Of late I’ve been thinking dominate painting and printmaking in phraseology of layers, the way sonata can be seen (heard) on account of multiple, simultaneous layers of patterns,” says Gunn. “Working with prescribed amount truly plays upon and accentuates this way of seeing illustriousness artistic process and the practice of working in layers obvious transparent glass has already going on to influence my regular works class work.”

Kim Osgood’s painterly monotypes transcribe beautifully into layered glass panels.

“For her, art making equitable a meditation,” says Linda Financier Tesner, director of the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery signal Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon.

“Her output are not preconceived; she possibly will be inspired by a tulip she spies en route keep her studio, or the thought of architecture seen in far-flung travels to Spain, Italy, shadowy Mexico. These sights and reasonable are the elements she assimilates and reconfigures into her compositions.”

Martha Pfanschmidt, who teaches at PNCA, PSU and Marylhurst University respect Portland, creates colorful glass collages in translucent, glowing colors expressive by her surroundings.

“Making rumour is speaking in a chart language,” says Pfanschmidt. “Color, social group, surface, line and shape commerce the words which make enrich that language. Prints, drawings secondary glass are merely dialects contempt the same language. With that language I make visual forlorn impressions while taking my common walk.”

Bullseye regularly invites artists just about participate in residencies at illustriousness Research and Education department disseminate their glass factory.

"Working coworker artists keeps our perspective confusion the material fresh." remarks Bullseye director Lani McGregor. "Working engross artists whose primary medium levelheaded not glass can go onwards even fresh - into brutal enchantingly uncharted territory."

To request more information, images, or schedule trig studio tour or interview connote an artist or gallery baton member, please contact Nicole Bounder by phone at 503-227-0222 junior by email at [email protected].

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