Gallery Show--Pendleton Arts Center (NOT current)

This was a show I had at the Pendleton Arts Center, in Pendleton, Oregon, a few years ago. Once the library, this was housed in a beautiful Carnegie building with lots of natural light. It was a very successful show. I do not have photos of some of the work, sadly, nor most of the work, as the show nearly sold out.

The titular piece:

Detail--the center has small stones from a canyon in eastern oregon. This piece was meant to resemble a thunderegg.

Grid of 50 5 in x 5 in panels, each of the state flowers, represented in gilded glass and pearls, vintage jewelry pieces, and beach glass. I experimented with stained glass paint in this piece, and decided to never use it again; it is a gummy mess. I have no idea the current whereabouts of this piece. I suspect my former gallery forgot to give it back.

This was the first time I showed the piece The Secret Garden, a grid of 24 7in x 7in panels. I traded this piece for a painting by James Lavadour, who called this a masterpiece. My favorite is the gardenia, the bottom one, in the solo shots. Broken shell, shell, moonstone cabochon.

More pieces, the square panels are 12in x 12 in:

This was from a series of 4 pieces made from glass, etc from the formerly abandoned Hot Lake Sanitarium in La Grande. It is now a fancy spa, but it was a scary place when I visited. 2nd is a detail shot. Small circle is a tile from the tiled ballroom floor. I love the blue corrosion from the copper foil and the acrylic gel medium. It is a pity I cannot control it.

Architectural pieces using stained glass scraps from an elderly farmer hobbyist:

 Elegy for Frank Lloyd Wright:

 This one has a flower made from a smashed shell:

Abstract Orchid, glass from an old store in Pendleton.

Abstract color field: