Art Gallery
July 2008 Artists
Are you suffering from white, boring, bare walls? Suffer no more! We have the visual therapy you are looking for. The Art Gallery is exploding with interest and compliments and we are just getting started. July is the third consecutive group show featuring large oil paintings, delicate drawings, and intimate photography. We hope you make a special trip out to see the space or stroll down the hallway after your session. Let the work lighten up your day and trigger you hidden appreciation for art. You won't be disappointed.
Art is only interesting if you take something from it. Many of you seek wellness at the Center and art can be therapeutic. Art has a way of healing the soul and exposing new paths for change and acceptance. We hope you find what you are looking for.
Caitlin Murray
Our newest addition to the gallery is Caitlin Murray, a well traveled and gifted photographer and she is kind enough to share a visual journey abroad. These iconic photographs, taken in Thailand, Japan and Vietnam, represent sacred places of tradition and peace. She captures personal retreats and places of reflection. The viewer is lured into each photograph, admiring the lush colors and foreign spaces and we invite you to come along.
Amy Brodie
Artist's Statement
Amy Brodie's talents are broad and tailored. Her clay masks are like fairies, jeweled in fern reliefs. Each whispers a tale of the forest.
This month she literally draws us closer. Her still life graphite drawings are far from still and a favorite of mine is titled The Thin White Walls Inside Your Shell. This piece features a Horse Chesnut Shell. It resembles the lips of a Venus Fly Trap defending its meat. So many of us do the same, create a prickly defense. We sometimes make it difficult for others to embrace us. This piece tells us to be brave and let your friends closer. This piece just might penetrate your thin white walls.
Angela Gay
And certainly not last, we have Angela Gay, blessed with a painting obsession. It is not often to find an artist willing to use her oil paint medium like sculpture. The sweet smell of oil paint delicately penetrates the air as you pass by. The smell illuminating your senses tempts you to touch the thick skin of each piece, so supple and thick.
These paintings are luscious and engaging, each meant to create its own feeling. Come see for yourself and find that feeling.
Stacey Stagner, Art Gallery Curator
RoseSprings Center for the Healing Arts would like to introduce our new Art Gallery Curator, Stacey Stagner. Stacey strives to promote local artist who show refined skills, craft, individual talent, and have something to say. Her goal is to provide the budding Hillsboro Art community an art gallery addressing themes of environment, growth, transition and self.
Stacey's knowledge of Art History and Modern Art sparked from intensive studies at the Lorenzo de Medici, school of art in Firenze, Italia. As an apprentice to Bill Kelly at The Putney School in Vermont, she shared the opportunity to teach brilliant high school students figure drawing and oil painting. She earned a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts from the University of San Diego specializing in gallery installation, human anatomy, printmaking, and her preferred medium, oil painting. She also works for a local umbrella company in Portland as their Purchasing/Logistics Coordinator for International Communications.
RoseSprings Center for the Healing Arts opens their doors even wider and invite you to share in the joy and excitement of our latest addition. Art has a way of healing the soul and exposing new paths for change and acceptance. We hope you find what you are looking for.
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