Clifford Gleason, “Still Life with Spools,” ca. 1947
Clifford Gleason: The Promise of Paint
Exhibition Dates To Be Determined
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and the Maribeth Collins Lobby
Tentatively this exhibition is scheduled Aug. 20 - October 31, 2020. PLEASE NOTE: due to COVID-19 the exhibition dates may change.
Clifford Gleason (American, 1913-1978), who grew up in Salem and spent his adult life in both Salem and Portland, was a talented and highly original artist whose work remains of keen interest to a small but loyal group of collectors and fellow artists but whose accomplishments are less generally known than those of other Oregon mid-twentieth-century modernists.
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Bonnie Hull, “Pop's Floor," 2019
Bonnie Hull: Memory as Myth
Exhibition Dates To Be Determined
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Tentatively this exhibition is scheduled Aug. 20 - October 17, 2020. PLEASE NOTE: due to COVID-19 the exhibition dates may change.
Salem, Oregon artist Bonnie Hull (American, born 1944) has been making drawings, paintings, and quilts in Salem for 50 years. The exhibition features new work created specifically for the exhibition as well as a variety of other work spanning her life as an artist and includes a selection of her drawing books from over the years.
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Lockwood Dennis, “Public Market," 1992
Lockwood Dennis: Woodcuts
October 24, 2020 – January 16, 2021
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Please note: due to COVID-19 the exhibition dates may change
Lockwood Dennis (American, 1937-2012) was a highly regarded Washington printmaker who is known for his woodcut prints that captured iconic scenes of Seattle, Portland, and the artist’s travels throughout the western United States.
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Virginia Darcé, "The Market" (detail), 1938
Forgotten Stories: Northwest Public Art in the 1930s
November 28, 2020 – March 27, 2021
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and the Maribeth Collins Lobby
Please note: due to COVID-19 the exhibition dates may change
This is the first major exhibition to celebrate the bounty of artwork created in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana under the New Deal Federal Art Projects in the 1930s. Organized by the Tacoma Art Museum, the exhibition features work by such notable Pacific Northwest artists of the 1930s as Louie Bunce, Kenneth Callahan, Fay Chong, Elizabeth Colborne, Martina Gangle, Gordon Gilkey, Charles Heaney, Bue Kee, and Albert and Arthur Rundquist among others.
Cayla Skillin-Brauchle, "Gravity", 2019