New Art Gallery Opens
There’s a new art gallery in town and its owners are out of their mind.
In fact, that’s what they call their gallery: Out of Our Minds.
Candace Lange and Anderson Packard’s shop at 318 W. Sprague “is like a little fruit stand between two big grocery stores,” Lange said.
They’re between Dania Furniture Collections and Metropolitan Interiors.
Lange, who has been a prolific artist since she was 8 years old, said 90 percent of the work shown at Out of Our Minds will be contemporary - abstract or non-objective.
But she will consider impressionist paintings. “It depends on whose work pleases me,” Lange said.
Her other love is antiques - she’s been a dealer 10 years - and she considers it a privilege to be able to combine her two passions.
In fact, she’s able to ply her passions even as she works. She is surrounded with her antiques and has a couple easels set up in a central room where she and Packard paint each day.
The gallery’s grand opening continues Friday and Saturday until 9 p.m. Regular gallery hours will be 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays.
In other Spokane galleries
It’s a group effort at the Lorinda Knight Gallery. From Friday until the 4th of July, there will be exhibits of paint, stoneware, rubber, wax and plastic created by four artists.
The mix of artists for “On Target” are Bojidar Bontchev, Byron Clercx, Suzanne Lamon and Wendy Franklund Miller.
Bontchev, an artist from Bulgaria, has been firing large-scale ceramic sculpture at Whitworth College, where he taught this past year.
His pieces combine unusual organic and architectural form with sensitive underpainted images, said Lorinda Knight of the gallery.
The sculpture of Clercx, who exhibits internationally, was last seen in Spokane during a 1997 one-man show at the gallery. His recent works examine the materials and structures of painting as the subject of his cast rubber sculpture.
This is Lamon’s first Spokane showing. She creates large paintings on unstretched canvas of subjects she knows well, including logging, animals and fruit trees in an off-beat and unsentimental manner, Knight said.
Franklund Miller, a well-known Spokane artist, “continues her exploration of emotionally charged but common objects in large mixed-media pieces,” Knight said.
An opening reception will be 6-8 p.m. Friday in the gallery, 523 W. Sprague. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Suzi Hokonson, a textile artist and quilt historian, has a show of her quilts hanging at the Metro Mall Art Gallery, 929 W. Sprague.
In addition, the exhibit includes pieces of antique and ethnic needlework.
Hokonson’s show continues through June. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays.
Andy Warhol’s latest “15 minutes of fame” is about to end in Spokane. “Soup to Nuts: Pop Art and Its Legacy,” which opened in March at the Cheney Cowles Museum, closes Sunday.
Among the most famous works in the exhibit are Warhol’s “Noodle O’s,” “Jackie III” and “Vote McGovern.”
Other artists in “Soup to Nuts,” featuring works by renowned American, British and Canadian pop artists, include Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Roy Lichenstein and Richard Hamilton.
The Cheney Cowles Museum, 2316 W. First, is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with extended hours until 9 p.m. Wednesday; and from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for seniors, $2.50 for students, and children under age 6 are free.
“The Adding Machine,” a show of artwork by the graduating fine art students at Spokane Falls Community College, continues its run through Tuesday.
A reception will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the art gallery in Building 6. Gallery hours are weekdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
In Lewiston
“In Focus,” an exhibit of 26 photographers from five Western states, opens today in the Lewis-Clark Center for Arts & History in Lewiston.
The show, which runs through July 2, is an open-medium exhibit of black-and-white and color photography.
An artist reception will be 5-7 p.m. today in the museum, 415 Main.
Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays. There is a $1 admission fee.