‘Sculptures’ On Display At Hot Flash

Thu., Feb. 11, 1999

Beverly Vorpahl Staff writer

Todd Rattray takes rough stone from his grandparents’ quarry in Medical Lake and carves works of art.

“By the light of the moon, (Rattray) pounds life from alabaster, onyx and soapstone or pushes clay into human form,” Connie Grove wrote in one of last winter’s editions of her arts publication, ANevent.

“Sculptures” by Rattray are on exhibit through March 4 at Hot Flash of America, 509 W. Sprague. They include wonderful lifelike pieces from a variety of mediums.

He is “an expert at rendering the poetry of the human form in clay and stone,” Grove wrote.

Rattray’s talent is largely selftaught, developing from pottery classes he took in high school.

Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

In other Spokane galleries

Colburn’s Fine Art Gallery, 203 W. Riverside, is filled with watercolors this month. More than 60 original paintings by members of the Spokane Watercolor Society are on exhibit through February during the organization’s annual show.

Subjects vary from realistic landscapes, florals and still-lifes to impressionistic florals and abstracts.

Gallery hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Doug Miller, a landscape artist from Ephrata, Wash., is exhibiting his prints and oils at the Corbin Art Center, 507 W. Seventh, today through March 11.

A reception at the gallery will be from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight for Miller.

The art center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and whenever the center is open for classes.

The Art At Work Gallery at Post and Main is featuring the work of three artists this month amid its regular display of nearly 60 artists.

Spokane artist Shani Marchant is exhibiting a selection of new work in watercolor and oil on board, titled “Separate Realities”; Louise Kodis and David Glass have created “Gypsy Garden House Novelties,” a window installation of fabric and glass banners, small whimsical fantasy houses and tiny screens; and Dan McCann has “Window Boxes” on display.

Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday or by appointment.

In area galleries

Palladium prints by photographer Mickey McKay are on display at Art Works Gallery, 309 N. First in Sandpoint.

The palladium printing process is more than a century old, but is relatively unknown in the art world, said Dorothy Modafferi of the gallery.

It is a contact-printing process which allows subtle highlight details to be retained without losing the deep shadow detail.

McKay’s prints are images of the country’s high western desert as well as several life florals.

“My first discovery of the high desert in Central Washington left me in awe as the area so generously records a visual history of geography,” McKay said.

Also featured this month at Art Works Gallery is Christine Thackray, a North Idaho College student who will display watercolors.

Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays.

This month Spokane fiber artist Louise Kodis will exhibit her colorful banners, small screens and other works in an exhibit titled “Fiber: High and Low” at the Compton Union Gallery on the Washington State University campus in Pullman.

Kodis, a WSU graduate, will discuss her work at 12:10 p.m. next Thursday in the CUB.

Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. The gallery will be closed Monday for Presidents’ Day.

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