Landscape Beauty In Black/White

Thu., Jan. 13, 2000

Beverly Vorpahl Staff writer

There’s beauty in “them thar hills,” and Don Kirby has captured it with black-and-white photography. His photos will be on display through January at the Lorinda Knight Gallery in downtown Spokane.

Anyone who has tried to photograph the Palouse landscape knows that it’s far more difficult than one expects, said Lorinda Knight, gallery owner.

“Kirby captures the drama of sky and earth as well as a sense of emotion through carefully selected images and an extraordinary range of light,” Knight said.

Hours at the gallery, 523 W. Sprague, are from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

In other galleries

* The work of Spokane artist Olivia Waterman has been selected for the annual international exhibition of the American Watercolor Society. The society’s juried traveling exhibit will be on display at the Corbin Art Center, Saturday through Feb. 5.

The exhibit originated last April in New York City and includes 40 watercolors, most of which have won awards.

There is no fee; for more information on the exhibit and gallery hours, call the center, 507 W. Seventh, at 625-6677.

* “Scraps,” recent constructions by Phuong Nguyen, a faculty member at Washington State University, is on display at Compton Union Gallery. It runs through the spring semester.

Nguyen gives new life to discarded materials, recycling them into everyday devices such as radios, phones and bicycles.

His art form began while he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison. That city is “a junk collector and recycler’s paradise,” he said. “You can find great stuff discarded on curbsides.”

Gallery hours on the Pullman campus are from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.

* Lowell Simonsen is January’s featured artist at Art Works Gallery in Sandpoint.

The Bonners Ferry, Idaho, artist has always been interested in wood-working in a variety of aspects, including cabinet building and making toys.

Now he also creates wood-turned bowls, vases and miniatures.

Hours for the gallery at 309 N. First, Sandpoint, are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.

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