Visual Arts: WSU faculty showcases works of art
A new season of exhibitions is under way at Washington State University’s Museum of Art.
The first show of the new academic year is the “Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition,” on view in the main gallery.
The biennial event features a variety of creative expression ranging from electronic images to paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints.
Among the art objects from 30 current and former WSU faculty members is Pamela Awana Lee’s triptych painting, “With an Occasional Tick of the Metronome.”
In each of the three handsomely glazed panels, a graceful feline creature vies for the viewer’s attention.
“I am as interested in, and challenged by, creating richly painted surfaces, nuance of color, mood, the illusion of three-dimensional form and the implied texture, as I am in the cats,” writes Lee in an e-mail.
“With this triptych, I was intrigued by the interplay of the three sets of eyes and the tick, tick, tick of the three cats’ tails,” she says.
In addition to Lee, the exhibit includes works by Mark Anderson, Stephen Chalmers, Ann Christenson, Maria DePrano, Samantha DiRosa, Sandra Deutchman, Tim Doebler, Michelle Forsyth, Douglas Gast, Kevin Haas, Robert Helm, Tamara Helm, Harrison Higgs, Rick Hines, Fran Ho, Jo Hockenhull, Chris Ireland, Carol Ivory, Marianne Kinkel, Zach Mazur, Nickolus Meisel, Io Palmer, Kathy Parkins, Gene Rosa, Reza Safavi, Casey Shiprek, Patrick Siler, Anne Smith and Chris Watts.
There is a public reception on Monday at 6 p.m. The show will be up through Sept. 22.
The museum is on Wilson Road across from Martin Stadium in the Fine Arts Center on the Pullman campus.
The gallery is open to the public at no charge. Hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (7 p.m. on Thursday), closed on Sunday.
Visit the museum online at www.wsu.edu/artmuse or call (509) 335-1910 for more information.
UI’s ‘Big Trouble’
On display in the University of Idaho’s Prichard Art Gallery is Scott Fife’s “Big Trouble: The Idaho Project.”
Fife, a Moscow native and University of Idaho alum, is a Seattle-based artist.
For this series of 16 sculptural portraits, he uses the 1997 book “Big Trouble” by J. Anthony Lukas. Both the exhibit and book focus on the labor unrest in Idaho’s mining history and the assassination of former Idaho Gov. Frank Steunenberg in 1905.
Fife uses nontraditional sculpting materials including corrugated cardboard, glue, tape and screws.
“Fife deconstructs the histories that we know,” says gallery director Roger Rowley in a news release. “He turns them into representations of the caricatures that we think of as famous or infamous.”
In the balcony space is “Evening News,” a politically whimsical installation by Gerrit Van Ness.
There is an opening reception for both exhibits on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The free gallery, 414 S. Main St. in downtown Moscow, is open Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
For additional information call the gallery at (208) 885-3586 or see www.uidaho.edu/galleries.
Above the Rim
Just across the street from the Prichard and less than a block away is the Above the Rim Gallery.
The gallery’s new show, opening Friday, spotlights four Idaho artists.
Displaying work are painters Kathleen Benton and Laurel Macdonald of Moscow, watercolorist Carol Smith of Juliaetta, and mixed media sculptor Scott Plummer of Moscow.
There is an artists’ reception Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. The show runs through Oct. 13.
The gallery, 513 S. Main St., is upstairs in Paradise Creek Bicycles in Moscow. Hours are weekdays from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Winery glass fest
The second annual “Art and Glass Fest at the Winery” takes place this weekend at the Arbor Crest Cliff House, 4705 N. Fruithill Road in Spokane Valley.
The event features more than 40 Northwest artists displaying glass art, paintings, wood carvings, jewelry and sculpture.
Hours for Saturday and Sunday are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Local musicians will perform throughout the event. On Saturday, Singlewide plays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Dead Man’s Pants is on stage from 4 to 7 p.m.
Sidetrack kicks off Sunday’s entertainment from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The evening concert begins at 5 p.m. with Revolver, a Beatles tribute band. There is a $5 cover charge for the Revolver concert.
In addition to the art, music and food by Catered for You, there is a vintage car show on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Because of the wine tasting, no one under 21 is allowed, including infants and young children. No pets are permitted.
Keys to Gold Mountains
Quilter Chloe Ann Key and digital artist John-Day Key are showing together in “Birds of a Feather” at the Gold Mountains Gallery in Republic, Wash.
The two-person show features dozens of colorful wall hangings, pillows and other quilts alongside 10 new digital paintings.
“We don’t work together on one project, like some artist couples do. It’s more subtle,” John-Day Key says. “But we’re both better artists because of our marriage.”
Meet the couple at a reception on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. in the gallery, 852 S. Clark St. in downtown Republic.
The free show will run through Sept. 29. For directions or additional information call (509) 775-8010.
Other galleries
“Gallery of Thum’, 106 S. Madison St., is having a reception for painter Lynn Bain on Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m.