Visual Arts: Chase exhibit shows region’s wide range

From sweeping landscape photography to whimsical neon sculpture, the new exhibit at the Chase Gallery is an excellent survey of art being created in the region.

The gallery’s biennial “All Media Juried Show” includes 32 paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, clay and glass works.

There were 108 submissions reviewed by juror Ester Luttihuizen, director of the University of Puget Sound’s Kittredge Gallery in Tacoma and Public Art Project Manager with the Washington State Arts Commission.

One pedestal piece selected is a fused and slumped glass object by Louis Telford of Post Falls.

“My work is an exploration of color, shape and the interaction of light,” says Telford.

“As a textile artist I have woven hand-spun yarn on my loom and I wanted to create a similar look frozen in time,” she says. “The pattern was preconceived with an idea of how the colors would play together.”

Other Idaho artists in the exhibition are Rachel Dolezal of Coeur d’Alene and Kyle Paliotto of Hayden.

Spokane artists in the show are Steve Belzman, Kevin Bouck, Edie Dunlap, Tobe Harvey, Jen Erickson, Melissa Lang, Wendy Franklund Miller, Lisa Nappa, Kay O’Rourke, Tom Quinn, Roger Ralston, David Repyak, Garric Simonsen, Isaac Smith, Sean Smith, Devon Scott-Tunkin and Ken Yuhasz.

Also look for items by other Washington artists including Viza Arlington of Cheney, Dean Eliasen of Spokane Valley, John Dan Key of Republic, David Saling of Airway Heights, Gerrit Van Ness of Mount Vernon, and Pullman artists Brenna Helm, Tamara Helm, Zachary A. Mazur and Selene Santucci.

The gallery is located in the lower level of City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. (use Post Street entrance).

An artists’ reception will be held in conjunction with the Visual Arts Tour on Feb. 2 from 5 to 9 p.m.

The work is up through Feb. 23. Regular gallery hours are Monday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

LePere ‘Profile’ on TV

Leslie W. LePere, a farmer and artist living in Harrington, Wash., is the subject of a “Northwest Profile” program airing today at 7 p.m. on KSPS-7 public television.

LePere, a third-generation wheat farmer, has been making art for more than 40 years.

Along the way he has created thousands of drawings, including at least a half-dozen cover designs for novels by Western Washington author Tom Robbins, including “Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates” and “Still Life with Woodpecker.”

For almost three decades, beginning in the mid-‘60s, LaPere worked collaboratively with the late jewelry and metal artist Ken Cory. The duo, known as the “Pencil Brothers,” exhibited in more than 100 venues around the world.

LePere’s “Northwest Profile” was produced, filmed and edited by Bill Fitzner. It repeats Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

‘Spokane Watercolor’

The annual Spokane Watercolor Society Members’ Show opens Saturday in Auntie’s Bookstore Gallery and the Liberty Cafe at 403 W. Main Ave.

There will be scores of water-based medium paintings by dozens of artists.

Look for luscious renderings by Diane Conkright, Bari Federspiel, Janet Ivie, Fabian Napolsky, Emma Randolph, Carol Schmauder, Keiko Von Holt, Vicki West and Dian Zahner.

This year’s poster, “Winter Contemplation,” is a loose, impressionistic landscape by Napolsky.

“The quality work of this passionate group of painters continues to exceed expectations,” says West, the group’s president.

An artists’ reception is Feb. 2 from 5 to 9 p.m. The show runs through March 2.

Robin Dare at NIC

A retrospective of Spokane artist Robin Dare’s work is on display Monday through Feb. 23 in North Idaho College’s Boswell Hall Corner Gallery.

The exhibit includes drawings, paintings and prints.

“I love making art and I am delighted to have this opportunity to exhibit at North Idaho College,” says Dare.

The artist will lead a gallery walk on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., followed by a slide lecture at 1 p.m. in Boswell Hall Room 102. An artist’s reception runs from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Corner Gallery.

The free exhibit can be viewed weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.

International media

“MIDE: Museo Internacional de Electrografia” runs Tuesday through Feb. 4 in the University of Idaho’s Prichard Gallery in Moscow.

Museo Internacional de Electrografia (Electrography International Museum) in Cuenca, Spain, specializes in showing the work of electronic media artists.

The Prichard exhibit, curated by MIDE director Jose Ramon Alcalá, is an assemblage of the work presented at the museum since 1994. Alcalá will lead a gallery talk during a public reception next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.

Alcalá is joining the UI faculty for the spring semester through a faculty exchange program.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from noon to 8 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The gallery is at 414/416 S. Main St. in downtown Moscow. Admission is free. Additional information is available online at www.uidaho.edu/galleries.

Bank Left Gallery

During February, the Bank Left Gallery in Palouse, Wash., will be showing the latest abstract oil paintings of Guy Baldovi from Uniontown, Wash.

Born in Paris, the self-taught artist says he usually starts each painting with a couple of lines on a blank canvas and just lets his mind go.

Baldovi’s show, “Spaces and Other Places,” opens Feb. 3 with an artist’s reception from 1 to 5 p.m. Music will be performed by classical guitarist James Reid, a faculty member of the University of Idaho’s School of Music.

The gallery, 100 S. Bridge St. in Palouse, is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.