"Beauty, Change and Choice" opens at Columbia Center for the Arts on First Friday, April 3, from 6-8 p.m.
In addition to fresh, local art, the Columbia Art Gallery is showcasing five Pacific Northwest artists whose work is inspired by our environment. There are also several related events throughout April in the Columbia Arts Theater, such as Darryl Lloyd and Bill Weiler's narrated Climate Change slideshow and two independent films that bring an artistic look to how we have become a nation addicted to corn and a nation unaware of the path for our own waste.
The April 3 opening reception will feature a carbon-neutral display of local appetizers and wine and beer. The show continues through April 26.
Oregon and Washington artists, working with beautiful woven stones; thoughtfully glazed ceramics; abstract oils painted on plaster; bamboo sculpture and clever collage, are featured in the show.
Del Webber, from Seattle, creates "blessings" of rounded stone woven with strips of bamboo and rattan, knotting the strips in intricate loops and shapes, the beauty of the stone is gift-wrapped as a blessing.
Carol Marians is a materials chemist from MIT who has created magical effects in her ceramic studio in The Dalles with metal glazes. Crystals appear and meld into color fields so vibrant they look dimensional hanging on a wall or used to frame a fresh salad.
Nikki Kress is from Portland and she paints with oil onto wet plaster in a very sculptural creation that encourages a dreamy abstractness, further enhanced by the circular and concentric subject matter she paints.
Hood River Valley High school teacher Cathy Stever has painted a large original oil work depicting Gaia, Mother Earth in all her splendor. Stever has also created a hanging bamboo curtain that is all at once sound, shape, and kinesthetic expression.
Bingen writer Kristy Athens creates wonderful collage cards using materials from the precious to the discarded and pairs them with envelopes she hand cuts from outdated maps.
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