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Studio A.B

621 A Street, Ashland OR 97520 (541) 482-2253

Open studio and gallery
Digital art

Unusual among the Ashland Gallery Association members is Studio A.B, which is the open studio of artists Ann DiSalvo and Bruce Bayard as well as a gallery of their work. The studio is open every day except Wednesday & Sunday, and offers an opportunity to visit and interact with the artists in their workspace.

Ann DiSalvo is a figurative artist, working in pastel, charcoal and colored pencil. She also does commissioned portraiture and illustration.

Bruce Bayard recently gave up the painting process in favor of creating original works directly on the computer. He is exhibiting his current series of digital prints at the College of the Siskiyous Art Gallery from January 18 to February 7.

Both artists encourage the public to come by the studio to talk about art and the creative process, and to see their work.

Digital Art

The new work by B. Bayard, while created with a new process, is a continuation of his exploration into the transient and impermanent nature of things. Much of the imagery of previous paintings is still present, and the added quality of electronically combining these images allows for a flexibility unavailable in any other media.

Although the digital process plays a role in-and contributes to-the meaning of the work, it is still secondary to the underlying concepts. The artist's intention in this regard is to layer and juxtapose charts, graphs and related images that refer to measurement, comparison, assessment and capacity-cold, hard data; then interject images of things that are transitory. The resulting images give new insights into the meaning of things. While a single life is finite in its own time span; measurable and discreet, life itself seems vastly, immeasurably abundant and ever changing.

The Contemporary Show II

Davis and Cline Gallery, 525 A Street Suite 1, Ashland, OR 97520

January 4 to 26, 2002

Opening reception: Friday January 4, 2002 from 5 to 8 pm

The Davis and Cline Gallery launches its 2002 season with an exhibition entitled The Contemporary Show II. Like last year's first Contemporary Show, this exhibition will feature current work by three artists from the "Greatest Generation"; mature artists over 60 years old. The featured artists will be: Robert Alston, Gwen Stone, and Arthur Roskofsky.

Robert Alston, a former professor and chairperson of the Art Department at SOU, has received numerous honors, having shown his work in galleries in Oregon and California since the early 1960's. In 1997 his work was given a retrospective exhibition at SOU. He received his Bachelors and Master of Fine Art degrees from U.S.C. and studied at the Otis Art Institute. His new paintings are bold and geometric acrylics on canvas.

Gwen Stone, who studied at The College of Marin in 1933 and The San Francisco Art Institute in 1936, was one of three female artists who exhibited their work in the first Davis and Cline Contemporary Show last January. Her work has been reviewed in both ARTWEEK and ARTFORUM. In 1990 and again in 2001, Stone received a Pollack-Krasner grant-award. In addition to many public and private collections, Stone's work has been acquired by the Coos Art Museum, The Redding Museum, and the Monterey Peninsula Museum. Stone's new work represents her third stylistic shift in two years. The work uses repetitive patterns to obscure stronger images contained within the paintings.

Arthur Roskofsky studied with John Ferren at the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1948 to 1952, the incipient phase of Abstract Expressionism. In 1956, his work was shown at the Brooklyn Museum. Roskofsky has been represented by galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Medford and now Ashland; this being his first exhibition at Davis and Cline. Roskofsky is also a well known art critic.
Roskofsky's new works are light and airy expressionistic oil paintings wherein the negative space solidly contains and defines his ideas.

Schneider Museum of Art

1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland OR 97520 - (541) 552-6245

[Open 5-7pm] www.sou.edu/schneider

Nathan Oliveira Figure Studies: Works on Paper 1989-2001
January 4-February 23, 2002. - Open for First Friday til 7:00 p.m.

The Schneider Museum of Art is hosting a slide lecture by Bay Area artist, Nathan Oliveira, on Thursday, January 10, at 4 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Meese Auditorium located in the Art Building next door to the Museum. The lecture will be followed by an opening reception for the artist from 5-7 p.m. in the Museum. Both events are free and open to the public.