L.A. Sampler

at Davis & Cline Gallery

525 A Street #1, Ashland OR 97520 - 541-482-2069

Conceived as a true "sampler," the exhibit features 11 Los Angeles artists who will display painting, drawing, photography, assemblage and sculpture that can be described as lasting, inventive and poetic.

Don Bachardy is well known in both Europe and the U.S. for his exquisite and forceful portraits in both drawing and aquamedia.

Lavi Daniel paints mysteriously evocative geometries which literally seem to appear and disappear on the delicately nuanced surface of his canvas.

John Frame's first love was literature: his deep deep concern with the human condition both tragic & comic are clearly evident in his highly expressive sculpture.

Steve Galloway's dramatic black and white drawings or lush pastels are usually enchanting, mysterious, and sometimes bordering on the bizarre. They are however, always powerful and extraordinarily persuasive.

Colin Gray's humor permeates both theme and variations on any subject he focuses on. Born in England, Colin's irreverent point of view never fails to imbue his drawings and sculpture with the insightful commentary and philosophical musings of Monty Python.

Marvin Harden draws and paints like a poet; his drawings and paintings are tender and delicate. He describes both flora and fauna with infinite respect and loving detail without ever touching on the specific. It is the bird's song he aims at, not its feathers.

Laura Parker focuses her camera and her eye on details of her choice done in a way that no one else could -- fragments of nature liberally mixed with ideas rather than treated with the accuracy of a documentarian.

Sarah Perry is an alchemist; she works with remnants of life - minuscule bones and fish scales, lizard tails and fish hooks and magic incantations which change objects into tableaux and miniature shrines into amulets and talismans to be carried in one's heart rather than worn on it.

Bruce Richards paints icons. They mean so much more than they appear to be. One must consider them carefully because they are metaphors rather than factual representations.

Coleen Sterritt is a sculptor of malleable materials which harden in her hands and take on diverse identities. Every time she applies her touch something new is born - something original that never existed before.

Peter Zokosky's exquisite talent for comedic irony and visual puns are contained in paintings rendered with serious intent and consummate artistry. To describe them verbally would amount to heresy because words would destroy the very important element of surprise which resides in each and every one of his works.

Organized by guest curator Josine Ianco Starrels, the exhibit opens Friday June 7th from 5 - 8 pm at Davis & Cline.