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2018 Ashland Open Studio Tour Artists

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Ann DiSalvo

Native to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with an art degree from UW Stevens Point. Spent twelve years in the arts and natural sciences in Kentucky. Moved to Ashland in 1993. Opened a studio with Bruce Bayard on A St. in 1998 and became involved with many organizations centered in the arts, most currently as Secretary of the Ashland Gallery Association and editor of the Ashland Gallery Guide. Facilitating two figure drawing sessions each week in Ashland. Participated in every Art Along the Rogue Street Painting Festival in Grants Pass until 2012. Founding member of the Pomegranate Group, a women's figure study session. Tutoring drawing in the Studio privately, and occasionally in classes. Specializing in dry media: pastel, charcoal, pencil; but expanding into others periodically to explore ideas in various realms. Portraits, plein air, allegory, fables, graphic serial, illustration; are all considered. Portfolio shows work in book covers and page illustrastion, wildlife and botanical illustration, card design and ad illustration. Mixed media is ever-present.

Bruce Bayard

Bruce began oil painting at age 9, and is mostly a self-taught artist. He has worked in a wide range of media and techniques including oil, acrylic, casein, collage, lithography, etching, screen printing, graphite, crayon, encaustic and assemblage.
In 2000, Bayard began an exploration into digital technology as a means of creating art and has been using that medium exclusively ever since. His current work involves using video and still images combined into a “moving electronic collage” for performance art and for film.

Cheryl Kempner

I make things that make me smile. Hundreds of brightly colored clay birds have been created in my studio – they are silly and whimsical. The birds hold flowers, balance books on their wings, hold a teapot or a bouquet of stars. These crazy birds evolved during a time of a family illness; hand-building fun birds helped me cope. Today the clay birds have expanded into the garden and have combined with metal. My husband welds and I use a plasma torch to cut recycled steel. It has been fun to fuse clay and steel into new creations for the garden.
My works are fired in two electric kilns. I work with both low-fire and mid-range clays – a typical firing lasts for more than seven hours and reaches over 2000 degrees. My studio has a panoramic view over the valley. I am a hand builder, so I stand and work at my raised counter. A three-foot slab roller flattens the slabs of clay that I shape into my art work. In fact, the crazy birds are formed from strips of clay that are paddled around a balloon.

Claudia Law

Claudia Law is an internationally recognized art quilter and teacher, who has a seriously joyful relationship with fabric and nature. Claudia’s vision is to capture the beauty of nature and power of good design. She revels in color and rejoices in texture, movement, luminosity and the illusion of transparency - using paints, fibers, folded raw-edged fabric applique, beading, fabric confetti, thread sketching, free-motion quilting and 3-D fabric motifs as needed, to bring life to each unique creation. Claudia is represented by Ashland Art Works Galleries, at 291 Oak Street, in Ashland’s Historic Railroad District.

Corey Kahn

Corey Kahn received a BFA in painting at The University of Kansas, school of art. Undergraduate work also included, a year intensely focused on figures and classic technique, studying painting, in Florence, Italy.

After college, she lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia for two years, painting and exhibiting artwork. Her figurative work then focused on the human condition. While there, her interest in abstraction and expressionism expanded. Duality of the human condition, dark and light, were together as a whole.
Around this time, she began yearning to have a more direct impact on the human condition, in the actual world. The bridge to medicine was a natural extension from her art, and fit perfectly her desire to help others. She currently works as an artist and Emergency Physician in Southern Oregon, with a particular interest in international medicine and disaster relief work, and continues to explore the expression of living and dying.
Her current work expresses human experience through abstract landscapes.

Dana Feagin

Dana Feagin is an award-winning Ashland-based animal painter known for capturing the sweet and amusing expressions of rescue animals and pets; it has been said that her portraits “capture the very soul of the animal”. All of Dana’s sales proceeds are donated to animal charities & sales at this open studio event will be donated to Sanctuary One in Jacksonville, OR, where Dana is a board member. Dana also volunteers with Friends of the Animal Shelter for Saturday morning dog play groups and is actively involved in their rabbit spay/neuter and foster program; she now shares her art studio with five adopted bunnies. Dana is a gallery artist at the Ashland Art Center, and a member of the Ashland Gallery Association & HeARTsSpeak, a global community of artists, shelter staff, rescue volunteers, and animal advocates working together to ensure that no shelter animal goes unseen. Dana does accept commissions.

Denise Kester

Denise Kester is a nationally known artist. She has been a full time studio artist for 37 years. She is the owner and distributor of Drawing on the Dream note cards, established 1992. She studied art and education at the University of Georgia and printmaking at Southern Oregon University. Her book, “Drawing on the Dream. Finding my way by art” has just been published by White Cloud Press.

Denise specializes in monoprint and monotype viscosity printing as well as multi media, drawing, and painting. She teaches a variety of workshops on the creative process including printmaking, bookmaking, surface design, collage and block printing. You can see more work on her website www.drawingonthedream.com

Denise Souza Finney

Denise Souza Finney is a painter who lives in Ashland Oregon. Her studio is a converted one hundred year old barn surrounded by lush gardens. She works in acrylic and paints the figure, flamenco dancers, and poppies. Her paintings are colorful, gestural, and semi abstract. "I love to play with the different qualities of acrylic paint. You can make it as thin as watercolor and as thick as a bas relief." Through high school and college she studied jazz dance and ballet and had the sincere intention of pursuing a career as a dancer. However, "I was just as passionate about painting, and it was necessary to give my full attention to either one or the other." Having once been a dancer and now a practicing yogi, she is very aware of beauty and expressiveness through movement of the body. "I strive to show movement in my paintings and the intention of action or stillness in my work. Those two behaviors invoke a lot of feeling and are a basic premise of the human condition"

Elaine Frenett

As this Colorado tomboy plucked “pollywogs” from ponds, played “cars” with the boys next door and sewed doll clothes for the numerous dolls she can still name, Elaine was drinking in the color and textures that enliven her paintings. Although she majored in “Art” in high school, it wasn’t until, when studying for her B.S. in Graphic Design in California, adding an “Illustration” focus, that she discovered watercolor. “Watercolor spoke to me the very first time I met it. The transparent layering mesmerizes me as I work, the organic movement of each peculiar pigment over brilliant, white cotton paper punctuates my encounter and the dense richness of strong values stimulates a hidden voice within me”, Elaine recalls.
Transitioning quickly into Fine Art, then adding plein-air and expanding that into visual journaling, she finds herself moving away from the predictability of replicating scenes, digging more deeply into what “story comes out of her”. This award-winning artist has been published from New York to Los Angeles, is in collections private and museum. She continues instructing monthly at the Ashland Art Center and leading her annual women’s retreat. Elaine finds that it’s those magical, mystical watercolors that steward her endless exploration.

Elin Babcock

Creativity is an integral part of my life’s philosophy. Each time I ventured into a specific artistic medium, I found myself building bridges from one discipline to another: painting with sculpting; sculptures with poems; poetry with play writing; art with psychology; teaching with learning.
The philosophy has not changed though the materials have. Assemblage sculpture joins found objects that have lost their way; wood with rusted metal; wire with glass; common objects and delicate feathers mixed with re-bar.
When first introduced to wire wrapped jewelry, I chose gemstones because they were “pretty” and combined them with gold and silver. As I learned my craft, I was being taught the power and myth of each gemstone by touch. The open back of the design allows the stone to be worn against the body, thus enhancing its powers.

Gabriel Mark Lipper

Gabriel Mark Lipper’s paintings explore themes of energy, wealth, and ambition. His paintings ask open-ended questions about the viewers’ relationship to the painted narratives. An emphasis on technique and application of paint serve as a classical anchor for his otherwise often disconnected contemporary subjects. This dualism is borne out of a fixation with craftsmanship and an exploratory fascination with the zealous excesses of the new millennium. Drawing on influences as diverse as Tolstoy, Fellini, and Eazy-E, Lipper continues his focused inquiry into our sociocultural evolution.

Harriet Greene

Sculpting in marble creates a strong affinity for the earth which grounds and gives me a wonderful sense of achievement. I carve my sketch onto a marble slab, ink it, register a piece of paper, rub the surface and pull a print. Each print is an original.
I was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec; studied drawing and painting at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, etching at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art and stonecut printing with Canadian sculptor Stanley Lewis. Drawn to the west in 1978 I moved into a log cabin in Grand Teton National Park and fell in love with the wilderness. Native American tribes traveled through the valley on their way to Yellowstone. Being in such close proximity spurred my interest to their plight. I have completed a series - “Indian Oratory of Eight Great Chiefs.” Work in Progress: “Sculpting for Peace”, 5 pieces of marble, 1’x2’x4”
I have shown in galleries in Canada and the US. "Going Home," a 3-dimensional sculpture and my coyote stonecut print both won prizes in "Women Artists of the American West" exhibits.
One-woman shows: Montreal, QC, Calgary, AB, Stowe, VT, Jackson Hole, WY, Taos, NM, a 4-group show on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM. I have a newly published book, "Crossing the Boundary, A Return to the Wilderness and Freedom".

Inger Nova Jorgensen

Artist, Inger Nova Jorgensen was born in Michigan, left the Midwest at seventeen years old and moved to Sonoma County, California. Two years later she began an exploration of The Pacific Northwest and eventually landed in Northern California where she received a degree in Fine Art & Teaching with Honors at Humboldt State University. Today Inger resides in Oregon where she raised her son, Soren. She is currently painting and sculpting as well as collaborating in several music projects and a monthly house concert series with her husband, renowned Guitarist, Jeff Pevar.

Janette Brown

Nature: We begin and end in its arms and it surrounds us for all of our life.
Even though elusive and changing, I have a fierce desire to capture some part of it in words or visuals. The process of doing this takes me into the wonderful world of Art: a place where the everyday world slips away, words cease to exist, and time becomes irrelevant.
You are connected by sight to the world and if you are lucky or persist long enough can recreate some part of that world. I paint with watercolor because of its transparency and the myriad of ways the pigments mingle on the wet paper.
My work can be seen in Studio 5 or the Ashland Art Center.

Jay Gordon

After extensive forays into music, medicine, and motherhood, I decided in 2014 to devote myself to learning to draw and paint, and since then have been constantly experimenting with creating art of all kinds. My current body of work reflects a diverse array of interests, including portraiture, still life, figure drawing, illustration, printmaking, graphic design and pop culture. I am working as a painter and illustrator with Enclave Studios and Gallery, and as a printmaker at the Ashland Art Center’s Print Studio.

Jeffrey Addicott

Jeff Addicott began blowing glass in 1989 at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary, Alberta. He studied there for four years under noted artists Norman Faulkner, Marty Kauffman, Jim Norton and Marc Gibeau and graduated with distinction in 1992.
Jeff moved to Southern Oregon in 1996. He established a second career as a musician and began assisting regional glass artists Terry Sullivan, Steven Cornett, Scott Carlson and Keith Gabor.
Partial to desert terrain since childhood, Jeff has become particularly fond of the “Oregon Outback”. This nearby expanse of open sagebrush country is now a great source of inspiration for Jeff’s works.
Jeff has been assisting and producing work at Gathering Glass Studio since 2005. He also maintains a busy musical performance schedule, freelancing on bass with numerous clients. The improvisational aspect of Jazz and R&B music is very much reflected in Jeff’s approach toward blowing glass.
Jeff’s glass has been shown throughout the United States and sold Internationally.

Julia Janeway

My work will always be about my love for story. I find inspiration in describing fleeting moments of life’s larger narrative.
My mother was a potter and art teacher. I grew up making art, but concentrated on the written word in school, eventually earning a PhD in literature in 1994. That same year my mom died from breast cancer, leaving me her well-used wheel, kiln, and a series of mysterious glaze recipes. It took nearly ten years and several moves later to see what I had inherited. I found myself in Southern Oregon, teaching literature but connecting with a group of ceramic artists who showed me how to shape the fog of grief into the delight of working with clay. During those years, my studio was a 6X6 foot pumphouse where I worked every spare moment, making pots and competing with the pump and waterlines for space. My kiln was outside. As a result, I like to say that my apprenticeship in ceramics was literally affected by the rolling of the seasons and the events of the natural world around me.
The illustration-aspect of my work borrows heavily from books, particularly woodcut and lithograph prints. I often incorporate words into my designs and layer colored engobes and underglazes. Each piece is hand carved from drawings or patterns of my own. Unless otherwise stated, my work is dishwasher, oven, and food-safe.

Karen Stall

Karen usually bring one or more figures into her work which open the possibility of emotion or narrative, but her main purpose in painting is to achieve a spatial harmony which is satisfying to view. Karen's goal is not to depict people exactly as they are, but to interpret them by creating new harmonies with line, shape and color.

Kirsten Gamble

Kirsten is a jury selected artist specializing in abstract landscapes, abstracts and outdoor installations.
She paints in acrylic and watercolors.
Kirsten art has been shown at the Marin Art Walk, Marin Open Studios and throughout hotel in Monterey, California, including individual hotel rooms.
She has had work commissioned as well as, collected artwork in private offices in Google and in the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts.

Martin Goldman

I graduated from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor of Fine Arts Degree and worked on Madison Avenue as a cartoonist, graphic artist/designer, art director/TV producer and TV commercial director.
I left the fast track of Madison Avenue and Hollywood to pursue my own peripatetic path, which led from Stowe, Vermont to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to Taos, New Mexico and points in between.
I wrote and directed my first feature film for Paramount Pictures. My TV commercials for Coca Cola and Faberge won the Bronze Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
My painting “Pretty as a Picture” was a finalist in the “ARTS FOR THE PARKS” national competition. My classical photograph “Mother and Son” won in the New York Magazine photograph contest and “Freedom” was a winner in the annual photo contest of the Albuquerque Arts Magazine (2009). I have published a cartoon book called “DON’T WORRY" and my newly published memoir "Mad Ave to Hollywood."

Nicole Wasgatt

Nicole Wasgatt is an explorer and painter. Her extensive travels have given her a creative take on reality that have informed her unique perspective on life and art.
She is one of five artists that are part of the avant-garde studio ENCLAVE in Ashland, Oregon.
Never one to tolerate boredom she splits her time between Ashland, Oregon and Laguna Beach, California. Her paintings reflect the powerful ever-present energy and movement of life.

Pat Moore

Whether taking pictures of the beautiful Smith River in northern California or of tea vendors in Marrakesh, Morocco, I aspire to render the emotion, the sense of place, and the feel of what I am experiencing when taking photographs. I invite you to come to my home studio and view many of my images and fellow artists' paintings hanging throughout my studio and home. I will be available for questions and doing printing demonstrations of my recent work throughout the day.
All prints and gallery wrap canvas are archival and can be purchased during your visit as well as online and from my booth at Lithia Artisans Market, weekends behind the plaza. Archival printing and art reproduction services are available. See www.ashlandarchival printing.com for details.

Paula Fong

Paula is an illustrator of the natural world, including original pen and ink and watercolor images and reproductions, trail signs, brochures and book designs, produced over the last 20 years. She has an education and background as a Forest Ecologist and Soil Scientist with the federal government, and for the last ten years has exhibited with Ashland Art Center.

Randall Perkins

Glass for me is a journey that began in 1970, as a freshman chemistry student with a recently broken collection of laboratory glassware in desperate need of repair. What began as a fascination with torch-work and part time work-study program, evolved from avocation to vocation to avocation. Travelling and working in studios and with glass artists in Mexico City, Murano, Italy, Big Sur, California, San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, OR and now Medford provides the creative experience and artistic vision for the work displayed here.

My wife, Barbara’s gardens serve as the inspiration and canvas for many of these pieces. Designed to be displayed year round in an ever changing landscape, each piece relies on repeatable shapes to build scale, form and color.

Richard Newman

Richard is a transplant from the East Coast
(Boston and NY). He works in a variety of media including two and three dimensions. He is a graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His teaching and academic career as artist and college art professor spans close to seventy years. His studio, which he shares with his wife and fellow artist, Rochelle Newman, also features a separate gallery.

Rochelle Newman

“Art defines a life.
    Art is both metaphor and matter.
    Art places a frame around experience.
    Art provides the lens through which to view the world.
    Art is the cloak I wrap around to protect my spirit.”
-Rochelle Newman

Sarah F Burns

Sarah F. Burns is a modern traditional painter. She is known for a variety of subjects; figures with an emphasis on anatomy, still life paintings of quiet natural objects, cloudscapes and local landscapes that documents the character of southern Oregon and the Rogue Valley where she has lived for most of her life. Curiosity and scientific inquiry are a driving force in Sarah's art. She says, “The more I make and study art, the more I find I am studying science. In order to understand what I see and create more convincing illusions, I might look into the biology of the retina, light, geometry, human muscular and skeletal anatomy, meteorology and geology. In turn, this scientific inquiry inspires wonder and awe for the natural world, so, in addition to its purpose of feeding the practical part of art making, it ultimately feeds the mercurial, harder-to-define emotive and spiritual part of creating art.I approach my subject with a little bit of scientific distance too. I try to be as fair as possible to my subjects and tell the truth of what I see. Obviously what I see is filtered through me and I choose subjects I find beauty in and feel affection for, but I do want to be specific and make documentaries in paint. I hope they will be eventually be seen as part of a historical record, like a family album for a region.”

Shoshanah Dubiner

I see the 21st century as the age of biology, with its explorations of the question: What is life?

I grew up in San Francisco during the free-wheeling Beat and Hippie eras. My interest in science first developed in the 1980s while working as an exhibit designer at the California Academy of. After moving to Ashland in 2004, I attended a Southern Oregon University class in cell biology that sparked a series of paintings based on the structure of cells. Over the past 14 years, I have painted the cell and its organelles, lichen, algae, and, most recently, bees and butterflies seen very up close. On Arbor Day of 2016, my “Pollinators, Pollen and Plants” series (created under a grant from the Haines & Friends Foundation) went on permanent view near the beehives at The Farm at SOU. A large selection of my paintings now hangs at SOU’s Hannon Library.

My paintings are not scientific illustrations, but more like visual poems inspired by scientific research, microscope imagery, and my love of plants and flowing water. I like to explore the boundary areas where art and science meet, where science merges with myth and fantasy. Whether painting abstract or narrative, I infuse all my forms with brilliant life-affirming, exuberant colors.