Luminous Layers Exploring Contemporary Encaustic

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Luminous Layers: Exploring Contemporary Encaustic

The 47th Annual Festival of the Arts will host this special exhibit in Lake Oswego, a suburb of Portland, Oregon on June 25, 26, 27, 2010. Attracting more than 22,000 people, this three-day celebration also features a performing art series, music in the park, special hands-on art exhibits, and a children’s art and performance venue.

Each year the festival showcases a different type of art for its cornerstone Special Exhibit. Its mission is to display quality artwork and to educate guests about a particular art form. For 2010, the exhibit will feature encaustic painting. Juried work will be shown with the work of 25 invited artists in a gallery that has 3,000 feet of well-designed display space. Our featured artists will be Jeff Schaller and Cari Hernandez. This Special Exhibit will also feature workshops and educational displays.

A $25.00 entry fee is required for up to three works and the deadline for entries is February 1, 2010. Jurors are Tom Burns of Artworks Magazine, Kristina Butters of Butters Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and encaustic painter Cari Hernandez. Linda Womack is the special exhibit curator, with assistant curators Kimberly Kent, Natasia Chan and Amy Stoner. For more information please download the full prospectus from our website at:

 http://www.lakewood-center.org/pages/Encaustic-2010-Exhibit

Just for Fun - Let me know what you think.

The Luminous Landscape

I am excited about joining this group of talented encaustic artists. I showed with them for the first time this month in Beverly MA at the International Encaustic Conference. This beautiful book in a catalog of the show. It can be purchased at blurb.com, just follow the link above.

Camas High School Residence

Thes are a few pix from my recent residency at Camas High School. The art teacher there Gina Mariotti wanted a working encaustic studio after taking a workshop with Elise Wagner. Now she is set up to teach 30 kids at a time!

Breathe!

 

A show of landscape paintings created 2007 and prior.

These woks and studies document my discovery of plein air painting. Painting the landscape on location has been an experience of pure joy often tainted with excruciating frustration. The larger works have been done in my studio using the plein air study as reference.

 

Sale of these works during the month of May 2009 will benefit the American Ling Association through the fundraising efforts of my friend Abby Britton.

You may purchase your painting online at http://www.artisansaccomplice.com/artists/kimberlykent

 

To see them in person or for local delivery, call me at

503-805-9978.

 

My mother suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. She is a non-smoker, although there were enough carcinogens in her environs growing up to point a few fingers (coal, second-hand smoke, incidents of pneumonia). All I really know is that it has taken a vibrant, active person and weighed her down to the degree that she has to consider her ability to breathe with literally every step she takes. It’s terrible to feel so powerless in the face of something that ought to be treatable, if not preventable.

 

My solution is to get involved. I volunteer with the American Lung Association of Oregon on a weekly basis. I’m  a 4^th year volunteer and participant in their Reach the Summit program, this year am fundraising and training to climb the Grand Teton in July. There’s something that feels very tangible about raising money for programs and doing very physical challenges requiring lots of breathing with healthy lungs (!) in honor of those who are struggling.

 

Thank you for your consideration in supporting this cause. Buy some fantastic artwork and know that you’re helping all those people whose lungs and health have been compromised.

 

When you can’t breathe, nothing else matters.

  

Fondly,

Abby Britton

 

Travel Photography at CUBE Gallery

Gallivant - a show of travel photography by Bruce kent and Chuck Britton includes many beautiful photographs of birds. Each time I look through this show I find something new to note. The Galapagos Islands are the subject of many of the pieces in this show. The birds of Galapagos have made their presence known. Chuck and Bruce have captured some of the most intimate shots of penguins, pelicans, frigate birds and blue footed boobies I've seen yet. The show also includes other animals along with the beautiful images of their travels to Iceland, Europe, Hawaii, China and South America.
The photos come down March 1st - don't miss them.