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Monday, May 13, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Dreamscape: Stories from Earth and Beyond
Red Raven Gallery presents.....
Dreamscape: Stories from Earth and Beyond for May Artwalk
Calypso, guardian of the sea
Kim Gordon
Full of symbolism, heroines, goddesses and talismans, Kim
Gordon's "Dreamscape: Stories from Earth and Beyond" explores the
age-old tradition of storytelling with special attention to legend and myth,
both modern and ancient.
Kim Gordon is an artist living and working in San Francisco,
California. Her art reflects and incorporates her interest in magic, travel,
myths, historical events and family heritage. She prefers to paint on wood as
the grain, and other natural elements of the material, contribute their own
story to the final piece.
Specializing in the honored tradition of painting women, her
figures are used as vehicles to represent a wide variety of issues. A soft
strength balanced with quiet reflection is found in the faces of her subjects.
The worlds she creates echo the present day, historical fact and mythological
folklore.
Kim Gordon's art is exhibited, featured and collected
nationally and internationally. Gordon's recent exhibitions include the annual
Laluzapalooza show,
hosted by La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Her
first show (acting as curator), titled, "Hope Beyond" brought
together a talented roster of artists to successfully raise money for the
victims of Hurricane Sandy (www.hope-beyond.com). Additionally, Gordon also generously
donates her works to charitable causes, including the Sea No Evil Art Show and
the Great West Coast Migration. Gordon’s work has been published in many
publications, including Catapult Magazine, Clutter Magazine, Complex Magazine,
Wired Magazine and Hi-Fructose magazine.
Jacqueline Chisick Local Painter
Nuns in the field
JACQUELINE CHISICK has emerged as an important artist of the
Northwest. Her rich, luscious colors are always recognizable., and her forms
seem full of the very life around her. Born in Arizona, she was raised in the
hill country of cowboys and copper miners, with her family later moving to the
desert; the muted colors of Arizona figured prominently in her earlier works.
She received her Master’s degree from Arizona State University, and apprenticed
under several European-trained artists. After teaching university and college
art classes for twenty years, she packed her paints, her cat and her levis into
her 1977 Porsche and moved to Port Townsend, Washington.
Please Join us Saturday May 4th for Artwalk night at Red Raven Gallery.. 922 Water st. in Port Townsend from 5:30-8:30
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The Re-Calibration of Light and Dark
The Red Raven Gallery Presents
Paintings by Julie Luke and special guests
Julie Luke is an emerging visionary artist based out of
Tacoma, Washington. She creates whimsical spiritual paintings that evoke her
ideals of being boundless and one with spirit. She uses bold patterning, and
intense contrast to express her distinct works of art. Julie’s works have been
exhibited in galleries and art venues throughout the Pacific Northwest, including
a commission for the private gallery of the Dr.Martens U.S. Headquarters in Portland,
Oregon.
Born on June 18, 1980 in Port Angeles, Washington, Julie
was the eighth of nine children, and formal art culture was not accessible to her as a
child. She began creating time based ecological art at the age of five years old and began to
educate herself in painting when she was fifteen. Julie’s artistic beginning evolved from an innate means
to express her distinctive voice among a repressive environment. Julie states that the world
she would travel to while creating was pure and loving, full of otherworldly
expression and freedom. Her inherent talent to express and create was
influenced by her father, who was a self-taught blue collar artist; Julie’s
father is still her favorite artist and key inspiration to date. Julie never
imagined her art would bring her a life as a professional artist but blissfully
welcomes the many exciting and healing opportunities it brings. She is currently
working on several bodies of work, including ‘The re-calibration of light and dark’.
Please join us Saturday April 6th from 5:30-
8:00 pm for the opening party where we also will be featuring a stellar line-up
of very special guests from around the country.
Jel Ena Los Angeles CA
Lea Barozzi Portland OR
Patricia Ariel Seattle WA
Amy Katherine Minchew Atlanta GA
Amber Michelle Russell Eau Claire WI
Jessica Ward Manistee MI
Kim Gordon San Francisco CA
Red Raven will also feature our resident artist Amy Weber
with new paintings in watercolor and oils to round out this fantastic showing!
The show will run through May 3rd so don’t
miss it.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Mythologique: the figurative work of Patricia Ariel and New Icons : the Works of Brazillia R. Kreep
Red Raven Gallery presents New works
by Seattle artist Patrica Ariel
“Whenever I wanted answers or inspiration for life and art,
it was not in the mundane or in the ordinary life that I looked for them, but
in the unlimited world of my inner reality. This world, inhabited by mysterious
places and people, has its own stories, its own rules, its own wisdom. I am
only the storyteller.
I think of my work as a celebration of the human experience
in what they have of sacred and profane. My language is the one of beauty and
emotion, composed upon a hybrid of drawing/painting. Graphite drawing of
classically constructed bodies, rendered with oil, acrylic washes and abstract
embellishment, reflect the point of contact between the physical and the
reality of dreams, spirituality, and abstract perceptions. I create my own
mythology; characters, stories, fables, worlds that speak and connect with the
viewer through the language of symbols and archetypes. Themes like transformation and transitions,
the human duality, spiritual and emotional experiences, and the ties of man
with nature and the raw forces of life are often explored. Since I focus
primarily on the female figure, I can say that my work is also about the the
female experience according to my own vision of the feminine: power, creation,
energy, witchcraft, life. My women are forces of nature, sorceresses, bearers
of darkness and light.”
Artist of surrealist and visionary themes, Patricia was born
in 1970 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she lived and worked until moving to
the United States. Since she was a little child, she has been enjoying to give
life to her private world through her drawings and writings. She has been
drawing since the age of three, never remembering a single time of her life
when she was not exploring some type of creative language. She has been also a
performing artist, acting, dancing, and singing since her late teens. Although
in part self-taught, she has had some formal training in visual arts that
included academic drawing classes and a background in Fashion Design. Her love
for teaching took her to a bachelors degree in Art Education with a
specialization in History of Art from the Rio de Janeiro State University. But
it was just after leaving her homeland that she considered the possibility of
becoming a fine artist more seriously. Currently she has been consistently
working as a fine artist, illustrator, and designer, basing her images on her passion for the
figurative art combined with ornamental abstracts. Her inspiration and
aesthetic references come from several sources, from the theater and ballet to
Eastern Art, from the Art Nouveau and Jugendstil to contemporary Pop Art,
including occult symbolism, Tarot, Astrology and metaphysics.
Brazillia R. Kreep New Icons
Brazillia R. Kreep aka R. Richard O'Donnell.. coming fresh
off his smash hit cabaret play last week, 'Bite Me!' He debuts his 2d work for the
first time in Port Townsend. His
recognizable portraits stand out as pop culture icons in his own unique style
of macabre tongue in chic retro.
The Kreep first appeared on Halloween, 2007 as a weekly
column published by webzine Static Multimedia. The column, under the banner of
Kreep's Korner, reviewed classic and contemporary horror films in rhyme which
were also linked to a weekly podcast on iTunes, voiced by creator O'Donnell and
engineered by Eric Hoffhines.[1] Formatted to resemble a penned letter to its
readers, Kreep’s Korner included historical facts and an original poem about
the film with the reoccurring sign-off of "In Eternity".
In 2008, O'Donnell began blogging regularly under "The
Kreep" banner. Gothic poems in verse dubbed "Kreeplets" appeared
almost daily, illustrated with original art, and covered a variety ofmacabre
topics such as vampires, ghouls, and goblins. Other topics outside the sphere
of horror included homelessness, love, war, and poverty. Additional blogs began
reposting The Kreep such as In Shadows, Dirty Wings, and Gothican on a regular
basis.
Opening Reception for the artist is March 2 2013
5:30-8:30 pm
Red Raven Gallery
922 Water st. Port Townsend
360.385.1493
Friday, January 18, 2013
Zoom in/Zoom out : The Paintings of Counsel Langley
We are pleased as Punch to welcome our local creative and all around awesome gal, Counsel Langley as featured artist for the month of February!
Counsel works with acrylic paint, graphite and ink, as well as generous amounts of glitter, paper, and various recycled materials.
Her recent series of works were originally inspired by the Campbell McGrath poem, "Nights on Planet Earth." They reflect moments of awareness that so much is happening all at once, that tigers and happy hour exist on the same planet; that Jupiter and Twinkies share a solar system. "I find these times of hyper-awareness powerfully beautiful, disturbing, comforting, overwhelming, enlightening and unpredictable."
As a part of her larger body of work these paintings are hybrids of two opposing approaches. One, loose painting techniques: dripping, pours, splatters, which effectively represent natural elements—weather, water, clouds, smoke, etc. The other approach, using pen and ink with architects' tools, templates and compasses, Counsel fastidiously draw controlled lines, concentric circles, grids and repetitive dots; using these to reflect structures and infrastructures that we build.
"I am influenced by the look of outer space, computer chips, dramatic weather, electric circuits, decay, rock-n-roll glamour, plans and diagrams, b-rate sci-fi control panels, urban environments, fluid turbulence, engineering schematics and architectural drawings."
You can see Counsels work and meet the artist at the Red Raven Gallery starting with Artwalk on February 2, 2013. The show runs through March 1st.
Core
Counslel Langley
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Port Townsend The Muse
Jason Starr Squire
This Month for Artwalk Red Raven Gallery is Featuring a Long time resident artist, writer and all around awesome guy... Many of you know who Jason Starr Squire is, if you have ever eaten at Silverwater Restaurant he has probably plied you with the delectable fare.. or if you are a writer or lover of novel and prose.. he can be found in the Writers workshop on Sundays. Jason is our newest gallery member and we could not be more pleased...
He had an awakening four years ago as the result of an extreme sleep apnea diagnoses. Like a page out of Rip Van Winkle, Jason woke up in the middle of his life and started asking questions: "Who am I? What am I doing? Where am I going?" There were no answers, only a new found view of the world around him. He started writing poetry, and taking photographs.
"My dreams at night are still elusive and fleeting. I manipulate my photographs to look like how I imagine they might appear in my dreams."
Braden Duncan
Red Raven is also proud to feature a guest artist from Seattle.. Braden Duncan.
She is a portrait artist by trade, imperfect by choice, and a cog in the machine of human mythology by default.
"I draw my inspiration from the peculiar minutiae of the human form, symbolism and mythology, the empty spaces left by missing friends, and the intricate elegance created by the convergence of biological and mechanical elements."
An alumnus of Cornish College of the Arts, Braden lives in Seattle, Washington with her chosen family and the animals of the Mongrel Circus.....
Red Raven Gallery
922 Water st.
Port Townsend,WA
360-385-1493
Monday, November 26, 2012
Red Raven Gallery Retrospective and Shannon Connor Castle's colorful goddesses
Red Raven is Ringing out the old and ushering the NEW YEAR
We at Red Raven would like to welcome Shannon Connor Castle as our Guest artist for the month of December.
Mandala
Shannon Connor Castle
Shannon Connor Castle is a lifetime
artist with a unique talent and extraordinary vision.
From her beginnings as a commission
artist, in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle, specializing in
architectural custom glass carving and design, she has evolved into a
multi-faceted artist of breathtaking scope and diversity.
Working in the physically challenging
world of carved glass, Shannon Castle's sand-blast artistry creates
breathtakingly detailed one of a kind three-dimensional large cold glass works
that transcend common perceptions of the boundaries of the medium. That's just
the beginning.
Once these glass works are created, she
then adds color, gold leaf, and also creates hand rubbings on canvas of the carvings
which then become original artworks on their own. These final hand-made pieces are then
photographed at high-resolution and printed using a Giclee process. These prints are then mounted and displayed
in a variety of formats that make these jaw-dropping designs financially
accessible to a greater number of admirers.
Every piece is conceived, designed, created and finished by the hand of
the artist.
Mother and child
Shannon Connor Castle
Constantly innovating, and challenging
the limits of the possible in the world of art glass, her originals include a
realistic hand carved 2,000 pound replica of a 1958 Harley-Davidson Duo Glide,
in addition to her more fanciful, magical surrealist works of mermaids, angels
and goddesses. The Motorcycle was featured
in an article in Easyrider Magazine entitled "Glass-terpiece". She has also created a series of Mandalas,
derived from patterns found within her carvings, and stylized pond scenes that
have been featured in the Robb Report.
Shannon Castle lives in Kirkland,
Washington with her husband, and renowned violinist, Geoffrey Castle. She won't tell you how old she is.
Red Raven 1 Year Retrospective
Red Raven Gallery opened it's doors 1 year ago in September, so we thought it fitting to have a retrospective of it's members work. Red Raven strives to be a gallery that dances on the edge and showcases new and upcoming talent monthly with a new guest as well as new work from it's members.....
Bringing in the new year will be Sarah Fitch our local sculptor and owner of the gallery with some amazingly detailed new ceramic pieces, including her fantastically unique and quite large horseheads and of course her infamous Royale Raven relief sculptures.
Royale Raven
by Sarah Fitch
We also will be showing the new works of painter, Laurie McClave who has been busy Creating some of her lovely ladies on small wood plaques, perfect for gift giving. Laurie also has a large selection of her works in giclee prints, and she makes wearable art necklaces and now that we have a plastic bag ban, going to the co-op is much more fashionable with a canvas tote emblazoned with a Laurie McClave original.....
Riene d'abelle
'Bee Queen
by Laurie McClave
Amy Weber's fantastic creatures in watercolor and ink are colorful additions to any art collection and she has made a myriad of sizes for all budgets. Whimsical bots, crafty cats, and wise owls peer out at you from colorful canvases and jewelry for wrists, necks and ears. She also has a full selection of refrigerator magnets, ornaments and bookmarks for everyone on your list.....
Fitzgerald among the poppies and ravens
by Amy Weber
Jason Starr Squire is in resident photographic artist and our newest member.... We welcome his eye for the interesting angle, and finding the fantastic in the daily Port Townsend life. Many of you may know Jason as one of PT's renaissance men, dividing his time between writing and working at the Writers workshop and serving you delish delicacies at the Silverwater Cafe...
Through the Salish sea with the moon
By Jason Starr Squire
Marisa Rinaldo has been a busy bee.. Her finely detailed pen and inks and mixed media works are a mix of steampunk and tattoo culture. Marisa spends her time between the gallery and working at the new Bistro in town while attending comic conventions and doing commissions for clients. She has just added a line of Buttons with her artworks and soon to be magnets....
China Blossoms
By Marisa Rinaldo
Jacqueline Chisick is a well known and respected painter in our area for the last 3 decades.. She came here in the 80s from Arizona and has been painting her lovely figurative acrylics ever since. For any of you unfamiliar with Jackies' iconic women portraits she has them hanging at Sirens pub and Alchemy bistro downtown. Jackies textures and color palette are unrivaled....
The edge of the tree
by Jacqueline Chisick
Please join us for Artwalk this weekend December 1st from 5:30 to 8:30 at 922 Water st. Meet all of the artists and learn about their creative process....
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