Exhibitions

CURRENT EXHIBITION:

Group Show of Gallery Artists Through February 28

Ikebana Black and Blue by Dan Freeman

Handblown Glass by Robert Adamson

Floating Logs by Kathleen Frugé-Brown

In January and February Rob Schouten Gallery will be featuring paintings by Anne Belov, Pete Jordan, Mark Van Wickler and Kathleen Frugé-Brown; sculptures by Sharon Spencer, Dan Freeman and Lloyd Whannell; encaustics and willow art by Kathleen Otley; glass by Robert Adamson and Janis Swalwell; fiber art by Cyndi Wolfe; ceramics by Joan Govedare; jewelry by Barbara Mundell; and giclée prints by Rob Schouten.

PAST EXHIBITIONS:

DAN FREEMAN Mixed Media Sculptures
and
STACEY NEUMILLER oil and acrylic paintings

JULY 1 – AUGUST 3

KATHLEEN FRUGE-BROWN New paintings and Woodblock prints June 3 – 29

Kathleen Frugé-Brown is a painter, printmaker, and public artist with a long-standing commitment to imagery from the natural world. The foundation of her practice is plein-air oil painting, on the riverbanks and in the forest surrounding her Cascade foothills studio. Kathleen loves the complexity and density of the natural world, and tries to make each brushstroke an exuberant and reverent response to nature.

In recent years, Kathleen’s interest in creating public art has led her to translate her imagery into a variety of other media, including glass mosaic, epoxy enamel, and vitreous enamel on steel and glass.

Her work is held in numerous public collections, and among her awards are a recent Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and a Hauberg Fellowship from Pilchuck Glass School, in aid of her exploration of new media.

Whether creating a public commission or working on a more intimate oil painting, Kathleen brings the same sense of purpose to her work: to awaken in viewers the feeling of connection and wholeness that she feels when she’s out of doors, painting.

PAINTINGS

Floating Logs, Lake Sammamish

Overhanging Alder

Above the Rapids

Forest Hillside

Sunny Flood Plane

Salmonberry Thicket

Maples, Late Summer

Late August

Equinox Week

Winter Sun

Looking West

Cedar, Mid-Morning

Cedars, February

Cedar Stump with Young Hemlocks

Nurse Stump, September

Cedar Root

Two Big Cedars

Cedar and Maple, April

Puffballs

Late Sun, February

Cedar River at Landsburg

Rapids on the Cedar River

Bitterroot Creek

River Rocks

Path

Natural Light

Mount Rainier, January

BLOCK PRINTS

Sword Fern Fiddleheads

Fiddlehead

Nest

Trillium and Bleeding Heart

Foxglove and Thimbleberry

Wild Rose

River with Dogs

Autumn River

Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks

Salmon Pair, edited version

Salmon Pair, unique version

Cedar in Late Summer

Iris

DAVID ILES – PAINTING AND SCULPTURE May 6 – June 3, 2011.

Artist David Iles exhibited new oil paintings, including his Shi Shi Beach and Tools series, and the sculptures Economic Theory and Tree of Life.

Intuition, inspiration, and curiosity have guided him to employ a broad range of skills, techniques and visual languages to express a multifaceted sense of reality.

David makes his own paints using oil, acrylic, and wax mediums in layered applications to built up a three dimensional painting surface that uniquely describes his vision of a deeply textured and nuanced world.

His often interactive sculptures beguile and confront the viewer with biting questions about human economies and wild ecosystems.

PAINTINGS

Morning

Forest

Shi Shi Beach Series (additional paintings in this series are on view in the gallery)

Jagged Coast

Moonlit Coast

Sunset Coast

Snow and Clouds

Shi Shi Beach 1

Shi Shi Beach 2

Shi Shi Beach 3

Tools Series (additional paintings in this series are on view in the gallery)

Hammer

Clamp

Machette

Socket Wrench

Pipe Wrench

SCULPTURES

Economic Theory

Economic Theory - top

Economic Theory - detail

Tree of Life - detail

Tree of Life

Tree of Life - detail

KATHLEEN OTLEY – NEW ENCAUSTICS April 1 – May 4, 2011.

In her second solo exhibition at the gallery Kathleen Otley has turned her attention to creating pieces in encaustic, or wax, on wood that incorporate avian imagery with three dimensional objects, and pieces that feature a center of woven metals surrounded by a wax border with fragments of writing or patterns. Some works feel distinctly Asian, while others tend toward abstraction.

Many of these pieces are best displayed in small groupings of various sized works together in a pleasing arrangement.

Block prints by KRIS WILTSE October 29 – November 24, 2010

We are very happy to present the richly colored block prints of Clinton artist Kris Wiltse in her first show at our gallery. Much of Kris’ work is informed by the versatile forms and shapes of the natural environment in the Northwest. It’s bold and textured surfaces delineate mythological themes and figures, giving her work a warm, almost nostalgic feeling of home. Precise multi-block printing techniques further ensure the beauty of her work.