Main Gallery
The Best of the Best
High School Art
April 20–May 4, 2012
About this Exhibition:
The Best of the Best Student Art Show—in its 27th year—returned to the Rogue Gallery and Art Center (RGAC).
The Main Gallery was filled with artwork made by students from 16 participating Rogue Valley high schools. Nearly 150 individual artworks including paintings, drawings, collage, illustrations, sculpture, ceramics, and woodwork were on display.
Best of the Best Origins and Concept: In 1985-86, members of the Southern Oregon Research and Development Committee (SORD) initiated the Best of the Best Student art show to encourage artistically gifted high school students in the Rogue Valley. This activity, co-sponsored by Southern Oregon University’s Pre-college Youth Programs and different local galleries, far exceeded expectations and has become an annual event each spring.
In 1987-88, Bill LePore, Crater High School, developed an exciting Art Seminar for the exhibiting artists and their teachers. This seminar, held at Southern Oregon State College (SOU), has become a regular feature of the Best of the Best activity, and includes lectures by Southern Oregon University art professors and art workshops with professional artists and instructors.
In 1991-92, Elaine Barker orchestrated a three-year cycle to rotate show locations between the Grants Pass Museum of Art in Grants Pass, the Rogue Gallery & Art Center in Medford, and the Center for the Visual Arts on Southern Oregon University's campus in Ashland.
Artist Teen Mentoring Project
March 30–April 13, 2012
About this Exhibition:
The Artist Teen Mentoring Project (ATMP)—now in its seventh year at the Rogue Gallery &Art Center (RGAC)—offers local teens, ages 16 to 18, a realistic look at the life of a professional artist. These aspiring artists have the opportunity to work with established artists to create art in a variety of materials and styles, including those seldom available to high school students. This exhibition, presented in RGAC’s prestigious Main Gallery, is the culmination of the project which displays creative work by both teens and artists. This year’s exhibition—made possible through sponsorship by Rogue Disposal and Recycling, and Lithia Motors—runs from March 30 through April 13, 2012, with a free reception on Friday, April 6, 5-7pm. The public is invited to support these students in their first gallery show. We promise you’ll be impressed by the caliber of the work.
MORE about the Artist Teen Mentoring Project
Really Rogue
Eileen M. Bowie
Peter Van Fleet
David Lorenz Winston
February 17 - March 23, 2012
About this Exhibition:
This exhibition features surrealist oil paintings by Eileen M.
Bowie, abstract wood constructions by Peter Van Fleet, and offbeat
documentary photographs by David Lorenz Winston.
Bowie, Van Fleet, and Winston are brought together in Really Rogue as part of their recognition as award winners in the 2011 Rogue Valley Biennial, a juried exhibition of contemporary art from the region. Each was selected by the jurors to receive a Jurors’ Choice Award during last year’s exhibition held at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center. Really Rogue is the culmination of the artists’ honors.
January 6 – February 10 , 2012
This group exhibition features abstract watercolor paintings by
Virginia Andrade of Grants Pass, OR; the vibrantly-hued chromogenic
photographs by Robert Buelteman of Montara, CA; and the found
object/mixed media installation by April & Wendy Hill from Medford
and Sunriver, OR, respectively. These artists share an interest in
using unusual processes and/or materials in the creation of their work.
Smaller than a Breadbox
2011 Members' Show
November 11 – December 23, 2011
Rachel Barrett, Pat Blair, Nancy Block, Marilyn Briggs, Angelique Brownlie, Susan Eileen Burnes, Sarah F. Burns, Daurel Carhart, Katy Cauker, Robert Cook, Linda Elesiya Evans, Dee Evers, Kim Faucher, Marilyn Fishwick, Cynthia Flowers, Virginia Govedare, Georganna Happel, Clauia Harlow, Kim Hearon, Mary Jo Heath, April Hill, Jean Jackson, Annette Karlas, Zorah Krueger-Alper, Roni Marsh, Jules Masterjohn, Ginny Matheson, Betsy Moore, Nancy Jo Mullen, Meredith Page, Cecilia Pestlin, Marilyn M. Reeves, Patrick Ryan, Leona Keene Sewitsky, June Shepard, Loretta Sias, Allen Smith, Lo Smucker, Alice Stambaugh, Will Storm, Jenny Stout, David Thanes, Sandi Whetzel, Eve Margo Withrow, Elaine A. Witteveen
The 2011 members show covered the walls of the Main Gallery with works that express a food-related or culinary theme, and are no larger than a breadbox – or 24 inches in any direction! This display reveals the breadth and depth of our member artists’ talent and creativity.
An Oregon Love Story
Works by Betty LaDuke
September 16 – October 28, 2011
The Rogue Gallery & Art Center presents An Oregon Love Story: Works by
Betty LaDuke. The exhibition includespaintings, prints, and drawings by the
renowned artist. Themes of family, community, and nature can be seen throughout
the work and reveal the artist’s passion for the place and the people that have
sustained her life in southernOregon over the past 50 years.
An emeritus professor of art from Southern Oregon University, LaDuke is the author of six books about her experiences and those of other women artists throughout the world, and has exhibited herpaintings, sketches and murals in more than 300 solo shows. She resides and creates in Ashland, Oregon.
Men Going to Pieces
Aug. 5 – Sept. 10
Men Going to Pieces brings together four male artists who each create work using fragments, sections, layers, or small pieces to compose their art. Though Bruce Bayard, Keith Johnson, Peter Van Fleet, and Mark McKibben work in different ways using different materials and processes, these artists demonstrate a shared perspective about contemporary life - that the world might just be falling apart.
Art About Agriculture 2011
Ways into the Region
Katherine Ace
STILL LIFE WITH THE OUTSIDE
oil alkyd w/ mixed media, 36" x 36"
June 17 – July 29
Art About Agriculture, a traveling show organized by Oregon State University in Corvallis, recognizes professional and emerging Pacific Northwest artists whose work investigates the visual resources of the science and practice that sustains human life: agriculture and rural livelihoods.
A concurrent showing of vintage fruit crate labels will be on display in the Members’ and Student galleries.
The Pacific Northwest is a rousing place that inspires artists living within its diverse ecosystems. This exhibition showcases artistic perspectives that offer understanding into the values and deeper meaning of the region's salient natural resources.
Illustrated Talk
A History of the Pear Industry in Southern Oregon
Thursday, July 21, 7:00pm
Using pear crate labels and historical photos, Sue Naumes illustrates the history of the pear industry in the region. A selection of labels will be on display.
Between Earth & Sky – Art in Bloom Invitational
Between Earth & Sky — Art in Bloom Invitational
May 6 – June 10
This exhibition coincides with the 12-year old Art in Bloom Festival, a weekend outdoor art celebration located in downtown Medford that surrounds RGAC and draws over 400 visitors during the festival. Veering from the exhibition’s tradition of spotlighting spring-themed work, this year artists have been chosen who are working with materials and from perspectives that stretch the interpretation of the vernal season. Leave it to artists to challenge our assumptions and this show will certainly do so!
Invited Artists Include
Linda Boutecoff
Jim Chamberlin
Tom Glassman
Pat Holton
Denise Kester
Meredith Page
Harriet Rex Smith
Mike Smith
Leona Keene Sewitsky
The show presents a diversity of mediums such as mixed media painting, photo-illustration, encaustic, photography, assemblage, sculpture, watercolor painting, printmaking, and oil painting.
Artist Teen Mentoring Project (ATMP)
April 8 – 21, 2011
ATMP offers up a display of work from the program, which pairs professional artists with high school art students in a working relationship of a minimum 30 hours, resulting in a student portfolio of creative work.
Sponsored by Lithia Motors, Inc.
Rogue Valley Biennial
February 18 – March 31, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, February 18, 5 – 7pm
The Rogue Valley Biennial presents the ‘art of our time’ — showcasing artists from the region whose creative work is innovative, compelling, and timely in form and content — selected by jurors Bruce Bayard, Cody Bustamante, and Anne DiSalvo.
A Salon des Refusés featuring works that were not selected by the jurors held in the neighboring Organic Natural Café.
Sponsored by the Jackson County Cultural Coalition & Medford Art Commission
Sea Curtains by Audrey Sochor
January 7 – February 8, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, January 7, 5 – 7pm
Sea Curtains will transform the Main Gallery into an underwater environment with mixed media, fabric, and light. Sea Curtains, which premiered at RGAC in 2000, has traveled throughout venues in Oregon since its creation and returns in an expanded state with hundreds of new elements. Sochor's installation includes preparatory sketches and schematics enabling the audience to discern the working of her creative process.
Featured Artists in the Members Gallery
September / October 2011: Lucy Warnick • acrylic landscape painting
JULY to AUGUST 2011: Collage / Watercolor by Alice Stambaugh
JUNE 2011: Mixed Media / Found Object work by Tommi Drake
Ignite the Mind, Stir the Soul, Open the Heart
