Sunriver Resort Lodge Betty Gray Gallery presents a fine art exhibit in the upper gallery featuring Pam Jersey Bird, acrylic abstracts and Judy Hoiness, expressionistic landscapes. Ann Ruttan, oil landscapes and abstracts appears in the lower gallery. The artists will be present at a public reception in their honor on Friday, July 12 from 5–7 pm (please note new time). The exhibition opens on Monday, July 1 and continues through July 27.
Pam Bird presents abstract acrylic paintings drawn from her imagination, moving her imagery beyond realistic portrayal to an interpretation of the familiar. With titles such as Water and Tangles, the artist depicts floating objects as bright shapes of color with perhaps the single literal reference to water being hues of blue.
Working in art over many years, Bird served as an art museum educator and an art instructor at the community college and elementary level. An award winning artist, she is a signature member of the International Society of Acrylic Painters with exhibitions in California, Washington and Oregon.
Judy Hoiness, one of Oregon most recognized artists, exhibits abstracted paintings with an expressionistic reference to landscape. A fourth generation Oregonian, Central Oregon and the Pacific Northwest are major inspirations for her work. Her mixed media imagery presents a flattened perspective of landscape, suggesting geologic layers, rendered in a widely interpretive palette.
Noted for numerous national and regional exhibitions throughout the U.S., Hoiness received over forty significant awards with her art published in many books on watercolor and acrylic, and Watercolor Magazine. Her teaching includes workshops in the U.S. and Canada and as adjunct art faculty at Central Oregon Community College.
Appearing in the lower level gallery is a feature of art by noted northwest artist Ann Ruttan. Working in oil, she presents impressionistic, expressionistic and abstract paintings, demonstrating the breadth and variety of her current work. Most depict her favored subject of the natural landscape.
In addition, the artist shows landscape combined with images of the wild mustangs of the Ochoco National Forest, one of which she adopted late last year. Widely collected in the Northwest and throughout the U.S., Oregon Public Broadcasting featured her work on its Art Beat series.
Sunriver Resort invites the public to meet the artists at the July 12 reception and to visit the exhibition continuing thru July 27, open all hours. Billye Turner organizes exhibitions for Sunriver Resort and provides additional information at 541-382-9398.
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