Aia Bower
Juried by Jen Tough
Poetry: Cruwys Brown
May 17–July 2, 2021
You can watch the recording of the artist’s roundtable here
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1. You asked me to do it in the hue called blue
Jim Wilson “Motel Pool at Night” Acrylic, 24×20 $1400
Eric Moore “5.2021” Acrylic paint, resin, clear coat on aluminum, 40×40 $3950
Laurie Blessen “Getting Home” Monotype, 37×25 $900
George Tomberlin “blue translucent” iPhoto, 11×10 $225
Savannah Holmes “Ophelia” Photography, 18.53×21.4 $400
Rebecca Katz “La Mer” Acrylic on Canvas, 48×41 $2800
Cathy Richardi “Cloudy Blue” Oil on canvas, 30×30 $1900
Michael Jorgensen “Parking” Photography, 14×14 $350
Taylor McAllister “Hayward” Acrylic on wood panel, 47.5×71.5 $2500
2. A color considered trustworthy, harmonious and cool
Glenda Mah “Family” Mokume Shibori, stitched on cotton and handyed in Indigo, 22×18.5 $200
Nancy Egol Nikkal “Triangles blue and white diptych” acrylic on panel, 24×32 $1600
Erin McCluskey Wheeler “Blue Aggregate” Painted and found paper collages mounted on 16 4×4 panels, 18×18 $600
Susan Hensel “Chromatic Book Blocks” Digital embroidery, wood, paint, hardware, 12×48 $2000
Deborah Benioff Friedman “Reticulate Blue” Mulberry paper, thread, 28×52 $1250
Marcia Stuermer “Glacial Breakup Barcode: A Fugue in Shades of Blue” Resin, mixed media, 8×37 $3000
Linda Belden “Homage to Agnes Martin” Fiber, 10×22 $500
Bob Mosier “Welders Landscape 2” Old welding blue jeans, 100 cotton, 47×62 $2200
3. Who wouldn’t first think Die Grossen Blauen Pferde, Large Blue Horses by Franz Marc?
Lori Rhodes “Show Me” Acrylic, charcoal, pigment sticks, graphite,pencil, 30×30 $1400
Carol Dalton “Midnight Rain” Mixed Media, 16×16 $1600
Viktoria Ford “Connections” watercolor and gouache, 30×23 $1000
Renee Bott “Letters Home: Farewell” Acrylic and ink on paper mounted to canvas, 60×40 $9000
Laura Lovitt “Ghost” Oil stick, bees wax and damar resin on panel; diptych, 40×60 SOLD $4200
Sally Smith “Jam Jars” Oil and charcoal (made from Mormon hymn books) on linen, 42×42 $4200
Irene Imfeld “Mushrooms in Blue (4928)” Photograph, dye sublimation on aluminum panel, 24×24 $1400
Caryn Martin “Blue” installation of acrylic paintings on paper, 57×67 $NFS
4. Ancient Egyptians concocted a hot brew of lime and copper to make the first blue
Dan Cassidy “Blue Fruit #5 – Banana” Photo, 12×24 $375
Janet Lucroy “Murmur 7” Unframed archival pigment print, 18×18 $175
Kelly McKaig “Flight” cyanotype, 30×20 $1400
Mary Lou Dauray “Iceberg Sunset” Acrylic on Gessoed Paper, 52×52 $595
Claudia Hollister “Anemone in Blue” Cyanotype print, 11×8 $350
Becky Brinkley “Magnolia Bloom” Cyanotype, 8×10 $350
Christine Huhn “Yosemite Valley, California. 2016” Gum Bichromate, 12×12 $350
Rhea Cutillo “Ocean View, Untitled” Oil on Wood, 36×36 $3200
5. Without the word for blue, Homer called the sea wine-red
Deb Lutz “Splash” Digital Fractal Image printed as Giclee on Silver Paper, 22×26 $295
Anthony Watkins “Acadia Shore” Oil on canvas, 12×16 $1200
Virginia Primozic “Sunlight Reflected” Paper on Canvas, 11×14 $350
Tarra Lyons “Deep Blue” Oil on linen, 56×54 $6400
Tom Gehrig “Weather Balloon Launched To Orion” Oil / Canvas with Mixed Media, 32×12 $3000
Joy Muller-McCoola “Water” Wet felted wool, 54×26 $NFS
Chris Adessa “Night Vision” Oil on Panel, 12×12 $950
David Carmack Lewis “Carbon Capture” Oil on canvas, 60×30 $3000
Suz Lipman “Ranch House Under Stars” Photography, 20×20 $350
Anne-Whitney Pennypacker “Dusk on Campus” Oil on Board, 6×4.5 $185
6. Ultramarine – beyond the sea
Margo MacArthur “Mood” Photograph, 16×22 $500
Kate Lagaly, CPX, CPSA “Cerulean Blues” Colored pencil on mat board, 16×18 $695
Chris Harsch “Despair” Acrylic, 48×36 $1500
Donna Dangott “Escape From The Garden” Archival Pigment Print of Manipulated Digital Photography, 14×11 $500
Dave Manousos “Blue State of Mind” Acrylic on Wood, 12×16 $350
Robert Miglorino “Miglorino_Embrace” Acrylic, 24×18 $600
7. Blue paint was only for Mary and royalty
Lori Brook Johnson “Each Other” Pastel & Graphite, 20×26 $700
Annette Sabater “Blue Together” Pastel, graphite, 18×24 $300
R.D. Mitchell “Abstracted Nude in Blue” Oil on Birch Panel, 24×16.5 $1600
Bob Moskowitz “Waiting” Oil, 36×48 $8500
8. Artists ground and ground their precious Lapis Lazuli,
Linda Pearlman Karlsberg “On the Cusp of Darker Hours” Oil on canvas, 48×36 $8900
David Gallegos “Empyrean # 13” Oil on Canvas, 71×40 $9990
Colleen Gregoire “Cabezon Sunset” Oil on canvas, 36×24 $1950
Bernadette Freeman “Hear the Echos” Paper Collage, 18×18 $4000
Amy Bennion “Porch on Quince Street” Watercolor, 13.5×9.5 $NFS
9. a blue too expensive for Michelangelo, a cause of financial debt for Vermeer
Gary Aagaard “The Dulling” Oil on Canvas, 24×20 $3000
Marjorie and Bob Moskowitz “Queen of the Desert” Oil, 35×45 $8500
Gary Westford “The Source (Lake), Kohei Nawa Deer” Oil/canvas, 60×72 $6500
Dobee Snowber “DISSOLUTION 2” Mixed media on board, 36×36 $3600
Tree Bernstein “Goddess of the Dawn” Photo & Collage, 8×8 $300
David Disko “THUNDERHEAD” Spray paint and oil on re-purposed canvas, 16×20 $600
Stephanie Kolpy “WARNING” Drypoint & Monoprint on Kozo, 21×29 $1500
Sally Chapman “Cosmo Sailor” Cyanotype and Pastels, 30×14 $1200
10. China held the secret with cobalt on their porcelain,
Anna Sidana “Symbiosis” Oil on canvas, 52×59 NFS
Nina Temple “Aqua Blue” Ink on watercolor paper, 30×22 $1600
Ken Marunowski “Big Blue” Oil on canvas, 60×48 $3700
Melissa Bolger “A Piece Of Her in Blue” Colored pencil on paper, 22×30 $3500
Keith Wilson “Horizon” Oil on prepared paper, 16×12 $925
11. then a leafy little plant in Japan gave birth to indigo
Aia Bower “Le Printemps” Mixed media on canvas, 40×40 $4000
Cee “Periennial I” Acrylic Mediums on Board, 24×24 $1500
Terry Tsu “Angst Is My Middle Name” Oil On Canvas, 40×36 $6000
Dana Seeger “The Deep Places” Encaustic, acrylic, collage and mixed media on panel, 10×8 $450
12. a sharecropper’s color and the birth of the blues
Marie Cameron “Anemone Tea I” Oil on Board, 12×12 $800
Kazuo Morita “Coexists 3” Ceramics, 16×14 $550
P.K. Williams “Blue Hue” Acrylic on panel, 24×24 $600
Cathy Pitts “Monet’s Diamond” Oil on Canvas, 55×48 $8,000
Caroline Elliott “Blue Gemstone Bowl with Snakes” Ceramic, 11.5×11.5 $350
Sonia Gill “The Real McCoy” Oil/Canvas, 24×36 $1800
I never felt more like singing its hues
Many thanks to our juror, Jen Tough
SALES
and O’Hanlon Center for the Arts!
SHOW CREDITS
Ellen Mattesi, Erma Murphy, Tess Howell
Curated by Jeremy Thornton
THANKS TO
Dan Cassidy
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Aia Bower
www.aiabower.com
Amy Bennion
http://abennion.com/
Anna Sidana
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Anne-Whitney Pennypacker
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Annette Sabater
www.asabaterart.com
Anthony Watkins
Becky Brinkley
Bernadette Freeman
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Bob Mosier
Bob Moskowitz
Carol Dalton
www.caroldaltonart.com
Caroline Elliott
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Caryn Martin
www.carynmartin.com
Cathy Pitts
www.cathypittsart.com
Cathy Richardi
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Chris Adessa
www.ChrisAdessa.com
Chris Harsch
www.harschart.com
Christine Huhn
www.christinehuhn.com
Claudia Hollister
www.claudiahollister.com
Colleen Gregoire
www.czgstudios.com
Dan Cassidy
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Dana Seeger
www.danaharrisseeger.com
Dave Manousos
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David Disko
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David Gallegos
www.kawikaspiritartstudio.com
David Carmack Lewis
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Deborah Lutz
www.facebook.com/DebLutzFractals
Deborah Benioff Friedman
www.deborahbeniofffriedman.com
Dobee Snowber
www.dobeesnowber.com
Donna Dangott
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Eric Moore
Erin McCluskey Wheeler
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Gary Aagaard
www.aagaardart.com
Gary Westford
www.garywestford.com
George Tomberlin
Glenda Mah
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Irene Imfeld
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Janet Lucroy
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Jim Wilson
Joy Muller-McCoola
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Kate Lagaly, CPX, CPSA
http://katelagaly.blogspot.com/
Kazuo Morita
Keith Wilson
www.KeithWilsonArt.com
Kelly McKaig
www.kellymckaig.com
Ken Marunowski
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Laura Lovitt
Laurie Blessen
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Linda Belden
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Linda Pearlman Karlsberg
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Lori Rhodes
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Lori Brook Johnson
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Marcia Stuermer
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Margo MacArthur
Marie Cameron
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Marjorie and Bob Moskowitz
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Mary Lou Dauray
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Melissa Bolger
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Michael Jorgensen
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Nancy Egol Nikkal
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Nina Temple
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P.K. Williams
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R.D. Mitchell
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Rebecca Katz
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Renee Bott
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Rhea Cutillo
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Robert Miglorino
Sally Chapman
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Sally Smith
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Savannah Holmes
Sonia Gill
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Stephanie Kolpy
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Susan Hensel
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Suz Lipman
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Tarra Lyons www.tarrapaints.com
Taylor McAllister
Terry Tsu
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Tom Gehrig
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Tree Bernstein
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Viktoria Ford
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Virginia Primozic
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