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Hoffman Gallery

July Gallery Exhibition
Exhibit-Thursdays–Sundays | July 3–26 | 12:00-5:00pm
Opening Reception July 5 | 3:00-5:00pm
Gallery is closed the last Sunday of every month
Hoffman Center for the Arts | 594 Laneda Avenue | Manzanita
Free and open to the public

 

Featuring Works by
Robin Kerr, Jennifer Rabin, Steven Miller

 

Robin Kerr—Flowers in Your Hair

 

This body of work, called Flowers In Your Hair, is a selection of my abstracted imaginary still-lifes. Still-lifes have been created by a multitude of cultures for eons. I love their accessibility because of their global familiarity; I love their historical documentation of everyday objects and locally specific decorative motifs; I love that the genre has persisted despite its lowly reputation in the ivory towers of the fine art world.

My versions seek to present a fresh playful approach. Certainly the color palette is heavily influenced by both geography and weather of New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest which are remarkably similar in their diversity and unpredictability. The patterns and marks on the vessels tend to be a pastiche of decorative patterns that I have mentally documented during my visits to other countries. Through this work I like to think I am standing alongside all the vessel makes, gardeners, painters, flower arrangers and home creators who have deliberately carved out a little piece of beauty no matter where they are, no matter what they are facing.

Artist Bio

Robin Kerr is a New Zealand born self-taught artist living in Portland Oregon USA. Prior to 2021 her professional art work focused on illustrations for children’s books and health-care public service pieces, with the occasional fine-art commission. Her day job was in a global healthcare company. In 2021 she moved to full time fine-art making.

Acrylic paint, wax pastel and ink on birch panels are her mediums of choice. Her subject matter gravitates to abstracted still-lifes featuring slightly wonky vessels and imaginary flowers. Her work has been exhibited in juried art shows in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and sold world-wide. She has won awards and been published in art magazines. She is represented by Museo Gallery in Langley on Whidbey Island in WA state and by Salem On The Edge Fine Art Gallery in Salem Oregon.

Jennifer Rabin—Home

 

I’m drawn to objects that society has given up on, thrown out, left to rot. Objects that are long past their days of being useful. I find them in junkyards, along train tracks, piled high in dumping sites, scattered across remote trails. They are ruins of their former selves, mirroring structures in our lives—our bodies, our family, our society—that have failed us or have broken down so badly that we no longer know what to do with them.

What happens when the structures that were built to keep us safe can no longer protect us? How do we construct new shelters for ourselves? My work is an attempt to put those questions into material form, a small ongoing practice of radical optimism. I imagine each found object—with its rusted bones or rain-streaked surface—as a refuge. Using needle felting techniques with natural fibers, I take inspiration from nest and cocoon forms. The intention is not to reproduce or replicate them, but to help re-imagine these forsaken objects as places of safety, as structures that can once again support life.

Artist Bio

Jennifer Rabin is a mixed-media sculptor who works with objects that have been discarded and forgotten, having outlived their intended purpose. Deteriorating, imperfect, cast aside—they embody the artist’s experience with chronic illness, disability, and familial estrangement. Using natural fibers, Rabin transforms these unwanted objects into shelter, giving them new purpose. This reclamation is an act of hope and defiance—a testament to rebuilding and resiliency.

Rabin has been an artist in residence at Jentel, Caldera, Pine Meadow Ranch, and The Oregon Historical Society. She has received grant support from The Regional Arts and Culture Council, The Oregon Community Foundation, and The Oregon Arts Commission. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Steven Miller—Outside In

 

In Outside In, I present ink on paper monotypes that are heavily influenced by my time spent on the Oregon Coast, where I am continually inspired by the interplay of chaos and calm, order and erosion, and stillness and movement. In this work I blend geometric forms with soft gradients and layered textures to evoke spaces in transition and explore the balance between structure and fluidity. 

My primary color palette of orange, green, blue, and yellow evokes sunset walk on Manzanita Beach. Much like Manzanita Beach, which seems to reveal a different face each day, I hope these works offer something new each time you encounter them. Depending on the time of day, the light in the room, or simply your own state of mind, they may bring different feelings and sensibilities, while inviting you into quiet thresholds, moments of pause, and imagined journeys.

Outside In is a meditation on impermanence and the rhythm of transformation that connects us to place, memory, and the natural world.

 

Artist Bio

Steven Miller is completely self-taught, but he has created art in different mediums for most of his adult life.  Steven has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 1995, and now lives in Manzanita with his wife Emily. Since moving here, he has been inspired by the lifestyle and beauty of the Oregon Coast – specifically the fluidity of the water and sky, and the duality of chaos and calm along our beaches. 

He credits and thanks the Hoffman Center for the Arts for reigniting his creative energy through their annual community shows, which have challenged him to stretch his skills and think differently.





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  •  July 3, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 4, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 5, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 6, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 10, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 11, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 12, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 13, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 17, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 18, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 19, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 20, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 24, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 25, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  •  July 26, 2025
     12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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July Gallery Exhibition

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Address:
594 Laneda Avenue, Manzanita, Oregon, 97130

Description:

Situated on the main street in Manzanita just a few blocks west of Highway 101, the Hoffman Center Art Gallery is located across the street from the North Tillamook Library.

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