Gallery
May Gallery Exhibition
Exhibit-Thursdays–Sundays | May 4-27 | 12:00-5:00pm
Opening Reception May 6 | 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 Jim Koudelka,
Jenny Siegel, Michael Krall
Jim Koudelka
Jim Koudelka is an avid and accomplished fly tier, fisherman, artist/ craftsperson and educator. He brings his passion, skills and aesthetics to the design and making of these fine fly-tying products. Jim owns and operates “Forest to Fly,” a small business that designs and makes unique, highly functional and beautifully crafted tabletop fly tying stations out of Portland OR. He strives to bring a quality product for the discerning, consummate fly tier.
As a young boy, Jim’s love of the outdoors, fishing and all things related to kept him busy in the woods, on the water, in his parents’ basement and, most of the time out of trouble. He tied flies, made lures and fishing rods, and taxidermy fish. He learned and developed these crafts, occasionally making a few bucks to buy some good fishing equipment. Jim’s passion for creating and appreciation of fine crafts followed him to college where I majored in Art and Art Education receiving a BFA and MFA. He has predominantly worked in ceramics, creating both functional and sculptural pieces. Jim worked as a full time Professor of Art at the Oregon College of Art and Craft for 28 years (1988-2016).
Jenny Siegel
Jenny Siegel is a mixed media artist based in Portland, Oregon, and is a part time resident of Neahkahnie Beach since 2012. Her background in design and healing has led her to a dedicated creative practice and somatic (sensory/body awareness) exploration. Her studies include painting and printmaking intensives over several years at Oregon College of Arts and Craft. She is inspired by forms found in nature and allows curiosity to inform her process. Jenny teaches intuitive art-making + somatic exploration classes in the Portland area. She has exhibited her artwork in various galleries and exhibition spaces, has published in literary art journals, and her work is held in private art collections. www.jennysiegel.com
Fluid Bodies is a series of mixed media paintings exploring the bodies of water that cover much of our planet and the elemental fluid in our own bodies, and the interconnectedness that exists. Fluid Bodies invites the viewer into a world of curiosity and connection to the water element, within and in the natural world. The series was created using watercolor paint and acrylic ink on watercolor paper.
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Michael Krall
Michael Krall is interested in the natural world. He is attracted by the range and diversity of nature and creatures. He enjoys the challenge of capturing mystery, beauty, and timelessness in images, striving to see beyond the surface layer and experiencing emotion. Krall takes photography seriously and has done so for over fifty years. His subjects include people, landscapes, and nature, especially birds. As a birder as well as photographer, he makes images that are detailed representations of birds, images that depict birds in their natural environments, and images that feature birds more in the abstract. The series exhibited here, Flight of Ideas, is in the latter vein. The soft and ethereal Dunlin in flight against the blue and green bay evoke mystery, timelessness, fantasy, imagination, and whimsy. As Krall has matured as a photographer, even as he has gained more control of his craft, he has learned to take advantage of unexpected opportunity and luck, and to appreciate that not every “error” or “mistake” should be rejected.
Mostly self-taught, Krall has taken photographic classes and workshops. He is a retired family physician and splits his time between Netarts and Portland. Krall and his wife participate in various community science projects in Tillamook County. He is a webmaster for www.tillamookbirder.com and on the board of the Friends of Netarts Bay (WEBS).
A fifty year retrospective sample of his work can be viewed here.
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May 4, 2023
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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May 5, 2023
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May 6, 2023
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May 7, 2023
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May 11, 2023
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May 12, 2023
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May 13, 2023
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May 14, 2023
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May 18, 2023
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May 19, 2023
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May 20, 2023
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May 21, 2023
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May 25, 2023
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May 26, 2023
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May 27, 2023
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