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New RSG Artists: Introducing JoEllyn Loehr

June 1, 2018

This post contributed by Tianna Lewis.

JoEllyn Loehr, Home Acre, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Home Acre, oil

The places we love are embedded and embodied within us in memory, dream, and imagination. I am drawn to the geology and geography of the canyons, fields, woodlands, and waterways of the West.

I use painting processes similar to land formation – layering, liquefaction, scraping and scouring, erosion, consolidation, folding and faulting. Added to this are the material qualities of the paint – staining, transparency, and flow. Improvisation and gesture play a big role – opening doors to situations that either further the work or have to be dealt with analytically. This is the challenge of painting that keeps me interested and committed.

I never predict the result. It’s only by trusting the process, by toggling along the continuum of intuitive, gestural spontaneity and cold, hard analysis that I arrive at “a poetics of place” that suits my experience of landscape.

JoEllyn Loehr, Klickitat, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Klickitat, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Willow Ranch, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Willow Ranch, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Flyover, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Flyover, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Celilo II, oil
JoEllyn Loehr, Celilo II, oil

To see these works in the flesh, please join us in the gallery, opening night for our New Artists Show.

« New RSG Artists: Introducing Andrea Benson
New RSG Artists: Introducing Lawrence Morrell »

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