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Tue, 05/05/2015 - 11:30am to 6:00pm
Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson on Betty LaDuke's APEX Exhibit
On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, the Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, about Betty LaDuke.
LaDuke's show in the APEX section of the Pacific Northwest collection shows Oregon agricultural workers on painted plywood. Laing-Malcolmson will talk about this southern Oregon artist's long history of painting rural subjects and LaDuke's empathy with her subjects.
From the press release:
APEX: Betty LaDuke
MAR 28 – JUL 19, 2015
Southern Oregon artist Betty LaDuke has been actively engaged in her practice since 1950. In 1953 she received a scholarship to attend the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico—an experience that whetted LaDuke’s appetite for travel and fed a lifelong interest in world culture. While in Mexico she met muralists Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, whose dedication to an art representing the working people continues to influence LaDuke’s content. LaDuke’s most recent series celebrates Oregon’s agricultural workers—whether depicting laborers in vineyards, orchards, or fields, her brightly colored, whimsically shaped wooden panels energize her compositions and joyfully reflect the toil of those who reap and sow in our verdant countryside. New works and paintings from her 65-year retrospective exhibition, mounted in 2013 at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University, will be presented in her APEX exhibition.
APEX is an ongoing series of exhibitions of Northwest-based artists, curated by Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art.
Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune, where he is currently the Business Reporter. He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com
josephgallivan@gmail.com
From the press release:
APEX: Betty LaDuke
MAR 28 – JUL 19, 2015
Southern Oregon artist Betty LaDuke has been actively engaged in her practice since 1950. In 1953 she received a scholarship to attend the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico—an experience that whetted LaDuke’s appetite for travel and fed a lifelong interest in world culture. While in Mexico she met muralists Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, whose dedication to an art representing the working people continues to influence LaDuke’s content. LaDuke’s most recent series celebrates Oregon’s agricultural workers—whether depicting laborers in vineyards, orchards, or fields, her brightly colored, whimsically shaped wooden panels energize her compositions and joyfully reflect the toil of those who reap and sow in our verdant countryside. New works and paintings from her 65-year retrospective exhibition, mounted in 2013 at the Schneider Museum of Art at Southern Oregon University, will be presented in her APEX exhibition.
APEX is an ongoing series of exhibitions of Northwest-based artists, curated by Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art.
Joseph Gallivan has been a reporter since 1990. He has covered music for the London Independent, Technology for the New York Post, and arts and culture for the Portland Tribune, where he is currently the Business Reporter. He is the author of two novels, "Oi, Ref!" and "England All Over" which are available on Amazon.com
josephgallivan@gmail.com
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