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Bandon hospital art show opening this weekend
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 10:38 AM PST
Works featuring watercolors, Brazilian Amazon assemblages, digital imagery and collages will be on display through May 23 at the Southern Coos Hospital & Health Center in Bandon.
There will be an opening reception at the hospital, 900 S.E. 11th St., from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, highlighting Coos County Collage Collective artists, along with Hazel Stitt, Arkus Rodrigues, Robert Graham and Ruthanne McSurdy-Wong.
Music will be provided by Dawn Smith and her daughter, Michaela, and refreshments will be served by the hospital auxiliary.
Stitt, now in her 80s, is the mother of Southern Coos Hospital radiologist Jeff Stitt. A native of Texas, she has lived in Northern California since l945, living in Marin County for many years, and for the last 25 years at Sea Ranch, where she has had several solo shows. She has been a signature member of many California watercolor societies. She studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her watercolors, which depict the seascapes and landscapes of the West Coast as well as scenes from a lifetime of travels, are in collections throughout the United States, and in Mexico and the Virgin Islands.
Rodrigues, in his 20s, is a chef for Caffe Santoro, along with his wife Bethany Reid. The couple divides their time between Bandon and a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil, where Arkus was born. His works of art are constructed from materials native to the Brazilian jungle, including driftwood, sand and stones.
At the other end of the “low-tech-high tech” spectrum are the digital collages of Bandon resident Graham, who has been doing the graphics and advertising for Cardas Audio since the 1980s. Graham works with state-of-the-art computer technology to conjure images of multiple universes embedded with the Cardas Audio nautilus shell logo, or his imaginative recreation of “the Big Bang.”
The Collage Collective includes Susan Lehman, Donna Cox and Dorothea Tortilla of Bandon, and Pat Snyder and Nan Forsberg Hammons of Coos Bay/North Bend.
The new show, entitled “Mixing the Media,” is sponsored by AVK Arts, a foundation under the direction of Elena Karina Canavier of Los Angeles and Langlois, whose mission is to promote art in public places. |