EC Members Display @ Wayne Center for the Arts

Six members of OAEA exhibited their work in the WAGE show held at the Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster, Ohio. Members of this art club meet monthly to discuss their work.  Annually they select a theme for the show.  This year the theme was "In The Eye of The Beholder."  Randy Robart exhibited his silk painting of sunflowers. As you know silk painting boasts brilliant colors.  Randy chose turquoise for the background and layered the ochre and gold sunflowers. The frame was made of red oak that had fallen on Randy's father's farm 38 years ago.  Randy stacked the wood from the oak in his father's barn, where it sat in the dark until now.  Julie Fisher and Hope Long exhibited work they had made at a workshop held during the summer.  The abstract art incorporated acrylics textured with modeling paste.  Julie also exhibited a painting of a female with a very large hat.  She intends to begin a series of such women.  Of course!  Julie also exhibited two of her wonderful hats.  Pat Anderson exhibited a painted ostrich egg.  She worked months to create the purple irises.  Pat used a combination of colored pencils and batik.  After months of work, she was ready to apply the finish.  Pat uses what she calls a "bed of nails" to finish her work.  As she was moving the finished artwork to a safer place, the egg rolled off and crashed to the floor.  The entire back of the egg was destroyed.  That did not dismay Pat!  She displayed the egg in such a way that the damage was disguised with chiffon scarves.  Only a very observant viewer could detect the fine crack lines.  Sherrie Dennis exhibited two pieces of art.  One was a watercolor of a child sitting on top of the Earth.  Another was a pencil drawing of her dog and his dreams.  Janice Gallagher exhibited three pieces.  She made an altered book titled "Bird Girl Diaries."  It contained collaged images of birds...as females.  She also carved out an apple gourd to make a Garden of Eden. Around the outside of the gourd, she painted a snake with its mouth open wide around the opening of the gourd.  Her final piece was a printer's drawer filled with more that 250 bottle caps with images of eyes inside.  The bottle caps were made just like the ones we used as pins for the 2010 conference.

 By: Janice Gallagher

By: Randy Robart