Hailing the arts in Toledo
As fall rolls in through the streets of Toledo, the arts community is again inviting visitors to see what’s new in the town’s galleries and studios at First Weekend this Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7 and 8.
This month, the Yaquina River Museum of Art will feature “The New York Experience: A Multi-media Event,” an interactive exhibition by local photographer David Jordan. Jordan’s original background is in music, having earned his master’s in Music Composition from Ball State University. Looking at his photography, it is clear that his musical training has a heavy influence on his visual art.
“You will work with an overarching theme,” Jordan said, “and deconstruct that to build details and structures into the composition as a whole to make it rich with ideas, color, content, vibrancy.”
Jordan’s series of photographs from around New York City demonstrates his ability to capture the feeling and vibrancy of a metropolis from the dramatics of towering architecture to the warming swathes of neon lights on late-night sidewalks.
The images will be accompanied by the sounds of the city — subways passing, people talking, buskers, sirens and vehicles — designed to fully immerse the viewer in the work.
Jordan will give a talk about his work at 1:30 pm on Saturday, Oct. 7. The Yaquina River Museum of Art is located at 151 NE Alder Street. For more information, go to yaquinarivermuseumofart.org.
On Main Street, Crow’s Nest Gallery & Studio will be featuring the works of more than 20 artists. The gallery-space, run by assemblage artist Janet Runger, always features new and exciting works for viewers to see. Runger’s sculptural works offer a glimpse into a collective whimsical world of dreams and imaginations while Veta Bakhtina features her folkloric oil paintings. Other artists include Sylvia Hosie, award-winning photography; Alice Haga, fused glass; Val Bolen, tile and ceramic pieces; Paula Teplitz, sculptural jellyfish mobiles; Jeff Gibford, digitally manipulated photographs; Tish Epperson, watercolors; and Susan Jones, woven fiber jellyfish.
Crow’s Nest Gallery & Studio is located at 305 N. Main Street, open from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Nearby, ART Toledo’s Phantom Gallery will feature the works of Kim Bush and Daniel Toledo in the storefront of a vacant commercial building at 355 N Main Street. Bush’s realist acrylic works showcase her ability to capture sunlight in her paintings. Bush said she has long found fascination in the effects of sunlight in natural settings, the play of shadow and the way colors transform throughout the day.