Manzanita hosts triple art show

The May show at Manzanita’s Hoffman Center for the Arts features collage by Lindsey Aarts, paintings by Mathew Goodrich and woven sculptures by Rose Covert.

The show will run through May 25, with an artists’ reception held from 3 to 5 pm thison Saturday, May 4, during which the artists will speak about their work and answer questions.

Inspired by the natural beauty of the coast, Aarts moved with her family to Astoria in 2017. At that time she also stepped away from her work as a freelance graphic designer to pursue painting and illustration. Her show, “Looming,” incorporates her typical focus on the natural landscape of the Oregon Coast but subtly draws attention to the quiet unease that exists for those living in a place that lies at the feet of nature’s power. Using cut and torn paper, watercolor and colored pencil, Aarts plays with perspective, line and color to hint at the ever-present forces behind Oregon’s iconic coastal landscape.

A lifelong builder, designer and abstract painter, Goodrich is now anchored to the coast where he dedicates himself to painting the Western landscapes he enjoys. After he suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2016, landscape paintings became an opportunity for Goodrich to build a sense of emotional and visual memory he no longer possessed. The paintings in this show are a record of the wild places he visits throughout the North Coast and beyond. Landscape painting affords Goodrich a subject that suits his long-standing affinity for intense color palettes and vibrant hues, while still creating a sense of space and atmosphere and remaining in the abstract.

Covert creates visual storytelling; a woven landscape. Her work emanates from a profound connection to the materials she works with as she grows, tends, harvests and processes her materials. Her woven sculptures create a language that translates these elemental bodies into forms that evoke a sense of the living world from which they are created. Covert’s work, “Elemental Bodies,” is rooted in the exploration of weaving forms that elicit the feelings one experiences when they are outside experiencing the complex fiber of the physical world.

The Hoffman Gallery is located at 594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita and is open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 5 pm.

For more information, go to hoffmanarts.org or call 503-368-3846.