Art’s many faces, in Manzanita
Manzanita’s Hoffman Center Gallery is running a new summer show through Sunday, Aug. 30, featuring the works of Dorothy Holmes Mohler, Lloyd Lindley and Bev Cordova.
While you're there, don't miss the new “Potter's Nook,” featuring the work of several of the center’s Clay Associates.
Dorothy Holmes Mohler, “Waiting For a New Normal.”
Mohler’s original work and reproductions can be found at Bedouin in Sisters, among many other Central Oregon locations and in Lincoln City at the Pacific Artists’ Alliance.
“When I first started painting for this show last December the words ‘pandemic,’ ‘quarantine’ and ‘COVID-19’ were strangers in my world,” she said. “I was painting women with flowers. Some of these paintings are in this show. But then the virus and everything that went with it hit and my artwork shifted. My paintings got brighter and bolder and much more difficult for me. I took on perspectives, designs and color challenges that I never had before.”
Mohler recently moved from Sisters to the Oregon Coast, with her husband and “a small brood of ill-behaved animals.”
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Lloyd Lindley, “The Whole of the Donut.”
Lindley lives on 2,100 acres of public lands at the south edge of Manzanita.
“My journey as a painter begins with Zap Comics and the drug-fueled psychedelic cartooning of R. Crumb,” he said. “At the University of Oregon, I was invited into an academic world of painting and drawing where I learned from Jungians to mine the unconscious for images and ideas. Still, I choose the rational world of urban design as a career, not always a congenial home to abstract and surreal thought. This show adds another exploration into my imaginings of an alternative reality. Living at the edge of a continent, by the Earth’s largest body of water, it was perhaps inevitable that I now look to the unknowable sea.”
Learn more at lloydlindley.com
Bev Cordova, Clay Vessels
Cordova was born in North Carolina and came to Oregon as a young adult. She received her BFA in Fine Art from Portland State University. Upon retiring from teaching, she moved to the Oregon Coast.
“I am often asked when I first knew I was an artist,” she said. “The truth is that I have never known another way to live. As a child I made art with materials that I found around me. Scraps of fabric, wood and pinecones become magical sculptures. After exploring multiple artistic disciplines, it was only when I
found clay that I was able to speak my truth about who I am as an artist.”
Learn more at CordovaClayWorks.com
The Hoffman Gallery, located at 594 Laneda Avenue, Manzanita, is free and open to the public, Thursday through Sunday, from 1 to 5 pm. Masks and social distancing are required.