The gallery is open to the public Monday - Friday, 8 am to 5 pm.
APRIL - JUNE 2025
FLUID DEPTH:
The paintings of Jason Litts and Allan Oliver
Opening Reception
Friday, May 2 / 5-7 pm
ARTIST STATEMENTS
Jason Litts
A self-taught artist with an eye towards the surreal, Jason Litts draws inspiration from the Pacific Northwest for most of his work. Litts’ piece in the current show is triptych entitled “Beyond the Grasp.”
The triptych is composed using glazing techniques of Prussian Blue, Cadmium Orange, and Titanium White.
Allan Oliver
I connect water with health and happiness. An example of this consciousness is the way I repeat the words “love”, “grace”, “gratitude”, “acceptance” and “peace” during my swimming workout. Both in body and spirit, my experience with water is deep. Maybe it’s inevitable that I’d be drawn strongly to liquid acrylic art since physical interactions of water and paint make it possible.
After a fifty-year career in art and design, I’ve learned something new, energized by watery paint, applied and manipulated in many fascinating ways. By its nature, liquid acrylic art is abstract, but I plan and choose colors and composition to achieve significance and meaning. The combination of intention, discipline and magic keeps me working in the studio and helps maintain my sense of wonder and contact with God.
ART/Construction
The paintings of Christopher B. Mooney
Opening Reception
Friday, February 7 / 5-7 pm
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a Pacific Northwest professional artist known for my realist paintings of urban infrastructure. My influences have been Edward Hopper's urban landscapes, Charles Sheeler's precisionist industrial landscapes, and Antonio Masi's depictions of New York City bridges. My technique draws on the Old Masters, but shifts to a more contemporary style through expressive brushwork, innovative composition, and an effective use of light and shadow. More recently I have begun to incorporate human figures into my paintings, drawing inspiration from artists such as Daniel Greene, Nelson Shanks, Steve Hanks, and Michael Parks.
In 2014 I received a grant from the Regional Arts and Culture Council to create a visual artistic record of construction workers building the new Tilikum Crossing and the Milwaukie Light Rail Bridge. I have continued this theme with new works depicting Vancouver, WA barge maintenance workers. With these more recent works, I feel as if I am following in a tradition that has sought to highlight the skill and resilience of manual workers and their contributions to society.
