StudioWolf
News
Winter,
2009
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Horst’s
Martian Exhibit
in Salem, February-March 2009
Cara Baldwin, Galleries Curator for the Bush
Barn Art Center in Salem, OR, asked me last
November to put together a show of my Martian
watercolors for the FOCUS Gallery. So I assembled
“The Martian IRS and Similar Horror Stories.”
The exhibit was expertly hung; the artist reception
was well prepared. Newspaper articles, fliers,
invitations, and postcards told the public about
the event. Gallery staff and volunteers manning
the food table were at the ready when we arrived.
All in all, it was a very enjoyable reception.
I want to thank Cara Baldwin, her staff, and
all the volunteers for their efforts in making
this such a successful show. I also had the
fortune to meet Richard Hardcourt, Executive
Director of the Salem Arts Council, who suggested
a new Martian theme, the “Banana Belt Martians,”
and promised to write the first limerick. I’m
waiting, Richard.
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Dear friends and loyal customers,
Another year is upon us. The economic outlook
is bleak, but that shouldn’t keep us from appreciating
the arts. In fact, a visit to your local galleries costs
nothing!
After four years or so of devoting half of this page
to the “Brookings Art Walk,” that service
has been taken over by www.wildriverscoastart.com
Nola Range, who started and maintains that site, has
done such a wonderful job of reporting on ALL the art
events on our coast over the last year - I am sure you
will be well served.
I am always looking for exciting
places in other towns to show my art. So I have put
together a show of my own favorites over the last few
years. Click on “Recent Work.
These are not necessarily best sellers in my own town,
Brookings, but they may turn on art lovers in the “bigger”
cities. I am NOT looking for galleries to show a few
of my works, but for a gallery that will give me a one-month/
one-man show or similar. If you can think of a suitable
gallery, let me know or tell ‘em to go to this
web site, and get in touch with me if they are interested.
All works are watercolor or mixed media.
What’s coming up? Another
Martian Exhibit of mine will start on Feb. 20 in the
FOCUS Gallery of the Bush Barn Art Center in Salem
(see above). Opening reception Feb. 20 from 5
to 7 PM. This show concentrates on the Martian IRS!
Hint: MIRS is much worse than our IRS. As usual each
painting goes with a limerick produced by yours truly
- not a master piece of modern literature, but humorous
in its own way.
And don’t forget to go to the Brookings Art Walks,
which happen every 2nd Saturday of the month from 4
to 7 pm in downtown Brookings. For the next Art Walk
program go to www.wildriverscoastart.com and click on
the upper right-hand corner.
You want to see my stuff first
hand? The following OR galleries presently show my work
:• Words and Pictures, Brookings, 407 Oak Street
• Pieces of Time Gallery, Gold Beach, 29465 Ellensburg
Ave
• Biscuit Gallery, Gold Beach, 29707 Ellensburg
Ave
• GoldRush Gallery, Gold Beach, 29692 Ellensburg
Ave
• Gray Whales Gallery, Gold Beach, 29830 Ellensburg
Ave.
• Rogues Gallery, Gold Beach, 29975 Harbor Way,
• Johnson Gallery, Port Orford, 530 Eighths Street
• Second Street Gallery, Bandon, 210 Second Street
• Coos Art Museum, Sales and Rental Gallery, Coos
Bay, 235 Anderson Ave
• Tsunami Gallery, Gardiner, 77207 Hwy 101
• Camas Gallery, Salem, 600 Mission Street SE
• Gallerie Karon, Ashland, 500 A-Street
I hope to update this site
every 6 to 8 weeks. Stay healthy and happy,
Horst
PS: any of the paintings you
see under “Recent Work”
can be had as a limited edition giclee at any size and
at a reasonable price. Just email
me for information.
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