Elizabeth Santone, Featured artist at Meet the Artist at Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery

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Elizabeth Santone was one of the featured artists at the Portland Art Museum's Rental Sales Gallery Meet the Artist event on Saturday, February 25th.  She talks about her paintings and her inspiration.


Director for the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery, Jennifer Zika is a wonderful host and although our filming with a big tripod was an slight obstacle in the Gallery’s limited space, she made us feel welcome.


In 1959 the Women’s Council of the Portland Art Museum appointed a Gallery Board which opened the Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery staffed by volunteers.  The Gallery’s mission is to promote the arts in Oregon, to provide a showcase for Oregon artists, and to increase public awareness of the Art community.  Gallery commissions proved revenue for the Museum and help support the Artists.  


According to The Oregon Encyclopedia membership in the Portland Art Museum is a prerequisite for renting artwork from Rental Sales Gallery.  Artworks is consighnment, price set by the artist and rental fees are on a sliding scale.  The Gallery host three artist shows a per year, in April, June and October.  Currently more than 250 artists from Oregon and Southwest Washington are represented.  All work is original and juried.  There are 600 art works in the Gallery at any one time and over 2000 works all together.  Art mediums include; oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings; wood, metal and stone sculpture; drawings; collages; photography; and framed prints.

Monthly Meet the Artists events began in the Fall of 2010.  Each month on the last Saturday the Gallery provides an opportunity to get to know 4 or 5 artists represented by the Rental Sales Gallery.  There is the chance to look around the Gallery, enjoy a nibble, a sip of wine and listen to featured artists talk about their work.

In addition to Elizabeth we filmed the presentations of Ok Ji Radda and Janet Lauvau Holt.
 

 

Ok Ji Radda

                                          

 

Janet Holt

Curiousity and Danger, Connections at my fingertips

I love this time we live in.  Connections at my fingertips.  On Facebook I "like" Prairie Schooner the literary magazine.  Their page sends out a "share" to FilmMaker Magazine  with an article Ten Lessons on Filmmaking from Director Marjane Satrapi.

Filming Meet the Artist

Our recent video project is the Meeting the Artist Event at the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery we filmed February 25th.  So film making is on my mind.  Not at the level of Satrapi's "Persepolis".

Of Marjane Satrapi's list of ten lessons I like 1. Learn to tell your story, 2. Create Don't Produce, 4. the best films come from the best collaborations, 5. Don't waste your time on Divas, 6. Try Dallas (she means go to places where not everyone agrees with you), 7 Suffering is optional, 8. Shoot for beauty, 10. Remember Humor.

How easy it is to learn things these days.  Curiosity can also be dangerous.  Access from afar is very possible and real.

Earlier today I watched a TED talk All Your Devices can be Hacked  by Avi Rubin.  He presented a horrifying list of devices that can be hacked and controlled.  Pace Makers, Cars, phones, two way radios, and stealing key strokes from your computer.  Access is not easy, it takes knowledge, some very esoteric knowledge, but access can be achieved.  Some of the methods are beyond me.   In Rubin's talk there were seeds to several 21st century spy stories and some pretty good mystery stories.

Those who say privacy is dead, get over it.  Yep.  I hear you.

Elizabeth Santone, a successful feature artist presentation

Timothy Field

Today at the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery Elizabeth Santone talked about her narrative watercolor paintings and her landscape painting.

As Elizabeth was concluding a gentleman in the back of the room told a story of two young skate boarders who were in an intense discussion just out side the Gallery.  They were in a passionate debate about Elizabeth Santone's painting of a tree that was in the window of the Gallery. 

We (Meadowlake Studios) filmed Elizabeth's presentation.  We also filmed OK Ji Radda and Janet Louvau Holt and they discussed their work.

Next comes the work of putting together a watchable video.

Paintings to the Gallery

Maple in Fall

We deliver painting to Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery tomorrow.  Liz has been working on her talk about her work coming up this Saturday.

The rural landscapes are quiet and peaceful.  Her city scapes and urban scenes are full of motion, intensity and humor.



The contrast of her two style is amazing.

Wiggle

The rural scapes are contemplative. They let you breath.  The urban scapes  are wild, complex and engaging. You wonder if you can find your way out.

Elizabeth Santone featured artist

Featured Artists Poster

Elizabeth has been with the Portland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery since the early 1990s.  Her unique watercolors depicting urban life are always popular.

When she moved to the country she began to work in oils and plants and natural landscapes developed.

This coming Saturday she will display watercolor urban scenes and natural subjects in oil.