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

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.

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.