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Archived Exhibit |
Opening Reception
Saturday, 6–9 pm
September 15, 2007
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Mixed Greens
a mixture of northwest landscapes
September 15 - October 13, 2007
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Karen Luke Fildes Patrick Howe
Kyle Paliotto Christopher Perry
Roderick Smith
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Rebecca V Gallery is pleased to exhibit the work of artists Patrick Howe, Roderick Smith,
Kyle Paliotto, Christopher Perry and Karen Luke Fildos in a group landscape showing.
On September 15th, 2007, from 6pm - 9pm, the public is invited to meet some of the artists
and view their collections at the gallery. The event is free of charge. Fine wine will be
provided by Pairings Wine Bar.
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Mixed Greens Invitation
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Patrick Howe was born in Portland, Oregon in 1951, and at the age of 15 had his first one man
show in the lobby of Oregon Savings Bank. In 1974, he graduated from the Museum Art School in
Portland. Patrick went on to show his artwork throughout the region. At the same time, he was
employed at the Portland Art Museum as Head Preparator which involved installing exhibitions
in over 20 galleries, which gave him an intimate knowledge of many of the worlds most famous
works of art. In 1975, he moved to Colorado and continued his artistic career. In 1980, he was
selected by the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities (CCAH) to conduct workshops and
classes throughout the State. He was also selected to be a member of the CCAH Chautauqua Tour
which included 40 artists of every discipline (musicians from the Denver Symphony Orchestra,
actors from the Denver Theatre, dancers from the Denver Opera) and Patrick Howe was the only
visual artist that year to be chosen out of thousands of visual artist applicants. He also
lectured on the topic of art numerous times at Colorado State University. Patrick has exhibited
his work widely throughout Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and California, including several one
man shows, and groups shows at the Denver Art Museum, and the Portland art Museum. He has a
reputation of being one of the most eclectic artists' in America as well as an award winning
graphic designer who has produced outstanding logos, calligraphy, and illustrations for
Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Nintendo, Weyerhauser, Boeing,
Eddie Bauer, REI, and Princess Tours. Today, Patrick lives in Seattle where he continues
painting.
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Roderick Smith was born in 1951 to a career officer in the Air Force. His early years were
spent living and traveling throughout the world. His mother, educated in the arts, provided a
nourishing influence on the direction his life would take. He graduated with a Bachelor of
Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology and continued his studies at the
Art Students League in New York and the National Academy of Design and Instituto Allende in
Mexico.
After a three year career in commercial art, he traveled to Alaska where he worked for a
number of years in the fishing industry during summer months and returned to study painting
during the winters. Married in 1981, Roderick and his wife started a business creating highly
finished fabric sculptures which became know as the “Cadena Dolls.” The sculptures gained
national recognition and won awards across the country. Today, Roderick divides his residence
between Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles.
The Performance of Painting
The core of painting lies in performance. The energy of its creation is found in the
determination of the painted stroke. Every mark should be unique. Sometimes you lead the
brush and other times the brush leads you. This is a constant dynamic that requires an
intuitive response and the perfect balance is often illusive. In the beginning, one tries to
find the underlying energy of form and color upon which to build. It is often a dark and vague
place, but surprisingly sensual in the embryonic alchemy of paint and oil. There is no
definitive commitment yet to the greater model only the moment giving birth to new life. It is
sometimes hard to know if you have gone deep enough or if you will find the way back out. You
are throwing yourself into a cauldron of mystery, this the great leap that brings you back
again and again. It is a fiery furnace that drives itself in endless motion, giving energy and
requiring the same.
Painting in the Field
When painting directly from nature, I attempt to capture the spontaneity of the moment. I work
in a balance between the objective aspects of the forms seen and my emotional reactions
to them. My hope in these works is that they might resonate with an energy that is physically
tangible, a sensation of light captured and held by the movements of the brush.
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Kyle Paliotto works full-time creating beautiful artwork and honing his skills as an oil
painter. His talent for art showed itself at an early age. While in high school he won 5 Key
Awards (Regional level). In 1995, one of his paintings was selected by Citibank to printed in
their national calendar. At the same time, Hallmark also requested his work. Kyle followed a
path of adventure and exploration coming to reside in Southern California where he pursued
studies at Palomar College in San Diego under western artist Doug D.G. Durrant. He then went
on to travel for some time in Mexico City gathering images and experiences that would fuel
his creative spirit. Kyle has spent the last seven years working commercially in the San
Diego area. In April of 2005, he relocated to north Idaho to pursue a career in fine art. He
spent the summer of 2006 exhibiting at art shows in Seattle, Whidbey Island and Coeur d’Alene.
He has since been juried into several regional and national shows. Kyle is influenced greatly
by the late masters John Singer Sargent, Frans Hals and Nicolai Fechin. At age 32, Kyle is
happily married to his lovely wife Rebecca, together they embrace the artist life style of
painting, travel and friendship. He looks forward to a long productive career.
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Christopher Perry’s Pacific Northwest landscapes are inspired from direct observation but
painted with a loose, abstract quality. Perry's work, imbued with romantic light qualities,
appeals to both the private and corporate collector.
“The essence of my paintings is the complex relationship between humans and the
environment--where they meet and intertwine.
My attention is drawn to the shapes of our environment, which are often articulated when I
look into the horizon. Living on the urban growth boundary in Oregon, I've observed how much
nature is changed from its original form. Whether it is a cropping of trees that is missing
or just the day-to-day atmospheric changes, there is a diminishing margin between human
progress and nature.
I look at these margins and I see the impact of the elements that are being constantly
added and subtracted. The more I observe the borders, the more the transformations of
nature and city reveal themselves. As I internalize these transformations, the boundaries
become increasingly indistinct. Our environments have been altered to the point where the
edges have blurred away. Throughout my work there is a constant theme of transformation.
My work is based both on the physical language of paint and content that is inspired by a
particular response. My method of painting uses a reductive process of first applying paint
and then wiping it away and adding more paint. As the image evolves this layering process
reflects the complexities of our modern life.
I think of my paintings as a staircase, each step being a painting built upon the previous
one. The unceasing transformation of our environment mirrors the continuous evolution of my
work.” -- Christopher Perry
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Karen Luke Fildes (formerly known as Karen Pew), born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, is
an oil painter obsessed with moments. “Whether it is a grey, cold, and melancholy day on a
drive in Scotland or a perfect glass of wine on the Rhine with the moonrise, I must paint it.
Sometimes finding the moment worth preserving is not so easy... so I go and search for it.
Other times I build an alter from the pieces of life that remind me of the people and moments I
want to keep alive.” Karen just returned from Central Europe where she completed fifty
paintings of the Rhineland Pfalz. Karen also studied paintings and journal entries from the
Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg; paintings from assylumscreated under psychiatric treatment
during and after WWII.
She has returned to the Northwest where she is working on a series of 500 tone poems of
Washington State. Karen studied at Chapman University, the Art Institute of Seattle,
and studied color (Russian post-Impressionism) with Henry Stinson. She continues to research
color therapy, depression and the healing power of art through the living journal. Her studio
is in Downtown Bellingham, Washington. She mostly enjoys painting by candlelight, twilight, and
after storms. Her palette is limited to seven colors. Karen uses “the Book of Kells” as
symbolic reference for underpainting and highlight punctuation.
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