Stephanie Willis Studio

Dusk, Midday and Dawn are the titles of this tryptich depicting the progression of the sun. I love this technique of thin watercolor-type washes over a scratched and textured acrylic foundation. These canvases are 60×24″ each and this tryptich is at Freed Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon.

Here are a couple of new pieces delivered to the Freed Gallery in Lincoln City this week. I like to work on a heavily textured canvas and sometimes add collaged elements to the mix, too. This one, Paleolithic Mapquest, reminds me of a cave painting, if cavemen had roads and maps! The colors and the incised lines are very appealing to me, but I am not sure if it is too somber?

I also have the 2nd in the Cyberspace series, Cyberspace II which I have been working on for over a year. It has the incised textures and also a collage of squares of various textured papers, which have been covered in gold and copper leaf, then glazed over. This series is inspired by how I think about the stream of electronic information and how some bits (bytes) occasionally escape from the stream and meander into that vast uncharted ether. It is my visualization of what has occurred when a file won’t open. Most people think it is a landscape, and that’s a legitimate connection.

My abstract painting group, PDX!WAM, is featured at the Eye For Art gallery in Brookings, Oregon from June through July. Our show is entitled Seeing Red! and explores the many moods of the color red.

If you are in the Brookings area, near the California border on the beautiful Oregon coast, stop by the gallery and take a look. For more information about this show call the gallery at 541-469-2985.

I will be participating in 2 shows this summer, one, entitled “Seeing Red!” is our PDX!WAM group show and will be at the Eye for Art Gallery in Brookings, Oregon and runs from June through July.The second one will be at the Freed Gallery in Lincoln City, Oregon, and is tentatively entitled “A Family Affair,” featuring the work of our family (Jim, Shannon and me) and 2 other artist familes. This show will be held during July. Both shows promise to have some really dynamic and beautiful work on view. I am very busy creating new work for both shows and will post images as they are photographed.

I always have work at the Freed Gallery and I will be adding images and noting where the work is available. Excavation, on the home page, is currently at the Freed Gallery.