Dec 8 - Jan 1, 2023 Artist Reception: Friday Dec 8, 2023 from 4:30 - 6:30pm. Bob Kroll Michael Spence Ned Halybs Levant Karayalim T. Frick Mary Suzanne Garvey Thibault Roland Tom Grogg Debra Carnes

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Nov 3 - Dec 3, 2023 Artist Reception: Friday Nov 3, 2023 from 4:30 to 6:30pm Stormy Weather Festival: Nov 3, 4, 5 The Cannon Beach Arts Association & Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of our highly anticipated "Miniature Show!" during the Stormy Weather Arts Festival. This one-of-a-kind exhibition celebrates the stunning artistry of local and regional artists, who have fearlessly embraced the challenge of working within the constraints of this compact canvas of 6x6” inches or smaller. Through virtuoso skills and dedication, our artists have created breathtaking landscapes, heartfelt portraits, abstract compositions, sculptures and beyond. Featured artist Teresa White is inspired by Yup’ik stories of transformation and understanding of the interrelationship and spirit of all beings including human and animal people, water and sky people, river, sea, and rock, and beings we cannot see. Her work “…brings me closer to my Granny's ways of knowing and to the Alaskan village life she left as a young woman with my mother. I am Yup’ik Eskimo and French Canadian, raised in rural Rainier, Oregon with a mix of traditional Yup'ik Eskimo and working class values.” The work is contemporary, exploring traditional themes and their interplay, confluence and divergence, with my urban life in the Pacific Northwest. With no more than a dusky shadow in mind of what will materialize, she starts working. Eventually, the person of each mask or figure finally comes into view “…I experience delight and relief similar to spotting down the road a relative who has safely traveled a long way for a visit. In fact, when a piece is finished, I often whisper to it, “There you are! Hello!” “My artistic process continues to be healing medicine for my family and me, transforming some of the suffering and confusion of displacement and loss into connection and opportunity. I hope my masks and figures reveal to viewers something of their meanings, reminding them of their inseparable connection to all, their resilient animal bodies, and their inborn abilities to greet the sweet moments in life with full guiltless pleasure and the dark moments with courage and transformation.” As you wander through the exhibition, take the time to observe the meticulous craftsmanship that has gone into each artwork. Embrace the intimacy of these small-scale wonders, for they hold within them hidden stories waiting to be discovered.

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Oct 6 - Nov 7th 2023 Artist Reception: Friday Oct 6, 2023 from 4:30 - 6:00pm. Kyla Sjogren Jan Priddy Becky deVries - Wong Nguyen Le Alysia Love

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Sept 8 - Oct 1, 2023 Artist Reception: Friday Sept 8, 2023 from 4:30 - 6:30pm. The Cannon Beach Arts Association & Gallery is proud to announce our "Coastal Expressions Exhibition!" September 8 to October 1, 2023. This show will feature works by Scott P. Vaughan, Friedrich Steenbock, Debbie Tracey, and T. Frick. This exhibition features coastal landscapes that lend themselves to impressionistic and abstract interpretations. Artists may opt to convey how the coast feels rather than how it precisely appears. Using vibrant colors and bold brushstrokes, they capture the coast's essence, evoking the viewer's emotions and memories. The iconic seascapes of the Oregon coast, namely Cannon Beach with its Haystack Rock rising majestically from the ocean, have been a perennial favorite among artists seeking to convey the grandeur of the coastal landscape. From the crashing waves against rocky cliffs to the gentle sway of seagrass in the ocean breeze, the viewer will be captivated by this exhibition. Scott Vaughan T. Frick Friedrich Steenbock Debbie Tracey

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July 28 - Sept 3, 2023 Artist Reception: Friday July 28, 2023 from 4:30 - 6:30pm. Frankie White Martin Conley Chris Belluschi

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June 16 - July 21, 2023 Artist Reception: Friday June 16, 2023 from 4:30 to 6:30pm. Dee Sidwell: Painting has been an important part of my life since I was 16 years old and my Great-aunt kindly offered to teach me to paint. Aunt Sally was a semi-professional artist who had attended art school and I feel very lucky to have apprenticed with someone who had a strong academic background. When I attended college a few years later, I majored in chemistry and had an art minor. With five children at home and working as a research chemist, I rarely had time to paint for many years. For the last 20 years or so, however, I’ve been painting more and more until now it’s a daily practice. I work in oils and acrylics, and have a slightly different approach depending on the medium. When using acrylics, I like to use lots of transparent or semi-transparent layers, creating depth and luminosity. I really enjoy the drama that comes from this approach and the opportunities to create texture using different tools while the paint is wet. I find acrylics to be the perfect medium for landscape or floral painting. I really enjoy taking them out in the field for Plein-air work and then bringing the painting back to the studio to refine it. I rarely use photographs but do occasionally refer to a short video, just to take me back to the place in my head. Sometimes though, I like to get out the oil paints and palette knives and go to town with them. I tend to use oil paint when I’m doing figurative work or when I want to spend more time getting an aspect just right. I also like to use oil when texture is going to be an important part of the work. The paintings for this show were completed using both methods. The first painting I did for the show is Nehalem Evening and it was painted with oil paint and palette knife. Doing this painting first was therapeutic, because it’s a wild and wooly process so it was liberating. I hadn’t been able to paint for several weeks due to a couple of family crises, so I needed to get comfortable in the studio again. The next painting was the mixed media of the coast trail at Cape Arago which started out as an acrylic painting but I added texture and opacity with a thick application of oil paint. The other four paintings are acrylic and were all painted pretty much simultaneously from a single palette, at this point I felt comfortable working fast which acrylic paint requires. Since the theme for the show is Utopia, I tried to imagine what exemplifies a perfect place to me. I had a rough idea on each of them, but they each evolved around a common feeling. The feeling was being drawn toward light in an emotional and intuitive way, like a sunflower. Last winter and spring was a time of loss for me, so I wasn’t sure how these paintings would turn out. When looking at them now, I think they all look hopeful and thankfully, that’s how I feel. Rachel Speakman: Speakman’s work focuses primarily on the animal form in sculpture, painting, and illustration. The environment of the Oregon coast is a main driver of her work. She aims to challenge our relationship to ‘nature’ and mental proximity to the animal. Her ongoing research in ecology, natural sciences and human-animal studies help to inform her artistic practice. This is further influenced by her personal history with commercial fishing, working in fish hatcheries, studying marine biology and engaging in environmental activism. Our relationship with the natural world has become increasingly complicated, where we seem to define ourselves as human by being separate from 'nature'. We see animals as lesser beings, while also aspiring to them as symbolic characters. Her work aims to navigate these semiotics, investigating the representation of 'nature' in Western society and her own indoctrination into the modern approach towards animality. Scott Johnson: Although Scott C. Johnson’s landscape studies are rooted in plein air painting, early-on he began to add the little touches that rouse the imagination—the faint treetops that indicate a valley beyond the hill, or the tiny glint of water that tantalizes over a grassy dune. These hints at an unseen landscape beyond the one we see, were an introduction to his dream world. Scott developed the soft washes of the Japanese tradition, as well as the refined linework of the Persian miniature. As he grew more confident with the brush, he also became more involved in meditational techniques, and the painting became more concerned with recording a process, a trance state, a finding of the happy accident, and less with a specific reality. He is a developed sensual being, with an appreciation for music, dance and garden design. Scott’s love of nature, refreshed by frequent trips and hikes, is evident in his work, but its mood, often portrayed by impending weather, dominates the objects in the landscape. There are subtle references to change in the clouds and stronger references to death and loneliness in the leafless trees of his latest work, yet the mood is never hopeless, but lets us know that the next season, bringing the tiny leaves of Spring, is just beyond and approaching. Heidi Petersen: A fabulous wall of 19th Century cast sheet iron weathervanes, at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Colonial Williamsburg, sparked my renewed interest in American Folk art. Beyond the weathervane’s function, the singular forms and their wisp of whimsy intrigued me and I began to think about how to achieve a similar clarity in my own artwork. Since that museum visit, I’ve spent time looking at American Folk Art paintings, quilts, embroideries, clothing, furniture, and store signs from that time period and this body of work reflects that visual endeavor. I like the familiarity of using common materials well worn by time and use. Rather than transcribing or illustrating something, a new meaning comes from each encounter between the viewer and the art. The sign to Utopia fell beside a road I never traveled; however, I hope to offer a vision of wonder along the way for anyone who spends time looking here. Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. ~ from The Prophet Isaiah

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May 5 - June 11, 2023. Artist Reception: Friday May 5, 2023 from 4:30 - 6:30pm. Spring Unveiling Weekend: May 5, 6, 7 Mary Lyn Gough Mary Suzanne Garvey Lorijo Daniels Margie Norton

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Artist Reception: Friday, March 31 2023 from 4:30 - 6:30pm. Roger Dorband James Kelley John Kirk Bob Kroll Thibault Roland James Redland Gene Tonry Marcia Zegar \

Artist Reception: Friday, Feb 17 2023 from 4:30 - 6:30PM. Open Call: This Exhibition is open to all local and regional artists. Deadline to Submit is February 1st, 2023. Artist will know if they have been accepted by Feb 8th, 2023. Drop off date to the Gallery on or before Feb 12th, 2023. The Theme is Figures & Faces. 2-D and 3-D work, all mediums will be accepted. \

Featuring Gallery Represented Artists. Jen Hoff Ken Fox Mary Lyn Gough Robin Jackson Scott Johnson Linda Gebhart Richard Rowlan Debra Carnes Frankie White Martin Conley Bob Kroll