(Above: The PhotoZone Gallery’s poster for its 2022 juried show, featuring a landscape photograph by Jonathan Parker. The crowd photo dates to 2019, the last annual juried show before the pandemic-caused hiatus in 2020 and 2021.)
By Randi Bjornstad
After a two-year hiatus — pandemic-related, of course — The PhotoZone Gallery’s annual juried show of fine-art photography will be on display at the Emerald Art Center through July 29, with an opening reception from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 8.
In addition to the PhotoZone Gallery exhibit, the Emerald Art Center also has a show of new work by many of its member artists, as well as a featured exhibit of paintings by member Damon Mitchell.
Mitchell calls his show Learning to Paint Landscapes in Oils because it reflects his own efforts to transform his longtime interest and observation of nature into oil paintings.
He is a native Oregonian who has observed the state’s landscapes from a variety of perspectives, including through photography. Many of the paintings in this show are renditions of those photographs. Through the years, his other creative endeavors have included sculpture, industrial and graphic design, and digital modeling and illustration as well as forays into art education and mechanical restoration..
Mitchell’s friend, fellow artist, and mentor, Nik Skoog, has a show of his own work on a wall adjacent to the Mitchell show.
Emerald Art Center hosts PhotoZone Gallery juried show plus center members’ work
When: Through July 29, 2022
Where: 500 Main St., Springfield
Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, plus open until 7:30 p.m. for the Second Friday Art Walk on Friday, July 8
Information: 541-726-8595 or emeraldartcenter.org
Eucalyptus Tree is one of Damon Mitchell’s oil paintings in his show at the Emerald Art Center
