Greetings!
Happy New Year everyone! I believe 2022 is the year that things will turn around for our country! Bend had an absolutely magical day where it snowed from morning until night! The whole town looked so beautiful covered in snow. And this month we are carrying that beauty inside the walls of Mockingbird Gallery.
On First Friday, January 7th, “Bold Strokes”, will open at Mockingbird Gallery, from 5-8pm. This is a three-person show featuring G. Russell Case, Jennifer Moses and John C. Traynor. Rich Hurdle will be here filling the gallery with jazz music. This show will remain hanging throughout January.
Make sure check out our "Upcoming Events", located down below as well as our "New Arrivals" section!
We hope you enjoy staying in touch through our January newsletter, and, as always, we love & appreciate all your feedback.
Happy New Year!
Nathalie & Jim Peterson and
the Mockingbird Team
869 NW Wall Street, Suite 100
Bend, OR 97703
(541) 388-2107
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Lorraine Anderson and Sophia Peterson
in a Winter Wonderland!
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Three Person Exhibition
G. Russell Case, Jennifer Moses & John C. Traynor
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This Friday, January 7th, Mockingbird Gallery is proud to open our three-person show, “Bold Strokes”, featuring the amazing works of G. Russell Case, Jennifer Moses and John C. Traynor. This exhibit will run through January.
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"Beartooth Pass"
42 x 54 Oil
G. Russell Case
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As a painter and a person, G. Russell Case is one of a kind; always possessing a unique approach to his art as well as his life. His subjects are observations made during his travels throughout the western United States. He paints directly from nature to record colors and light, and his studio compositions are derived from thoughts and sketches recorded outdoors.
There is an unmistakable honesty present in his painted environments stemming from his engagement with the land painted directly from nature, and viewers may be reminded of other great artists of the west. The monumental scale of Maynard Dixon or the unfiltered color and light of Thomas Moran both find their way into his visual language. Yet Russell’s work is simple, pure and fresh. The viewer is immediately transported into a world created by shadow and light, of immense vistas punctuated by jagged mountains and inhabited by lonesome cowboys.
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"The Song of Autumn"
18 x 24 Oil
G. Russell Case
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"The Homestead"
16 x 20 Oil
G. Russell Case
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“I’m not trying to be a figure painter. I’m a landscape painter who sometimes adds figures to create a highlight or some visual interest.” |
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"Spring Hills "
12 x 16 Oil
G. Russell Case
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"Hills of Autumn"
16 x 20 Oil
G. Russell Case
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Russell has had numerous one-man shows and won many awards for his works including the Golden Thunderbird Best of Show at the Maynard Dixon Country exhibition, Mt. Carmel Junction, Utah in 2004. He resides in Bingham City, Utah with his wife Susanne and their three children. |
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"Coal Creek Canyon"
18 x 24 Oil
G. Russell Case
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"Spirited"
26 x 28 Oil
Jennifer Moses
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Jennifer Moses was born in the mid-west but grew up in Virginia. In 1991 Jennifer received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Shortly thereafter Jennifer moved to New York to immerse herself in the art scene and worked part time as an artist assistant in Tribeca. She enjoyed painting large abstract paintings just north of Canal Street.
In 1994 Moses moved to Ojai, California and over the next several years while she renovated a 1909 Greene and Greene bungalow, Jennifer explored many various types of mediums including fine art photography, ceramics and various aspects of design before finally focusing once again on painting. With a newfound focus on landscape and impressionism Jennifer sought out California Art Club signature artist David Gallup to advance her studies.
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"Night Tides"
12 x 14 Oil
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"Lucas Creek"
10 x 12 Oil
Jennifer Moses
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“I often find that I am drawn to the intimate aspects of a landscape; a moment, a gesture or a specific feeling that unfolds when I’m quiet. I may walk around or sit for a period of time until that quality reveals itself and only then do I begin to paint.” |
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"Aerial Flight"
26 x 24 Oil
Jennifer Moses
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"Moonrise Celebration"
11 x 12 Oil
Jennifer Moses
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"Summer Light, Blue Fish Cove"
10 x 11 Oil
Jennifer Moses
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Jennifer is a Signature Member of the CAC and American Tonalist Society. In 2014 Jennifer received the Edgar Payne Award for Best Landscape for “Blushing Twilight” at the 103rd CAC Annual Gold Metal Exhibition. She was also featured in the July 2014 issue of Southwest Art Magazine and in 2017 she was showcased in a solo exhibition at the Del Monte Fine Art in Carmel where she released her published book, Lit From Within. Moses most recently won the Patron’s Choice Award and Curator’s Choice Award at the American Tonalist Society’s inaugural exhibition, Shades of Gray.
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"West River Valley, VT"
18 x 24 Oil
John C. Traynor
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John C. Traynor is a skilled painter of every genre: landscape, still life and portraiture. In the tradition of the Dutch Masters, he suffuses his work with a soft rendering of light that captures the essence of nature in a quiet yet powerful way. His still lifes and portraits convey the same sense of poetic involvement, producing emotional responses in each viewer. “Many people who own my paintings,” he remarks with a note of humble gratitude, “have told me that seeing them every day just puts them in a good mood.”
John spent his early years in Chester and Mendham, New Jersey. His classical training began at the Delbarton School in Morristown, New Jersey, and he continued his art education at Paier College of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. As a merit scholar, John studied figure painting with Frank Mason at the Art Students League of New York. He studied drawing with Carroll Jones in Stowe, Vermont, and sculpture with Brother Jerome Cox in Florence, Italy.
“Knowing them on a personal level, I began to think that if they could do it, I could do it. I had no thought that I would try to be an artist. Instead, I knew I was going to be an artist.”
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"Taos Mountains & Valley"
16 x 20 Oil
John C. Traynor
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"Turtle Walk, Taos"
16 x 20 Oil
John C. Traynor
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Mr. Traynor is a member of the Hudson Valley Art Association, The Salmagundi Club of New York, the National Society of Mural Painters and he is a Copley Master in the Copley Society of Boston. John has received over two hundred awards of merit for his art including The Salmagundi Club Medal of Merit and Honor, the Grumbacher Gold Medal, the Robb Sagendorph Award and the Frank DuMond Memorial Award for best light and atmosphere in painting. His art is enjoyed in many private and public collections in the United States and abroad. |
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"Enchanting Bouquet"
24 x 20 Oil
John C. Traynor
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"Jamaica Skyline, VT"
12 x 16 Oil
John C. Traynor
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"A Colorful Harvest"
16 x 20 Oil
John C. Traynor
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John travels extensively, painting landscapes on location. He has made a number of painting expeditions to Ireland as well as trips to Holland, Brussels, Italy and France.
Mr. Traynor currently resides with his family in southern New Hampshire and enjoys painting rural New England scenes, New York cityscapes, and the clear light of the American shoreline.
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Fresh Perspectives
Four person show for Julie Davis, Julee M. Hutchison
Eric Jacobsen & Kathie Odom
Opens Friday, March 4, 5-8 pm
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"Quiet Strength"
20 x 16 Oil
Julie Davis
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"The Nursery"
16 x 16 Oil
Julee M. Hutchison
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"Autumn Moon"
11 x 14 Oil
Eric Jacobsen
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"Where There Were Glaciers"
15 x 24 Oil
Kathie Odom
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Here are some exciting new works fresh in from some of our very talented Mockingbird Artists! |
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"As One Comes, Another Goes"
48 x 48 Oil
Silas Thompson
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"Golden Grove"
24 x 30 Oil
Barbara Jaenicke
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"Raven Song"
30" Bronze Ed. 10
Hib Sabin
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"Wooden Pagoda Tucked in Green"
10 x 14 Oil
Xiaogang Zhu
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Jerri Lisk, Richard Boyer,
Romona Youngquist & Glenn Ness
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Winter Beauty over Shevlin Park, Bend, Oregon |
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We had such a wonderful turnout for our December First Friday here at Mockingbird Gallery. Thank you so much to Richard Boyer and Romona Youngquist for coming into town for their show to meet with their collectors and fans of their art. We want to thank both of you and our clients for such a successful event last month.
Last month, over at our sister gallery, Peterson Contemporary Art, we also had another great turnout for our 5th Anniversary Celebration. Thank you to all the artists to contributed work for the event and special thanks to those artists that were able to come out and attend the show.
Thank you again for allowing us to stay in touch through our Mockingbird Gallery newsletter. We're passionate about what we do, and we couldn't do it without you!
Sincerely,
Jim & Nathalie Peterson
and the Mockingbird Gallery team (541) 388-2107
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