FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 2009
Event News from the Jacobs Gallery – Hult Center for the Performing Arts
For use: NOW through closing date of exhibition
EXHIBIT:
A Look From Within
January 8 – February 13, 2010
ARTIST’S:
Shelley Albrich
mixed media/painting
Cheryl Camelio
photography
Rogene Mañas
mixed media/painting
Roger Weise
Painting, New Self-Portraits
RELATED EVENTS:
Artists’ Insight Gallery Talk: Friday, Jan. 8, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 8, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Lane Arts Council First Friday ArtWalk: Friday, Jan. 8 and Feb. 5, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
ARTIST BIO’S:
Shelley Albrich
Shelley Albrich grew up in a large Catholic family, one of eight children. The noise level was always very high; laughter and fighting were common occurrences; silence was rare. Shelley was very shy as a little girl and felt invisible with so many children in her family. She didn’t always know how to be herself in this environment and felt more comfortable in a dream world. She remembers her mom worrying about this and would often tell her to become more realistic. Her dad would bring home paper from his work, as a graphic design artist for the yellow pages for many years. He encouraged all of his kids to draw and create pictures. She remembers him taking the pencil from her hands if she wasn’t doing it right, and shows her how to do it better. He wasn’t always patient, however she really loved him, and wanted him to be proud of her. Shelley says he is a lot like her, as she later discovered. Shelley feels calm when she draws and paints. These are her earliest recollections of drawing. Her dad died last July; she feels him around her and encouraging her even to this very moment.
Shelley didn’t formally start her artistic journey until nine years ago when she decided to take one art class at Lane Community College, to rediscover something that was of great interest for her.
Creating art has been therapeutic and healing, to her. She feels connected to something greater than herself. It is a spiritual endeavor and her paintings have become her personal journey. Her aspiration for her work is to hopefully affect the hearts of others and arouse sincere feelings.
Cheryl Camelio
Cheryl Camelio is a Eugene based photographer and has been involved in photography nearly 20 years. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Oregon in 2000. Having grown up in Rochester, New York, home to the father of modern photography George Eastman, opportunity and access provoked a strong fascination with this medium. Her first camera was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, given to her by my father. She remembers getting back her first set of prints and realized that with this tool she had the ability to record moments in time, marking events and documenting a history of the things most important to her. While attending college, her focus and experience was black and white photography. She finds black and white to be both the simplest and most sophisticated of photographic disciplines. Black and white photography has an inherent dignity, and the ability to transcend without limitations. She is inspired to invite the viewer into her world as a means of evoking a memory or brief encounter with the beauty that surrounds us.
This exhibit represents contemplation and vision inspired by the vibrancy of color and texture that defines the exuberance of life and culture throughout the world. This experience has allowed her to expand and incorporate the magnificence of color into her work, further exploring the beauty of form and balance through texture and light. Cheryl is grateful for the opportunity to share with you “A Look from Within”.
Rogene Mañas
Rogene Mañas creates works with unique, primitive art styles and inventive mixed media techniques. Combining plant, bird, and insect imagery with figurative elements in a slightly surrealistic fashion, she explores and illuminates what she calls “the essence within.” Drawing from her imagination, her organic and often haunting compositions reflect both her Mediterranean heritage and her passion for Mexican folk art. Using paper maché, collage materials and acrylic paint, she creates sculptural reliefs and textural paintings with lively color pallets.
As co-owner of an international card company, a designer and illustrator for more than 35, Rogene Mañas retired from her successful business to pursue her love of art making in 2006. After majoring in art at the University of Oregon, she expanded her skills by studying with numerous professional artists in the Pacific Northwest, Italy and France. Known for her plein-air landscape paintings and impressionistic still lifes, Mañas made a sudden departure in style after spending winters in Mexico and becoming enamored with Latin American art. Her work has shown at Maude Kerns Art Center, Kudos Gallery, Jacob's Gallery and Opus Six in Eugene, and at Onda Gallery In Portland,Oregon.
Roger Weise
Roger Weise lives and works in the Coastal Mountain Range Of Central Oregon, 20 miles southwest of Eugene. He was born in 1951, raised and came of age in the San Fernando Valley; CA. Weise studied art at Cal State University Northridge in The early seventies. After school, he traveled and worked different jobs and attempted different careers so that he might get a wee slice of life under his belt. He drove a taxi, cleaned office buildings and rang a register. He set tile, groomed poodles, installed chicken coops and ran a wallpaper removal service for the rich and famous. He kept the brush at arm's length for long periods, but put it to paper and canvas with passion from time to time. In 1995 Weise gave up his last "temporary career" as a technical support manager for a software company to become a full time artist, his real and authentic job.
CONTACT:
Beverly Soasey, Gallery Director
Phone: 541-684-5635 · Email: director@jacobsgallery.org
www.jacobsgallery.org
Location of Event: Jacobs Gallery, lower level of the Hult Center
Gallery Hours: Tues. – Fri., noon to 4 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.,
and one hour prior to and during all Hult Center Performances.
The Jacobs Gallery is funded through private donations, exhibit sponsorships, the City of Eugene and the sale of artwork
December 2009
Event News from the Jacobs Gallery – Hult Center for the Performing Arts
For use: NOW through closing date of exhibition
EXHIBIT:
A Look From Within
January 8 – February 13, 2010
ARTIST’S:
Shelley Albrich
mixed media/painting
Cheryl Camelio
photography
Rogene Mañas
mixed media/painting
Roger Weise
Painting, New Self-Portraits
RELATED EVENTS:
Artists’ Insight Gallery Talk: Friday, Jan. 8, 3:30 – 4:30 pm
Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 8, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Lane Arts Council First Friday ArtWalk: Friday, Jan. 8 and Feb. 5, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
ARTIST BIO’S:
Shelley Albrich
Shelley Albrich grew up in a large Catholic family, one of eight children. The noise level was always very high; laughter and fighting were common occurrences; silence was rare. Shelley was very shy as a little girl and felt invisible with so many children in her family. She didn’t always know how to be herself in this environment and felt more comfortable in a dream world. She remembers her mom worrying about this and would often tell her to become more realistic. Her dad would bring home paper from his work, as a graphic design artist for the yellow pages for many years. He encouraged all of his kids to draw and create pictures. She remembers him taking the pencil from her hands if she wasn’t doing it right, and shows her how to do it better. He wasn’t always patient, however she really loved him, and wanted him to be proud of her. Shelley says he is a lot like her, as she later discovered. Shelley feels calm when she draws and paints. These are her earliest recollections of drawing. Her dad died last July; she feels him around her and encouraging her even to this very moment.
Shelley didn’t formally start her artistic journey until nine years ago when she decided to take one art class at Lane Community College, to rediscover something that was of great interest for her.
Creating art has been therapeutic and healing, to her. She feels connected to something greater than herself. It is a spiritual endeavor and her paintings have become her personal journey. Her aspiration for her work is to hopefully affect the hearts of others and arouse sincere feelings.
Cheryl Camelio
Cheryl Camelio is a Eugene based photographer and has been involved in photography nearly 20 years. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Oregon in 2000. Having grown up in Rochester, New York, home to the father of modern photography George Eastman, opportunity and access provoked a strong fascination with this medium. Her first camera was a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, given to her by my father. She remembers getting back her first set of prints and realized that with this tool she had the ability to record moments in time, marking events and documenting a history of the things most important to her. While attending college, her focus and experience was black and white photography. She finds black and white to be both the simplest and most sophisticated of photographic disciplines. Black and white photography has an inherent dignity, and the ability to transcend without limitations. She is inspired to invite the viewer into her world as a means of evoking a memory or brief encounter with the beauty that surrounds us.
This exhibit represents contemplation and vision inspired by the vibrancy of color and texture that defines the exuberance of life and culture throughout the world. This experience has allowed her to expand and incorporate the magnificence of color into her work, further exploring the beauty of form and balance through texture and light. Cheryl is grateful for the opportunity to share with you “A Look from Within”.
Rogene Mañas
Rogene Mañas creates works with unique, primitive art styles and inventive mixed media techniques. Combining plant, bird, and insect imagery with figurative elements in a slightly surrealistic fashion, she explores and illuminates what she calls “the essence within.” Drawing from her imagination, her organic and often haunting compositions reflect both her Mediterranean heritage and her passion for Mexican folk art. Using paper maché, collage materials and acrylic paint, she creates sculptural reliefs and textural paintings with lively color pallets.
As co-owner of an international card company, a designer and illustrator for more than 35, Rogene Mañas retired from her successful business to pursue her love of art making in 2006. After majoring in art at the University of Oregon, she expanded her skills by studying with numerous professional artists in the Pacific Northwest, Italy and France. Known for her plein-air landscape paintings and impressionistic still lifes, Mañas made a sudden departure in style after spending winters in Mexico and becoming enamored with Latin American art. Her work has shown at Maude Kerns Art Center, Kudos Gallery, Jacob's Gallery and Opus Six in Eugene, and at Onda Gallery In Portland,Oregon.
Roger Weise
Roger Weise lives and works in the Coastal Mountain Range Of Central Oregon, 20 miles southwest of Eugene. He was born in 1951, raised and came of age in the San Fernando Valley; CA. Weise studied art at Cal State University Northridge in The early seventies. After school, he traveled and worked different jobs and attempted different careers so that he might get a wee slice of life under his belt. He drove a taxi, cleaned office buildings and rang a register. He set tile, groomed poodles, installed chicken coops and ran a wallpaper removal service for the rich and famous. He kept the brush at arm's length for long periods, but put it to paper and canvas with passion from time to time. In 1995 Weise gave up his last "temporary career" as a technical support manager for a software company to become a full time artist, his real and authentic job.
CONTACT:
Beverly Soasey, Gallery Director
Phone: 541-684-5635 · Email: director@jacobsgallery.org
www.jacobsgallery.org
Location of Event: Jacobs Gallery, lower level of the Hult Center
Gallery Hours: Tues. – Fri., noon to 4 p.m., Sat. 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.,
and one hour prior to and during all Hult Center Performances.
The Jacobs Gallery is funded through private donations, exhibit sponsorships, the City of Eugene and the sale of artwork
