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Portland-area artist, instructor featured at Northview Gallery
Photos and Story by James Hill
Connie Earnshaw will show some of her more revealing ceramic work to visitors of the Northview Gallery on the Sylvania Campus, 12000 S.W. 49th Ave., from June 10 to September 24.
Earnshaw, a Portland-area artist who also is an instructor in Asian art at Lewis and Clark College, makes free-standing sculptures that capture the complexity and delicacy of branching forms.
"I am attracted to the natural fertile chaos of tangled plant growth so characteristic of wet Western Oregon," Earnshaw said recently. "Trees and vines are central to my work, fascinating to me as visual forms and as symbols of the regenerating web of life."
Hugh Webb, Northview Gallery director, noted that Earnshaw will also exhibit wall-oriented ceramic reliefs. These brightly colored pieces are influenced by themes in Chinese art, as well as the tree of life tradition in Latin American folk ceramics.
The Northview Gallery, located at the Sylvania Campus in Room 214 of the Communication Technology (CT) Building. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 977-4264.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »