High Desert Gallery is honored to
feature new fine art prints and original mixed media
paintings by
Oregon Artist, Patricia Freeman-Martin. The exhibition and sale is
hosted by High Desert Gallery in Sisters Oregon and will continue
through March 2009.
Typically a mixed media painter, and collage artist, printmaking was completely new to me less than a year ago. Using the monoprint process has now become my favorite way to draw. It is the first process I have used that freely allows me to draw using a reductive approach. I love the process of applying ink to the plate, and then, using a variety of tools, remove ink until I am left with the image. The informality and flexibility of the monoprinting process provides immediate gratification. It is a way to create an image which has the vitality and freshness of a sketch, but the weight and depth of a fine ink drawing on beautiful paper.
I am excited to show this work which features rodeo trick riders as my subject matter. When I was young, my family spent a lot of time at rodeos, watching my father and his friends and brothers compete. There was always a trick rider act for entertainment. I was enthralled by these acts. I loved the theatricality of their courageous stunts, their costumes, their trust in their horses and their own abilities. My drawing of the trick riders is spreading to other areas of the rodeo, and the parades that were a frequent part of the rodeo tradition. I’m now starting to draw the calf ropers, now called tie-down roping, and the trick ropers. I’m looking forward to exploring this imagery more, as I am beginning to draw from old photographs of my father roping in the 1960’s, and some vintage photographs of trick riders from the 1920’s and 30’s. -- Patricia Freeman-Martin, March 2009
Patricia Freeman-Martin – Original
Paintings & Monoprints
March 1 through March 31, 2009
High Desert Gallery, 281 W Cascade
Avenue at Oak, Sisters, Oregon 97759
541-388-8964 / 866-549-6250
Open Daily (Winter Hours): F/S/S/M 10am
to 5pm, T/W/H 10am-2:30pm
www.highdesertgallery.com
About Patricia Freeman-Martin: Patricia
was raised in a ranching and rodeo family in
Eastern Oregon,
graduating from high school in Pendleton, Oregon. She received a
Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, from the University of New
Mexico in Albuquerque. She moved to New York City and spent nearly
five years in the East Village. During a visit home, she fell in love
with a potato farmer from Southern Idaho and never returned to New
York. For 16 years, Patricia and her family lived and worked on their
ranch at the foot of the Elkhorn Mountains in North Powder, Oregon.
Ranching and cutting horses have been an integral part of her life as
well as inspiration for her art. In 2004 Patricia and her family
purchased a horse ranch in Terrebonne, Oregon, near Smith Rock.
Patricia has woven together a beautiful and complex life of many
different themes; cattle ranching, cutting horses, family, and art.
She uses a variety of mixed media to talk about her experiences in
the western landscape and her style reflects her fresh, honest and
whimsical way of viewing the world.
About High Desert Gallery: High Desert
Gallery & Custom Framing, The Art & Soul of Central Oregon™
is an award winning fine art and custom picture framing gallery with
retail locations in Bend, Oregon (Open Summer 2009), Redmond and
Sisters Oregon specializing
in Central Oregon Artists & Beyond™
and Stellar Custom Framing. High Desert Gallery honored in 2005, 2006
and 2007 by Decor Magazine as a "Top 100 Art and Framing Gallery
in America" and voted "Best Art Gallery" in Redmond,
Oregon (2006, 2007 & 2008) and Sisters, Oregon (2005, 2006, &
2008). In February 2008, High Desert Gallery was awarded Top Honors
in the Professional Picture Framing Association 2007-2008
International Open Framing Competition. For more information please
visit: www.highdesertgallery.com or call toll free 1-866-549-6250.
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