PORTLANDNICOSIAPRINTEXHIBITION2008

INTERNATIONALPRINTPROJECTPRINT ARTS NORTHWESTOPUS 39 GALLERY

NICOSIACYPRUSDECEMBER2008

This exhibition in Nicosia is the fourth in our cross cultural “International PrintProject”. The project started very simply as an email from printmaker BarbaraMason, Director of Print Arts Northwest in Portland, Oregon, USA, to a printmakingInternet friend, Dr Arafat Al-Naim in Amman, Jordan. Prints have now traveledacross the ocean to and from Jordan and to and from Cyprus. It was my greatpleasure to handle the work personally for both exhibitions in our gallery inPortland. I feel a real connection to artists I have never met but whose work Iadmire and through our work we are truly the same. We are using the sameprocesses, the same paper, the same ink, and sometimes even similar imagery.Printmaking is language we understand, allowing us to talk to each other eventhough we might not speak the same verbal language.

As an educational venue the exhibitions were a huge success. In Portland weprinted out maps of the Middle East and the Mediterranean encouraging visitorsand members alike to get a sense of the geographical locations of both Jordanand Cyprus. We also brought in books about the culture and history of bothcountries and enjoyed food catered by restaurants that specialized in MiddleEastern and Greek food. The work from Cyprus traveled to a gallery in Vancouver,Washington so was exhibited twice while in the USA. Oregon probably seemsas mysterious and far away to the citizens of Nicosia as the Mediterraneandoes to most of us, yet we have this strong connection. We are more alike thanwe realize and the language of ink added to paper by artists is a universal one.

Barbara MasonExecutive DirectorPrint Arts NorthwestPortland, Oregon, USA

Dear Visitor,

Given the opportunity to add something to this event, I would like to express my thanks to the “International Print Project” and PrintArts Northwest for choosing my gallery to host this cultural exchange and exhibition, hoping many other institutions and galleriesmay follow in this example. This is a wonderful opportunity for all artists to show their work globally and make it possible tocommunicate through art.

The gallery aims to promote quality art through its exhibitions. It does not specialize in any specific style/movement of art hostingvarious mediums, whether it be ceramics, painting, jewellery, sculpture, installations and photography, thus providing the viewerwith the opportunity to appreciate different approaches to art. Some of the artists exhibited are very young and unknown, as thegallery feels “obliged” to help/encourage these newcomers. Opus 39 is unafraid to “take a chance” as well as dare. It believes“selling” is not its sole purpose, “educating” is just as important (often exhibitions are visited by school groups of all ages). Lecturesare sometimes held concerning the exhibited subject.

We live in difficult times for humanity and it seems that the arts are the only resource of pleasure and hope accessible to all. It isamazing to me how through art all boundaries “disappear” - whether it be religion, race or language.

Special thanks to our supporters and sponsors, the American Embassy in Cyprus.

Of course, a special note of thanks to Dr Arafat Al-Naim and Barbara Mason who through good networking, effort and coordinationmade this possible for all. What a concept! Travelling Art... Technology has made it easy for imagery and information to travel acrossthe world, but exhibitions and venues such as these “connect”.

Maro MarangosDirectorOpus 39 GalleryNicosia, Cyprus

international print project

portland - nicosia print exhibition 2008original fine art printmaking exhibition and exchange

10 december 2008 - 15 january 2009nicosia . cyprus

Sue has been designing and screenprinting for manyyears. The cards and original limited-editionscreenprints that she makes are distinctive andcolorful, inspired by tradition, nature and imagination.She grew up in Queens, New York and spentmany happy childhood summers at camp in NewHampshire. Since receiving a Bachelor ofArchitecture degree from The Cooper Union in NewYork City, printmaking has been her main focus andlivelihood. After working in New York City and Stowe,Vermont, she moved to Oregon in 1975, and has

lived in the foothills of Mount Hood since 1981,where she enjoys nature in all her seasons and canbe creative and productive.

Artistic directions range from nature and organicorder to some abstraction and geometry and veersrepeatedly toward the Japanese aesthetic andbeauty. Recent studies in the book arts has led toa new passion, one that brings her back to a designand construction format. Her work is distinguished,refined, elegant and unusual.

A recent project- “Around Mount Hood: 12 Months- 12 Directions”, was awarded a grant from theClackamas County Cultural Coalition and the OregonCultural Trust. The inaugural exhibition was at theMount Hood Cultural Center and Museum inGovernment Camp in 2006 - 2007, and it has beenon exhibit around Oregon since.

Her work is shown in many shops and galleries inOregon and beyond, and she exhibits extensivelyand has won many awards.

sue allen

sue@sueallenstudio.com autumn equinox, screenprint

winter wonderland, screenprintmt hood june, screenprint shoji winter, screenprint

dennis cady

Dennis Cady was born Portland, Oregon, November10, 1944.

EducationPortland State University (with Robert Colescott)

The Brooklyn Museum Art School (with ReubenTam) State University of New York, Empire StateCollege Pratt Graphics Art Center

highland view, woodcut

approaching storm, woodcut

patricia cheyne

Ms. Patricia Cheyne is a Professor at PacificUniversity teaching drawing, design, papermaking,art education, and printmaking. Patricia received aB.F.A. from the University of Hartford, a M.A.L.S.from Wesleyan University, and a M.F.A. from theUniversity of Colorado. The areas of concentrationof her studies were drawing, printmaking, art history,art education, and women studies. She has taughtat all levels of education from pre-school throughuniversity.

Patricia has an extensive exhibit record. She hasshown her work nationally and internationally. Shehas had many one-person shows. She has alsopresented papers at the Denver Art Museum, PacificUniversity, and the College Art Association, and hascurated many ongoing exhibitions in the ForestGrove and Portland, Oregon communities. She is amember of the Print Arts Northwest, LosAngelusPrintmakers Association, HandpapermakingAssociation, National Art Education Association,

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, andthe College Art Association.

Patricia says in her artist statement, “I am alsoinfluenced by my immediate visual experiences--such as the forests and valleys of the PacificNorthwest, subjective states such as the cuts andscars of the emotional life. But most recently, I havebeen making artwork investigating the states of mindthat all humans create for themselves. Thoughts,

memories, and even secrets have been theinspiration for my new prints containing both textand image. With all these sources, my work focusesless on realistic representation and more onexpressive images. In my art I hope to capture themotion and force alive in both the source ofinspiration and the process of artistic creation.

My art is a mix of landscapes, soulscapes, andmythscapes.

interior landscape, monotype

www.elizabethdove.com

elizabeth dove

Elizabeth Dove is a printmaker and photographercurrently residing in Missoula, Montana, whereshe teaches in the Art Department at the Universityof Montana. Her work continues to be based intraditional printmaking practices (concerns withrepetition, imprinting, and the matrix) but has

expanded in media to include earthworks, sitespecific sculpture and installation. Elizabeth's maininterests are investigating the passage of time,subjective scientific methods, and how one'sbody can register and can communicate historyand memories.

Elizabeth has conducted extensive research intonon-toxic printmaking processes, taught dozens ofworkshops at colleges and universities, receivedfunding to study the integration of digital technologyand traditional printmaking practices, and haspublished her research in the books “The

Contemporary Printmaker” and “Non-toxic IntaglioPrintmaking”, and the British journal “PrintmakingToday”. Elizabeth received her BFA from theMaryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, andher MFA from Vermont College.

nature, nuture, sense, experience, etching

tallmadge doyle

Born in New York City, Tallmadge Doyle resides inEugene, Oregon where she has lived and workedsince 1989. She received her BFA in drawing fromthe Cleveland Art Institute and her MFA in printmakingfrom the University of Oregon where she taughtPrintmaking as an Adjunct Professor 1997 - 2004.

Her work is included in numerous public and privatecollections including the Seattle Portable WorksCollection, Portland Art Museum’s Gilkey PrintCollection, and Chicago’s Loyola University PrintCollection.

She is represented by the Davidson Gallery in Seattleand the Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery aswell as in Portland at the Augen Gallery and thePortland Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery.

Education- Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking 1993, University

of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing 1979, Cleveland

Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Selected Solo Exhibitions2008 Augen Gallery, Celestial Menagerie, Portland,

OR2007 Eugene Downtown Public Library, Eugene,

OR2006 Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA2005 Augen Gallery, Mysterium Cosmographicum,

Portland, OR2004 Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, OR2003 Augen Gallery, Portland, OR2003 Newport Visual Arts Gallery, Newport, OR2002 Lane Community College, Eugene, OR2002 John and Betty Gray Gallery, NWPC, Portland,

OR

Public Collections- Loyola University Permanent Collection, Chicago,

IL- University of Amman Applied Sciences Collection,

Amman Jordan- City of Seattle Portable Works Collection- Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota,

Duluth

- University of Hawaii at Hilo Permanent Collection- Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland

Art Museum, OR- University of Oregon Erb Memorial Union Permanent

Collection- Oregon State University College of Agriculture

Science, Corvallis , OR- The Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, Ohio- University of Alaska, Anchorage, Print Collection

Recent Juried Exhibitions2007 Loyola National Works on Paper - Crown

Center Gallery, Chicago, IL Purchase Award2007 Printmaking Currents - Pacific Northwest

College of Art, Atrium Gallery, Portland, OR2007 Art About Agriculture - Oregon State University,

Corvallis, OR Purchase Award2006 35th Brand Library Printmaking Exhibition,

Glendale, CA2006 Printmaking Currents - Pacific Northwest

College of Art, Portland, OR2006 Seeing God - Dadian Gallery, Henry Luce

Center for the Arts & Religion, Washington DC

2005 Los Angeles Print Society 18th National - Armory Art Center, Pasadena - Juror’s Award

2005 Works on Paper from Seattle Print Arts - Shenzhen Art Institute, Shenzhen, China

2005 Imprinted-Contemporary Printmaking -El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe

2005 Ink And Clay 31 - Kellogg Art Gallery, Cal PolyPomona,CA

2005 North American Print Biennial - Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA

2004 New Prints 2004 - International Print Center, New York, NY

2004 Loyola University of Chicago Print Biennial - Crown Center Gallery

2004 Janet Turner 5th National Exhibition - TurnerPrint Museum, Cal Chico

2004 Pacific States Biennial National Print Exhibition- University of Hawaii, Hilo

2004 4th Minnesota Print Biennial - Wiesman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN Purchase Award

tallmadgedoyle.com

evolving angles, monoprint

ellen emerson

Education- BFA with Honors, Graphic Design, 1973,

Rhode Island School of Design

Related ExperienceGraphic Designer with a broad range of experienceincluding museum graphics, signage, identityprograms, book and publication design.

Solo Exhibitions2005 Ellen Emerson: New Monotypes, Janovec

Gallery, Portland, Oregon2004 Ellen Emerson: Monotypes and Collage,

Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon1990 Ellen Emerson: New Monoprints, Mitchell Earth

Sciences Building, Stanford University,Palo Alto, California

Group Exhibitions2008 Prints from Guenda - Oaxcan Women Artists,

Josepha Kate Gallery, Portland, Oregon

2008 Monothon PDX, Print Arts Northwest Gallery,Portland, Oregon

2008 Northwest Visions in Printmaking, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, Washington

2008 Art for Life, Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Portland Convention Center, Portland, Oregon

2008 Contemporay Prints, Pacific Northwest Collegeof Art Library, Portland, Oregon

2007 15 Printmakers, Print Arts Northwest Gallery,Portland, Oregon

2006 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural Sensibilities III, Kyungpook National UniversityGallery, Daegu, South Korea, Portland, Oregon

2006 Going to Korea, Janovec Gallery, Portland, OR2005 The Art of Surviving, YWCA Gallery and

The Elizabeth Building, Portland, Oregon2004 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural

Sensibilities II, Littman Gallery, Portland StateUniversity, Portland, Oregon

2003 Waking Dream, Women Tree Gallery, Portland,Oregon

2003 Art for Life, Cascade AIDS Project Auction, Weiden & Kennedy, Portland, Oregon

2002 City of Gresham Juried Art Exhibit, Juror: Margo Jacobsen, City Hall Visual Arts Center,Gresham, Oregon

2001 Korean/American Women Artists: Cultural Sensibilities, Daegu Culture and Arts Center,Daegu, South Korea

2001 Portland Open Studios Group Show, Littmanand White Galleries, Portland State University,Portland, Oregon

2000 Audubon Society Wild Arts Festival, Portland,Oregon

1999 Bush Barn Art Center, Juried Group Show, Salem, Oregon

1999 Portland Open Studios Group Show, Omni Gallery, Portland, Oregon

1991 Avenue of the Arts: Monotype/Monoprint Exhibition, Juror: Nathan Oliviera, Belmont, California

1990 Ford Aerospace Corporation, San Jose, CA

1990 Cadence Design Systems, Inc., San Jose, California

1990 Works on Paper ‘90, Koret Gallery, Albert L. Schultz, Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto,California

1989 Altered Dreams: The Compelling Figure, Student Union Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

1989 New Members’ Show, Valentines, Summer inthe City, Impressions: New Prints from the Graphic Arts Workshop, The Graphic Arts Workshop Gallery, San Francisco, California

eemerson5@comcast.net

not made in china, lithographgames for a rainy day, lithographpostage due, lithograph little puzzle, lithograph

sheryl funkhouser

Education1967-68 California College of the Arts, Oakland,

California, USA1968-71 BFA Painting, Pacific Northwest College

of the Arts, USA

Collections- Gilkey Collection, Portland Art Museum- State of Oregon- Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, Oregon- University of Oregon Libraries- Museo de Gravura, Rio de Janiero, Brazil- Beijing, PRC

Selected Exhibitions2007 Print Arts Northwest2007 Lucia Douglas Gallery, Bellingham WA

2006 Printmaking Currents, National Juried Exhibition, PNCA

2006 12 x 16 Gallery, 12 etchings, Portland, OR2005 Beppu Gallery, Pacific City, OR2005 Honoring Ray Trayle, Mt. Hood College,

Gresham, OR2004 Pacific Prints 2004, Palo Alto, California2003 Ray Trayle Print Prize & exhibition, PAM & PAN2002 Canon Beach Gallery2001 Northwest Printmakers, Davidson Gallery,

Seattle WA1999 Blackfish Gallery Founders Exhibit1998 Prints Across the Pacific, China National

Academy, PRC1997 Postcards from the Edge, Oregon College

of Art & Craft1996 Margo Jacobsen Gallery

1996 Doll Gardner Gallery1996 Museo da Gravura, Museo de Curitaibo,

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil1995 Oregon Historical Society, PAN exhibit1994 Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA1993 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR1992 20 Oregon Printmakers, Corvallis Arts Center1991 Northwest Print Council, Portland Art Museum1989 10th Anniversary Invitational, Blackfish Gallery,

Portland, OR1988 Inkling Exhibition, Littman Gallery, Portland

State University1988 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR1987 Coos Bay Art Museum1986 Northwest Print Council Exchange, Beijing, PRC1985 Western States Print Invitational, Gordon

Gilkey, Curator

1983 Lane Community College, Eugene, OR(exhibit & lecture)

1981 “Four Oregon Artists”, Portland Center for Visual Arts

1980 The Art Gym, Marylhurst University,Lake Oswego, OR

1979 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR1978 Original Editions Graphic Competition

Traveling Exhibit, U of Oregon1975 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Center1974 Twenty Fourth Avenue Gallery, Portland, OR

aphordite and athena, etching, chine colle

paul gentry

Paul Gentry is a printmaker, painter, and mixedmedia artist who is also an owner/partner of the River Gallery in Independence, Oregon. He hasspecialized in wood engraving since 2001,concentrating mostly on depicting the rural landscapearound where he lives. Mr. Gentry has exhibited inshows throughout the United States, most recently inWashington DC at National Small Works  where hewas awarded a purchase prize. 

He is represented in Portland, Oregon by Print ArtsNorthwest Gallery and the Portland Art MuseumRental/Sales Gallery and in Seattle, Washington byFine Impressions Gallery. He currently lives andworks as a full-time artist in Independence, Oregon.

watering place, wood engraving in the pasture, wood engraving

beneath the bridge, wood engraving willamette country, wood engraving

margaret e. graham

"My creative methods mainly reflect my constantattempt to integrate temporal existence with that ofinner experience and transition. The conceptualaspect centers on the never-ending, natural cyclesof life and growth. As new experiences unfold, thiscenter expands with further introspection. Everyday,life offers me new information, feelings andrealizations to work with.

To combine these different levels of awareness andcreate my own visual interpretations is a challenge

as well as a much needed and welcomed discipline."

Margaret Graham was born and raised in upstateNY and completed her undergraduate work atNazareth College of Rochester. It is at Nazareththat she discovered printmaking. This quicklybecame a passion and continues to be her mainartistic vehicle to this day. Margaret completedher Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking anda teaching fellowship at the University of Oregonin 2000.

As a Professional Artist, Margaret actively exhibitsher artwork in the States and abroad. She is anactive member of the Northwest Print Council andis represented by the Pan Gallery in Portland Oregon.

After four years of teaching fine art in Oregon,Margaret taught at one of the first colleges forwomen's higher education, in Jeddah, SaudiArabia. In the 2004-2006 school years, she choseto travel to Jeddah for the opportunity to helpestablish a strong Foundations program in the

Creative Arts area and stayed a second year tocreate a Printmaking studio and curriculum. It issaid to be one of the first printmaking studios of itskind in Saudi Arabia.

"I feel it is important to share my creative abilitiesand time with the global community in which welive. It gives me great pleasure and I think that ifeveryone shared his or her creative abilitiesand perceptions, this world would be a verydifferent place."

grahamcrkr.tripod.com

icon 1, woodblock

bernard r. kliks

Memberships- Watercolor Society of Oregon (Life Member)- Petite Critique Group (8 artists)- Print Arts Northwest (PAN) - Board Member

(2003-4) - Artist Member (since Nov ‘05)- Portland Art Museum Contemporary Art Council

Art Education- Watercolor Workshops/Classes: Harry Widman,

Rene Rickabaugh, Carol Riley, Michael Schlicting,Susan McKinnon, Mike Svob, Pat Lambrecht, PatSan Soucie and Margot Voorhies Thompson

- Printmaking: Monotype: Tom Prochaska, PNCA(3 terms), William Park, Ron Pokrasso / Solar Plate:Dan Weldon & Barbara Mason

Juried Shows- Watercolor Society of Oregon (Fall ‘95 and Spring

‘96 Shows)- Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) Auctions (‘06, ‘07,

‘08)

Exhibitions- “Natural States” - Two Person Show (with Cathe

Gill) - PAN (Jun ‘08)

- “Deck the Walls ”- PAN Group Show (Dec ‘07)- “8X8 s on the 8th”- Petite Critique Group Show -

Art Home Company (Sept 8, ‘07)- “Deck The Walls”- PAN Group Show (Dec ‘06)- Albina Community Bank (NW 10th & Glisan) (Jul

‘06)- New Artist Member Show at Print Arts NW (PAN)

(Jul ‘06)- Fife Restaurant (NE 44th & Fremont) (Dec ‘05-Jan

’06)- Brooklyn to Sellwood Art Walk (Nov ‘05)- Solo Monotype Print Show - Art Home Company

(Nov ‘05)- PNCA Alumni Open Hanging Salon - Landscapes (Nov ‘03)- PNCA Student Monotype Show (Oct ‘03)- Art on Alberta - Galaxy Bakery (Apr ‘00)- Petite Critique Group Shows - 6 artists (Apr ‘96

and Aug ‘97)

Invitational- “Art in the Heart” in Lake Oswego (Feb ‘07)- Lake Oswego Chronicle Visual Arts Show (Jun ‘06)- CAP Auction (May ‘06)- “Prints in the Pearl” - fundraiser for PAN ( Sep ‘05)

- Chehalem Winery Annual Summer Art Show (Aug‘05)

- Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) Auction (May ‘05)- Kows for Kids - “In the Moood” (Jun ‘02) - On

permanent display at the Schnitzer Auditorium (incollaboration with Susan McKinnon)

Collections Of- Applied Sciences University in Aman, Jordan (in

association with PAN)- Vavrosky, MacColl, & Olson, Attys (Portland, OR)- Kathy Calcagno, Private Client Services, Wells

Fargo Bank (Portland, OR)- Wrenn Ferguson, UBS Financial Services (Portland,

OR)- Emanuel Hospital-Day surgery (Portland, OR)- Good Samaritan Hospital-Administrative Offices

(Portland, OR)- Gary Eichman, CEO Oregon Transfer Co. (Portland,

OR)- Claudia Brown, Publisher, Portrait of Portland

(Portland, OR)- Drs. R. Bastian and Barbara Wagner- Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Trelstad- Drs. Robert Florek and Kathy Grewe

- Carolyn Dewey, artist- Dr. Richard Shepherd- Peggy and Terry Crawford- Carol and Byron Ferris- Patty and John Bentley, and other Private collections

Personal- Retired Interventional Cardiologist, Pacific Heart

Association (‘76-’99)- Fellow of American College of Cardiology- BA - Willamette University; Salem, OR (‘63)- BS/MD - University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN

(‘67)- Internal Medicine Residency - Presbyterian Med.

Ctr.; Denver, CO (‘67-’71)- Cardiology Fellowship - University of Utah;

Salt Lake City, UT (‘71-’73)- Served in the USAF at Clark Air Base, The Phillipines

(‘73-’76) Rank: Lt. Colonel- Medals: Meritorious Service Medal (USAF),

Order of Million Elephants with White Parasol (Laos)

untitled 71, monotype

untitled 1, monotype

untitled 15, monotype

marilyn maricle

Color and shape have had a powerful influence onme. They are a strong force in ritual, give meaningto religious ceremony and symbolic form to dreams.In endless combinations, colors and shapes haveappeared on the costumes of dolls, puppets,storytellers, actors, dancers, priests and shamans.Tapestries, scrolls, quilts, murals and mosaics haverecorded events and expressed emotions. Complexand intricate works are meditative both for the makerand the viewer.

As I travel, watch dance, listen to music, experience

theater and study the art of many religions andcultures, I am informed as an artist. My work includesfigures, architecture, landscapes and language.

- Human and animal figures appear in an atmosphere of intense color, hard-edged shapes and free-flowing energetic lines to express music and dance.

- Elements of architecture in the world, in the theater and in places of worship define and enclose

spaces within which interactions and events occur.

- Landscapes symbolize places people journey to for meditation and spiritual refreshment.

- Words and characters from other languages are clues to content. Figures sometimes form words from American Sign Language with their hands to emphasize the expressive power of gesture.

I want my work to be a place where one lingers andmoves about slowly. I invite the viewer into a placeof light, color and energy where I try to speak abouthuman experience.

woman with birds, monotype

woman with diver and dancers, monotype

woman with bottle, monotype

woman with dog and jay, monotypeon the go no. 1, monotype

woman and heron, monotype

woman with dog and dancer, monotype

Barbara Mason is an artist/printmaker working inher own printmaking studio in Aloha, 15 miles westof Portland, Oregon. A lifelong artist, she beganstudying printmaking in the early 80's and wasimmediately enamored with the medium. Barbaramade viscosity monotypes almost exclusively for20 years until she discovered Solarplate etching. Shehas been an enthusiast of this process since 2001and has taught the process in workshops since 2002.

Barbara is an arts advocate and active in thecommunity. She has been a resource person forthe Beaverton School District since 1976. Serving8 years on the board of the Vivian and Gordon GilkeyCenter for Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum,she was also a founding board member of the 12year old Art in the Pearl, an outdoor community artsfair taking place on Labor Day Weekend. She hasbeen on the board of Crow's Shadow Institute of Arton the Umatilla Indian Reservation, is a past Presidentof the Board of Print Arts Northwest the gallery andstudio of the Northwest Print Council. She is thecurrently the education chair at Print Arts Northwest.She is past director and an active artist of WaterstoneGallery, an artist owned gallery, in Portland, OR.

She currently serves on the board of the WashingtonCounty Arts, Heritage and Humanities Collation,which distributes money from the Oregon CulturalTrust to nonprofits in Washington County, OR. Sheis on the board of “The Right Brain Initiative”, acoalition of cultural organizations that are bringingart, music and drama back to local schools on aweekly basis.

Barbara spends many hours each year as a volunteerteaching printmaking in local schools for Print ArtsNorthwest. She also teaches classes at AtelierMeridian. Her enthusiasm for printmaking istranslated into wonderful works by students ages8-80 who thought they couldn't draw and thereforecouldn't make art. They were mistaken, Barbara issure anyone can make art and everyone should bedoing so.

Barbara’s has shown her work nationally andinternationally for the last 25 years, her works are inthe collections of the Portland Art Museum, IntelCorporation, Crow’s Shadow Art Institute, theSpencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, theNew York Public Library Collection, the Halle Ford

Museum, the National Museum of Kampala Uganda,the Applied Sciences University of Amman, Jordan,the Jordon Schnitzer Collection, the American PrintAlliance Memorial Collection and numerous privateindividuals and corporations.

Education- University of Washington- Oregon College of Arts and Crafts- Portland State University- Pacific Northwest College of Art- Marylhurst University

Printmaking workshops from: Lise Drost, Kim Fink,Myrna Burk, Jim Hibbard, Christy Wycoff, TomPorchaska, Brian Shannon, Non Toxic Printmakingwith Raymon Murilla and Dan Welden and traditionalwater-soluble woodblock with Graham Scholes,David Bull and Richard Steiner

Gallery Representation- Waterstone Gallery, Portland, Oregon- Print Arts Northwest, Portland, Oregon- Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA- Cholke Fine Art, Rockford, IL

barbara mason

barbaramason45@yahoo.com

deceptive, solarplate etching

undaunted, solarplate etching potential, solarplate etchingpersistence, solarplate etching

Education1976 BFA: Printmaking and Painting, Oregon State

University, Corvallis, Oregon1972 Secondary Teaching Credential, College of

Notre Dame, Belmont, California1971 MS: Materials Sciences, Stanford University,

California1967 BA: Physics, Lawrence University, Appleton,

Wisconsin

Gallery Affiliations- Opus6ix, Eugene, Oregon- PAN Gallery, Portland, Oregon- Pegasus Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon- Portland Art Museum Rental Gallery, Portland,

Oregon

Professional affiliations- Northwest Print Council, Portland, Oregon

Selected collections- Bank of Detroit- College of Oceanographic and Atmospheric

Sciences, Oregon State University- The Gordon and Vivien Gilkey Print Collection,

Portland Art Museum- IBM Corporation- Mt. Hood Community College- Oregon State University Foundation- Oregon State University Art about Agriculture

Permanent Collection- Family Services Unit, Portland, Oregon- University of El Paso- XEROX Corporation, Chicago

ExhibitionsSolo, juried, group and invitational exhibitionsworldwide

chi meredith

sea ice 3, lithograph

sea ice 1, lithograph sea ice 2, lithograph

danuta muszy ska

dmu@att.net

Danuta Muszy ska is a native of Poland, where shegraduated from the State College of Fine Arts andthen received her M.A. degree from the Academyof Fine Arts in Pozna . For many years, her primarymedia were painting drawing and photography. In1998 she moved to Maine, where she discoveredher new passion: printmaking. In 1999-2004 shewas studying non-toxic printmaking techniques withElizabeth Dove and Susan Groce; bookmaking withSiri Beckman; and art of metal working with HeikiSeppa. Her works have been featured in more than80 exhibitions throughout the U.S. and Canada, aswell as in Denmark, Poland, Germany, Jordan, andin Northern Ireland.

Awards2008 1st Prize, 29th Mini-works on Paper, JSU,

Hammond Hall Gallery, Jacksonville, AL2004 Award of Excellence for Outstanding

Achievement in Printmaking, by Art Department, University of Maine

2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 Awards in Hand-Pulled Print and Mixed Media: Annual Juried Show,BAS, Bangor, ME;

2004, 2002, 2001 Awards in Other Media, (prints) Annual Open Juried Maine Art Show,Waterville Art Society, ME

2003 3rd Prize, The Little Prints Show National JuriedExhibition, BCC Central Fine Art Gallery,Fort Lauderdale, FL

2002/2003 Honors Center Award and Exhibition, Art Department, University of Maine, Orono, ME

2002 1st Prize in Prints and Graphics, (print),74th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Associationof Harrisburg, PA

2001 Honorable Mention: New England Exhibition,(prints), Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable,MA

2001/2002 Dean’s Exhibition Award, awarded by Faculty Department of Art, University of Maine,Orono, ME

2001 Stebbins/Schildknecht Art Fund, Haystack Experience Award, by Department of Art, UMaine, Orono, ME

Selected Exhibitions 2000-20082008 29th Mini-works on Paper, JSU, Hammond

Hall Gallery, Jacksonville AL (award)2008 2nd International Miniature Print Exhibition,

The Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON, Canada2008, 2007 Oregon Ink Spot Print Exchange, Eastern

Oregon University, La Grande, OR2008 International Print Project Nicosia, Cyprus-

Portland, OR, PAN Gallery, Portland, OR

2008, 2007, 2006 Cascade Print Exchange, West Gallery Oregon State University, Corvallis OR

2008 Naestved International Exhibition of Contemporary Mini Prints, Arts and Culture Center, Naestved, Denmark

2008 International Print Project, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan

2007, 2006 International Digital Miniprint Exhibition,Lieu de diffusion BRAVO-Est, Ottawa,Canada

2007, 2006, 5th & 4th Print Zero Studios Print Exchange

2007 20th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition,University of Wisconsin, Kenosha, WI

2006 Deck the Walls, Print Arts Northwest Group Show, Portland, OR

2006 New Prints - New Artist Group Show, Print ArtsNorthwest Gallery, Portland, OR

2006, 2004, 2001 Annual National Small Print Exhibition, (prints), Creede Arts Council, Creede, CO

2006, 2004, 2000 Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2006 Americas 2000, Paper Works Competition, (print), Northwest Art Center, Minot, ND

2005 Prints USA 2005, Springfield Fine Art Museum,Springfield, MO

2004 Five Artists Invitational Show, (print), Art Association of Harrisburg Invitational Exhibition,Harrisburg, PA

2004 The Print Show, Gallery 402, New York, NY2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 Bangor Annual Open

Juried Show (prints), BAS, Bangor, ME (awards)

2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 Annual Student ArtExhibition, (prints), University of Maine, Orono,ME (awards)

2004, 2002, 2001 Annual Open Juried Maine Art Show, (prints), Waterville Area Art Society, ME(awards)

2004, 2003 Southern Graphic Council Annual Conferences Exchange Portfolios (Boston, MA, New Brunswick, NJ)

2004 National Juried 4th Annual Small Works Exhibition, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis,MD

2003 Cool brass, solo exhibition, Thomson HonorsCenter, (prints), University of Maine, Orono, ME

2003 Next Generation III Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, (prints), Rockport,ME

2003, 2001 Realism 13th & 15th National Competition, (print), Parkersburg, WV

2003 The Little Prints Show National Juried Exhibition, BCC Central Fine Art Gallery,Fort Lauderdale, FL (award)

2003 From Bangor to Baxter, (prints), Maine Art Commission, Augusta, ME

2002 74th Annual Juried Exhibition, (print),Art Association of Harrisburg, PA

2002 15th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, (print), Lake Charles, LA

2002 8th Annual National Juried Show at PrallsvilleMills, (print), Lambertsville, NJ

2002 LaGrange National XXII Biennial, (print), Chattahooche Valley Art Museum, LaGrange,GA

2002, 2001 All Media Invitational, (prints), Period Gallery, Omaha, NE

2001 Dry Autumn Martini with e.e., (prints, photographs and collages), solo exhibition inCafé Nouveau, Bangor, ME

2001 Wanted Alive, or My Secret Conversations with Albrecht, (prints), solo exhibition at Borders, Bangor, ME

2001 14th National Juried Art Exhibition, (prints), South Cobb Arts Alliance, Mableton, GA

2001 14th Annual Northern National Art Competition,(print), Nicolet College Gallery, Rhinelander,WI

2001 New England Exhibition, (prints), Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA (honorable mention)

2001 Works on Paper, (print), San Jacinto CollegeSouth, Houston, TX

2001 Words & Images, University of Southern Maine,Portland, ME

2000 My New Vocabulary, (prints and drawings), solo exhibition, University of Maine, Orono, ME

2000 Bangor to Bangor, Bangor Heritage Center, (print), Northern Ireland

2000 20th Annual Print Exhibition, (print),Fort Wayne, IN

phoenix II, etching

walt padgett

Walt Padgett was born in North Carolina, grew upin Atlanta, Georgia, studied architecture at ClemsonUniversity, then pursued fine arts studies at FloridaState University, earning Bachelors and Mastersof Fine Arts degrees in the field of sculpture. Hetaught art for a junior high school in Florida, andat Florida A & M University before moving to thewest coast. In 1971 he was hired onto the openingfaculty of the new institution Rogue CommunityCollege, in Southern Oregon, where he was thedepartment head for eleven years, and taught full-time for over thirty years, developing the ArtDepartment as it grew in both Josephine andJackson Counties.

Over the many years of teaching a wide range ofart disciplines he continued to produce his ownwork in sculpture, painting, and increasingly,focused his attention on printmaking. In 1983, hetook a two year leave of absence to pursue studiesin Japanese woodblock printmaking, includingstudy and travel in Japan. A pivotal point inhis career during this time was an adventuroustwo-month bicycle trip across Japan, documentingthe famous Tokaido highway, and the associatedprints of Hiroshige and Sekino. Padgett continuesto this day to produce prints inspired by thistravel, augmented by further research and travelin Japan.

In 2004, Padgett was selected to teach Oregoncommunity college students from all over theState, for a term in London, England, through theInternational Studies Consortium of CommunityColleges. During extended travel abroad he alsopainted watercolors in Scotland, France, and Italy,and collected imagery for future prints.  In 2008 hetraveled with his family to the Southern region ofthe United States, and to Hawaii, and is planninga painting campaign to Italy in 2009, to further hisartwork. Padgett’s oil and watercolor paintings, sculptures,and prints have received many awards; he is truly

a Pacific Rim artist, inspired by the landscapes andcultures of both sides of the Pacific Ocean. InSeptember of 2008, he was awarded the TakanabeTown Mayor’s Prize for a woodblock print exhibitedat the Takanabe Museum (Japan), in a travelingexhibition of prints from the prestigious KyotoInternational Woodprint Association’s permanentcollection of prints from around the world. Museums,universities and colleges, institutions, corporations,and private collectors have acquired Padgett’swork, both nationally and internationally. His workis becoming increasingly recognized for its’ qualityof vision, and versatility in both style and skill.

yellowstone bison, woodcut

jo siddens

2008 Professor of Art Emeritus, Art Department, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa

1989 Guest Professor, Guangxi Arts College,Nanning, Guangxi, Peoples Republic of China

Exhibitions2008 National Juried Print Exhibition, Forge Art Center, Kansas

2007 IAPMA Members Exhibition, Wadham College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK2006 Invitational Group Exhibition, Joenju Arts

Center, Joenju, Korea1977-2008 Over twenty international juried exhibitions

Collections (selected)- Biennial Documentation Center, Cabo Frio, Brazil;

- Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Lodz, Poland;- University of Castilla la Mancha, Kuenca, Spain;- Museum of Contemporary Art, Salvador, Brazil;- Shaanxi University, Xian, China;- Museum of Paper History, Joenju, Korea

book of ancient chants, etching

wendy thon

Wendy Thon studied etching at the Ruth LeafWorkshop from 1975-1979 after completing a BFAin painting and sculpture at the University of Michigan.

She has lectured and taught workshops around theUS and Canada including Pacific Lutheran University,Washington state, Montana State University, and the

Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington D.C.

Thon has work in a number of collections includingthe Gordon and Vivien Gilkey Print Collection atthe Portland Art Museum, Oregon state, theQueensborough College, New York state, WashingtonState University, the University of Washington

Medical Center and the Library of Congress.

Her work has also been represented in scores ofinvitational, juried and group exhibitions including:the Queens Museum, NY, the Bellevue Art Museum,WA, Pratt Graphics, NY, Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques,Spain, WPW Invitational, Kobe, Japan, the Sixth

Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, WA andthe Central Print Council Invitational, Wanganui,New Zealand.

Thon has had solo exhibitions from Ghent, Belgiumto St. Louis, MO to Ashland, OR. She is representedby the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle, WA.

www.liaharrisgallery.com

gabrina canyon, etching

andrew totman

My work is essentially, figurative, telling stories ofthe human condition of vulnerability, frailty, successand failure. The characters that inhabit my art workare a part of my personal experience and reflect onthe universal themes of tragedy and comedy, disasterand good future, strength and weakness. Thedrawings are intentionally childlike, simplistic andhonest, deliberately chosen to foil a more complexand darker layer beneath. This is anchored by themulti-plate colored etchings which build up colorthrough textures and surfaces of the print medium.

Much of iconography comes from my inner worldderived from childhood memories and thoughts.These images are playful fun and innocent yetreveal an underlying sense of disquiet or threat…rather like a child who is scared of monsters underthe bed.

I start with an idea that is just for me, a memoryor event and that begins as a small drawing that Imight add simple related words which may laterbecome part of the title. These may provide a briefglimpse of or insight into the story. This make-believe

reality is contrived as I become a story teller withimages. Rather as a director controls a movie.Often the final title of the image is deliberatelyspecific or particular in directing the audienceresponse through moralistic prescription.

This first inspiration stage is very quick the printprocess is much slower, requiring much greaterplanning and meticulous care. This is quite noticeablein the triptych Act 1, 2, and 3 which depict an oldfashioned “Puppet” theater in which the jesterperforms tricks with juggling balls, hoop and crystalball. The colors in these images are vibrant; glowingwith the intensity of a stained glass window, boththe imagery and title carries the conviction and suretyof a church sermon and can be explained by astrong religious background. Being inspired bychildhood memories of sitting in church beingfascinated by colorful alters or much like the thrillof opening a Christmas gift. You have done itbefore but it is different every time. This image wasalso recreated in mural form for the PhysiotherapyWard of Sydney Children’s Hospital 2002 (10 x 30feet each).

Education- M.F.A. Wichita State University, Kansas, 1986 -

Major: Printmaking - Minor: Drawing, Painting- B.A. University of San Diego, California, 1983 -

Major: Printmaking

Professional experience1996-Present Printmaking Lecturer National Art

School, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia2002-Present Printmaking Lecturer Sydney Gallery

School, Northern Sydney Institute, Australia1991-1995 Lecturer of Art Artsreach Program of

UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles,California, USA

1988-1989 Artistic Coordinator Artists in ResidenceProgram, Foundation Beychevelle d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

1987-1991 Assistant Professor of Art University of Alaska, Head of Printmaking Department/Director-University Art Gallery, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Visiting Artist - Workshops/Lecturer- Wichita State University, Kansas, USA

- International Della Graphica, Venice, Italy- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia- College of Fine Arts, University of NSW, Australia- Daniel Smith Ink, Seattle, Washington, USA- Alaska Artist in Schools, Alaska, USA- Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, California,

USA- La Universidad de Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela- Centro Internationale Della Grafica, Venice, Italy

Commissions- Sydney Children Hospital, Randwick, NSW,

Australia- Gemini Print Workshop, Los Angeles, California- Center of the Performing Arts, Anchorage, Alaska- 1992 Academy Award Recipients, Los Angeles,

California- Northwest Print Council, Portland, Oregon, USA- Christofle, Paris, France

Solo Exhibitions2007 Two Lines Gallery, Beijing, China2006 PAN Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA2005 Ground floor Gallery, Sydney, Australia

andrewtotman@hotmail.com

2004 Toby’s, San Francisco, California, USA2003 Bellas Artes Maracaibo, Venezuela2004 Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University,

California, USA2001 Firestation Print Workshop, Armadale,

Victoria, Australia1999 Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakvile, California,

USA1997 Olsen/Carr Gallery Sydney, Australia1994 Pence Gallery, Davis, California, USA1993 Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Selected Exhibitions2007 Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra,

ACT, Australia2006 Works on Paper Margin Art Gallery, Beijing,

China2005 The Capitals Project Gallery of Contemporary

Art, Seoul, Korea2004 Exchange Exhibition Hong Ik University,

Seoul, Korea2003 Scratch Pull Grind & Press Mosman Art

Gallery, NSW2002 Camberwell College of Art, London, England

Galleries- Two-Lines Gallery, Beijing, China- Kokoro Fine Arts, Paris, France- Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT,

Australia- Australia Centre for Australian Printmaking,

Melbourne, Australia- Gallery Aterier Gressvik, Oslo, Norway- Print Arts Northwest, Portland, Oregon, USA- Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, California,

USA

Fellowships/Grants- Partners of the Americas, NYC, New York, USA- United States Information Agency, Washington DC- Fred Meyers Corporation, Seattle, Washington,

USA- Alaska State Council on the Arts, Anchorage,

Alaska, USA- National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC- National Association for the Visual Arts, Sydney,

Australia

likeness, etching

renée a. ugrin

Renée's work is inspired by the natural world anda strong relationship with the garden. Wonderfulrints, drawings, and paintings.

“I grew up on a windy rural Oregon hilltop,surrounded by orchards and farms. I gained a greatappreciation for Nature's grand cyclical play; theseasons. In summer there are peaceful walks,grassy fields and shady lawns. But Winter broughtcold and confinement with visits from asthma, thisresulted in days in bed with my drawings, storiesand books with Great Art. This created a deepappreciation for the arts which continues today--sometimes as a 'life raft' still.”

Education- Portland State University, Bachelor of Science

1989, Drawing and Printmaking, Art History Major- Drawing and Painting with Dean Richard (1914-

1984) Royal Academies of London and Paris- Alliance Francaise, Paris, France- Sacred Heart Academy, Albany, New York

Affiliations1985-Present Northwest Print Council1985-Present Rental Sales Gallery, Portland Art

Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA1998-Present Arts Action Alliance1985-1990 Inkling Studio, Portland, Oregon

Public Collections- Oregon Arts Commission, Limited Edition 1991- Visual Chronicle of Portland, Regional Arts and Culture Council- Percent for the Arts, City of Portland, Oregon- Wells Fargo Bank

Selected Solo Exhibitions1998 Carnegie Center, Oregon City, Oregon1991 University Friends Meeting Center, Seattle, Washington1986 Multnomah Art Center Gallery, Portland,

Oregon

Selected Group Exhibits- Black Fish Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2004- Print Arts Northwest, Monotype Exhibit, Portland,

OR, 2003- 20 Oregon Printmakers Maveet Gallery, Shalishan,

Oregon- Northwest Print Council, 10th Anniversary Exhibit,

Oregon, Art Institute, Portland, Oregon

reneeaugrin@aol.com

grace, reductive woodcut

5-30 March 2008CYPRUS AT PRINT ARTS NORTHWEST, PORTLAND, OREGON

telemachos kanthos . rhea bailey . christos christou . stella lantsia . efklides papadopoulos .evgenia vasiloudi . evripides zantides . aspasia papadema

In late December 2007, works of eight distinguished Cypriot printmakers was shipped off to Portland, Oregon, to take part in thefirst exchange of its kind between Cyprus and the USA. Coming from various generations, stylistic orientations, aesthetic andphilosophical conceptions, illustrating a range of techniques and subject fields, a beautiful exhibit was set up at the Print ArtsNorthwest Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

nicosia - portland print project

elena marangosdesignchristos avraamidesphotography

Opus 39 Gallery21 kimonos street . strovolos . nicosia . cyprus . tel/fax +357 22 424 983 mango2@cablenet.com.cy

Print Arts Northwest416 NW 12th avenue . portland . oregon 97209 . usa . tel +001 503 525 9259 printartsnw.org

The “Portland - Nicosia Print Project” is an initiativeof the ongoing “International Print Project” launchedin 2007 by Dr Arafat Al-Naim and Barbara Masonin collaboration with International Art Institutes,Associations, Galleries and Artists from all over theworld to celebrate global culture and widen inter-cultural dialogue while demonstrating the richnessof printmaking medium.

The ambitious International Original Fine Art PrintExhibition and Exchange of work between Cyprusand USA aims to enhance, support, promote, andpresent the new tendencies in the art of engravingand to place printmaking within the wider contextof contemporary art.

Through centuries, Original Fine Art Prints havehad a noble, distinguished, and often infamoushistory as they informed. They have a prominentand influential place in art world and they arecapable of creating links of their own betweendifferent cultures and people.

“Portland - Nicosia Print Project” is an exhibitionand exchange consists of the fine art print works

and engravings by twenty seven distinguishedAmerican and Cypriot artists from differentgenerations, stylistic orientations, aesthetic andphilosophical conceptions, illustrating a range oftechniques and subject fields. Through developedpersonal vocabularies and use of different creativeapproaches in their artistic works they present theirnational identity. The selected works of RenéeUgrin, Dennis Cady, Sheryl Funkhouser, DanutaMuszy ska, Walt Padgett, Elizabeth Dove, ChiMeredith, Andrew Totman, Wendy Thon, TallmadgeDoyle, Margaret Graham, Sue Allen, Paul Gentry,Ellen Emerson, Patricia Cheyne, Bernard Kliks,Marilyn Maricle, Barbara Mason, Jo Siddens,Telemachos Kanthos, Rhea Bailey, ChristosChristou, Evgenia Vasiloudi, Efklides Papadopoulos,Stella Lantsia, Evripides Zantides and AspasiaPapadema explores the breadth and vitality ofcontemporary printmaking.

It is in the unification of this creativity that“International Print Project”, Print Arts Northwestand OPUS 39 Gallery with the support of theAmerican Embassy in Nicosia see the opportunityfor an active dialogue between countries and

reconsidering of values, which is one of thechallenges we all have to face. Such internationalprojects reflect the impulse for outreach, promotecultural understanding and continue to engagenew generation of emergent printmakers with thesevalues.

We wish to thank Print Arts Northwest, BarbaraMason, Maro Marangos Director of Opus 39 Gallery,and Artists for co-operation and support withoutwhich this exhibition could not have been presented.

Dr Arafat Al-NaimPHD, MFA, BFA in Graphic Arts & Printmaking,MST in Art Teaching

portland - nicosia print project

catalogue sponsor