Art Marches on with double-bill exhibit
The March exhibition at Manzanita’s Hoffman Gallery will feature the multimedia works of Keri Rosebraugh and Anna Daedalus.
An artists’ reception will be held from 3 to 5 pm this Saturday, March 2, during which the artists will speak about their work and answer questions.
Rosebraugh is a multimedia visual artist whose work seeks connections between humans and examines how those parallel our relationship with the environment. She collaborates with water to create one-of-a-kind drawings, monoprints, paintings, installations, videos and sculptures. Originally from Tigard, Rosebraugh spent much of her childhood on the Oregon Coast between Manzanita and Nehalem, where her grandparents lived, her father was born and her relatives still reside. She attained an MFA in Florence, Italy, and currently lives and works in Marnay Sur Seine, France and Pasadena, California. In 2023, she was honored with a solo exhibition at the Royal Nebeker Gallery in Astoria, where her 12-foot sculpture “Trantler” is on permanent display. Her artwork has been exhibited in City Hall in Paris, France, the Natural History/State Darwin Museum in Moscow, Russia, the Group Global 3000 Gallery for Sustainable Art in Berlin, Germany and the Galleria Jardino in Milan, Italy. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte Contemporanea di Florina in Greece and the Hermann Nitsch Museum in Naples, Italy.
Her artist residencies have included sailing the Arctic Circle; assistant resident at the Museum of Glass in Seattle; the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, Italy; the Camac Foundation in Marnay Sur Seine, France; as well as conducting water research from the ancient Roman aqueducts in Naples.
Rosebraugh’s current exhibition, “Future Memoirs of Water” explores the concept that water retains memory. As water echoes the life around it, life also mirrors water. Water is a portal between the form and the formlessness, celebrating the idea that we are all one.
Daedalus is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation and book arts. Her solo and collaborative work has been exhibited throughout the Pacific Northwest, including SOIL Gallery in Seattle, Littman Gallery at Portland State University and Schneider Museum of Art in Ashland. Private collections include SF MOMA Library, the Beinecke Library at Yale University and Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. She and her artist husband, Kerry Davis, co-founded Roll-Up Gallery, an erstwhile contemporary exhibition space in Portland. They now live and work perched above a Sitka spruce swamp near the mouth of the Columbia River in Wahkiakum County, Washington.
Daedalus’ show “Enfolded” is a photographic-based series which employs folding, sculpting and re-photographing to mimic the sheltering concavity of riparian hollows, wetland and woodland. This work revels in the delicate materiality of paper and takes an embodied approach in responding to the enveloping plenitude and multiplicity of the living world. In a dialogue with the history of landscape art and photography, Daedalus has eschewed dramatic scenes in favor of quiet settings, and used layering and hands-on molding to fashion a fluid perspective that allows space for contemplation. Drawing on deep ecology and phenomenology, the pieces are meant to invoke a restfully attentive and intimate embrace with nature.
The Hoffman Gallery is located at 594 Laneda Avenue in Manzanita and is open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 5 pm. For more information go to hoffmanarts.org or call 503-368-3846.