BRODERICK GALLERY
announces an exhibition entitled “Wyoming
Landscape,” showcasing works by Portland
artists, Pat Hanson and K.C. Madsen.
The exhibition will run from January 2 through
January 30, 2007. An artists’ reception will be held
on Thursday, January 11, 5-9 p.m.
Pat
Hanson
"Parfleche II"
Acrylic, charcoal, ink, oil pastel, transfer on wood
21" X 21"
Both artists were
awarded and completed month-long residencies early
in 2006 at the Jentel Artist Residency near
Sheridan, Wyoming. The Broderick show will present
work that Hanson and Madsen created at Jentel. Each
year the residency supports the ongoing work of a
handful of artists and writers by providing studio
space, living quarters, meals and camaraderie at a
remote cattle ranch in Wyoming’s Lower Piney Creek
Valley below the Big Horn Mountains—a far cry from
the streets of Portland.
The Wyoming work of
the two Portlanders represents their personal
response to the environment, landscape and history
of this quintessential piece of the wild west, the
former stomping grounds of the likes of General
Custer, Buffalo Bill Cody and Chief Red Cloud.
Hanson’s paintings
are constructed using acrylic paint, charcoal, oil
pastel, tape, pencil and photocopy transfers. She
responds to land, sky, history and myth with fields
of color and symbolic mark making. Her work
reflects her interests in mapping, documentation and
the natural world.
K.C.
Madsen
Red Cloud
Acrylic, graphite and encaustic on treated
industrial paper
21" X 29" X 25"
While Hanson’s works
are a deliberately 2-dimensional charting of the
physical and psychic landscape, Madsen’s pieces are
deliberately and dramatically 3-dimensional. Like
diminutive versions of her nine foot high crumpled
paper sculptures featured in the 2006 Oregon
Biennial, these new pieces are 2–3 feet high
free-standing encaustic paintings, reflecting the
Wyoming landscape abstractly through her exploration
of color and motion.
