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Port Angeles Fine Arts Center offers ‘Earth: An Abstract’ online exhibit

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, April 22, 2020

By Sequim Gazette Staff

“Dreaming of Sailing I,” acrylic on canvas by Annie Robinson, an artist from Powell River, B.C. — one of the featured artists in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s virtual exhibit “Earth: An Abstract.” Submitted art
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“Dreaming of Sailing I,” acrylic on canvas by Annie Robinson, an artist from Powell River, B.C. — one of the featured artists in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s virtual exhibit “Earth: An Abstract.” Submitted art

“Dreaming of Sailing I,” acrylic on canvas by Annie Robinson, an artist from Powell River, B.C. — one of the featured artists in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s virtual exhibit “Earth: An Abstract.” Submitted art
“Dreaming of Sailing I,” acrylic on canvas by Annie Robinson, an artist from Powell River, B.C. — one of the featured artists in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s virtual exhibit “Earth: An Abstract.” Submitted art
“Watery Dreams of the Highlands,” watercolor on paper, by Kate Vikstrom, a Bremerton resident who is one of the featured artists in the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center’s virtual exhibit “Earth: An Abstract.” Submitted art

The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on April 18 launched its first ever “virtual opening” of the online exhibit, “Earth: An Abstract.”

View this on-line exhibition honoring the 50th annual observance of Earth Day at pafac.org and on Facebook and YouTube.

“Earth: An Abstract” will be available through June 29.

“Abstract art invites us to think imaginatively, and I think that’s helpful when we try to make sense of something as vast and complex as the Earth,” gallery/program director Sarah Jane said.

“From scientific study to the wonders of natural beauty, to the realms of poetry and the sacred, the works in this exhibit highlight many different ways to think about the natural environment.”

There’s also a playful bit of fun in the exhibit’s title, exhibit organizers note: “In the world of science, an abstract gives a general summary of a scholarly article, while abstract art veers away from visual reality, using shapes, colours and forms.”

The virtual, online “Earth: An Abstract” show features 50 pieces chosen to provide a brief overview of the vast spectrum of today’s environmentally-focused art, and includes an informal talk by Jane.

“Earth: An Abstract” features works by these artists:

• Terry Grasteit, Susan Gansert Shaw (Sequim)

• Jan Dove, Monica Gutierrez-Quarto, Ellie Polk (Port Angeles)

• Chuck Gumpert, Christopher Mathie (Port Orchard)

• Scott Burnett (Seattle)

• Gail Kelly (Key Center)

• Annie Robinson (Powell River, B.C.)

• Diane Walker (Bainbridge Island)

• Kate Vikstrom (Bremerton)

• Randena Walsh (Kingston)

Find links at pafac.org as well as an online store where artworks in the exhibit can be purchased.

More at PAFAC

For in-person viewing of art, check out the Webster Woods Sculpture Park, which remains open to the public during daylight hours with attendees observing social distancing.

In addition, the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center offers “Prompts: Think Like an Artist,” at pafac.org. This virtual tour of some of the favorite sculptures in Webster Woods offers flexible, open-ended questions for viewers for either one or a series of sculptures.

“Responses can take any form, from writing or a quiet personal meditation to creating your own visual art — anything from a quick sketch to something as elaborate as the works of art that inspired them,” PAFAC representatives note.

“These exercises invite the kind of thinking that we, and our Earth, need right now — the ability to sit with tough questions, explore ambiguous possibilities and dare to envision really creative and unexpected solutions.”

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