Cascade Gallery at Portland Community College-Cascade Campus, presents watercolor paintings by Laura Ahola-Young, instructor in the Art Department at Lane Community College. The exhibit dates are February 28 – April 4, 2013.Opening Reception: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 4:00 – 6:00 pm at Terrell Hall 102, PCC Cascade Campus. Artist Talk: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6:10 – 7:00 pm, at the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building (MAHB) room 223, PCC Cascade Campus. Gallery Hours: 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday
Cascade Gallery presents watercolor paintings by Eugene-based artist Laura Ahola-Young. Inspired by fleeting and destructive aspects of our biological world, Ahola-Young reworks her paintings’ surfaces with glazes and scraping in order to reflect history and memory of a structure. Within layers of paint and represented spaces, she reveals fleeting warnings - prodromes – as in early symptoms indicating the attack of a disease. She says, “When painting, I am actively creating while simultaneously destroying. . . . My work reflects my desire for absolutes and claims none.”
Originally from Minnesota, Ahola-Young received a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and MFA from San Jose State University. She teaches art at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon.
Image: Microbe: Alcanivorax borkumensis, 2011, watercolor, 15-3/4 x 34-1/4"
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