Grant recipient unveils multimedia art show
Published 7:00 am Wednesday, December 31, 2014
- Cannon Beach Arts Association Executive Director Andrea K. Mace, center, is presented with a check by the Cannon Beach branch manager of U.S. Bank, Elaine Norling, left, and assistant bank manager Jason Kunde, right.
CANNON BEACH — The winner of the 2014 Cannon Beach Arts Association Individual Artist Grant, Peter Greaver, will present his year-long project in an exhibition. The exhibit opened at the Cannon Beach Gallery Dec. 21 and will run until Jan. 25.
There will be an Artist’s Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3 at the gallery, located at 1064 S. Hemlock St.
Greaver spent the last year exploring the hidden world of fairies in a reflection on the mystical aspects of the natural world. He will show a collection of fairy houses, mixed-media work and two-dimensional work.
“Raised in a family of artists, I have been drawing since I could hold a crayon. Many of my earliest drawings are images of elves and fairies,” Greaver explains about his early inspiration for the project.
“These fairy houses are inspired by Victorian fairy painting and vintage children’s books, as well as older folklore. I am also inspired by old Chinese spirit houses: miniature houses where the spirit of ancestors were welcomed and remembered,” Greaver writes in his artist statement.
Painter Carl Annala will be exhibiting a series of paintings of the forest to accompany Greaver’s work.
“The forest is a cathedral, and my heaven lies in the quiet wreckage of the forest,” writes Annala about his latest body of work. “In the forest I see echoes of the modern world; networks, collapse, growth, fruit and homes. I look with a modern painter’s eye to find powerful compositions to photograph in the most chaotic areas of the forest.
“Being a student of both Lucinda Parker and Christie Wyckoff — I see their marks in me now — I stand one foot in a pile of minute twigs and the other in a heap of thick paint, pushing photography toward abstract expressionism, pushing painting toward neo-post-impressionism.”
The Cannon Beach Arts Association received a $500 donation from U.S. Bank’s charitable giving grant program for the Columbia Pacific Region to sponsor this show as an exhibit underwriter. The donation will go to support the Individual Artist Grant Exhibition featuring Greaver.
