MANZANITA — The Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita plans a May gallery exhibition featuring new works by Jenny Rideout, Victoria Christen and Robert Sumner.

An artists’ reception will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. May 3 where they will speak about their work and answer questions. 

Astoria-based artist Jenny Rideout will show mixed textile works in “Sails, Freq Flags and Bonnets for Space Exploration.”

India Downes-Le Guin, the Hoffman’s executive director, said Rideout’s body of work began with an imagining of a majestic old tall ship. Rideout saw intricate patchwork sails, maneuvering the ship elegantly and powerfully along the constantly shifting surface of the ocean. In her vision, the sails were covered in colorful mends, mysterious symbols, sigils and patterns. 

She considers the resulting sails as meditations on power and creativity. India ink and acrylic paint embellish the mixed textile constructions, assembled from quilts beyond repair, used drop cloths, old curtains, and other found materials. 

Another exhibit will show ceramic artist Victoria Christen’s work, ShapeScapes, which represents the majesty of the Wallowas. Others are shape-based interpretations of rock formations seen from the ocean shore. 

Christen began working with found shapes almost 30 years ago by collecting discarded felt from a factory dumpster across the street from her studio in Portland. She stored them for two decades before deciding to use them to create an alphabet of more than 20 combinations of fabric shapes sewn or glued together. 

Visual music, painter and printmaker Robert Sumner’s exhibit uses the synesthetic and non-verbal communicative power that the visual arts share with the performing arts — especially music — as a jumping-off point to explore color, form and movement. Music and dance have clear analogs in the visual arts: rhythm, repetition, improvisation, melody and harmony. Visual arts add color, texture, transparency, opacity and the capture of the passing of time. 

The nonprofit gallery is at 594 Laneda Ave. in Manzanita and open Thursdays through Sundays from noon to 5 p.m.

• Freq Flags or Frequency Flags are art inspired by ship’s flags indicating their home port, known as burgees, and other ancient abstract sources.