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Gorge Arts & Artists
Mark Hudon’s Photography: Landscape From the Corner of Your Eye
Sweeping panoramas, limitless horizons, and vast, immeasurable vistas don’t really do it for Hood River photographer Mark Hudon, although they certainly play a part in his compositions. He describes his work as “the Northwest landscape you see out of the corner of your eye.”
You can view Hudon’s work in the café of the Mid Columbia Medical Center at 1700 E. 19th Street in The Dalles where he is the featured artist for May and June. He is also the May featured artist at Brian’s Poorhouse on Oak Street in Hood River. But if you really want to see him in his element go to his “hole in the wall” outside Andrews Pizza in Hood River. He is there every First Friday, impossible to dislodge...
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Scene In The Gorge
The Widening Sky
The widening sky, calm for once, leaves a broken windmill motionless south of The Dalles.
Scene In The Gorge
The Rush of Spring
The White River Falls roars with spring runoff, and the hills bloom with greenery, in this recent photo from outside Tygh Valley.
Gorge Culture
Never a Dull Moment When Jack’s in Town
The Dalles is a plain-speaking sort of place and the perfect venue to host Jack Ohman, a straight-shooting political cartoonist. In the cozy comfort of the "Fireplace Room" in The Dalles Civic Auditorium Wednesday night, Ohman tickled the audience with impromptu caricatures, waxed philosophic on topics such as immigration and Watergate, and bantered cheerfully with a 96-year-old gentleman who gave as good as he got.
While still in college, Ohman became the youngest cartoonist ever to be nationally syndicated. He now serves as editorial cartoonist for The Oregonian and is one of the most widely syndicated political cartoonists in the U.S.
But Ohman is, first and foremost, a funny guy...
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Gorge Arts & Humanities
Artist Profile: Chad Mayo’s “Birds of Paradise”
Spring has sprung on the Columbia Gorge art scene.
The weather for Hood River's April First Friday art walk was indisputably perfect: cool, windless, serene. Downtown was delightfully un-crowded. The tourist day-trippers have not yet begun to arrive and many of the locals were saving themselves for the big see and be seen to-do on Saturday Night, Bite of the Gorge. Yet, feral bands of HRV teenagers roamed Oak Street, coalescing and breaking apart like foam in the surf. And, as usual in the Gorge, art lovers were spoiled for choice. We were free to flit from gallery to pub to coffee shop to admire local talent.
That is how I came across Chad Mayo's solo exhibit "Birds of Paradise" at Jeans@110 on 5th, where the artist did more than flit about. He soared...
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Gorge Arts & Humanities
Dominican Painter’s Soulful Presentation Kicks Off Spring Humanities SeriesLast night Hampton Rodriquez spoke at the Hood River Hotel to a small but enraptured crowd of local art enthusiasts. He explained that in the Dominican Republic he felt misunderstood because he was an classical artist surrounded by folk art. When he studied classical art in Europe he felt misunderstood because he was a Domicican artist surrounded by classical art. When he moved to Portland, he realized that it simply was his lot in life to be misunderstood and that in his effort to bridge the communication gap through painting he created the most original, most heartfelt work of his life... [more]
