KAQ Member Gallery - June Underwood

Blue Basin Panorama 40"h x 50" w 2008 $1990	Artist Statement: In the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument of eastern Oregon, ancient volcanic ash called celadonite forms vast expanses of this peculiar and beautiful blue soil. A park trail runs through the Blue Basin, where the intrigued traveler can find this kind of viewpoint.
Farmland 36"h x 43" w 2005 Not for sale	Artist Statement: A childhood memory runs through this art work. When I was 8 years old, our dining room looked out over a plowed field into a dark line of trees edging the Susquehanna River. The River was forbidden territory to us and so it holds a mystery just at the edge of the soft plowed earth.
The Mother of Us All 55" h x 53" w 2007 $3000	Artist Statement: In eastern Oregon, one of the oldest rocks to be found is this one, made of riverbed cobblestones. The stones were originally laid down and silted over in present-day Idaho, but over eons of time, they got pushed down and west a hundred or so miles, where the earth was heaved up by geologic forces. The rock now looms over the highway which runs through the Fossil Beds National Monument, beds which are much younger in age than the rock that stands guarding them.
The Rising 66" h x 51" w 2007 $4500	Artist Statement: The earth, in some places, has a power beyond words to describe. It feels ancient, remorseless, and totally present. Out of it comes all life and all death. "The Rising" is emblematic of that power.
Updraft 25.5" h x 22"w 2007 $880	Artist Statement: In desert country the wind rises, seemingly visible, against the buttes and landforms. No trees or structures stand in its way, and often one can taste a hint of Nebraska and California in its brisk passage.

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