Guild member Rich Bergeman is showing his ‘Homelands’ series in a two-person exhibit at the Maude Kerns Art Center this month. The photographs depict Willamette Valley landscapes that lie within the home territories of the Kalapuya bands that occupied the various watersheds in the valley before white settlement. Rich’s infrared photographs share the walls with b+w lithographic paper prints of closed-but-still-polluting mining sites in the Northwest by Northern California artist Amanda Thomas. An art instructor at the College of the Siskyous in Mt. Shasta, CA, Amanda also has several sculptures on exhibit that were made with soils and leachate from the mining sites.
The show runs through April 25 at the center, located at 15th and Villard. Gallery hours are 10am-5:30pm M-F, and 12-4pm Sat.
