Welcome!Art In The Valley Gallery 209 SW 2nd Street Corvallis Oregon 97333 (541) 752-0811 (Gallery) 2024 Hours: Tues-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 10am-5pm. Also Open: Corvallis Art Walk (CAW) night: Thursday August 15, 4-8pm MEMBER ARTISTS:
Tim Barraud Cherrill Boissonou Phil Coleman Norma Eaton Debi Friedlander Jana R. Johnson Phyllis Johnson Mark Nelson Linda M. Ohlson Neale Quenzel Beatrice Rubenfeld Ute Vergen Vince Zettler Regular visitors to the gallery know that we refresh the walls each first Monday of the month with new work by our members. Below are 3 examples of this new work now on display for August.
“Headed for the Barn,” 14 x 14, acrylic
by Phyllis Johnson 
“Sunflower,” acrylic, $250 by Cherrill Boissonou
“Finley Shady Copse,” painted paper collage, $265 by Norma Eaton
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Featured Art for August 2024
"Springtime in the Loire Valley" Member Artist Phil Coleman 
On the Hill Above Sainte Agathe-en-Donzy
'I spent last spring in France's Loire valley, west of Lyon, at an intensive language school trying to improve my command of French. Afternoons and weekends were free to explore parts of the region, always with my camera in hand. While the landscape is similar to western Oregon, the small old villages and a few larger cities that dot the countryside give it a unique character. This show features images from my days there. As for my approach to photography, I am a visual artist whose favorite "brush" is a camera. Just as a painter's brush is simply a tool needed to create the painting, so is a camera merely my tool with which I make my "painting." My goal is an image, derived from the scene before me, but transformed by my camera and in the digital "darkroom." When I click the shutter, I am only beginning the process of altering the "reality" of the scene that is already distorted by where I stand, the lighting, the technical details of the lens and focus, what I put in the viewfinder, etc. To complete the process, I use the digital darkroom to overcome the limitations of the camera. The final print should convey a feeling about the world that was before me when I took the picture. But my intent is not to simply document that world.' 
Lounging By The Loire
'There is a long history of the difference between the original photograph and the final print. For example, many of Ansel Adams most iconic prints were dramatically altered in his darkroom to get what we now see. So while I make many prints that most viewers would say is a rendition of "reality," they are unaware of how much I have changed that reality to convey what I really felt when I clicked the shutter. Hence I am always alert for a scene that I hope to transform into a visually interesting print that, clearly or subtly, is an"altered" reality.' 
On the Trail from Saint-Polgues.
Off the Beaten Path, Clermond-Ferrand
Contemplation (l'abbaye de La Bénisson-Dieu)
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