{"id":1377,"date":"2016-01-05T00:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2016-01-05T00:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:48:26","slug":"nightingale-gallery-presents-shadows-of-the-floating-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/news\/nightingale-gallery-presents-shadows-of-the-floating-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightingale Gallery presents “Shadows of the Floating World”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University rings in 2016 with a solo exhibition of paintings by Pendleton artist Nika Blasser.<\/p>\n

\u201cShadows of the Floating World\u201d opens with a reception for the artist from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8 in the gallery in Loso Hall. The exhibit will run through Wednesday, Feb. 10.<\/p>\n

Blasser\u2019s paintings explore the idea of landscape through layering and materials that are visibly impacted by time. Her most recent paintings developed out of an earlier series of \u201csaltscapes,\u201d which were made only with salt and pigment on paper.
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\n\u201cVisitors will be treated to a unique exploration of landscape painting created in an individual way, reminiscent of the creation of the landscape itself,\u201d said Cory Peeke, Nightingale Gallery director. \u201cWe are pleased to have the opportunity to introduce Nika\u2019s work to the eastern Oregon community.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the works in \u201cShadows of the Floating World,\u201d Blasser has developed an increased complexity within her imagery through the layering of a variety of unrelated materials.<\/p>\n

The first layer in her new paintings is textured and often topographical in nature, which is then highlighted by either copper or silver leaf. This layer of reflectivity creates a luminous base.<\/p>\n

Multiple layers of ink and paint provide visual structure and atmosphere over the leaf.<\/p>\n

Finally, Blasser paints areas of saltwater over the surface, allowing crystalline structures to emerge as the water evaporates. The salt crystals form with somewhat unpredictable results. This element of chance \u2013 and the tension created between things that she can control versus things that she cannot \u2013 is a perpetual inspiration for her artwork.<\/p>\n

Blasser received her Master of Fine Arts in Intermedia and Drawing from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from Portland State University. She has exhibited her work throughout the Northwest and Canada and spoke at EOU during fall term. In addition to her studio practice, she is the marketing director for Crow\u2019s Shadow Institute of the Arts.<\/p>\n

Nightingale Gallery hours are 12 to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nightingale Gallery at Eastern Oregon University rings in 2016 with a solo exhibition of paintings by Pendleton artist Nika Blasser. \u201cShadows of the Floating World\u201d opens with a reception for the artist from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8 in the gallery in Loso Hall. The exhibit will run through Wednesday, Feb. 10. Blasser\u2019s paintings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58,114,123,159],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-drawing","tag-mixed-media","tag-painting","tag-visiting-artist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eou.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}