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August -September 1999
Jan Erion and Cheri O'Brien
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Jan Erion
is a printmaking instructor at Pratt Art Center in
Seattle and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Contemporary
Arts Council of the Seattle Art Museum. In 1997, she was commissioned by
Absolut Vodka to do a work in support of a national AIDS awareness program,
which now hangs in their corporate collection. Last summer she exhibited at
the Grant's Pass Museum of Art and this year, as in years past, she
participated in the Artworks for Aids exhibit at the Seattle Center. She has
exhibited extensively in Seattle and has been vigorously involved in many
aspects of the local art scene.
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Cheri O'Brian from Everett, paints in an expressionist style not
unlike that of Ms. Erion. But they are falt; she works in acrylics on
canvas. Her mealoncholy humans and animals, with enlarged heads and
snake-like Olive Oyl arms, have profound personality despite their cartoony
appearance. Her subects have included couples on dates, religious icons
including various saints and a variety of animals in situations with other
animals or with humans.
This year's show of new work, following up on a show curated at the Alexis
Hotel by Mr. Moose in 1998, will feature a group of wild circus scenes and
some small portraits.
In two exhibitions this year, Ms. O'Brien focused on animal themes: "Woof: The Dog in Art" at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery and "Like Cats and Dogs" at the Pratt Art Gallery in Seattle. Ms. O'Brien, like Ms. Erion, has shown work in Northwest Aids Foundation exhibitions for several years as well as exhibiting in 1999 and 1998 University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery "Bash" exhibitions and several Bumbershoot shows. She was Snohomish County Artist of the Year in 1997.
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