Opening on February 5th 2010,  Aurora Gallery will present two artists.  Local artisan Jeweler Pat La Croix will be featured in February. A special trunk show will be the highlight of art walk on First Friday Feb. 5th from 5- 9 pm. Pat uses semiprecious stones and sterling silver and gold to create her one of a kind pieces.  The trunk show will consist of hundreds of hand made pieces at special prices. Pat’s jewelry case is always full of new designs year round at Aurora Gallery.

Also featured in February will be Barbara Kaempf Matkowski, mixed media painter. Barbara’s pieces are embellished with metal, fabric and photography. Barbara creates collage like paintings with layers of paint  in a contemporary abstract style. Many of Barbara’s pieces are large or multiple piece sets. Barbara has many new pieces in the Gallery for February’s show all with special pricing.

February’s show will be featured the 5th through the 27th.

Opening on December 4th, 2009 is Aurora Gallery’s Annual Group Show. Aurora Gallery features 42 local artists and artisans. The show will feature several painters, all three of the gallery’s potters, a fused glass artist, and a jeweler. New to the gallery is Rob Wurzer who carves antler and Paul Wolkenhauer who makes back lighted Brazilian topaz stones.

First Friday Art Walk on December 4th from 5-9 pm will feature live music and refreshments from 6-8 pm.

This show will be on display until January 30th, 2010.

“Cast Shadows: Pacific Northwest Plein Air Landscape”  titles the show that opens at Aurora Gallery on November 6th through the 28th, 2009. Eighteen northwest painters bring the finest of plein air painting to Vancouver for this showing of local landscapes.

Portland Plein Air and Studio Painters annual show includes four of Aurora Gallery’s regular artists, and two of Clark County’s finest plein air painters: Barbara Szkutnik, and Katherine van Schoonhoven. This show provides a broad spectrum of talent and mediums giving Vancouver art lovers a high caliber showing of this renewed art style.

This show will be featured during the First Friday Art Walk November 6th from 5-9 pm, meet the artists reception 6-8 pm. Music by Two Rivers, 6-8 pm.

For more information on Plein Air Painting go to portlandpleinairandstudiopainters.blogspot.com.

Gallery hours for this show are Monday -Friday 10 am to 5:30 pm and 10 -4 pm on Saturday (or by appointment).
November 11th the Gallery will be open until 7 pm for evening viewing.

*featured pictures by Vancouver artists: Barbara Szkutnik and Katherine van Schoonhoven.

Aurora Gallery has new website! Please be patient while we finish the site’s construction. We’ll eventually have full artist profiles, and a special area to sign up for automatic e-mail updates. Stay tuned!