News & Exhibitions
2024 – Exhibitions
Heartbreak at Augen Gallery (Portland, OR)
April 2024
Opening Reception: First Thursday, April 4, 2024
Foothills Park, oil painting, 30” x 40”
Visit Augen Gallery
Contact:
716 NW Davis, Portland, OR 97209
(503) 546-5056
Open Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 11:30am – 5:00pm
and by appointment
More info: augengallery.com
Please come by Augen Gallery for a visit anytime between April 4 - April 30, 2024.
2023 – Exhibitions
Artworks Northwest Biennial at Umpqua Valley Arts (Roseburg, OR)
June 9 - August 18, 2023
Opening Reception: June 9, 4-7pm
Awake at the Shore I, encaustic on panel, 13.5” x 41”
Visit Umqua Valley Arts
Contact:
1624 West Harvard Avenue
Roseburg, OR 97471
(541) 672-2532
Open Hours:
Tuesday – Friday 10am - 6pm
Closed Saturday, Sunday, Monday & holidays
More info: uvarts.com
Please come by Umqua Valley Arts for a visit anytime between June 9 - August 18, 2023.
Changing Seasons at Augen Gallery (Portland, OR)
July - August 2023
Opening Reception: TBD
Changing Season, oil on canvas, 24” x 48”
Visit Augen Gallery
Contact:
716 NW Davis, Portland, OR 97209
(503) 546-5056
Open Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 11:30am – 5:00pm
and by appointment
More info: augengallery.com
Please come by Augen Gallery for a visit anytime between July 1 - August 30, 2023.
2022– Exhibitions
Surroundings: A Picture of the Land at Augen Gallery (Portland, OR)
July 6-30, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 9, 1:30 - 4pm
Works by: Charles Burchfield, Sally Cleveland, John Cole, Ron Cronin, Karen Esler, Jef Gunn, Rita Robillard, Morgan Walker, Thomas Wood, and others
Barn 2020, oil on canvas, 18” x 24”
Harney County Ranch in the Moonlight, 2019-21, oil on canvas, 24” x 36”
Visit Augen Gallery
Contact:
716 NW Davis, Portland, OR 97209
(503) 546-5056
Open Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 11:30am – 5:00pm
and by appointment
More info: augengallery.com
Please come by Augen Gallery for a visit anytime between July 6 - 30, 2022.
Plein Air at Hoffman Center for the Arts (Manzanita, OR)
September 1-25, 2022
This small show will be concurrent with the four day Beginning Plein Air workshop at the Hoffman Center and will include coastal plein air paintings.
Visit Hoffman Center for the Arts
Contact:
594 Laneda Avenue
Manzanita, OR 97130
info@hoffmanarts.org
Open Hours:
Thursday – Sunday 1pm – 5pm
and by appointment
More info: hoffmanarts.org
Please come by for a visit between September 1 and September 25, 2022.
The World Goes Round at Augen Gallery (Portland, OR)
October 1-31, 2022
Oils and Encaustic paintings of experience in the magic of the living world we inhabit. More information coming as October approaches.
Visit Augen Gallery
Contact:
716 NW Davis, Portland, OR 97209
(503) 546-5056
Open Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 11:30am – 5:00pm
and by appointment
More info: augengallery.com
Please come by Augen Gallery for a visit anytime between October 1 and October 31, 2022.
2020-2021 – News
Ten NW Buddhist Climate Action Leaders’ Paths
Northwest Dharma Initiative – Winter 2020 (Released February 2021)
Jef Gunn is a member of the climate group at Kagyu Changchub Chuling, a Tibetan Buddhist Sangha in Portland. He’s also a painter who works outdoors, capturing the beauty and vulnerability of the landscape.
Read full article »
Oregon Art Beat: Encaustic artist Jef Gunn on seeing the art in the accidents
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) – October 21, 2020
Through the ancient art of hot wax painting, Jef Gunn creates complex, modern paintings with pigments in beeswax.
Read full article on OPB »
2021 – Exhibitions
Stone and Light at i.e. gallery (Edison, WA)
October 1 - 31, 2021
Edison is in the Skagit flatlands, off the Chuckanut Drive, which heads NW from I-5, north of Mt. Vernon. It’s a beautiful area with rich history, from the original Skagit Tribe inhabitants, to the farm communities all around, and the many great artists who have worked in the area for decades.
The show is oriented toward Rocks of the shoreline and rocks of the mountains and any old rock anywhere, with oil and encaustic paintings, monoprints and mixed media on paper.
Near Shores and Far Shores
Show Statement
Stone and Light
It has a lot to do with patience. On the studio wall is a piece of paper:
quiet
soft
noble
sad
not firm
not weak
no sleight of hand
frank
joy
love
Today and for some decades now rock, stone, land – leaders in patience – have drawn my attention. A drawing or painting is like a greeting. A wave or a bow across space. The appeal is its own answer.
Painting is a fluid art that presents as static. Time flows past this moment while the painting is still seeing and giving.
Visit i.e. gallery
Contact:
5800 Cains Court
Edison, WA 98232
360-488-3458
Open Hours:
Friday – Sunday 11am – 5pm
and by appointment
More info: ieedison.com
Please come by i.e. gallery for a visit anytime between October 1 and October 31, 2021.
2020 – Exhibitions
How to Love the World at Augen Gallery (Portland, OR)
September 30 - October 31, 2020
A small show of smaller oils (and two encaustic paintings) to coincide with a lucky feature on Oregon Art Beat that will show this Fall 2020 on OPB (Oregon Public Broadcasting).
NORTHERN LAKE (Falcon Lake, Manitoba) (Métis), 2020 oil on panel, 12 x 19 inches
FAR ACROSS THE GREAT COLUMBIA (Washougal from Rooster Rock) (Cowlitz), 2020 oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
SAME OLD BUTTE (Diamond, Oregon) (Northern Paiute), 2019 oil on panel, 11 x 22 inches
Show Statement
True goodness
is like water.
Water’s good
for everything.
It doesn’t compete.
It goes right
to the low loathsome places,
and so finds the way.
For a house,
the good thing is level ground.
In thinking,
depth is good.
The good of giving is magnanimity;
of speaking, honesty;
of government, order.
The good of work is skill,
and of action, timing.
No competition,
so no blame.
lao tzu, tao te ching No. 8 – English version by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Of the thirteen paintings here, nine include water. Five refer to the Columbia River. Two are of the Salmon River on the south side of Cascade Head on the Oregon Coast, which might be burning as I write this. One is related in my mind to Falcon Lake, on the Manitoba-Ontario border. Lastly, a small, nameless stream in a gold landscape.
Of the other four paintings, two are desert. Desert is also defined by water, by dearth of water. Lastly, a red dogwood in my yard gets water from the sky, and Topaz Farmers water their crops on Sauvie Island, surrounded by and crisscrossed by water.
Over the past many years, I’m increasingly alert to the land and water everywhere as having been wrested from previous caretakers. Who lived here before European people came? Who are the people who knew and cared for the land? The tribe names are listed with the titles.
One painting looks across the Columbia River to Kalama, Washington to the site of a proposed fracked gas to methanol refinery and dock for shipping to China. Unless we stop it, it will be the largest methanol refinery in the world. Need I say more?
Visit Augen Gallery
Contact:
716 NW Davis, Portland, OR 97209
(503) 546-5056
Open Hours:
Wednesday – Saturday 11:30am – 5:00pm
and by appointment
More info: augengallery.com
COVID Safety Rules:
Four people allowed at a time in the gallery, wearing masks.
Please come by Augen Gallery for a visit anytime between September 30 and October 31, 2020.
Y Aquí Me Quedo - 2018
24 x 30 inches
oil on canvas
Not Dark Yet
oil on panel
Ten Thousand Abodes
oil on panel
2017 – News
Jef Gunn on the Coming and Going of His Art
Oregon Arts Watch – September 10, 2017
Jef Gunn moved to Portland in the late 1990s. Over the past 30 years he has participated in numerous exhibitions in the Northwest and has wide ranging teaching experience.
Read full article »