The Doll Gardner Art Gallery's show for March features a 10 year retrospective of paintings and pastels by Deborah DeWit.
DEBORAH DEWIT:
"Books, Cats and the Natural World"
Deborah DeWit is a local photographer, painter and author, who has been full-time artist showing in the Northwest for 30 years. Her photographs have been widely shown since 1980 and she has written about her life as a photographer in Traveling Light: Chasing an Illuminated Life, in 2003 (reissued in 2006.) Her work in pastel is known for its subject matter about books and reading, a collection of which, In the Presence of Books (2007), with an introduction by Kim Stafford. Working mostly in oil the last ten years her subjects have been inspired by her connection with nature and her ideas about how humans perceive the natural world. In her latest book she wrote about her relationships with cats and their wildness in Painting Cats (2008), with an introduction by Marge Piercy. Most recently she collaborated with her filmmaker husband Carl Vandervoort in the making of the documentary Wetlands, the story of her relationship with a very small piece of wild land near her suburban home and the paintings that resulted from that experience.
ART OPENING: Sunday, March 7th from 12:30-2:00pm. A special screening of Wetlands is tentatively planned for March 6 & 7 at the Joy Theater in Tigard.