Corvallis Abstract Group: Spring 2025 Art Exhibition
Corvallis Abstract Group: Spring 2025 Art Exhibition
Thanks to Paige Shumway of Pegasus Gallery for lending the legacy artwork.
Artist portraits by Scott Moss.
Grant Cunningham
Tricia Greaves
Tricia Greaves is an artist and designer living in Albany, Oregon. Her personal projects and commissions use a variety of mediums, including painting, encaustic, linocut, photography, and graphic design. Her time as the owner and director of The Crow’s Foot Gallery and Studio in Albany provided the time to focus on exploring various techniques and styles in her personal work as well as teaching art classes to all ages. Finding ways to use the skills learned within her BA degree in Design and Photography while raising her children has led to a wide variety of extended learning that continues to inform her current artistic projects. Besides local solo and group exhibits, Tricia recently expanded to an online exhibit with O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. The interaction and feedback with the viewer was missed, as much of the drive behind Tricia’s work is a curiosity about individual interpretation. Alternating between abstraction and expressionism, often using the human form as the initial reference point, her personal work uses color theory and composition to explore a variety of thoughts and questions, both personal and common to the human condition.
See more about Tricia and her work on her website - www.thecrowsfootgallery.com
Patricia Thomas
Patricia Thomas is an artist living in Corvallis. She holds a degree in art history from the University of Oregon, and has taken classes in monotype printmaking and art fundamentals at Pratt Fine Arts Center and the School of Visual Concepts, both in Seattle, Washington. Patricia is a representational and figurative abstract painter, working in oil and water-based media. This is her second show at the Corvallis Museum.
David Gorick
ART by david
I started my art journey at age 2, when I used crayons as my medium and the bedroom wall as my canvass. Coloring books were for sissies. Through the years I have explored many different art forms. Although showing skill and expertise in some of them, I never felt like I had really found my place in the art world, never found the creative freedom my spirit was seeking.
At the 2017 Art and Balloon Festival in Albany, I met a young artist who did Acrylic Pours. I had read about Acrylic Pours but had never seen any in person. I was immediately enthralled with the movement and interplay of colors in his work. I went home and spent about a month researching everything I could find about Acrylic Pours. I discovered the creative freedom that I had been searching for, my entire artistic life.
Part art, part science, part luck, part bewilderment, and part amazement, Acrylic Pours demanded everything out of me yet gave me great joy and a creative freedom I had never experienced before. In 2019, one of my paintings took home a blue ribbon from the Linn County Fair.
Here I am 7 years after I started, and my only regret is that I discovered this so late in life. The science aspect opens the door to endless possibilities that would take a lifetime to explore. No two Acrylic Pours are ever the same, and in the end, the paint has the final say. Thank you for looking at my work.
Julie Risien
Julie Risien is a Corvallis-based abstract artist. Her experimental fluid work is guided by the concept of becoming, that all things are in a constant state of metamorphosis, continuously becoming something never experienced in the past and impossible to replicate in the future. Often compared to satellite images of coastal geographies, her work is inspired by her time as a marine scientist and conservationist in California, Baja, Oregon and Micronesia. She has been featured locally and most recently in Strata, an earth science magazine published by Oregon State University www.emergentflow.art.
William Gilmer
William Gilmer is an abstract artist based in Corvallis, Oregon, who blends a rich background in graphic design with a fresh approach to painting. A graduate of Perry Technical Institute, William has spent over 30 years as a graphic designer, honing a keen eye for composition, color, and visual communication.
William's art has been featured in numerous exhibitions across Corvallis, including local businesses, museums, and galleries. He believes that art should reflect the artist's truth and aims to create pieces that resonate deeply with viewers, offering a space for connection through his vision.
Today, William continues to develop his abstract work with the goal of creating art that speaks to the soul and invites others to find their own interpretations.
For more about William’s work, visit or follow him on Instagram @williamgilmerart.
Mary Brutsaert
Marijke “Mary” Brutsaert is a therapist based in Corvallis who discovered the joy of abstract painting through art journaling. “It’s a joy that comes from letting go of expectations and making space for any and all parts of me to appear on the canvas exactly as they are: bold and raw, careful and timid, and everything in between,” she explains.
As an artist coach, Mary helps you reconnect with your own creative energy and find the confidence to keep making art, while also setting appropriate boundaries to protect priorities.
Mary’s work has been exhibited at the Ford Gallery PDX, New Zone Gallery in Eugene, Corvallis Arts Center, Interzone, New Morning Bakery, and the Corvallis Museum.
Mary is part of a Corvallis collective of abstract artists. A group show of their work will be displayed at the Corvallis Museum on April 1-21.
Stay connected with Mary through her newsletter, Permission To Paint, or follow her creative journey on Instagram @marybrutsaert.
David Goodrum
David A. Goodrum, photographer/writer, lives in Corvallis, Oregon. His photography has graced the covers of several art and literature magazines, most recently Cirque Journal, Willows Wept Review, Blue Mesa Review, Ilanot Review, Red Rock Review, The Moving Force Journal, Snapdragon Journal, Vita Poetica, and appeared in many others. His artistic vision has always been to create a visual field that momentarily transports you away from hectic daily events and into a place that delights in an intimate view of the world. See additional work, both photos and poems, at www.davidgoodrum.com.
