One of Linfield University’s first studio art graduates will have his work displayed in the Linfield Gallery from Feb. 9 to March 18.
Frank Kowing’s paintings, sculptures and sketchbooks will be part of “Breathing the High-altitude Ether of Discovery.” The Linfield Gallery is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. The gallery is located inside the James F. Miller Fine Arts Center on the Linfield University McMinnville Campus. Face coverings are required inside all Linfield buildings.
A reception is scheduled 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 16.
Kowing was a member and elder of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde. He was born in McMinnville and graduated from Linfield in 1966. He traveled throughout the world before settling in Maryland where he continued his lifelong career as a painter and curator of exhibitions in galleries and museums.
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“Deep communion with the mountains is as necessary to me as oxygen. Nature beckons hypnotically and one must give in to the call,” said Kowing before his death in 2016.
Political satire and poetic authenticity coalesce in Kowing’s impressionist and abstract expressionist paintings and found-object creations. Kowing published “Monuments,” a collection of poetry in 2009.
The exhibit is sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series and the Linfield Department of Art. The Lacroute Arts Fund provides programs featuring artists in the areas of music, art and visual culture, and theatre and communication arts.
To reach the gallery from 99W, turn east on Keck Drive at the McMinnville Market Center in south McMinnville. Turn right at the first street onto Library Court. The art gallery is in the second building on the left, Building B.
