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ART HAPPENS HERE.
Show dates are March 4th- 28th, 2025
Fallen Beauty - Linda Devenow
The Emerald Art Center presents
photography by Linda Devenow.
Linda Devenow was born in Detroit, Michigan and fell in love
with the look and feel of the forests and lakes of the upper part of the Lower Peninsula. She moved to Los Angeles after college graduation and started her career in the Entertainment Industry.
Her passion for photography led to her being hired as the exclusive photographer for all Walt Disney TV Animation employee events. From there she expanded her business to include family portraiture and professional headshots.
She moved to Eugene, Oregon in 2002, which was reminiscent
of the spiritually of Michigan’s terrain. Her portfolio covers landscape, portraiture, and nature images. In 2018, she started experimenting with black and white infrared photography and became obsessed with capturing the scene with her infrared converted digital camera. Initially, she worked at refining technical skills, and post-processing effects. Her latest focus
is catching the emotion of the scene, and eliciting color from the infrared images.
Angels Landing by Linda Devenow
Also showing is Featured EAC Member:
Don Myers.
Don has been taking photographs for over fifty years. He started his photographic journey in Vietnam and he has been documenting his life ever since. He received my bachelors degree in journalism and worked for various newspapers and magazines. He moved to Springfield in December of 2013 from Phoenix, AZ. The incredible beauty of Oregon has revitalized his photography.
Over the past five years he has become interested in infrared photography. He has two cameras that he had converted to infrared. One is called a 590 conversion and it allows some of the normal color light waves so he can incorporate some color into the photograph. The other conversion is an 830. With the 830 it is completely black and white.
He calls his current show "The Red Show." These photos were all taken with the 590 conversion. In the beginning, he tried to make his skies a pleasant to vivid blue color. But he is always looking for something new and a bit different.He started creating the red skies a few years ago and he really likes some of what it can do in presenting a more dramatic view of what would be a normal landscape photograph. He realized many people may not share his view of red skies but he hopes you will enjoy the different perspective that they present.
His South Wall Show is a compendium of work He has done since moving to Oregon. There are examples of color, color infrared and b&w infrared. He doesn't think any medium is better than another. He hopes each photo speaks for itself and gives a new perspective to the subject matter.
County Road - Don Myers
Thor's Well - Don Myers
Painting by Norma Adams
Plus a memorial retrospective show by NORMA ADAMS.
Norma Jean Adams was born and raised in Oregon, and enjoyed art from an early age. While she didn’t have much time to paint between working full time and raising a family, she produced many beautiful watercolors in her retirement years. Her passion was capturing stunning Oregon landscapes, interesting or famous architecture, colorful florals, and bringing family photos to life.
Norma was a volunteer and member of Emerald Art Center. She attended many classes in the local community to refine her artistic skills. Norma passed in January this year, and her family wanted to share this small collection of treasured work in her honor.
And New Work from members of the Emerald Art Center.