Solo and Group Shows 2023 What a Relief!, Cannon Gallery of Art, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR 2018 Big Ink II, Large Format Woodcuts, Bend Art Center, Bend, OR Faces in My Head, Paintings by Robert Sumner; Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR 2012 Robert Sumner and Cynthia Spencer, Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR 2010 Robert Sumner and Shannon Weber, Guardino Gallery, Portland, OR New Zealand Print Exchange Exhibit, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR PrintArts Northwest 10 Year Anniversary Traveling Exhibition 2009 […]
The utility of words often outshines more subtle lines of communication like a streetlight obscuring the moons’ profound calm with its direct, brash illumination. Music, dance and the visual arts glow behind the streetlight. Henri Bergson theorized a hundred years ago that conscious beings experience time as accreting. It accumulates, and as it builds, our growing memory of lived experience changes the way we see and interact with the world. A jazz number builds as well, expanding, changing key or […]