Current Show: New Paintings of 2018 & 2019
Ongoing, Micheal Parsons Fine Art
"Oregon artist, Melinda Thorsnes’ richly colored, provocative paintings offer audacious characters that seem to jump off the picture plane pushing the viewer’s sensibilities fearlessly into familiar, yet foreign, territory. Thorsnes deals openly with the emotional discourse of human interaction. Her depictions of seemingly familiar faces and settings give way to ephemeral Fellini like moments that turn routine ‘feral’ and reality into dreamscape. Her recent work deals with the times we live in. The theme of these new paintings is the crisis and disgrace we are facing as a nation, due to divisiveness in the political arena. She expresses her observations through richly colored, narrative paintings that continue the traditions of American genre painting.
Thorsnes studied at the California College of the Arts before graduating from the Museum Art School (now the Pacific Northwest College of Art) and has exhibited her work widely since the early 1970's. Her work is in public collections including Granite Falls Middle School, WA; City of Salem, Civic Center; Richmond High School, Seattle; Elmhurst Elementary School, Tacoma; Portland Community College; and the State of Oregon; and in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, and the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem. This will be Melinda's 5th solo show at our gallery." - Michael Parsons Fine Art.
Contact info:
Micheal Parsons Fine Art
716 SW Madison Street
Portland, Oregon 97205
Phone: 503-206-8601
E-Mail: michaelparsonsfineart@gmail.com
Recent Shows
Solo Exhibitions
2018 My Fragile Mind, Michael Parsons Fine Arts, Portland, OR
2017 Standing Behind Myself, Michael Parsons Fine Arts, Portland, OR
2015 Mid Career Retrospective, Paintings from Three Decades, Michael Parsons Fine Arts, Portland, OR
2014 Conversation Pieces, Michael Parsons Fine Art, Portland, OR
2012 She, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
2015 Group Show, Michael Parsons Fine Arts, Portland, OR
2012 Under The Influence, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
2011 The Horse Show, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
Upcoming
Please contact the artist at mcmarine49@gmail.com for information.
"MELINDA THORSNES, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, 560 Broadway, at Prince Street, SoHo, (through May 2). Brightly colored, broadly brushed paintings of Americans relaxing at home or outdoors: through Ms. Thorsnes's eyes, this is a scary spectacle" (Karmel).
-Art Section. New York Times. April 28, 1995
See full article HERE