October
Kristina Foley
Animal Landscapes
Kristina Foley’s large-scale felted works invite viewers into lush, tactile landscapes that shift between the familiar and the fantastical. Foley’s carefully chosen materials engage the senses and highlight the origins and slow processes that shape each piece.
She combines wool from a flock of endangered Navajo-Churro sheep near her Western Oregon home with fine Merino from Shaniko Wool Company, an Oregon-based leader in regenerative agriculture and fully traceable domestic wool production.
In addition to wool, Foley incorporates rare wild silks—Muga, Tussar, and Eri—from rural India. Unlike domesticated mulberry silk, these fibers come from wild moths living in forests and jungles, feeding on diverse plants that create natural color variations unique to their environments.
For Foley, natural fibers are not just materials, but living connections to landscapes, economies, and cultural lineages; each fiber carries the stories of the people and places from which it comes. In her hands, these materials become expressions of interconnection—between body and land, past and present, tradition and transformation.
Jeff Juhlin
Recent Work
Juhlin’s mixed-media work is about discovery and the hint of possibility. Using cold wax, oil, acrylic, ink, and paper, Juhlin works by adding layer after layer of material, images, and color to create his compositions. He then returns to explore, excavate, expose, and obscure each piece. Though his works can be loosely described as abstract landscapes, the end result is a non-literal visual form—a translation of the creative process of adding and taking away.
“Often we see only the surface of things when in reality there are many layers, artifacts, histories, clues that hint of something curious and magical that might lay beneath the surface waiting to be discovered, excavated, explored and experienced,” says Juhlin. “My work seeks to reflect a sense of stillness, space, and the visual history of time evident in the western landscape. The work alludes to the raw typography and vast space where I live and work. In this environment, time often reveals itself in the form of rock strata created by erosion, wind, and water, both building up over eons of time and wearing away by the elements in a continuous process. Both process and materiality are always important components in my work.”
November
Materia
Selected Works
This November, Hemmings Gallery will display selected works by several of the gallery’s featured artists, including Frances Ashforth, Sarah Bird, Spencer Hansen, Lola, Ansley Rivers, Thom Ross, and Ezra Siegel.
December/January
Charlotte Hemmings
Phantom West
Opening Night will take place on Friday, December 26, from 5 to 7:30pm
Artist Charlotte Hemmings’ mixed-media works probe the mythology of the American West, where the spectacle of the rodeo is both subject and metaphor. Hyper-iconic imagery drawn from cowboy and rodeo traditions is transferred onto canvas, then deliberately dismantled through paint—gestural marks, drips, and swaths of raw pigment pulling clarity into collapse. Horses charge into chromatic noise, flags dissolve into paint’s physicality, and dust becomes pure pigment. What begins as an iconic spectacle shifts into a fractured, shimmering residue of memory and myth.
This process opens a dialogue about how cultural narratives are constructed, romanticized, and revised. For the artist, that conversation is personal. “As an Idaho native now distanced from fully rural rhythms, I stand in a liminal space—close enough to feel the pull of heritage, yet distant enough to see its contradictions. The rodeo—already a performance of myth—becomes even more performative, refracted through technological and painterly lenses. What remains is neither fixed history nor pure invention, but something in between: a luminous vision of the West suspended between belonging and estrangement, heritage and reinvention,” says Hemmings.
Captions:
Animal Landscapes
by Kristina Foley
merino wool, Tussah silk, and golden lace cocoons
67”x 60”
Landlines 6
by Jeff Juhlin
mixed media on panel
16” x 16”
Untitled 01
by Charlotte Hemmings
mixed media on panel
48” x 60”
Hemmings Gallery
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208.254.1097
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