August: Tobe Harvey & Arlon Rosenoff
EXHIBITION DATES: FRIDAY AUGUST 1ST – SATURDAY, 30TH, 2025
OPENING RECEPTION: 1st Friday Reception, August 1st, 5:00 – 8:00, free and open to the public.
GALLERY HOURS: Fridays 12:00 – 8:00 PM, except day of exhibit opening: Saturdays 12:00 – 8:00 PM
EXHIBITION DESCRIPTIONS:
EAST GALLERY – Recent Works by Tobe Harvey
Artist’s Biography: Tobe Harvey works as an artist, and adjunct instructor at Spokane Falls Community College and Gonzaga University. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Washington State University in 2001 with an emphasis in painting. In addition, Tobe Harvey holds degrees in art from Montana State University-Bozeman and Northwest College in Powell, Wy. He has been featured in the Spokesman Review, Rock and Sling, 10x10x10xTieton, and Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Living Magazine.
Exhibition Description - Tobe Harvey will be displaying recent work at Saranac Art Projects in August. The subjects of many of the artworks are botanical. Three different mediums will be on display. The artist has created watercolor paintings, digital photographs, and digital images. He is inspired by natural shapes, organic lines, and colors found in his garden.
WEST GALLERY – “Organic Undertones, “ by Arlon Rosenoff
Arlon Rosenoff’s Biography: I am a palette knife oil painter who has been painting for about 15 years, starting out doing representational work, painting landscapes, cityscapes and so on. I started doing abstract painting about three years ago as a way to loosen up my representational style and found myself captivated with the emotional and expressive freedom of abstract painting. As an artist, you need to follow your heart and do what speaks to you and abstract really does that for me at this place in my life. The form of my work is inspired by organic features found in nature, in particular water but also trees, mountains, fire, etc. Organic abstraction is a way for me to express the emotions I feel when surrounded by nature.
Exhibition Statement: I paint with a palette knife because it gives me the opportunity to interact with paint in a very tactile, expressionistic way. Each viewer of my art is able to gain a strong sense my physical interaction with the paint, with every stroke and manipulation visible forever. The surfaces of my paintings are very telling, sometimes resembling a mosaic of palette knife strokes.
