Original works by

Chris Rush

Deborah Riley

Cary Lathan Weigand

Chris Rush

Chris Rush's work has been exhibited at The Drawing Center in New York, The Phoenix Museum of Art, and at numerous galleries in the US and Mexico. His awards include fellowships from the Puffin Foundation, The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and Art Matters. In 2006, he was in residence at the Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico and at the Boglisasco Foundation in Genoa, Italy.

Deborah Riley

 Deborah Riley works with art that incorporates principles of darkroom photography and the processes of printmaking. She studied polymer photogravure with Dan Weldon at San Raparta International School of Art in Florence, Italy where she became a master of the technique. She is the owner of SpeakEasy Press in St. Joseph, Missouri, where she prints her own work as well as custom order for other professional printmakers. Her work has been exhibited across the U.S. and Europe and can be found in numerous private collections.

Cary Lathan Weigand

Cary Lathan Weigand earned both BFA and MFA from the University of Hawaii. In 2006 she received a grant award from The George Sugarman Foundation and has been featured on Oregon Art Beat and published in Ceramics Technical. Influenced by an oceanic divide of east and west, Cary says her story is a marriage between the mass of clay and the brush stroke of paint."Ceramics remind me of the fragility of life," she says. "These figures come alive for me, they hold stories, and they resurrect life into the inanimate object.

Studies in Being runs through July. There will be an artist reception during the First Friday Artwalk on July 2nd, featuring wine by Liquid Assets and music by Flat Five String Band.



Original works by

ELLEN WISHNETSKY-MUELLER

CHRISTIAN BURCHARD

MARY IJICHI

ELLEN WISHNETSKY-MUELLER

Born in New York City and raised in Detroit, artist Ellen Wishnetsky-Mueller started painting and when she was just 10 years old. A professional artist forover three three decades, she says, ''The nature of my work for the past dozen years has revolved around subtle modulations in color, texture, and pattern.'' Her latest process involves adding metal and felt to layers of sheer fabric to create intimate geometric works.

CHRISTIAN BURCHARD   

 Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1955, Ashland, Oregon artist Christian Burchard has been living in the United States since 1978. Starting out as a furniture maker's apprenticeship in Germany in the mid-seventies, he studied sculpture and drawing at the Museum School in Boston and the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver B.C. In 1982 he opened Cold Mountain Studio in Southern Oregon. His early focus was on furniture and interiors, but gradually he shifted to woodturning and sculpture. His work has been included in most of the major turning related exhibits of the last ten years, and is exhibited widely throughout the U.S. His current pieces include wall sculptures and freestanding sculptural objects.

MARY IJICHI

With a desire to address dichotomies in language and communication through her art, Mary Ijichi uses string and thread the way a writer uses a pen. Her extruded mixed-media drawings look different depending on the distance and angle they are viewed from. ''When I began the series,'' she says, ''I used horizontal lines to represent script.'' As in a page of text, the "words" were the positive space and the white background the negative. Step away, however, and the information is reversed-the white bands of string become the positive space while the "lettering" recedes into a speckled backdrop. ''As the work evolved,'' she says, ''I sought to reconcile the positive and negative aspects of our ability to rationalize.'' 

Sublime Narratives runs through June. There will be an artist reception during the First Friday Artwalk on May 7th, featuring wine by Liquid Assets.

 Bohemia Gallery in Cooperation With the Ashland Independent Film Festival Presents

ED HARDY: TATTOO THE WORLD

Original Works by Internationally Acclaimed Artist Don Ed Hardy

In conjunction with the Ashland Independent Film Festival premier of Emiko Emori's new documentary, Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World, about the life and work of the tattoo artist, Bohemia Gallery will bring the artist and his limited edition prints, etchings, lithographs, and mixed media to Ashland in April.

After training with the legendary tattoo artist, Sailor Jerry Collins, Hardy went on to popularize the Japanese style of tattooing in America. His highly regarded and much sought after Buddhist and Shinto inspired designs have helped bridge the gap between Asian and Western Art and appear throughout both haute and pop culture. Since retiring from tattooing, Ed Hardy has concentrated on fine art, including printmaking, drawing, and painting.

Also in April, hand-pounded pendants by Beth Ann Dolos of Natural Design Metal Studio and delicate, one-of-a-kind hand-made gold jewelry by Kate Jack as well as new porcelain sculptures by Cary Lathan Weigand.

All Ed Hardy works are published and shown courtesy of Trillium Graphics in Brisbane, California.

Ed Hardy: Tattoo the World runs through April. There will be a grand opening during the First Friday Artwalk on April 2nd featuring wine by Liquid Assets.

On April 10th, come meet the artist!

There will be a very special AIFF reception featuring Ed Hardy at 6 p.m. with food and a no host bar by Tabu Restaurant and music by DJ Todd. This is a free event and open to the public!

 Ed Hardy 2000 Dragons "2000 Dragons" Books and Cards

Don Ed Hardy's book is an expansive documentation of his painting, 2000 Dragons; a work in the tradition of classic Chinese and Japanese narrative scroll painting. The original acrylic and colored pencil painting, measures 51 inches by 500 feet, and was created to mark the Millennium.

A very special reception will be held on Saturday, April 10 from
6 - 8 p.m. Ed Hardy will be at Bohemia Gallery to sign copies of his book and cards.

Supplies are limited. Contact the gallery for information on pre-sales:

Hardcover coffee table "2000 Dragons" - $50.00

Small softcover book  "2000 Dragons" - $10.00

Box set of Don Ed Hardy Cards - $15.95