Nanette Wallace’s monotypes feature an imaginative narrative that often toe the line between elegant and uncomfortable. Her gestural figures are an intuitive and emotional response to the past and present with an especially deep connection to water, light and nature. Nanette finds much joy in the spontaneous nature of monotypes and generally creates them with one pass through the press. Her monotypes are created by inking up a plexiglass plate in a solid color, she then removes the whites/lights using q-tips, a brayer, and her finger covered in a cotton cloth. After Nanette diligently carves an image out of the darks, she often obscures it by rolling a fine layer of ink back over top to see what might develop or what might be gained and lost in this back-and-forth process. The image is then transferred onto a sheet of paper by pressing the two together using a printing press. Monotype printing produces just one unique singular print.

Dennis Peterson creates the surprising and intrinsic personalities of aged and decayed wood. The medium is oil on wood. “This work is my interpretation of the internal and external power and diversity that consumes those who enter the untouched influences of nature.” The title of the series is “The Center of Things” Peterson received his MFA from Portland State University (Oregon Honors Scholarship) and was instructor at PNCA, PSU and PCC.