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VISUAL ARTS Must-see exhibit at Rogue Gallery Glasswork, linocuts, ceramics among works at Medford's Third Friday art walk Comment By Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune Follow @@VickieAldous MailTribune.com By Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune Follow @@VickieAldous Posted May. 20, 2016 at 2:00 AM Updated May 20, 2016 at 9:51 AM By Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune Follow @@VickieAldous Posted May. 20, 2016 at 2:00 AM Updated May 20, 2016 at 9:51 AM » Social News Randall Perkins was a college chemistry student when he accidentally broke a set of laboratory glassware. "I was a starving student," he recalls. "It was easier to get the glass repaired than to purchase it again." Perkins visited a glassblowing studio for the repairs and ended up with a job as a work study assistant to the expert glass-maker. The rest, as they say, is history — with Perkins going on to work in glassblowing internationally and devote decades of his life to the art form. The Medford resident's latest creations are included in the exhibit "Garden Frolic: Jonnel Covault, Julia Janeway, Randall Perkins" at Rogue Gallery & Art Center, 40 S. Bartlett St., Medford. The must-see exhibit combines Covault's nature-themed linocut prints, Janeway's striking ceramic tiles of salmon and Perkins' garden-inspired glass flowers and ferns. Along with Art du Jour Gallery and other downtown venues, Rogue Gallery will stay open from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 20, for Medford's Third Friday art walk. Art lovers can meet the artists at Rogue Gallery and sample wine, Rogue Creamery cheese and Harry & David snacks. Art du Jour's evening reception will feature food, wine and live music by Minstrel Streams at 213 E. Main St., while 30 North Fine Art Gallery, 30 N. Central Ave., will stay open until 9 p.m. and celebrate its one-year anniversary with wine and refreshments. LIFE Art Studio & Cultural Center, 312 Middleford Alley, will show fused glass by North Medford High School from 6 to 8 p.m. Perkins has used multicolored glass to form detailed leaves, unfurling fiddlehead ferns and elaborate, fanciful flowers. Inspiration for the flora came from his wife's garden. When not on display at the gallery, many of his weather-resistant pieces enliven her garden, adding a touch of imagination. "People have really enjoyed the work because it's whimsical. It's colorful," he says of the reactions so far. "It's not just a vase or a vessel. It has personality and it makes people smile." Perkins' three-dimensional sculptures complement the bold, graphic ceramic tiles of salmon made by Janeway, whose studio is on the outskirts of Ashland. Oval tiles featuring black-and-white migrating fish are interspersed with colorful red and turquoise tiles inspired by the totem poles and ceremonial masks of indigenous Pacific Northwest tribes — especially the Tlingit people, who are world-renowned for their artwork. Janeway says she was inspired by the epic journeys salmon endure as they travel from their hatching places in creeks and rivers, downstream to the ocean, and then back again to spawn. "They are amazing for so many reasons. They are so similar to birds because they're migratory," she said. "I was meditating on the journey the salmon take collectively as a species, and I was also meditating on the journey of the individual fish." Each of the salmon tiles is unique. Some are naturalistic, while others have geometric patterns, stylized eyes and other imagery from Pacific Northwest tribes carved into their fins and sides. Others have pieces of flesh missing, showing the ribs inside the fish, a mark of the damage they endure swimming upstream. Tying together with Janeway's tiles and Perkins' glass sculptures, Covault's black-and-white linocut prints masterfully depict natural themes. In "Salmon River's End," a killdeer bird stands watch as a forest-lined river empties into the ocean, haystack rocks in the distance. In "Fishing Willamette Falls," herons are darkly silhouetted against a frothing, raging, white waterfall. Also at the Rogue Gallery, in side exhibit spaces, Paul Jorizzo is showing architecture and landscape photographs from his travels in Europe, and 37 gallery member artists are exhibiting more than 90 juried works of art in various media. At Art du Jour, artist Roni Marsh is showing oil pastel works of regional scenery. In one, she has captured Grizzly Peak north of Ashland materializing out of a shroud of clouds, its hillsides rendered in soft sage green and lavender. Her watery landscapes are especially well done. With touches of aqua and peach, she has highlighted the wind-driven waves on a lake in the piece "Last Rays." "I love the way the light plays across the surface of things," Marsh says. "I like to contrast the frailties and vulnerabilities of Nature against her strength and power." Her "Lakes Basin" features a rugged, high alpine mountain with hardy, scraggly trees and a lake in the foreground. Touches of red in the bushes hint at the hard winter ahead. Art enthusiasts will admire her sure, deft strokes of oil pastel on close inspection, and the almost photorealist effect of her works from a distance. Marsh is paired with Applegate area artist William Whitney, who is displaying paintings of buildings, people and landscapes. His meticulous painting "Dining Car Cafe" captures the lonely, sun-baked view of a boarded-up diner in California that was abandoned after a highway was realigned away from the once-bustling restaurant. "While my work usually begins with photography, I'm not interested in merely duplicating a photo," he explains. "My goal is to create a luscious, painted surface that recalls the captured moment and evokes a feeling, but up close never lets the viewer forget that it's just paint." His image of buses maneuvering through crowded city streets looks like a black-and-white photograph, but was done with graphite pencil. Staff reporter Vickie Aldous can be reached at 541-776-4486 or [email protected]. Follow her at www.twitter.com/VickieAldous . By Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune Follow @@VickieAldous MailTribune.com By Vickie Aldous Mail Tribune Follow @@VickieAldous Posted May. 20, 2016 at 2:00 AM Updated May 20, 2016 at 9:51 AM » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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