Library Looks

EVENT: Watercolors and Oils by Christine Hanlon

LOCATION:  Coos Bay Library main room, south wall, 525 Anderson Ave, Coos Bay, OR

DATE: Runs from December 1^st through December 31st, 2015

TIME: Exhibit viewing during library hours Monday-Saturday, library closed Sunday.

CONTACT: Christine Hanlon, 541-347-5003 landline or 415-254-0058 cell

Christine Hanlon, local artist and teacher, will be exhibiting  oils and plein air watercolor paintings in the main room of the Coos Bay Public Library for the month of December.

Ms. Hanlon has been on the fine art faculty of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco since 1998 but now teaches exclusively in their cyber campus. She received her MFA Painting degree from AAU in 1997 and lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 30 years before relocating to the coast of Oregon in 2012. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate fine art courses including the use of geometry in design and composition for students in various degree programs such as architecture, photography, painting, interior design, etc.

Her paintings have garnered awards at the Coos Art Museum including the Port of Coos Bay award and the Best in Show in their annual Maritime exhibitions. She has won first and second place awards in the 4th and 5th Annual Miniature and Small Works shows at the Art by the Sea Gallery in Bandon as well as a People's Choice award for her painting commemorating Bandon's centennial.  

Over the years, her work has been featured in the Artists Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, as well as a feature cover article in Sea History magazine. Her urban homeless paintings have been in many juried and invitational exhibitions over the years, including a traveling catalogued exhibition which toured museums around California for almost four years.  Several of her large scale urban homeless paintings are on display at the Community Art Gallery in the offices of Oregon Bay Properties in North Bend, until May of 2016. Her artwork may be seen at Second Street Gallery in Bandon.

For more information about the artist’s work, please see her website at www.christinehanlon.com or contact her at 541-347-5003 or by email atpaintdemo@yahoo.com.