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In the Footsteps of Charles Heaney: Tom Prochaska and Christy Wyckoff
Rock Creek Helzer Gallery
East Across Donner and Blitzen
By Tom Prochaska and Christy Wyckoff
- Exhibit dates: October 20, 2016
- Artist talk: Thursday, October 20 at 12:30
- Gallery hours: Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm
Beginning in the 1930s and throughout the several following decades, Portland artist Charles Heaney (1897-1981) made nearly annual road trips to explore and sketch the landscapes and settlements of Central, Eastern and Southern Oregon. In September 2014, artists Tom Prochaska and Christy Wyckoff traveled in Heaney’s footsteps to create their own drawings and watercolors, adapting Heaney’s example and whenever possible his routes.
“Heaney was on our minds as we worked at sites connected to him,” Wyckoff explains, “but we primarily responded in our individual ways to the landscape in front of us rather than making ‘art about art.'” The works in this exhibition depict the dramatic landforms and vast spaces of eastern Oregon and also touch on some of the personalities that dominated its early settlement – men like the rancher Peter French and his famous Round Barn.
— Roger Hull, Curator Emeritus, Willamette University
Prochaska is known as a painter, printmaker and sculptor. He is represented by Froelick Gallery in Portland. Wyckoff, a renowned printmaker, has exhibited widely in Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Work by both artists can be found in the PCC Rock Creek art collection.
