Toledo artist Michael Gibbons, a founder of Vistas and Vineyards plein air painters, Corvallis, has been invited to show his work at their annual juried October art show at the LaSells Stewart Center, in the Giustina Gallery on the campus of Oregon State University. The Founders Show will be hung in the Murdock Gallery in the south concourse. Gibbons served as a Mentor Artist beginning in 1989 and continues to give an occasional art workshop for the group on location in a vineyard of choice in the Willamette Valley. The show will be open October 3 to 30 with a reception at the center for the artists on October 11 from 6:30 to 8:00pm and the public is cordially invited to the show. The show includes art in many two dimensional medium including oil, pastel, acrylic, pen and ink, graphite and colored pencil.     

Michael Gibbons is showing "Tyee Farmland View", a 12"x 18" oil painting of the vineyard of that name south of Corvallis which he did while engaged with the group in teaching at his workshop. The painting shows a field of dry hay and an aspect of the surrounding hills with storm clouds on the way and as Michael recalls, the whole group ran from the rain with their painting equipment to shelter under the roof of a convenient shed at Tyee Vineyard. For more information about the over 120 member art organization, visit
http://vistasandvineyards.wordpress.com/

The LaSells Stewart Center is located at the corner of 26th Street and Western Boulevard on the OSU Campus. The address is 875 SW 26th St., Corvallis. Parking is located across the street in the Reser Stadium parking lot.