“InSight” – An Exhibit of the Willamette Valley PhotoArts Guild

March 12 through April 25, 2025
Reception Friday March 14, 5:30 – 7:30pm (calendar)

The Giustina Gallery at The LaSells Stewart Center
875 SW 26th St.
Corvallis, OR 97331

541-737-9315
https://lasells.oregonstate.ed…
hours: 8am-5pm weekdays and evenings during scheduled events

For its 13th biennial exhibit at the LaSells Stewart Center, members of the PhotoArts Guild were asked to respond to the theme, “InSight,” suggesting not only what is in a photographer’s field of vision, but also what lies more deeply behind the scenes. The result is a wide-ranging display of more than 60 color and black-and-white prints by 27 local photographers on all manner of subjects, from landscapes and portraits to abstracts.

This year’s show is dedicated to the memory of Lorraine Richey, a long-time guild member who lost a long battle with cancer last fall. A graduate of Oregon State University and a resident of Portland, Richey was an inspirational photographer who moved fluidly among genres during her 40-year photographic career. She is best known for her multi-layered abstractions created with her I-phone, several examples of which are in this exhibit.

The PhotoArts Guild was formed 40 years ago to promote and support fine art photography in the mid-valley and has been an affiliated guild of the Corvallis Art Center since 1988. The group has evolved over the decades from one focused primarily on large-format film photography to one populated mostly by digital camera artists pursuing non-commercial forms of the medium–landscape, wildlife, portrait, fine art, nature and more.