Neighborhood Notes

Pacific Northwest College of Art presents "BEAUTIES," featuring new drawings by PNCA Faculty Emeritus Robert Hanson in the Feldman Gallery and "Molly Dilworth: Dispersion" featuring new work by New-York-based artist and PNCA Artist-In-Residence Molly Dilworth in the Project Space. Hanson's recent drawings are part of his long-term and ongoing fascination with the human head. The artist alternates between drawing one of three favorite models. Using a restrictive timeframe, Hanson employs a variety of lines, marks, and bits of subjective color to reinvent what he is seeing. "At best the resulting drawing is not a portrait likeness but, if successful, a surprising variation on the original," said Hanson. A long-time Professor of Painting and Drawing at PNCA, Hanson has remained a working artist in the Pacific Northwest since the early '70s. He is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Molly Dilworth is a painter and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn,
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Sharing insights and observations from his recent trip to France, PNCA alumnus George Johanson '50 will visit PNCA to talk about the cave art of prehistoric Europe. Evaluating these mysterious images from an artist's perspective, Johanson will explore what these early paintings tell us about the nature of homo sapiens as visual thinkers.