PORT HADLOCK — Bayside Art Gallery will host a champagne reception for the opening of Modern Metamorphoses: Paintings and Sculptures from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
The reception will be in the gallery on the second floor of the Old Alcohol Plant Inn, 310 Hadlock Bay Road. RSVP to Christopher Forrest, the exhibit’s curator, at cforrest@baysidehousing.org.
The exhibit features 40 paintings and sculptures by Mike McCollum and Tracy LeMoine.
All of the works are for sale, and proceeds will benefit Bayside Housing and Services.
McCollum has been creating and exhibiting artwork since 1964.
“I start with a basic idea, and then it’s a matter of rescuing that idea from all the contrived directions it may take me,” McCollum said. “Making art keeps me alive and engaged every day.”
McCollum is an abstract expressionist who works in both two and three dimensions.
LeMoine trained in several media but only works in acrylics now, using animals, landscapes, mountains and sunsets as her subjects.
“I love living, painting and photographing in the Pacific Northwest,” LeMoine said. “I feel I am free from the stress of the world when I am creating art.”
LeMoine often paints from her own photographs but also creates portraits of people’s pets.
